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When using virDomainSnapshotCreateXML with the REDEFINE flag on multiple snapshot metadata XML descriptions, we require that a child cannot be redefined before its parent. Since libvirt already tracks a DAG, it is more convenient if we can ensure that virDomainListAllSnapshots() and friends have a way to return data in an order that we can directly reuse, rather than having to post-process the data ourselves to reconstruct the DAG. Add VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LIST_TOPOLOGICAL as our new guarantee (well, a guarantee at the time of the API call conclusion; there's always a possible TOCTTOU race where someone redefining snapshots in between the API results and the client actually using the list might render the list out-of-date). Four listing APIs are directly benefitted by the new flag; additionally, since we document that the older racy ListNames interfaces should be sized by using the same flags on their Num counterparts, the Num interfaces must document when they accept (and ignore) the flag. We could have supported the new flag just for the ListAll APIs (to discourage people from using the older racy Num/ListNames APIs), but it feels weird to special-case this flag value as being applicable to only a subset of the API while all other List-related flags are trivially applicable to all 6. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
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: