October 2010 - Libguestfs - libguestfs List Archives

[PATCH] Don't use kernel module whitelist with ext2-based appliance.
by Richard W.M. Jones 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw

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[PATCH] Fix networking in the appliance
by Matthew Booth 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Change 4963be85 re-introduced networking to the appliance, but didn't configure the custom network the appliance expects since we switched to link local addressing. This patch configures QEMU to use the custom network again. --- src/launch.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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[PATCH] Don't include control characters in BufferIn trace output
by Matthew Booth 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Certain API calls, pwrite-device is an example, take a BufferIn as an argument which may contain arbitrary binary data. If trace output is on, we will attempt to print this to the terminal. As well as not working properly due to embedded NUL characters, this can cause problems on the output terminal, is unlikely to be useful, and can't be entered into guestfish in any case. This patch scans BufferIn arguments if trace output is on. If it finds any control characters it will replace the entire string with '<data>' in the trace output. --- generator/generator_c.ml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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[PATCH] df: Add --uuid option to print guest UUIDs instead of names
by Richard W.M. Jones 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora

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[PATCH] Document problems mixing mkmountpoint and umount-all (RHBZ#599503).
by Richard W.M. Jones 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html

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[PATCH] appliance: Remove repo from appliance filename (RHBZ#638901).
by Richard W.M. Jones 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora

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[PATCH] appliance: Repo name is not Fedora-specific.
by Richard W.M. Jones 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora

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[PATCH] inspection: Ignore floppy disks and CD-ROM drives (RHBZ#642929).
by Richard W.M. Jones 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

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[PATCH] Enable autosync by default.
by Richard W.M. Jones 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

By a very strict reading, this is an API change. Matt argues (and I agree) that if you really depend on autosync being off by default, then you were depending on the undefined behaviour that happens when you kill the qemu container without first doing sync. ie. Data might or might not have been written, depending on how fast the kernel was writing to disk versus how soon the container got killed. On the other hand, this is a frequent cause of problems when using the API (see http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_gotchas) and changing the default means this problem goes away. You can revert to the old behaviour by adding: guestfs_set_autosync (g, 0); Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html

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[PATCH 0/2] /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
by Richard W.M. Jones 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

This is a fix for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora

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