Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
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-[Not complete. Last update commit e751293e10d5ecbb2ef43a61b9c153a1fc4f0304]
+[Not complete. Last update commit 872e67ffdf6c7b19782514445d13e8f405e435c1]
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.8.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
New features
- - [NOT DONE] --ro is now the default for guestfish.
-
- libguestfs and tools can be used against live virtual machines.
See the 'guestfish --live' and 'guestmount --live' options, and (for
the low-level interface) the new APIs set-attach-method and
- New virt tools:
virt-copy-in, virt-copy-out, virt-tar-in, virt-tar-out.
+ - libguestfs can get the drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
+
+ - virt-inspector displays drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
+
+ - Drive letters can now be used in virt-edit and guestfish programs
+ when operating on Windows guests.
+
- You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
operating systems.
- guestfish <! cmd which executes a shell cmd and inlines the result.
+ - guestfish, guestmount, virt-rescue now all support --ro and --rw
+ options, and the default for this can be chosen via a configuration
+ file (/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf).
+
- New event API allows more than one callback to be registered for
each event, makes it possible to call the API from other languages,
and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
- Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
+ - guestfish, guestmount -m option allows mount options to be passed
+ through to the underlying filesystem.
+
- mkfs-opts allows filesystem features to be specified.
- More intelligent handling of mountpoints, allowing mkmountpoint, mount
- Trace messages are prefixed with a distinct string, allowing them to
be easily 'grepped' out from debug output.
+ - guestfs_launch (guestfish 'run' command) now produces progress
+ messages (a guestfish progress bar) if it takes longer than 5
+ seconds to run.
+
+ - Several long-running commands where we are unable to estimate time
+ to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
+ in guestfish has been updated to display these.
+
- Publish example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
+ - New virt-dhcp-address example program.
+
- The Java and Ruby bindings have been improved greatly.
- Perl includes a way to get the errno of the last error.
+ - Python bindings now compatible with rpyc (thanks Erez Shinan).
+
- Transifex is now being used to manage translations.
http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/libguestfs/
- Inspection can now tell the difference between Windows 2008 Server
and Windows 7.
+ - Inspection can detect 32 bit applications installed in 64 bit
+ Windows, running on the WOW64 emulator.
+
- New logo!
Security
+ [none]
+
New APIs
first-private,
get-attach-method,
+ inspect-get-drive-mappings,
inspect-get-product-variant,
+ inspect-get-windows-current-control-set,
next-private,
resize2fs-M,
set-attach-method,
- 668112 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
- 668574 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
- 673479 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
+ - 674130 Inspection code fails for Windows guest with two disks
- 682756 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
- 682979 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
- 690819 mkfs fails creating a filesytem on a disk device when using a disk with 'ide' interface
+ - 691389 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
+ - 691724 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
+ - 692545 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
+ - 693324 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
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