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Trying to report an OOM error is pointless since our infrastructure to report error needs to allocate memory to report the error. In addition our code mistakenly reported OOM errors even in cases where a function could fail for another reason, which would make issues harder to debug. Remove the virReportOOMError and backend so that programmers are forced to think about what can happen. In case when there's another failure possible a specific error should be reported and otherwise a direct abort() is better since the logger would abort on g_new anyways. This patch also removes the syntas-check which forces use of virReportOOMError instead of using VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY with other functions. This allows possible future use when we'd end up in a situation where trying to recover from an OOM would make sense, such as when attempting to allocate a massive buffer. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
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.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: