Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Eric Blake fca4f23340 object: require maximal alignment in base class
Recent changes to events (commit 8a29ffcf) resulted in new compile
failures on some targets (such as ARM OMAP5):
conf/domain_event.c: In function 'virDomainEventDispatchDefaultFunc':
conf/domain_event.c:1198:30: error: cast increases required alignment of
target type [-Werror=cast-align]
conf/domain_event.c:1314:34: error: cast increases required alignment of
target type [-Werror=cast-align]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

The error is due to alignment; the base class is merely aligned
to the worst of 'int' and 'void*', while the child class must
be aligned to a 'long long'.  The solution is to include a
'long long' (and for good measure, a function pointer) in the
base class to ensure correct alignment regardless of what a
child class may add, but to wrap the inclusion in a union so
as to not incur any wasted space.  On a typical x86_64 platform,
the base class remains 16 bytes; on i686, the base class remains
12 bytes; and on the impacted ARM platform, the base class grows
from 12 bytes to 16 bytes due to the increase of alignment from
4 to 8 bytes.

Reported by Michele Paolino and others.

* src/util/virobject.h (_virObject): Use a union to ensure that
subclasses never have stricter alignment than the parent.
* src/util/virobject.c (virObjectNew, virObjectUnref)
(virObjectRef): Adjust clients.
* src/libvirt.c (virConnectRef, virDomainRef, virNetworkRef)
(virInterfaceRef, virStoragePoolRef, virStorageVolRef)
(virNodeDeviceRef, virSecretRef, virStreamRef, virNWFilterRef)
(virDomainSnapshotRef): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorOpenInternal)
(qemuMonitorClose): Likewise.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2013-12-13 05:59:38 -07:00
.gnulib@831b84c59e maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-11-23 21:05:15 -07:00
build-aux maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
daemon Add network events to the remote driver 2013-12-11 13:26:25 +00:00
docs conf: add support for panic device 2013-12-12 21:17:26 -07:00
examples examples: Remove broken bad example 2013-12-04 18:56:06 +01:00
gnulib Don't link virt-login-shell against libvirt.so (CVE-2013-4400) 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
include Added Network events API and virNetworkEventLifecycle. 2013-12-11 13:10:41 +00:00
m4 storage: initial support for linking with libgfapi 2013-11-25 11:02:52 -07:00
po Extracted common parts of domain_event.[ch] to object_event.[ch] 2013-12-10 13:12:35 +00:00
src object: require maximal alignment in base class 2013-12-13 05:59:38 -07:00
tests qemu: add support for -device pvpanic 2013-12-13 05:53:33 -07:00
tools storage: show gluster option in virsh --version=long 2013-12-11 21:02:24 -07:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Added domain start/stop/define/undefine event unit tests 2013-12-10 11:23:20 +00:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add John Ferlan to the committers list 2013-02-05 10:59:32 -05:00
autobuild.sh Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
autogen.sh autogen.sh: Correctly detect .git as a file 2013-08-29 13:19:45 +02:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-09-24 06:53:07 -06:00
bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk virObject-ified virDomainEvent 2013-12-10 12:05:06 +00:00
ChangeLog-old maint: typo fixes 2013-10-22 16:49:32 +01:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac Bump version to 1.2.1 for new dev cycle 2013-12-12 14:53:14 +00:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
libvirt.pc.in Add missing 'libvirt_lxc_api' variable in pkg-config file 2013-09-04 14:52:40 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in Add another missing % on %{_libdir} macro 2013-12-12 15:49:19 +02:00
Makefile.am examples: Remove broken bad example 2013-12-04 18:56:06 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>