1 Release notes for libguestfs 1.14.0
2 -----------------------------------
4 UPDATED TO COMMIT 41260de67f9fa852eab168a6d36276c5deb02bf7
6 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
7 stable/dev branch split (1.12.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
8 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
14 virt-alignment-scan is a new tool to check the alignment of
15 partitions within virtual machines or disk images.
17 virt-sparsify is a new tool to make virtual machine disk images
20 virt-sysprep is a new tool to make cloning guests from a template
25 - Improve detection of Windows disks.
28 ttylinux - a minimal Linux
29 Mageia (thanks Michael Scherer)
30 OpenSUSE and zypper (thanks Michael Scherer, Vincent Untz)
31 Ubuntu logos (thanks Michael Scherer)
32 NetBSD and pkgsrc (thanks Michael Scherer)
34 - Handle some guest types that use /dev/root in /etc/fstab.
36 - Fix handling of guests with > 26 disks (thanks Matthew Booth)
38 - Add support for guests with HP Smart Array disks (thanks Matthew Booth)
42 - New commands setenv, unsetenv, to set environment variables.
44 - The input file and line number is printed in error messages.
46 - guestfish progress bars are now a "mini-library" used by other
51 - FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL, FEBOOTSTRAP_MODULES environment variables can
52 be set in order to choose which kernel to use for the appliance.
56 - The virt-resize --machine-readable flag makes it possible to use
57 virt-resize from other programs.
59 - Partitions are now aligned to 128 sectors (usually 64K) by
60 default. This improves efficiency on high-end storage.
64 - non-printing characters are escaped correctly in debug output.
66 - GUESTFS_EVENT_ENTER is a new event type generated whenever a
67 libguestfs function is called.
69 - the library contains systemtap/DTrace probes.
73 - ArchLinux support now working with Linux 3.0 (thanks Erik Nolte)
79 The mount API no longer implicitly adds -o sync,noatime options.
81 compress-out, compress-device-out, set-smp, get-smp
85 - Coverity was run on the source and more bugs were identified and
88 - PCRE library is now required to build libguestfs.
90 - APIC is now the default for the appliance. You can also enable
91 SMP support in the appliance.
93 - OCaml bindings now correctly acquire GC lock during callbacks.
95 - Out of tree builds should now work correctly (thanks Hilko Bengen).
97 - ./configure --with-extra="..." can be used by packagers to set
98 the extra version string.
100 - zero, zero-device APIs: if the blocks already contain zeroes,
101 don't write zeroes, so that we don't unnecessarily make the
102 underlying storage non-sparse.
104 - is-zero, is-zero-device APIs: optimize these so zero detection is
109 ./bugs-in-changelog.sh 1.12.0..
111 - 733297 ruby event handlers fail with "exception in callback: wrong argument type Proc (expected Data)"
112 - 731744 libguestfs should escape special/non-printing characters in debug output
113 - 729887 appliance crashes running aug_init with flags=4
114 - 729075 libguestfs confuses Hp_recovery partition with Windows root filesystem
115 - 727178 error: luks_open: cryptsetup: error while loading shared libraries: libfipscheck.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
116 - 726739 libguestfs: error: aug_get: no matching node, trying to find hostname
117 - 678231 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID
118 - 671082 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
119 - 666578 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
122 Release notes for libguestfs 1.12.0
123 -----------------------------------
125 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
126 stable/dev branch split (1.10.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
127 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
133 - guestfish strings can use escapes,
134 eg. ><fs> write /foo "line 1\nline 2\n"
136 - guestfish write-append command can be used to append to files.
138 - Long-running file uploads and downloads can be cancelled through the
139 API or by hitting ^C in guestfish.
141 - New guestfish "display" command for displaying graphical files
144 - In guestfish, tab completion now works on /dev/mapper devices.
148 - Inspection API can get an icon or logo for certain guests.
150 - virt-inspector includes the logo and hostname for certain guests.
152 - virt-inspector can now get the version and release numbers for RPM
155 - CentOS and Scientific Linux are now treated as separate distros by
160 - virt-resize can now handle btrfs.
162 - New virt-resize --ntfsresize-force option allows Windows VMs to be
163 resized multiple times.
167 - guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-df, virt-edit, virt-filesystems,
168 virt-inspector, virt-ls and virt-rescue now allow you to use
169 "-d UUID" option to specify a guest by UUID. This makes them more
170 robust to use from other programs.
172 - virt-ls -lR option allows complex file iteration and guest analysis.
174 - virt-win-reg supports HKEY_USERS\<SID> and HKEY_USERS\<username>.
176 - virt-win-reg new option --unsafe-printable-strings allows printable
177 strings to be displayed in the output (unsafely: read the documentation
180 - virt-edit has been rewritten in C.
182 API and language bindings:
184 - Java is now completely supported.
185 See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-java.3.html
187 - JRuby is supported via the Java bindings.
189 - guestfs_close now appears in trace messages.
191 - Python binding adds explicit g.close() method.
193 - Python programs can now use the new event API.
195 - Python GIL is released during libguestfs calls, allowing multithreaded
196 Python programs to work properly.
198 - 9pfs (Plan 9 filesystems exported from the host) are now supported.
200 - Add -DGUESTFS_WARN_DEPRECATED=1 to warn about use of deprecated API
201 functions in C programs.
203 - New manual page guestfs-recipes(1) with recipes.
205 - mkfs-opts can now set inode size and sector size on created filesystems
206 (thanks Nikita Menkovich).
208 - guestfs_last_errno is now accessible from OCaml (as g#last_errno ()).
212 - optargs_bitmask is checked even for calls that have no optional
213 arguments. This closes a possible exploit in the daemon from
218 btrfs-filesystem-resize, get-pgroup, inspect-get-icon, is-zero,
219 is-zero-device, list-9p, list-dm-devices, mount-9p, ntfsresize-opts,
220 set-pgroup, write-append
224 - Coverity (a static analysis tool) was run across the codebase and
225 many fixes were made.
227 - Generator can handle functions that return RBufferOut and have
230 - Compatible with Perl 5.14.
232 - Compatible with gcc 4.6.
234 - Perform safety checks on QEMU.
236 - C API tests can now fully test calls that have optional arguments.
238 - Use ./configure --enable-install-daemon to install /usr/sbin/guestfsd.
240 - po-docs directory now covers all man pages.
242 - stderr from qemu process is now captured by the event subsystem.
246 - 602997 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
247 - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
248 - 700369 qemu-system-x86_64 says 'KVM not supported for this target'
249 - 705200 guestmount attempt results in access denied
250 - 714981 'list-filesystems' does not know about virtio 9p filesystems or detect existing mounts
251 - 717786 libguestfs python bindings should have an explicit close call
252 - 721275 virt-resize in F16 should support btrfs
255 Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
256 -----------------------------------
258 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
259 stable/dev branch split (1.8.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
260 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
264 - libguestfs and tools can be used against live virtual machines.
265 See the 'guestfish --live' and 'guestmount --live' options, and (for
266 the low-level interface) the new APIs set-attach-method and
270 virt-copy-in, virt-copy-out, virt-tar-in, virt-tar-out.
272 - libguestfs can get the drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
274 - virt-inspector displays drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
276 - Drive letters can now be used in virt-edit and guestfish programs
277 when operating on Windows guests.
279 - virt-resize now works on 32 bit hosts.
281 - You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
284 - guestfish <! cmd which executes a shell cmd and inlines the result.
286 - guestfish, guestmount, virt-rescue now all support --ro and --rw
287 options, and the default for this can be chosen via a configuration
288 file (/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf).
290 - New event API allows more than one callback to be registered for
291 each event, makes it possible to call the API from other languages,
292 and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
295 - Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
296 for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
298 - guestfish, guestmount -m option allows mount options to be passed
299 through to the underlying filesystem.
