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When creating cgroup hierarchy we need to enable controllers in the
parent cgroup in order to be usable. That means writing "+{controller}"
into cgroup.subtree_control file. We can enable only controllers that
are enabled for parent cgroup, that means we need to do that for the
whole cgroup tree.
Cgroups for threads needs to be handled differently in cgroup v2. There
are two types of controllers:
- domain controllers: these cannot be enabled for threads
- threaded controllers: these can be enabled for threads
In addition there are multiple types of cgroups:
- domain: normal cgroup
- domain threaded: a domain cgroup that serves as root for threaded
cgroups
- domain invalid: invalid cgroup, can be changed into threaded, this
is the default state if you create subgroup inside
domain threaded group or threaded group
- threaded: threaded cgroup which can have domain threaded or
threaded as parent group
In order to create threaded cgroup it's sufficient to write "threaded"
into cgroup.type file, it will automatically make parent cgroup
"domain threaded" if it was only "domain". In case the parent cgroup
is already "domain threaded" or "threaded" it will modify only the type
of current cgroup. After that we can enable threaded controllers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@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 2.1 (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: