Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:20:53 +0000 (19:20 +0100)]
virt-sysprep: Update TODO list again.
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).
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:13:40 +0000 (15:13 +0100)]
TODO: More virt-sysprep suggestions (thanks librarian).
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:51:03 +0000 (09:51 +0100)]
Update TODO file with future plans for virt-sysprep.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:59:13 +0000 (13:59 +0100)]
Version 1.13.19.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:22:11 +0000 (19:22 +0100)]
New tool: virt-sysprep: system preparation for guests.
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:52:39 +0000 (13:52 +0100)]
virt-alignment-scan: Fix SYNOPSIS in manual page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:42:27 +0000 (13:42 +0100)]
Makefile.am: Fix comment.
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.
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.
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 18:12:34 +0000 (19:12 +0100)]
Update RELEASE-NOTES file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:13:38 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
Version 1.13.18.
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 13:38:07 +0000 (14:38 +0100)]
docs: Add directory sections for resize/ and sparsify/
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:42:42 +0000 (22:42 +0100)]
Update RELEASE-NOTES file.
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:00:21 +0000 (20:00 +0100)]
docs: Clearer language in virt-sparsify man page.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:24:42 +0000 (19:24 +0100)]
Version 1.13.17.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:02:30 +0000 (11:02 +0100)]
New tool: virt-sparsify to make disk images sparse.
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).
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:57:05 +0000 (10:57 +0100)]
Update API support documentation.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 13:35:05 +0000 (14:35 +0100)]
Version 1.13.16.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 09:42:05 +0000 (10:42 +0100)]
mount: Not deprecated any more.
This updates commit
5c2f1a2d9433eeb5aebeec26f0412c703bbe7269.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 1 Oct 2011 07:20:50 +0000 (08:20 +0100)]
mount: No longer implicitly add -o sync,noatime options.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:08:20 +0000 (16:08 +0100)]
daemon: mkswap --help output changed, breaking linuxfsuuid group detection.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:13:27 +0000 (22:13 +0100)]
Version 1.13.15.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:32:46 +0000 (22:32 +0100)]
Version 1.13.14.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:50:00 +0000 (18:50 +0100)]
Update to latest gnulib.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:41:46 +0000 (14:41 +0100)]
erlang: Use the official autoconf macros.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:28:11 +0000 (22:28 +0100)]
todo: Suggestion to improve Erlang bindings.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:31:10 +0000 (19:31 +0100)]
Enable APIC.
Originally this was disabled to work around RHBZ#502058. That bug was
never officially fixed, but it may have fixed itself.
In the meantime, KVM has broken ordinary PIC support (RHBZ#723822).
Since APIC is the most common way that regular Linux and Windows
guests run it makes sense to remove this hack.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:12:28 +0000 (15:12 +0100)]
Version 1.13.13.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:03:58 +0000 (18:03 +0100)]
Add Erlang bindings.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:26:20 +0000 (15:26 +0100)]
inspection: Handle /dev/root in /etc/fstab.
This means "the device that holds /etc/fstab", so map it correctly.
This fixes support for ttylinux and also some other guests that use
/dev/root instead of a real device name.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:21:26 +0000 (15:21 +0100)]
inspection: Add support for ttylinux (a minimal Linux).
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:02:43 +0000 (22:02 +0100)]
Add an optional group ("grub") for the guestfs_grub_install API.
This also improves the documentation for this call, pointing out
several pitfalls in using it.
This unfortunately breaks existing callers that might use
guestfs_grub_install without checking for this new group.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:56:38 +0000 (18:56 +0100)]
Version 1.13.12.
Richard Jones [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:52:39 +0000 (13:52 +0100)]
test-tool: Display TMPDIR.
Richard Jones [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:19:11 +0000 (13:19 +0100)]
test-tool: Refresh libguestfs-test-tool man page.
Richard Jones [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:00:34 +0000 (13:00 +0100)]
test-tool: Make the default timeout be 600 seconds (10 minutes).
We could sometimes hit the 120 second timeout, eg. if the appliance
needed to be rebuilt and the machine was very slow and/or under heavy
I/O load. 10 minutes should be enough for any reasonable situation.
Richard Jones [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:58:43 +0000 (12:58 +0100)]
test-tool: Document the -t command line option.
