The Vdsm service exposes an API for managing virtualization hosts running the KVM hypervisor technology. Vdsm manages and monitors the host's storage, memory and networks as well as virtual machine creation, other host administration tasks, statistics gathering, and log collection.

VDSM uses autoconf and automake as its build system.

To configure the build environment:

./autogen.sh --system

To see available options:

./configure --help

To create an RPM:

make rpm

Install the desired Rpms from ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch.

In order to start vdsm at first try, please perform:

vdsm-tool configure [--force]

--force flag will override old conf files with vdsm defaults and restart services that were configured (if were already running)

The 'vdsm.spec' file demonstrates how to distribute Vdsm as an RPM package.

There are two mailing lists for discussions:

• For technical discussions about the project and its code base.

  http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

• For questions by users, who do not want to be swamped by technicalities.

  http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

The developers also hang out on IRC at #vdsm hosted on freenode.net

The latest upstream code can be obtained from GIT:

git clone https://gerrit.ovirt.org/vdsm

Vdsm is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Please see the COPYING file for complete GPLv2+ license terms.

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