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Peter Krempa
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The types for the special fields of the 'virtio-blk-pci' according to QEMU are: iothread=<link<iothread>> ioeventfd=<bool> - on/off (default: true) event_idx=<bool> - on/off (default: true) scsi=<bool> - on/off (default: false) num-queues=<uint16> - (default: 65535) queue-size=<uint16> - (default: 256) For all disks we also use the following properties (based on 'scsi-hd'): device_id=<str> share-rw=<bool> - (default: false) drive=<str> - Node name or ID of a block device to use as a backend chardev=<str> - ID of a chardev to use as a backend <- vhost-user-blk-pci bootindex=<int32> logical_block_size=<size> - A power of two between 512 B and 2 MiB (default: 0) physical_block_size=<size> - A power of two between 512 B and 2 MiB (default: 0) wwn=<uint64> - (default: 0) rotation_rate=<uint16> - (default: 0) vendor=<str> product=<str> removable=<bool> - on/off (default: false) write-cache=<OnOffAuto> - on/off/auto (default: "auto") cyls=<uint32> - (default: 0) heads=<uint32> - (default: 0) secs=<uint32> - (default: 0) bios-chs-trans=<BiosAtaTranslation> - Logical CHS translation algorithm, auto/none/lba/large/rechs (default: "auto") <- ide-hd serial=<str> werror=<BlockdevOnError> - Error handling policy, report/ignore/enospc/stop/auto (default: "auto") rerror=<BlockdevOnError> - Error handling policy, report/ignore/enospc/stop/auto (default: "auto") The 'wwn' field is changed from a hex string to a number since qemu actually treats it as a number. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@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
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Installation
============
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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
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https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
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=======
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