Richard Jones [Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:58:30 +0000 (12:58 +0100)]
test-tool: Use B<...> for command line options in man page.
Richard Jones [Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:36:00 +0000 (11:36 +0100)]
po-docs: Make podfiles sort stable.
Richard Jones [Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:33:19 +0000 (11:33 +0100)]
Stable OCaml dependencies.
Richard W.M. Jones [Wed, 7 Sep 2011 14:21:37 +0000 (15:21 +0100)]
docs: Add a section explaining the appliance boot process.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:55:18 +0000 (14:55 +0100)]
Version 1.13.11.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:37:20 +0000 (13:37 +0100)]
Remove old regression test that mainly tested a buggy API.
The guestfs_ll command currently lists files in the appliance if you
prefix filenames with "/..". However this is a bug, not a feature,
and we should not be testing it.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 1 Sep 2011 12:15:13 +0000 (13:15 +0100)]
debian: Missing build dependency on db4.8-util.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:59:15 +0000 (12:59 +0100)]
daemon: Factor out name of virtio serial channel.
This is just code motion.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:58:30 +0000 (12:58 +0100)]
Create /sys directory if it doesn't exist already.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS packages don't create /sys.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:58:34 +0000 (17:58 +0100)]
Version 1.13.10.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:35:34 +0000 (17:35 +0100)]
cat: Small documentation correction.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:53:03 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
inspector: Use xmlstarlet instead of xpath in examples.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:47:10 +0000 (17:47 +0100)]
man pages: Add a standard EXIT STATUS section to most pages.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:55:09 +0000 (22:55 +0100)]
Version 1.13.9.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:40:27 +0000 (22:40 +0100)]
progress: Make default UTF-8 progress bar less black.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:34:49 +0000 (22:34 +0100)]
resize: Add --machine-readable option for machine friendly output.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:03:47 +0000 (22:03 +0100)]
progress: Add machine readable flag.
Machine-readable progress bars look like:
0/100
1/100
2/100
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:21:23 +0000 (19:21 +0100)]
resize: Use guestfish progress bar mini-library.
There are two benefits:
- the progress bars look better
- there is a reasonably accurate estimate of how long each operation
will take
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:28:20 +0000 (20:28 +0100)]
Add GUESTFS_EVENT_ENTER event.
This event is generated whenever a libguestfs function is called.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:17:39 +0000 (18:17 +0100)]
fish: Make progress bars into a mini library.
This library could now be called from other virt tools.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:39:06 +0000 (17:39 +0100)]
fish: clarify comment: shared source files are used by virt tools too.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:54:05 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
Version 1.13.8.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:56:09 +0000 (13:56 +0100)]
ruby: Check Ruby callback exists before we call it (RHBZ#733297).
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:25:07 +0000 (13:25 +0100)]
ruby: Use a regular C array to pass the arguments through rb_rescue.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:11:28 +0000 (13:11 +0100)]
ruby: Append newline character after printing exception in callback.
Hilko Bengen [Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:42:09 +0000 (20:42 +0200)]
python: Newer versions want parentheses around arguments of "print"
Hilko Bengen [Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:42:08 +0000 (20:42 +0200)]
python: Don't build static library
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:36:52 +0000 (20:36 +0100)]
Version 1.13.7.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:21:29 +0000 (20:21 +0100)]
php: Fix bug in PHP tests.
We partitioned the disk, and then tried to create a PV on the whole
disk. LVM gave the error:
Device /dev/vda not found (or ignored by filtering).
It is unclear how this bug persisted for so long. It might be due to
a change in LVM.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:50:11 +0000 (19:50 +0100)]
Coverity: fix memory leak along error path.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:29:46 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Coverity: Initialize msg buffer.
msg_flags was not being initialized and would have been passed to
sendmsg with a random value.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:26:35 +0000 (19:26 +0100)]
Coverity: fix memory leak in guestfish.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:19:13 +0000 (19:19 +0100)]
Coverity: in daemon, free struct in RStruct, RStructList functions.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:56:12 +0000 (18:56 +0100)]
pclose: Fix other places where we only tested pclose == -1.
pclose can return > 0 when the status of the command was non-zero.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:53:38 +0000 (18:53 +0100)]
test_qemu: Improve the error message.
Note that errno is probably not set to a useful value here, so there
is not much point recording it.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:53:00 +0000 (18:53 +0100)]
test_qemu: pclose may return any != 0 on error.
In particular pclose returns a status > 0 if the command fails.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:43:24 +0000 (18:43 +0100)]
qemu detection: Free up previous qemu help/version strings if they exist.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:02:24 +0000 (18:02 +0100)]
Coverity: test_qemu: Ensure FILE * is not leaked along error paths.
This refactors the code in test_qemu slightly to ensure that
FILE *fp is not leaked on error paths.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:47:18 +0000 (16:47 +0100)]
Coverity: Check guestfs_inspect_get_product_name() != NULL before using.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:41:07 +0000 (16:41 +0100)]
rescue: Ignore errno after guestfs_launch.
errno is pretty much random on the error path back from guestfs_launch
so there is nothing useful to be gained by checking it.
We could do with a better way to detect if appliance launch failed.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:34:06 +0000 (16:34 +0100)]
Coverity: Ignore return value from guestfs_launch in virt-rescue.
We expect guestfs_launch to fail in this program.
Richard W.M. Jones [Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:12:27 +0000 (16:12 +0100)]
Coverity: Check return value from sscanf in bindtests calls.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:41:10 +0000 (11:41 +0100)]
autobuild: Only add last 100 lines of the log file.
Richard W.M. Jones [Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:49:35 +0000 (10:49 +0100)]
New autobuild script.
Remove the old top-level autobuild.sh that confused a lot
of people.
Add an autobuild.sh script that builds from the latest tarball.
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:48:44 +0000 (21:48 +0100)]
configure: Add --with-extra flag to allow setting the extra version string.
Intended use in Fedora and RHEL is to encode the release
string, eg.
./configure [...] --with-extra="-%{release}"
Richard W.M. Jones [Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:38:30 +0000 (10:38 +0100)]
Version 1.13.6.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:13:32 +0000 (19:13 +0100)]
protocol: Fix case where download can fail for small files.
There is another case where downloads of small files could fail if the
library side (writer) fails. In this case the library would send back
a cancellation, but it would be received after the daemon had finished
sending the whole file (because the file is small enough). The daemon
would reenter the main loop and immediately get an unexpected cancel
message, causing the daemon to die.
This commit also makes test-cancellation-download-librarycancels.sh
more robust. We use Monte-Carlo testing with a range of file sizes.
Small file sizes should trigger the error case.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:46:50 +0000 (17:46 +0100)]
Escape special/non-printing characters in debug output (RHBZ#731744).
The default event handler in libguestfs was simply writing all debug
output directly to stderr. However if the output contains
non-printable characters such as terminal control codes then these
would also be sent directly.
With newer SeaBIOS there is a lame attempt to implement a splash
screen using terminal control codes, thus when libguestfs tries to
display debugging output it would cause the screen to clear and debug
output to be lost.
This commit causes all non-printing characters to be escaped.
(\n and \r characters from the appliance are treated somewhat
specially).
Furthermore, instead of using write(2), use buffered stderr calls.
Richard W.M. Jones [Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:09 +0000 (17:41 +0100)]
Remove guestfs___print_timestamped_argv.
This function was used to print the qemu and
febootstrap-supermin-helper command lines.
Unfortunately in the qemu case it was used incorrectly: it called the
internal debug function (ie. event API callback) from the forked qemu
subprocess, which meant that higher level event callbacks might have
been invoked from the child process.
To fix this, convert the qemu case into a new function called
print_qemu_command line which just prints the command line directly to
stderr. This is called after stderr has been redirected into the pipe
to the main process. Thus the qemu command line will be marshalled
into the event API along with other qemu and appliance output.
After fixing this, only one use of guestfs___print_timestamped_argv
remained, for printing the febootstrap-supermin-helper command line.
This is converted to a local function print_febootstrap_command_line.
Also print_febootstrap_command_line is now called before we fork
febootstrap-supermin-helper, so that messages no longer overlap.
Hilko Bengen [Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:14:46 +0000 (00:14 +0200)]
out-of-tree build: generate ./run from template, fix image checks
./run can now be run in a separate build directory. Since some files
needed in the image checks are found in the source tree (but not the
build tree), the source tree location is passed to make-*-img.sh via
an environment variable.