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Libvirt native C API and daemons
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This introduces a fairly basic reference counted virObject type and an associated virClass type, that use atomic operations for ref counting. In a global initializer (recommended to be invoked using the virOnceInit API), a virClass type must be allocated for each object type. This requires a class name, a "dispose" callback which will be invoked to free memory associated with the object's fields, and the size in bytes of the object struct. eg, virClassPtr connclass = virClassNew("virConnect", sizeof(virConnect), virConnectDispose); The struct for the object, must include 'virObject' as its first member eg struct _virConnect { virObject object; virURIPtr uri; }; The 'dispose' callback is only responsible for freeing fields in the object, not the object itself. eg a suitable impl for the above struct would be void virConnectDispose(void *obj) { virConnectPtr conn = obj; virURIFree(conn->uri); } There is no need to reset fields to 'NULL' or '0' in the dispose callback, since the entire object will be memset to 0, and the klass pointer & magic integer fields will be poisoned with 0xDEADBEEF before being free()d When creating an instance of an object, one needs simply pass the virClassPtr eg virConnectPtr conn = virObjectNew(connclass); if (!conn) return NULL; conn->uri = virURIParse("foo:///bar") Object references can be manipulated with virObjectRef(conn) virObjectUnref(conn) The latter returns a true value, if the object has been freed (ie its ref count hit zero) Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> |
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>