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Currently the libvirt Go modules are accessed by applications using their github repository URLs. This is undesirable as we don't want applications to have a direct dependancy on a specific source repo location. We want to enable applications to use the Go packages via the libvirt.org namespace. When you do "go get libvirt.org/libvirt-go", the Go client will do an HTTPS request to that URL, and parse the HTML content to look for a <meta> tag which tells it where to the find the GIT repository. https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths This adds two pages to support this Go module resolution. They are not linked from anywhere as we don't expect users to actually look at them. If someone does happen upon them, there's some boilerplate text to send them off to godoc.org for API documentation. Since the pages we're adding have a .html extension, we will also use a small apache config tweak on the server RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/libvirt-go$ /libvirt-go.html [L] RewriteRule ^/libvirt-go-xml$ /libvirt-go-xml.html [L] Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com> Signed-off-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 2.0 (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, however, we mandate to have the build directory different than the source directory. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../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: