libvirt/src
Laine Stump f59e25e012 network: make virNetworkObjUpdate error detection/recovery better
1) virNetworkObjUpdate should be an all or none operation, but in the
case that we want to update both the live state and persistent config
versions of the network, it was committing the update to the live
state before starting to update the persistent config. If update of
the persistent config failed, we would leave with things in an
inconsistent state - the live state would be updated (even though an
error was returned), but persistent config unchanged.

This patch changed virNetworkObjUpdate to use a separate pointer for
each copy of the virNetworkDef, and not commit either of them in the
virNetworkObj until both live and config parts of the update have
successfully completed.

2) The parsers for various pieces of the virNetworkDef have all sorts
of subtle limitations on them that may not be known by the
Update[section] function, making it possible for one of these
functions to make a modification directly to the object that may not
pass the scrutiny of a subsequent parse. But normally another parse
wouldn't be done on the data until the *next* time the object was
updated (which could leave the network definition in an unusable
state).

Rather than fighting the losing battle of trying to duplicate all the
checks from the parsers into the update functions as well, the more
foolproof solution to this is to simply do an extra
virNetworkDefCopy() operation on the updated networkdef -
virNetworkDefCopy() does a virNetworkFormat() followed by a
virNetworkParseString(), so it will do all the checks we need. If this
fails, then we don't commit the changed def.
2012-09-21 20:10:43 -04:00
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conf network: make virNetworkObjUpdate error detection/recovery better 2012-09-21 20:10:43 -04:00
cpu maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
esx maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
hyperv maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
interface maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libxl maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
locking locking: Remove README file in favor of internals/locking.html 2012-09-21 12:23:01 +02:00
lxc Improve some debugging log messages in LXC mount setup 2012-09-21 10:43:25 +01:00
network network: don't "refresh" iptables rules on rule-less networks 2012-09-21 20:10:43 -04:00
node_device maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
nwfilter maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
openvz maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
parallels maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
phyp maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
qemu Remove redundant lines in src/qemu/qemu_driver.c 2012-09-21 12:49:47 -06:00
remote Fix crash accessing a NULL URI when looking up auth credentials 2012-09-21 10:13:53 +01:00
rpc maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
secret maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
security Add <seclabel> to character devices. 2012-09-21 13:43:47 +01:00
storage maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
test maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
uml maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
util Drop unused return value of virLogOutputFunc 2012-09-21 12:55:13 -06:00
vbox maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
vmware maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
vmx maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
xen maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
xenapi maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
xenxs maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
Makefile.am build: define WITH_INTERFACE for the driver 2012-09-19 08:27:01 -06:00
README hyperv: Add basic documentation 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
check-symfile.pl build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
datatypes.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
datatypes.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
driver.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
driver.h network: define new API virNetworkUpdate 2012-09-18 04:21:32 -04:00
dtrace2systemtap.pl maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
internal.h build: improved handling of <execinfo.h>, BSD <net/if.h> 2012-09-06 10:08:47 -06:00
libvirt-qemu.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libvirt.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libvirt.conf Allow overriding default URI in config file 2012-03-15 11:20:17 +00:00
libvirt_atomic.syms Rewrite virAtomic APIs using GLib's atomic ops code 2012-08-02 11:50:59 +01:00
libvirt_daemon.syms Export conditional state driver symbols only when they are defined 2010-03-23 02:05:18 +01:00
libvirt_driver_modules.syms Override default driver dir when running from GIT 2012-05-24 13:18:01 +01:00
libvirt_esx.syms Remove libvirt_test.la library 2012-05-24 13:18:00 +01:00
libvirt_internal.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
libvirt_libssh2.syms libssh2_transport: add main libssh2 transport implementation 2012-08-21 14:47:09 +02:00
libvirt_linux.syms build: Don't export xenLinuxDomainBlockStats symbol 2012-07-31 11:28:32 +02:00
libvirt_openvz.syms openvz: Add openvzVEGetStringParam 2012-07-20 21:54:35 +02:00
libvirt_private.syms Add support for limiting guest coredump 2012-09-20 16:41:07 +02:00
libvirt_probes.d Turn virNetClient* into virObject instances 2012-08-07 11:47:55 +01:00
libvirt_public.syms network: define new API virNetworkUpdate 2012-09-18 04:21:32 -04:00
libvirt_qemu.syms qemu-agent: available in 0.10.0 2012-08-23 13:05:52 -06:00
libvirt_qemu_probes.d build: fix binary location in stap files --with-driver-modules 2012-08-10 23:11:26 -04:00
libvirt_sasl.syms Move some SASL symbols into libvirt_sasl.syms 2012-08-15 21:41:42 +01:00
libvirt_vmx.syms esx: Move VMX handling code out of the driver directory 2010-12-21 22:40:17 +01:00
libvirt_xenxs.syms Fix build with --with-driver-modules enabled 2011-05-27 09:51:28 +02:00
nodeinfo.c maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
nodeinfo.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
qemu_protocol-structs agent: add remote driver support 2012-08-23 19:05:50 +08:00
remote_protocol-structs rpc: Fix name of member in remote_protocol-structs 2012-09-18 11:47:12 +02:00
virkeepaliveprotocol-structs build: Properly generate and check virkeepaliveprotocol-structs 2011-11-24 14:44:04 +01:00
virnetprotocol-structs Extend RPC protocol to allow FD passing 2011-10-28 10:27:15 +01:00

README

       libvirt library code README
       ===========================

The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.

The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.

There are two core shared modules to be aware of:

 * util/  - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
            code. This directory is always in the include path
            for all things built

 * conf/  - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
            files used by the public API. This directory is only
            in the include path for driver implementation modules

 * vmx/   - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)


Then there are the hypervisor implementations:

 * esx/          - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
 * hyperv/       - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
 * lxc/          - Linux Native Containers
 * openvz/       - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
 * phyp/         - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
 * qemu/         - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
 * remote/       - Generic libvirt native RPC client
 * test/         - A "mock" driver for testing
 * uml/          - User Mode Linux
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * vmware/       - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
 * xenapi/       - Xen using libxenserver


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly

 * cpu/          - CPU feature management
 * interface/    - Host network interface management
 * network/      - Virtual NAT networking
 * nwfilter/     - Network traffic filtering rules
 * node_device/  - Host device enumeration
 * secret/       - Secret management
 * security/     - Mandatory access control drivers
 * storage/      - Storage management drivers


Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories