December 2012 - Libguestfs - libguestfs List Archives

[PATCH 0/2] Two build fixes for libldm
by Richard W.M. Jones 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Two simple build fixes for libldm. Well, the first isn't a build fix as such, but a code improvement. Rich.

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sample code for guestfs_hivex_node_set_value
by Skippy VonDrake 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Is there any sample code available to demonstrate the use of the guestfs_hivex_node_set_value API? I have no problem traversing and reading keys using libguestfs hivex wrappers - but continue to fail on any write attempts. The return is always -1 and errno is unchanged. I've set the environment variable HIVEX_DEBUG to 1 on a chance that this may help - but it doesn't. The only sample I can find in the sources that use hivex is the "virt-dhcp-address.c" sample. But it does not write to the registry.

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[PATCH] Enable code profiling and code coverage
by Richard W.M. Jones 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

moli: This won't apply directly to 1.16, but it should give you some ideas about making code profiling and code coverage more automatic. The trick to making OCaml programs link turns out to be `-cclib -lgcov'. See the configure.ac patch for the details. I will apply something like this upstream once I've done some more testing. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v

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packagelist.in for archlinux
by Evaggelos Balaskas 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

latest archlinux has some small changes: btrfs-progs-unstable --> btrfs-progs genisoimage --> cdrkit iproute --> iproute2 module-init-tools --> kmod procps --> procps-ng udev --> systemd util-linux-ng --> util-linux and could you plz add the below packages lrzip less sed -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

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distro checking
by Evaggelos Balaskas 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

NOT a problem, just a question about distro checking: the default value is REDHAT, then you check debian (or ubuntu) and then archlinux why are you using two if statements ? -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

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libguestfs 1.18.11 build error
by Evaggelos Balaskas 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

I am trying to build libguestfs version libguestfs-1.18.11 in my archlinux box i am getting this error: febootstrap: error: /lib appears as both directory and ordinary file (glibc, ntfs-3g) make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/downloads/dnl/PKGBUILDs/kvm/libguestfs/src/libguestfs-1.18.11/appliance' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/downloads/dnl/PKGBUILDs/kvm/libguestfs/src/libguestfs-1.18.11' make: *** [all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... any pointers ? -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

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The road to libguestfs 1.20
by Richard W.M. Jones 01 Dec '12

01 Dec '12

I've got some bad news: libvirt remote support is probably not going to make libguestfs 1.20. John Eckersberg is diligently working on this, but I don't want to hold up the release of the next stable libguestfs for this, particularly since it needs dependent changes in libvirt. The last stable branch of libguestfs (1.18) happened in the middle of May. That's 7 months ago, making this the longest cycle we've ever had by a large margin. Therefore it is time to start thinking about the next stable version, 1.20. As usual, bugs that need to be fixed for 1.20 should have "1.20" (without quotes) placed in the Devel Whiteboard field in Bugzilla. (There are currently none, but I plan to mark some). You can get a list of these bugs using this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=cf… ( http://tinyurl.com/bx8kter ) or all bugs here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtua… The draft release notes (not quite up to date) are here so you can get an idea of the new features: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html#release-notes-for-libgue… I'm planning to spend at least the next 3 weeks making the libvirt backend stable, so that we can use this as the default in Fedora 18, but I'm quite prepared to pull this and go with the ordinary backend if I cannot do this. Note that the default upstream is the non-libvirt appliance backend, and this will remain so. If there are any other problems, please let me know. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

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