301 - mkfs-opts allows filesystem features to be specified.
303 - More intelligent handling of mountpoints, allowing mkmountpoint, mount
304 and umount-all commands to work together properly.
306 - Trace messages are prefixed with a distinct string, allowing them to
307 be easily 'grepped' out from debug output.
309 - guestfs_launch (guestfish 'run' command) now produces progress
310 messages (a guestfish progress bar) if it takes longer than 5
313 - Several long-running commands where we are unable to estimate time
314 to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
315 in guestfish has been updated to display these.
317 - Publish new example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
319 - New virt-dhcp-address example program.
321 - The Java and Ruby bindings have been improved greatly.
323 - Perl includes a way to get the errno of the last error.
325 - Python bindings now compatible with rpyc (thanks Erez Shinan).
327 - Transifex is now being used to manage translations.
328 http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/libguestfs/
330 - Inspection now supports Red Hat Desktop, Slackware distributions.
332 - Inspection no longer fails for Windows guests that have two or
335 - Inspection can now tell the difference between Windows 2008 Server
338 - Inspection can detect 32 bit applications installed in 64 bit
339 Windows, running on the WOW64 emulator.
341 - A series of protocol fixes has fixed the old bug RHBZ#576879
342 which used to cause errors during the upload command to lose
343 protocol synchronization.
353 first-private, get-attach-method, inspect-get-drive-mappings,
354 inspect-get-product-variant,
355 inspect-get-windows-current-control-set, next-private, resize2fs-M,
360 - The 'HACKING' file is obsolete. The contents have been moved into
361 a section of the guestfs(3) manual page.
363 - libguestfs-test-tool simplified. It no longer needs the static
364 binary or tries to construct an ISO.
366 - rpcgen-generated files are compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing
367 which should be safer (thanks Matt Booth).
369 - virt-resize was rewritten in OCaml.
371 - guestfish and other tools tested with valgrind; some memory leaks
376 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
377 - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
378 - 599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
379 - 617440 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
380 - 664558 RFE: Allow to set log callback in Ruby bindings
381 - 665358 Punjabi Translation Completed (pa_IN)
382 - 666577 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
383 - 667610 Multiple bugs, memory leaks in libguestfs ruby bindings
384 - 668112 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
385 - 668574 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
386 - 673479 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
387 - 674130 Inspection code fails for Windows guest with two disks
388 - 682756 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
389 - 682979 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
390 - 690819 mkfs fails creating a filesytem on a disk device when using a disk with 'ide' interface
391 - 691389 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
392 - 691724 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
393 - 692545 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
394 - 693324 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
396 Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
397 ----------------------------------
399 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
400 stable/dev branch split (1.6.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
401 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
405 - Support and packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
407 - Daily builds from git repository on Debian and Ubuntu to reduce risk
410 - Port to ArchLinux 'pacman' (thanks Thomas S Hatch).
412 - The following tools have been rewritten in C (originally in Perl):
420 - Some C tools support encrypted guests automatically. This is
421 supported in: guestfish, guestmount, virt-cat, virt-inspector,
424 - New tool virt-filesystems (in C) which is a replacement for
425 virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions, and has a superset
426 of the functionality of those tools.
428 - guestfish, guestmount and the C tools use unified command line option
429 parsing, so they support many common options such as '-a disk.img',
430 '-d libvirt-domain', '-x', '-v'. The old command line option
431 parsing is preserved for compatibility in scripts etc.
433 - guestfish no longer has any dependencies on Perl
435 - New man pages containing programming examples: guestfs-examples(3) (C/C++),
436 guestfs-ocaml(3), guestfs-python(3), guestfs-ruby(3).
438 - Trace mode prints return values from API functions.
440 - virt-inspector can list applications installed in Windows guests, along
441 with a great deal of information about those applications.
