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GCC 8 became more fussy about detecting switch fallthroughs. First it doesn't like it if you have a fallthrough attribute that is not before a case statement. e.g. FOO: BAR: WIZZ: ATTRIBUTE_FALLTHROUGH; Is unacceptable as there's no final case statement, so while FOO & BAR are falling through, WIZZ is not falling through. IOW, GCC wants us to write FOO: BAR: ATTRIBUTE_FALLTHROUGH; WIZZ: Second, it will report risk of fallthrough even if you have a case statement for every single enum value, but only if the switch is nested inside another switch and the outer case statement has no final break. This is is arguably valid because despite the fact that we have cast from "int" to the enum typedef, nothing guarantees that the variable we're switching on only contains values that have corresponding switch labels. e.g. int domstate = 87539319; switch ((virDomainState)domstate) { ... } will not match enum value, but also not raise any kind of compiler warning. So it is right to complain about risk of fallthrough if no default: is present. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@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:
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 2.1 (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. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./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: