libguestfs.git
13 years agoFix ./configure --disable-erlang.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:31:03 +0000 (17:31 +0100)]
Fix ./configure --disable-erlang.

13 years agoout-of-tree build: fixed bindtests and inspector
Hilko Bengen [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:20:56 +0000 (14:20 +0200)]
out-of-tree build: fixed bindtests and inspector

13 years agoout-of-tree build: fix HAVE_OCAML=false case
Hilko Bengen [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:20:55 +0000 (14:20 +0200)]
out-of-tree build: fix HAVE_OCAML=false case

13 years agoout-of-tree build: daemon
Hilko Bengen [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:20:54 +0000 (14:20 +0200)]
out-of-tree build: daemon

13 years agoadd-drive-opts: Correctly handle unreadable and unwritable files (RHBZ#747287).
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:29:20 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
add-drive-opts: Correctly handle unreadable and unwritable files (RHBZ#747287).

13 years agovirt-make-fs: Set MBR partition type byte correctly (RHBZ#746295).
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:02:34 +0000 (16:02 +0100)]
virt-make-fs: Set MBR partition type byte correctly (RHBZ#746295).

13 years agolib: Common code for formatting the qemu -drive parameter.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:49:18 +0000 (12:49 +0100)]
lib: Common code for formatting the qemu -drive parameter.

This is just code refactoring.

13 years agoAllow compilation without hivex (RHBZ#723474).
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:28:45 +0000 (12:28 +0100)]
Allow compilation without hivex (RHBZ#723474).

13 years agopo-docs: Force make update-po on first build from git.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:15:36 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
po-docs: Force make update-po on first build from git.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.23. 1.13.23
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:18:03 +0000 (22:18 +0100)]
Version 1.13.23.

13 years agoappliance: udev-174 moves udevd to /lib/udev/udevd (instead of /sbin/udevd)
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:04:41 +0000 (23:04 +0100)]
appliance: udev-174 moves udevd to /lib/udev/udevd (instead of /sbin/udevd)

13 years agoresize: Add --align-first auto|never|always option.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:06:33 +0000 (22:06 +0100)]
resize: Add --align-first auto|never|always option.

The first partition can now be aligned.  We fix the bootloader
correctly for Windows by adjusting the "Hidden Sectors" field.

13 years agoresize: Add --alignment flag to allow partition alignment to be picked.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:49:15 +0000 (16:49 +0100)]
resize: Add --alignment flag to allow partition alignment to be picked.

13 years agoresize: Refactor the code for creating target partitions.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:46:11 +0000 (14:46 +0100)]
resize: Refactor the code for creating target partitions.

The old code mixed the business of planning the layout of the target
partitions with the creation of the target partitions.  The
replacement code separates these into two tasks: firstly we create a
new 'partitions' list with the target layout, secondly this directly
drives the creation of the partitions.

As part of this change I have *removed* the old code that was supposed
to handle extended/logical MBR partitions.  It simply didn't work, and
didn't have any hope of working, and there is a separate bug open to
fix it.

13 years agoresize: Remove p_size field from partitions structure.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:53:13 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
resize: Remove p_size field from partitions structure.

This field simply contained a duplicate copy of p_part.part_size.

There is no functional change in this commit.

13 years agoUpdate RELEASE-NOTES.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:58:21 +0000 (10:58 +0100)]
Update RELEASE-NOTES.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.22. 1.13.22
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:37:25 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
Version 1.13.22.

13 years agoPushed and pulled latest translations from Transifex.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:12:07 +0000 (17:12 +0100)]
Pushed and pulled latest translations from Transifex.

Fixed one bug in the nl PO file:

msgid "security: cached appliance %s is not owned by UID %d"
msgstr "beveiliging: UID %d is geen eigenaar van toepassing %s in cache"

should be:

msgid "security: cached appliance %s is not owned by UID %d"
msgstr "beveiliging: UID %2$d is geen eigenaar van toepassing %1$s in cache"

13 years agoinspection: Return root devices sorted.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:43:37 +0000 (15:43 +0100)]
inspection: Return root devices sorted.

13 years agoinspect: Handle cciss devices in /etc/fstab
Matthew Booth [Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:42:16 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
inspect: Handle cciss devices in /etc/fstab

13 years agoinspect: Don't assume number of captures in match functions
Matthew Booth [Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:30:40 +0000 (13:30 +0100)]
inspect: Don't assume number of captures in match functions

It is possible for the pcre library to return a variable number of captures for
a single regular expression. e.g.:

  ^/dev/(cciss/c\d+d\d+)(?:p(\d+))?$

This will return either 1 or 2 captures depending on whether the device has a
partition suffix. The current match wrappers don't allow for this, and require
that a predictable number of matches are returned.

This change updates match, match1, match2, and match3 to ignore the specific
number of matches returned. Instead, any returned captures are assigned to the
given arguments, and any remaining arguments are set to NULL.

13 years agoinspect: Add drive naming hints
Matthew Booth [Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:01:01 +0000 (11:01 +0100)]
inspect: Add drive naming hints

We currently use a heuristic to guess how drive names we find
referenced in the guest map to drive names in the appliance. If this
heuristic fails it can cause inspection to fail.

This change adds a new 'name' option to add_drive_opts, which allows
the user to explicitly pass the name of a drive to libguestfs if it is
known. This change also updates the fstab-parsing inspection code to
use this information if it is available.

13 years agoNFC: Remove unnecessary goto
Matthew Booth [Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:07:31 +0000 (16:07 +0100)]
NFC: Remove unnecessary goto

13 years agolaunch: Store drive information in guestfs_h
Matthew Booth [Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:28:47 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
launch: Store drive information in guestfs_h

This is a NFC on its own, but provides a place-holder for drive metadata which
can be used after launch.

Fixes by RWMJ:

 - Fix the tests: this requires a new internal function 'debug-drives'
   that dumps out the g->drives information so it can be checked in
   two of the tests.  Previously these tests used 'debug-cmdline'.

 - Test file existence / use_cache_off in the add_drive_opts function,
   not when launching qemu in the child process.

 - Call free along error paths.

 - Add comments.

13 years agoinspect: Fix fstab device mapping for >26 disks
Matthew Booth [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:00:32 +0000 (15:00 +0100)]
inspect: Fix fstab device mapping for >26 disks

The regular expression matching disk name assumed that there was only a single
letter suffix. This change handles a naming scheme for any number of disks.

13 years agolaunch: Ensure g->cmdline is allocated before assigning g->cmdline[0].
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:20:19 +0000 (15:20 +0100)]
launch: Ensure g->cmdline is allocated before assigning g->cmdline[0].

13 years agovalgrind: guestfish -i: free strings before exit.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:42:59 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
valgrind: guestfish -i: free strings before exit.

This isn't really necessary, but it keeps valgrind happy.

13 years agoUbuntu 11.10: Create /run and /run/lock if not already.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:22:01 +0000 (15:22 +0100)]
Ubuntu 11.10: Create /run and /run/lock if not already.

In real machines these directories are a ramdisk.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Fix link in documentation.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:26:43 +0000 (15:26 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Fix link in documentation.

13 years agoSkip guestmount and virt-sysprep tests if no /dev/fuse.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:59:43 +0000 (09:59 +0100)]
Skip guestmount and virt-sysprep tests if no /dev/fuse.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Fix test to use guestmount and virt-inspector binaries that have been...
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:51:16 +0000 (17:51 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Fix test to use guestmount and virt-inspector binaries that have been built.

13 years agoappliance: Fedora cryptsetup-luks renamed to cryptsetup.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:08:20 +0000 (22:08 +0100)]
appliance: Fedora cryptsetup-luks renamed to cryptsetup.

Therefore we need both names to be listed in the file.

13 years agoroadmap: Fix Bugzilla URL.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:08:14 +0000 (22:08 +0100)]
roadmap: Fix Bugzilla URL.

13 years agoMore TODO items.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:22:46 +0000 (18:22 +0100)]
More TODO items.