443 - Add support for inspecting: Linux Mint, Mandriva, FreeBSD.
445 - guestfish --rw option (with no effect currently) to make potentially
446 dangerous write access explicit.
448 - guestfish --listen --csh for compatibility with csh, tcsh (thanks
451 - The first upstream version that introduced each API function is now
452 documented in guestfs(3).
454 - guestfs_last_errno allows you to retrieve the errno from the
455 daemon, correctly translated to the local operating system.
457 - Functions can now have optional parameters.
459 - Progress bars and progress notifications can now happen for upload
462 - Appliance builder more careful about not leaving temporary files
465 - getfattr/setfattr commands added to virt-rescue.
467 - ROADMAP file covers roadmap and goals for future releases.
471 - New SECURITY section in guestfs(3) API documentation.
473 - virt-inspector no longer runs any guest commands.
475 - Inspection code is more careful about avoiding very large files
476 from guests which might previously have caused a denial of service.
478 - FUSE calls into guestmount are now traced when using guestmount -x.
485 - inspect-get-hostname
486 - inspect-get-package-format
487 - inspect-get-package-management
489 - inspect-list-applications
495 - C programs now only link precisely with the libraries that they use.
497 - PCRE, libmagic, hivex and libvirt libraries are now completely
498 optional for building.
500 - Multiple memory leaks and file descriptor leaks fixed.
502 - Add a POD wrapper to unify generation of man pages and HTML files
505 - Source includes phony images of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and
508 - Ruby bindings have 'make install' rule.
510 - <guestfs.h> is now a single file.
512 - <guestfs.h> does not require XDR headers.
514 - ocaml xml-light library is no longer required to build (thanks
517 - ./configure --disable-[...] for each language binding (thanks
520 - Old ocaml-viewer program removed (use guestfs-browser instead).
522 - New C API test type 'InitScratchFS' makes the tests run a little
525 - Excluded packages in the appliance are now listed in a separate
526 file appliance/excludelist.in, and can be customized per-distro.
530 - 663407 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
531 - 661280 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
532 - 657499 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
533 - 655554 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
534 - 654638 openssl updated to 1.0.0b libguestfs depends on exact file names
535 - 652796 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
537 Release notes for libguestfs 1.6.0
538 ----------------------------------
540 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
541 stable/dev branch split (1.4.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
542 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
546 - Use a new method for creating and caching the appliance. This
547 greatly improves the performance of libguestfs, often by a factor
550 - Support for guest inspection (like virt-inspector) via the ordinary
551 API and all language bindings. 'guestfish -i' option is as a side-
554 - virt-inspector and core inspection API can now detect guests running:
555 Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS,
556 Scientific Linux, Gentoo, Pardus, Arch Linux, MeeGo.
558 - Support for LUKS whole-disk encryption in guests.
562 - Progress messages (and progress bars in guestfish and virt-resize)
563 for certain long-running operations.
565 - virt-df is now much more efficient. Use '--one-per-guest' to restore
566 the old per-guest isolation behaviour.
568 - guestfish 'copy-in' and 'copy-out' commands for copying files and
569 directories recursively in and out of the guest.
571 - guestfish 'hexedit' command for doing binary edits to devices and
574 - Change guestfish -i syntax to allow commands to be specified on the
575 command line (retaining backwards compatibility).
577 - guestfish '-d <domain>' for adding disks from libvirt domains.
579 - guestfish '-N' option supports several new prepared disk image types:
580 lvfs : disk with LV formatted with filesystem
583 bootrootlv : boot and root on LV
585 - guestfish 'more' and 'edit' commands now work with arbitrary files.
587 - guestfish '--echo-keys' option allows you to echo keys/passphrases
590 - guestmount now supports -a / -d / -i options, like guestfish.
592 - Use virtio-serial for communications with the appliance. This
593 also has a major performance benefit.
595 - virt-edit '-b' option to create a backup of edited files.
597 - virt-edit '-e' option for non-interactive edits to files.
