[libvirt] Happy Birthday Libvirt
by Daniel Veillard
Hello everybody,
as the first commits were done on Nov 2 2005, libvirt is more or less
ten years old. This has been quite a bit of a journey, but a very successful
one in my opinion, the initial goal was to provide a long term stable API
for virtualization in the Red Hat ecosystem, and I'm very happy to see the
goal has been reached, and we went way beyond that. In the end I think
libvirt helped avoid the "balkanization" which is classic in highly
competitive domains where you end up with one vertical set of tools per
vendor. I also think that libvirt played a key role to keep free and open
source software in the main virtualization offerings and even more so for
cloud management systems.
So it's time to celebrate, there is obviously lot to be done still on
libvirt (as the steady stream of patches show !), but I would like to thank
everybody who has contributed to the project so far, with a special mention
to Dan Berrange who has been leading the effort technically for most of that
time. I would also say that I have been very pelased with how the project
has been working in that decade, the community is technical but friendly,
and it's my hope libvirt, the project as well as the code, will remain as
successful for the next decade !
So Thank You everybody, for making this project and community successful !
Enjoy that very special day :-)
Daniel
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[libvirt] [PATCH 0/8] Few vfio related fixes
by Shivaprasad G Bhat
The series fixes 3 issues which lead to host crash.
The actual fixes are in p3, p4, p7 and p8.
I'll fill in more details / descriptions in v2.
The make check fails on virpcitest now, which I am still debugging.
I anticipate some rework from review on p7 which I continue to
refine. Sending now, to get any feedback that might change things
drastically.
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Shivaprasad G Bhat (8):
Initialize the stubDriver of pci devices if bound to a valid one
Add iommu group number info to virPCIDevice
Refuse to reattach from vfio if the iommu group is in use by any domain
Wait for vfio-pci device cleanups before reassinging the device to host driver
Split reprobe action from the virPCIUnbindFromStub into a new function
Pass activeDevs and inactiveDevs to virPCIDeviceUnbindFromStub and virPCIDeviceBindToStub
Postpone reprobing till all the devices in iommu group are unbound from vfio
Wait for iommmu device to go away before reprobing the host driver
src/util/virhostdev.c | 18 ++++
src/util/virpci.c | 206 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
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[libvirt] Entering freeze for libvirt-1.2.21
by Daniel Veillard
As pointed our on Tuesday it's time for a new release. I have tagged
the release candidate 1 in git and pushed signed tarball and rpms to
the usual place at:
ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
Based on my limited testing this works just fine, but that's very limited
and doesn't test portability at all, so please give it a try !
I will likely push rc2 on the week-end and the final version on Tuesday
or Wednesday,
please raise issues if you fine any,
thanks,
Daniel
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http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/
9 years, 5 months
[libvirt] Outreachy 2015 DecemberMarch- Enhancing libvirt-designer
by Riyafa Abdul Hameed
Dear sir,
I am Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate at University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am a keen learner and am much interested in open
source. I have worked with WSO2 <http://wso2.com/> on open source projects
and am quite familiar with FOSS development. I have a good knowledge in C
and in using XML.
I would like to participate in "Outreachy 2015 DecemberMarch" with QEMU,
but it was already quite late when I came to know of this program as its
application deadline closes by tomorrow.
I would like to apply for the project "Enhancing libvirt-designer" this
time for Outreachy. I sent a mail to the mentor, Michal Privoznik and I
couldn't get in touch with him. Because it is already too late can anyone
please suggest what I can do before I apply for the program by tomorrow?
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Riyafa
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