13 years agoUpdate RELEASE-NOTES file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:14:59 +0000 (18:14 +0100)]
Update RELEASE-NOTES file.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.21. 1.13.21
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:14:57 +0000 (15:14 +0100)]
Version 1.13.21.

13 years agoUse ArchLinux's new kernel package "linux".
Erik Nolte [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:56:40 +0000 (15:56 -0600)]
Use ArchLinux's new kernel package "linux".

13 years agoAdd basic support for netbsd detection.
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:05 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Add basic support for netbsd detection.

13 years agoAdd support for pkgsrc, default NetBSD package manager.
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:07 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Add support for pkgsrc, default NetBSD package manager.

For now, only detect the tool, but support from reading
installed package could be added later ( may require either
a package of pkgsrc, or a smaller tool to read the db ).

13 years agoAdd support for mounting ufs from NetBSD, and fix FreeBSD detection on Fedora 16
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:06 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Add support for mounting ufs from NetBSD, and fix FreeBSD detection on Fedora 16

While testing on Fedora 16, I noticed that Linux will mount the disk
without trouble by using automatically ufstype=old, and yet do not
let us read the directories. So we should start directly with usftype=ufs2,
and if it fail, try 44bsd, as used for netbsd and openbsd ( as seen on
http://wiki-static.aydogan.net/How_to_mount_FFS_partition_under_Linux ).

13 years agoAdd the Opensuse logo ( thanks to Vincent Untz )
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:04 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Add the Opensuse logo ( thanks to Vincent Untz )

Like Ubuntu one, it may not be always present.

13 years agoAdd Opensuse and zypper detection support
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:03 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Add Opensuse and zypper detection support

This would also erronously detect SLES as Opensuse.

13 years agoAdd support for Ubuntu logo
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:02 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Add support for Ubuntu logo

Ths logo is present on Lucid Lynx, but may not always be installed, like
in case of a minimal installation ( or server ). While Edubuntu and Kubuntu
have different logo, I didn't check where it would be placed.

13 years agoDetect Mageia distribution
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:01 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Detect Mageia distribution

13 years agoPartially fix --disable-erlang
Michael Scherer [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:00 +0000 (01:05 +0200)]
Partially fix --disable-erlang

Without this, configure will always enable erlang, no matter what
argument are passed. Now, we can disable it, even if configure still
need the erlang compiler for some obscure reason.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Add cron-spool, mail-spool, utmp.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:36:00 +0000 (08:36 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Add cron-spool, mail-spool, utmp.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:30:13 +0000 (23:30 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: More clarifications to the man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:29:58 +0000 (23:29 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: More clarifications to the man page.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Clarify docs on enabling operations.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:24:28 +0000 (23:24 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Clarify docs on enabling operations.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Add rhn-systemid.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:20:27 +0000 (23:20 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Add rhn-systemid.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Switch to using guestmount, add more features.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:37:56 +0000 (15:37 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Switch to using guestmount, add more features.

This switches virt-sysprep to use guestmount instead of guestfish.
This makes the script a little bit easier to modify for sysadmins.

This commit also adds:

 - dhcp-client-state
 - dhcp-server-state
 - logfiles
 - random-seed
 - smolt-uuid
 - yum-uuid

SELinux relabelling, and a section on security in the manual page.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Use Augeas for config file manipulation.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:07:41 +0000 (15:07 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Use Augeas for config file manipulation.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Add prepend_line utility function.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:30:35 +0000 (14:30 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Add prepend_line utility function.

13 years agofish: docs: note how to clean up the remote process properly.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:56:52 +0000 (11:56 +0100)]
fish: docs: note how to clean up the remote process properly.

Killing it is always a bad idea, because the qemu subprocess will be
left hanging around.  The best thing is to send the exit command.

This also makes the change to virt-sysprep.

13 years agofish: Close guestfs handle explicitly before exiting.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:54:18 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
fish: Close guestfs handle explicitly before exiting.

