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Daniel Henrique Barboza
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In [1], changes were made to remove the existing auto-alignment for pSeries NVDIMM devices. That design promotes strange situations where the NVDIMM size reported in the domain XML is different from what QEMU is actually using. We removed the auto-alignment and relied on standard size validation. However, this goes against Libvirt design philosophy of not tampering with existing guest behavior, as pointed out by Daniel in [2]. Since we can't know for sure whether there are guests that are relying on the auto-alignment feature to work, the changes made in [1] are a direct violation of this rule. This patch reverts [1] entirely, re-enabling auto-alignment for pSeries NVDIMM as it was before. Changes will be made to ease the limitations of this design without hurting existing guests. This reverts the following commits: - commit2d93cbdea9Revert "formatdomain.html.in: mention pSeries NVDIMM 'align down' mechanic" - commit0ee56369c8qemu_domain.c: change qemuDomainMemoryDeviceAlignSize() return type - commit07de813924qemu_domain.c: do not auto-align ppc64 NVDIMMs - commit0ccceaa57cqemu_validate.c: add pSeries NVDIMM size alignment validation - commit4fa2202d88qemu_domain.c: make qemuDomainGetMemorySizeAlignment() public [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-July/msg02010.html [2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2020-September/msg00572.html Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
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==============================
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:
https://libvirt.org
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
=======
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Further details on contacting the project are available on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contact.html