599 - Ability to capture core dumps from the appliance (thanks Matthew Booth).
601 - virt-rescue now shuts down cleanly (thanks Matthew Booth).
603 - virt-rescue now has a --network option to enable network access.
605 - virt-resize can now handle guests which use GPT partition table format.
607 - virt-resize has better support for shrinking guests.
609 - virt-resize supports qcow2-format guests.
611 - $TMPDIR can be used to override almost all temporary directory usage.
613 - OCaml users can use an alternate OO-style of coding, eg. g#launch ()
615 - The API supports calls which take optional parameters, eg.
616 $g->add_drive_opts ("disk", readonly => 1);
618 - Trace output now escapes and shortens large strings (thanks
621 - Autosync is now on by default, resulting in more reliable behaviour
622 when the handle is closed.
624 - virt-df --uuid option allows you to follow a domain across migration
627 - Translations of manual pages.
631 - CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk
632 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-October/msg00036.html
633 This is comprehensively fixed in this release, and the fix will be
634 backported to the other stable branches after more testing.
636 - virt-inspector no longer relies on untrusted guest code to list
637 applications in some guests.
641 download-offset, file-architecture, findfs-label, findfs-uuid,
642 inspect-os, inspect-get-arch, inspect-get-distro,
643 inspect-get-filesystems, inspect-get-major-version,
644 inspect-get-minor-version, inspect-get-mountpoints,
645 inspect-get-product-name, inspect-get-type, is-blockdev, is-chardev,
646 is-fifo, is-lv, is-socket, is-symlink, list-filesystems, luks-add-key,
647 luks-close, luks-format, luks-format-cipher, luks-kill-slot,
648 luks-open, luks-open-ro, lvm-clear-filter, lvm-canonical-lv-name,
649 lvm-set-filter, part-to-dev, pread-device, pwrite-device,
654 - Use size_t for loop iterators.
655 - Refactor the library code into separate files.
656 - Refactor the generator code into separate files.
657 - Generate guestfish commands.
658 - guestfish & guestmount options processing is unified.
660 error message size increased to 64K
661 send errno to library
662 - Add 'make bindist' to make a binary distribution.
663 - Cleaner behaviour under valgrind.
664 - More testing of the guestfish command line options and libvirt
666 - The Perl inspection code is no longer used by any of the tools.
670 - 646822 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
671 - 646821 virt-df should have --uuid option
672 - 646432 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
673 - 643624 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
674 - 642934 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
675 - 642933 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
676 - 642932 guestmount options should match guestfish options
677 - 642930 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
678 - 642929 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
679 - 642826 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
680 - 640961 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
681 - 639986 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
682 - 639405 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
683 - 638901 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
684 - 638899 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
685 - 636918 Updates to Spanish translation
686 - 636061 [abrt] guestfish-1.2.11-1.fc12: malloc_consolidate: Process /usr/bin/guestfish was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
687 - 635969 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
688 - 634246 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
689 - 633766 virt-resize --shrink fails
690 - 633357 Updates to Spanish translation
691 - 633096 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
692 - 629593 Dutch translation added
693 - 627556 Updates to Spanish translations of libguestfs
694 - 626843 Updates to Spanish translations
695 - 619793 [RFE] Need a way to determine if a particular block device is a logical volume
696 - 618556 virt-rescue return none zero value when exit
697 - 617200 mount operation failed and hung on some images which running in read-only mode
698 - 610880 libguestfs should set broader read perms on tmpdir, so works in some situations when executed with umask 077
699 - 599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
700 - 571714 Running virt-df on disk image relabels it, so qemu can no longer write to it.
701 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
703 Release notes for libguestfs 1.4.0
704 ----------------------------------
706 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
707 stable/dev branch split (1.2.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
708 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
712 - guestfish lets you choose a prepared disk image, eg:
715 - Add write support to guestmount (FUSE) module.