NOTE this is just a cleanup.  It is NOT necessary for correctness,
since libguestfs itself is correctly closing the handle in the exit
handler.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Trap ERR as well as EXIT.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:34:04 +0000 (11:34 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Trap ERR as well as EXIT.

13 years agoguestmount: Add note to man page about 'fuse' group for Debian.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:13:05 +0000 (11:13 +0100)]
guestmount: Add note to man page about 'fuse' group for Debian.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Simplify calls to guestfish --remote.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:09:31 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Simplify calls to guestfish --remote.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Further TODO items (thanks Nikita Menkovich).
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:36:24 +0000 (10:36 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Further TODO items (thanks Nikita Menkovich).

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Further TODO items (thanks Marko Myllynen, James Antill).
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:36:24 +0000 (10:36 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Further TODO items (thanks Marko Myllynen, James Antill).

13 years agoVersion 1.13.20. 1.13.20
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:59:29 +0000 (20:59 +0100)]
Version 1.13.20.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Update TODO list again.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:20:53 +0000 (19:20 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Update TODO list again.

13 years agovirt-sysprep: Update TODO list (thanks Steve Grubb, Dan Berrange).
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:04:46 +0000 (18:04 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Update TODO list (thanks Steve Grubb, Dan Berrange).

13 years agoTODO: More virt-sysprep suggestions (thanks librarian).
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:13:40 +0000 (15:13 +0100)]
TODO: More virt-sysprep suggestions (thanks librarian).

13 years agoAdd systemtap/DTrace probes.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:26:15 +0000 (13:26 +0100)]
Add systemtap/DTrace probes.

Mainly this is a documentation change.  However a sample of
DTrace-compatible userspace probes are also added.

13 years agoUpdate TODO file with future plans for virt-sysprep.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:51:03 +0000 (09:51 +0100)]
Update TODO file with future plans for virt-sysprep.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.19. 1.13.19
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:59:13 +0000 (13:59 +0100)]
Version 1.13.19.

13 years agoNew tool: virt-sysprep: system preparation for guests.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:22:11 +0000 (19:22 +0100)]
New tool: virt-sysprep: system preparation for guests.

13 years agofish: Add man page section on calling guestfish remote robustly from bash.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:20:36 +0000 (19:20 +0100)]
fish: Add man page section on calling guestfish remote robustly from bash.

13 years agovirt-alignment-scan: Fix SYNOPSIS in manual page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:52:39 +0000 (13:52 +0100)]
virt-alignment-scan: Fix SYNOPSIS in manual page.

13 years agoMakefile.am: Fix comment.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:42:27 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
Makefile.am: Fix comment.

13 years agovirt-alignment-scan: docs: Add link to RHEL Storage Administration Guide.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:37:01 +0000 (17:37 +0100)]
virt-alignment-scan: docs: Add link to RHEL Storage Administration Guide.

13 years agovirt-alignment-scan: More information in man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:23:38 +0000 (10:23 +0100)]
virt-alignment-scan: More information in man page.

Thanks Mike Snitzer.

13 years agovirt-resize: Align partitions to multiple of 128 sectors (instead of 64).
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:22:16 +0000 (10:22 +0100)]
virt-resize: Align partitions to multiple of 128 sectors (instead of 64).

This gives us effectively 64 KByte alignment, optimal for all current
types of storage.

13 years agoUpdate RELEASE-NOTES file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:12:34 +0000 (19:12 +0100)]
Update RELEASE-NOTES file.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.18. 1.13.18
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:13:38 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
Version 1.13.18.

13 years agoNew tool: virt-alignment-scan to check alignment of partitions.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:06:10 +0000 (15:06 +0100)]
New tool: virt-alignment-scan to check alignment of partitions.

13 years agodocs: Add directory sections for resize/ and sparsify/
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 13:38:07 +0000 (14:38 +0100)]
docs: Add directory sections for resize/ and sparsify/

13 years agoUpdate RELEASE-NOTES file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:42:42 +0000 (22:42 +0100)]
Update RELEASE-NOTES file.

