Introduce an LXC specific public API & library

This patch introduces support for LXC specific public APIs. In
common with what was done for QEMU, this creates a libvirt_lxc.so
library and libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h header file.

The actual APIs are

  int virDomainLxcOpenNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
                                int **fdlist,
                                unsigned int flags);

  int virDomainLxcEnterNamespace(virDomainPtr domain,
                                 unsigned int nfdlist,
                                 int *fdlist,
                                 unsigned int *noldfdlist,
                                 int **oldfdlist,
                                 unsigned int flags);

which provide a way to use the setns() system call to move the
calling process into the container's namespace. It is not
practical to write in a generically applicable manner. The
nearest that we could get to such an API would be an API which
allows to pass a command + argv to be executed inside a
container. Even if we had such a generic API, this LXC specific
API is still useful, because it allows the caller to maintain
the current process context, in particular any I/O streams they
have open.

NB the virDomainLxcEnterNamespace() API is special in that it
runs client side, so does not involve the internal driver API.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Daniel P. Berrange
2013-01-14 13:58:34 +00:00
parent 907a39e735
commit 3d1596b048
22 changed files with 707 additions and 13 deletions
+17 -4
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@@ -95,8 +95,12 @@ qemu_xml = \
libvirt-qemu-api.xml \
libvirt-qemu-refs.xml
lxc_xml = \
libvirt-lxc-api.xml \
libvirt-lxc-refs.xml
apidir = $(pkgdatadir)/api
api_DATA = libvirt-api.xml libvirt-qemu-api.xml
api_DATA = libvirt-api.xml libvirt-qemu-api.xml libvirt-lxc-api.xml
fig = \
libvirt-net-logical.fig \
@@ -133,6 +137,7 @@ all-am: web
api: $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml $(srcdir)/libvirt-refs.xml
qemu_api: $(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-api.xml $(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-refs.xml
lxc_api: $(srcdir)/libvirt-lxc-api.xml $(srcdir)/libvirt-lxc-refs.xml
web: $(dot_html) $(internals_html) html/index.html devhelp/index.html \
$(dot_php)
@@ -152,7 +157,8 @@ todo:
$(MAKE) todo.html
hvsupport.html.in: $(srcdir)/hvsupport.pl $(srcdir)/../src/libvirt_public.syms \
$(srcdir)/../src/libvirt_qemu.syms $(srcdir)/../src/driver.h
$(srcdir)/../src/libvirt_qemu.syms $(srcdir)/../src/libvirt_lxc.syms \
$(srcdir)/../src/driver.h
$(AM_V_GEN)$(PERL) $(srcdir)/hvsupport.pl $(srcdir)/../src > $@ || { rm $@ && exit 1; }
.PHONY: todo
@@ -220,12 +226,16 @@ $(addprefix $(srcdir)/,$(devhelphtml)): $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml $(devhelpxsl)
python_generated_files = \
$(srcdir)/html/libvirt-libvirt.html \
$(srcdir)/html/libvirt-libvirt-lxc.html \
$(srcdir)/html/libvirt-libvirt-qemu.html \
$(srcdir)/html/libvirt-virterror.html \
$(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml \
$(srcdir)/libvirt-refs.xml \
$(srcdir)/libvirt-lxc-api.xml \
$(srcdir)/libvirt-lxc-refs.xml \
$(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-api.xml \
$(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-refs.xml
$(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-refs.xml \
$(NULL)
APIBUILD=$(srcdir)/apibuild.py
APIBUILD_STAMP=$(APIBUILD).stamp
@@ -235,9 +245,11 @@ $(python_generated_files): $(APIBUILD_STAMP)
$(APIBUILD_STAMP): $(srcdir)/apibuild.py \
$(srcdir)/../include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in \
$(srcdir)/../include/libvirt/libvirt-lxc.h \
$(srcdir)/../include/libvirt/libvirt-qemu.h \
$(srcdir)/../include/libvirt/virterror.h \
$(srcdir)/../src/libvirt.c \
$(srcdir)/../src/libvirt-lxc.c \
$(srcdir)/../src/libvirt-qemu.c \
$(srcdir)/../src/util/virerror.c
$(AM_V_GEN)srcdir=$(srcdir) $(PYTHON) $(APIBUILD)
@@ -252,9 +264,10 @@ clean-local:
maintainer-clean-local: clean-local
rm -rf $(srcdir)/libvirt-api.xml $(srcdir)/libvirt-refs.xml todo.html.in hvsupport.html.in
rm -rf $(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-api.xml $(srcdir)/libvirt-qemu-refs.xml
rm -rf $(srcdir)/libvirt-lxc-api.xml $(srcdir)/libvirt-lxc-refs.xml
rm -rf $(APIBUILD_STAMP)
rebuild: api qemu_api all
rebuild: api qemu_api lxc_api all
install-data-local:
$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(HTML_DIR)