thanks for your information.

i am new to these source things. i am seeing large number of files and every things new to me. Any guide is available for how to debug the libvirt source.

For example: i want to know how vm's are created by libvirt daemon. From where i have to start. Any guide or suggestions.

regards,

cooldharma06

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

[dropping libvirt-users, as this is a development question. No need to
cross-post]

On 10/22/2013 10:19 AM, cooldharma06 wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am started to exploring libvirt. i am using the version libvirt-1.1.3 and
> i want to know (or) find the path how the libvirt is creating VM with xen
> (libxl) in the source. Any guide or reference is available for this. How i
> can find the path of calling sequence for other operations(api). Guide me
> to get some idea on debugging the libvirt.

libxl interaction lives in the src/libxl subdirectory. That code is
only run by libvirtd, but if you build with './autogen.sh --system', you
can then stop the system libvirtd and use './run gdb daemon/libvirtd' to
do normal debugger operations wherever you'd like in that part of the code.

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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org