13 years agosparsify: Fix --ignore option to work on canonical device names.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:00:42 +0000 (20:00 +0100)]
sparsify: Fix --ignore option to work on canonical device names.

13 years agodocs: Clearer language in virt-sparsify man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:00:21 +0000 (20:00 +0100)]
docs: Clearer language in virt-sparsify man page.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.17. 1.13.17
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:24:42 +0000 (19:24 +0100)]
Version 1.13.17.

13 years agoNew tool: virt-sparsify to make disk images sparse.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:02:30 +0000 (11:02 +0100)]
New tool: virt-sparsify to make disk images sparse.

13 years agodocs: Add virt-resize to list of links in guestfs(3).
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:58:25 +0000 (10:58 +0100)]
docs: Add virt-resize to list of links in guestfs(3).

13 years agodocs: virt-win-reg is written in Perl, not virt-resize.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:58:02 +0000 (10:58 +0100)]
docs: virt-win-reg is written in Perl, not virt-resize.

13 years agoUpdate API support documentation.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:57:05 +0000 (10:57 +0100)]
Update API support documentation.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.16. 1.13.16
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 13:35:05 +0000 (14:35 +0100)]
Version 1.13.16.

13 years agomount: Not deprecated any more.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 09:42:05 +0000 (10:42 +0100)]
mount: Not deprecated any more.

This updates commit 5c2f1a2d9433eeb5aebeec26f0412c703bbe7269.

13 years agomount: No longer implicitly add -o sync,noatime options.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 07:20:50 +0000 (08:20 +0100)]
mount: No longer implicitly add -o sync,noatime options.

13 years agodaemon: mkswap --help output changed, breaking linuxfsuuid group detection.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:08:20 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
daemon: mkswap --help output changed, breaking linuxfsuuid group detection.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.15. 1.13.15
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:13:27 +0000 (22:13 +0100)]
Version 1.13.15.

13 years agoNew API: set-smp, get-smp
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:39:31 +0000 (14:39 +0100)]
New API: set-smp, get-smp

These calls allow you to change the number of virtual CPUs assigned to
the appliance.

This also adds a --smp option to virt-rescue.

13 years agoNew APIs: compress-out, compress-device-out.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:14:06 +0000 (11:14 +0100)]
New APIs: compress-out, compress-device-out.

These APIs let you copy compressed files or devices out from the disk
image.

Compression is useful for large images which are mostly zeroes.  We
cannot currently do sparseness detection, and compression gives us a
form of zero detection for free.

Example usage:

$ guestfish --ro -a /dev/vg_pin/F16x64 -i \
    compress-out gzip /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd.gz
$ file -z /tmp/passwd.gz
/tmp/passwd.gz: ASCII text (gzip compressed data, was "passwd", from
Unix, last modified: Sun Aug 28 14:40:46 2011)

13 years agodaemon: Move useful is_zero function to header file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:17:53 +0000 (14:17 +0100)]
daemon: Move useful is_zero function to header file.

Code motion.

13 years agoAdd no_timer_check to disable faulty test during boot (RHBZ#502058).
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:34:12 +0000 (13:34 +0100)]
Add no_timer_check to disable faulty test during boot (RHBZ#502058).

See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502058#c15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698842#c8

This updates commit 79e66f89e2f6c27486476d7857da58feb491bf5c.

13 years agodocs: Show how to use a qemu wrapper to edit the qemu command line.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:58:46 +0000 (09:58 +0100)]
docs: Show how to use a qemu wrapper to edit the qemu command line.

13 years agoVersion 1.13.14. 1.13.14
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:32:46 +0000 (22:32 +0100)]
Version 1.13.14.

13 years agoUpdate to latest gnulib.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:50:00 +0000 (18:50 +0100)]
Update to latest gnulib.

13 years agoerlang: Use the official autoconf macros.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:41:46 +0000 (14:41 +0100)]
erlang: Use the official autoconf macros.

13 years agotodo: Suggestion to improve Erlang bindings.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:28:11 +0000 (22:28 +0100)]
todo: Suggestion to improve Erlang bindings.