717 - virt-resize can now resize the content of partitions and logical
718 volumes in the guest, and we have better support for shrinking guests.
720 - Bash tab-completion script for guestfish.
722 - Add ZFS support to virt-rescue.
724 - New tool 'virt-make-fs' for creating filesystems with content.
726 - Allow suffixes on any guestfish number parameter, eg. "1M".
728 - guestfish 'man' command opens the manual page.
730 - guestfish supports a "heredoc" syntax for uploading files:
735 - Some guestfish commands now print their output in octal or hex
736 where appropriate (RHBZ#583242).
738 - Allow dash prefix on guestfish command line. This ignores any
739 error from the second command: (RHBZ#578407)
740 guestfish -- cmd1 : -cmd2 : cmd3
742 - guestfish -h / help command now returns an error for non-existent
743 commands (RHBZ#597145).
745 - New 'supported' command in guestfish to list optional groups of
746 commands which are supported by the daemon / configuration.
748 - virt-inspector and guestfish -i now work for filenames which
749 contain spaces (RHBZ#507810).
751 - Change the protocol to use link-local addresses, to avoid
752 conflicting with any address that the host might be using
755 - libguestfs now sets the correct time and timezone on filesystem
758 - Sort the domains into alphabetical order in virt-df.
760 - Make mkfs-b command work for FAT and NTFS by mapping the blocksize
761 parameter to the cluster size (RHBZ#599464).
763 - Add version numbers to Perl modules (RHBZ#521674).
765 - Localization now works for all the libguestfs tools (RHBZ#559963).
767 - Tools now support filesystem-on-image VMs (RHBZ#590167).
769 - virt-list-partitions has a '-t' option to show the total size of disks.
771 - Include extra Augeas lenses in the supermin appliance (Matthew Booth).
773 - Add error and close callbacks.
775 - Add explicit close method in the Perl API.
777 - Multiple fixes for RHEL 5 compatibility.
779 - Multiple fixes for Debian/Ubuntu compatibility.
781 - Multiple revisions to improve the documentation.
785 - Fix a potential DoS in virt-inspector and virt-v2v if a specially
786 crafted disk image contained a char device in place of one of the
787 configuration files that we read under /etc (RHBZ#582484).
791 - aug-clear - clear Augeas path
792 - available-all-groups - return a list of all optional groups
793 - base64-in - upload base64-encoded data to file
794 - base64-out - download file and encode as base64
795 - checksum-device - compute checksums on the contents of a device
796 - checksums-out - compute checksums of multiple files in a directory
797 - debug-upload - upload a file to the appliance
798 - fallocate64 - preallocate a file in the guest filesystem
799 - fill-pattern - fill a file with a repeating pattern of bytes
800 - get-umask - get the current umask
801 - lvresize-free - expand an LV to fill free space
802 - ntfsresize - resize an NTFS filesystem
803 - ntfsresize-size - resize an NTFS filesystem (with size)
804 - part-del - delete a partition
805 - part-get-bootable - get the bootable flag of a partition
806 - part-get-mbr-id - get the MBR type byte of a partition
807 - part-set-mbr-id - set the MBR type byte of a partition
808 - pvresize-size - resize a physical volume (with size)
809 - pwrite - write to part of a file
810 - resize2fs-size - resize an ext2/3/4 filesystem (with size)
811 - txz-in - unpack compressed tarball to directory (RHBZ#580556)
812 - txz-out - pack directory into compressed tarball (RHBZ#580556)
813 - vfs-label - get the filesystem label
814 - vfs-uuid - get the filesystem UUID
815 - vgscan - rescan for LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes
816 - write - create a new file
817 - zero-device - write zeroes to an entire device
821 - Extend the generator to support testing optional features.
822 - Stricter checks on input parameters to many calls (RHBZ#501893 RHBZ#501894)
823 - Extend the protocol to support sending arbitrary 8 bit data buffers.
824 - Ship 'BUGS' file with releases. This is a summary of the bugs in
825 the Red Hat Bugzilla database.
826 - Ship 'RELEASE-NOTES' file with releases, containing release notes.
827 - Unify supermin appliance building into one place, in febootstrap 2.7.
828 - Fix the protocol code to handle the case where both ends send cancel
829 messages at the same time.
833 - 612178 guestfish: using -m option in conjunction with --listen option causes appliance to die
834 - 610880 libguestfs should set broader read perms on tmpdir, so works in some situations when executed with umask 077
835 - 604691 OCaml bindings are not thread safe
836 - 603870 Updates to Spanish translation
837 - 602592 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
838 - 600977 virt-df -h --csv "Argument .. isn't numeric in printf"
839 - 599464 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
840 - 598807 add_cdrom does not work in RHEL 6
841 - 598309 part-list and several other cmd failed on libguestfs on RHEL5
842 - 597145 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
843 - 597135 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
844 - 597118 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
845 - 597112 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
846 - 596776 virt-inspector doesn't discover modprobe aliases on RHEL 3 guests
847 - 596763 Updates to Spanish translation
848 - 593292 Updates to Spanish translation
849 - 592883 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
850 - 592360 Updates to Spanish translation
851 - 591250 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
852 - 591155 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
853 - 591142 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
854 - 590167 virt-inspector and other virt tools should be able to handle filesystem-on-image VMs
855 - 589039 guestfish read-file cmd will cause daemon hang when read large files
856 - 588851 guestfs_launch() returns -1, but guestfs_last_error() == NULL
857 - 588763 libguestfs should use non-public or link-local addresses for appliance network
858 - 588733 Updates to Spanish translation
859 - 588651 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
860 - 587484 lvresize can't reduce size of a volumn
861 - 585961 Updates to Spanish translation
862 - 585223 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
863 - 585222 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
864 - 585221 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
865 - 584038 Updates to Spanish translation
866 - 583554 [FEAT] mknod-mode command is needed to set mode explicitly
867 - 583242 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
868 - 582993 guestfish eats words when tab completing case (in)sensitive paths
869 - 582953 Misleading help information about lvcreate command
870 - 582948 mknod command doesn't make block, character or FIFO devices
871 - 582929 mknod doesn't check for invalid mode
872 - 582901 guestfish chmod/umask commands do not check invalid mode value
873 - 582899 guestfish:sparse is missed from command autocomplete list
874 - 582891 [Feature Request] behavior and return value of guestfish umask cmd should be changed
875 - 582548 [mknod] umask shouldn't take effect when mode is set explicitly
876 - 582484 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
877 - 582252 Updates to Spanish translation
878 - 581501 Updates to Spanish translation
879 - 580650 virt-inspector warns "No grub default specified at /usr/lib/perl5/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm at [...]"
880 - 580556 request for libguestfs to support .txz tarballs
881 - 580246 tar-in command hangs if uploading more than available space
882 - 580016 aug-ls in guestfish does not take augeas variable as argument
883 - 579664 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
884 - 579608 multiple commands in guestfish can not work for symbol links
885 - 579155 libguestfs hangs if qemu doesn't start (in null vmchannel mode)
886 - 578407 the prefix '-' in sub-command isn't handled by guestfish in remote control mode
887 - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
888 - 559963 libguestfs Perl programs do set locale, but still localization doesn't work
889 - 521674 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
890 - 516096 Race condition in test_swapon_label_0: /sbin/blockdev: BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
891 - 507810 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
892 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
893 - 501894 Some String parameters should be OptString
894 - 501893 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
895 - 501889 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
896 - 484986 grub-install fails on virtio disk
898 Release notes for previous versions of libguestfs
899 -------------------------------------------------
902 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00095.html
905 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/msg00281.html
908 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00059.html
911 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-July/msg00023.html
913 2009-04-01 : Initial announcement
914 http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/libguestfs-access-and-modify-virtual-machine-disk-images/