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[Libvirt-announce] Libvirt 0.9.2 week freeze, RC1 version to test
by Daniel Veillard 29 May '11

29 May '11

So we are entering the week freeze for the new version. I have made an rc1 tarball available at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.9.2-rc1.tar.gz I also made rpms too for those interested. I didn't included the locking patches from Dan Berrange, though I had given a review and ACK on the previous version. Maybe we can push this soon and then I will made an rc2. It would be nice to try to identify the OpenSolaris portability issues,a dn if someone could give it a try on Win32 that would be great (along other linux builds of course !) I have tried it locally and basic operations seems to work fine, please give it a try too. thanks ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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Re: [Libvirt-announce] [libvirt] [PATCH] Documentation on tests suites and new API test suite
by Daniel Veillard 11 May '11

11 May '11

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:46:11AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/10/2011 12:21 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > I hesitated between creating a new doc section and trying to reuse > > one existing, but it didn't fit well in any of the existing section, > > though that could have been added under "Download" or "Related links" > > but it was feeling a bit weird in both case so I opted for a new top > > level. > > Seems okay to me. > [...] > ACK with those spelling nits fixed. Thanks ! done, I also removed 2 trailing white spaces :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] [PATCH] Documentation on tests suites and new API test suite
by Daniel Veillard 10 May '11

10 May '11

This is really a dual mail. The main point is announcing the availability of the livirt-test-API, a GPL'ed Python based test suite for libvirt functional testing. It was developped independantly of the TCK by our QA group here in Beijing China and is now made open-source. The software requirements are relatively light and it has been tested on RHEL various versions (5.x and 6.x) as well as Fedora 14. It should be relatively easy to use on Centos, SL, but use on other distributions may need a bit of porting. It has been in use for quite some time,, it is still in development and the public repository is in libvirt.org git at: http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-test-API.git and can be cloned with git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-test-API.git there is some pblican based documentation under the docs/ subtree and we have a PDF ready ans well as snapshots in the download tree http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-test-API/ ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-test-API/ There is a lot of improvements possible, it should be relatively easy to glue to autotest (c.f. chapter 5 of the PDF), and there is definitely cleanups to be done :-) , I think the best way to proceed is to just send git patches here on the libvir-list and have them reviewed and ACK'ed. People with commit access should be able to push as usual, note that I added Guannan Ren <gren(a)redhat.com> as a commiter for this purpose since he has much expertise with that code (along with Osier). Now for the patch itself, it add a top level section in the navigation bar, provide a main description page for the 3 test suites (internal, TCK and libvirt-test-API) and then add a separate full page for the 2 independant test suite. I hesitated between creating a new doc section and trying to reuse one existing, but it didn't fit well in any of the existing section, though that could have been added under "Download" or "Related links" but it was feeling a bit weird in both case so I opted for a new top level. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-0.9.1
by Daniel Veillard 05 May '11

05 May '11

As planned and after most of the clang detected problems got fixed (thanks Eric !) the new release is available at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ It's a mixed release, it includes a number of improvements as well as many bug fixes and a few new features: Features: - support various persistent domain updates (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - improvements on memory APIs (Taku Izumi) - Add virDomainEventRebootNew (Matthias Bolte) - various improvements to libxl driver (Markus Groß) - Spice: support audio, images and stream compression (Michal Privoznik) Documentation: - fix missing VLAN id for Qbg example (Gerhard Stenzel) - docs: Document filesystem tag device (Cole Robinson) - maint: fix comment typos (Eric Blake) - Fix two out-of-date comments in LVM backend (Richard Laager) - docs: Serial and parallel device target ports actually start from 0 (Matthias Bolte) - maint: fix grammar errors (Eric Blake) - docs: document freecell --all (Eric Blake) - docs: remove "returns" word from beginning of lines (Jean-Baptiste Rouault) - docs: add an IPv6 address to network XML examples (Laine Stump) Portability: - build: fix getcwd portability problems (Eric Blake) - build: avoid test warnings on mingw (Eric Blake) - virsh: avoid compiler warning on mingw (Eric Blake) - build: Use pkg-config for libssh2 check (Jiri Denemark) - build: Ignore old audit library (Jiri Denemark) - build: fix 32-bit test failure (Eric Blake) - build: Fix problem of building Python bindings (Osier Yang) - build: fix 32-bit test failure (Eric Blake) - ppc: Enable starting of Qemu VMs on ppc host (Stefan Berger) - Migrate VMs between different-endianess hosts (Stefan Berger) - build: really fix mingw startup (Eric Blake) - build: fix mingw build (Eric Blake) - do not build libvirt_iohelper when building without libvirtd (Wen Congyang) - virsh: fix mingw startup (Eric Blake) - build: avoid compiler warning on cygwin (Eric Blake) - Fix build for older gcc (Jim Fehlig) - Don't try to enable stack protector on Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange) Bug Fixes: - storage: avoid null deref and leak on failure (Eric Blake) - esx: Avoid null dereference on error in esxDomainGetInfo (Matthias Bolte) - remote: avoid null dereference on error (Eric Blake) - cgroup: avoid leaking a file (Eric Blake) - virsh: avoid null pointer dereference (Eric Blake) - pci: fix null pointer dereference (Eric Blake) - qemu: avoid null pointer dereference (Eric Blake) - tests: avoid null pointer dereference (Eric Blake) - Fix disability to run on systems with no PCI bus (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: fix regression in log to file (Supriya Kannery) - nwfilter: Fix memory leak in the ebtables subdriver (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Fix qemuDomainModifyDeviceFlags leaking the caps bitmap (Matthias Bolte) - Fix memory leak in __virExec (Matthias Bolte) - hash: fix memory leak regression (Eric Blake) - Xen: Do not generate net ifname if domain is inactive (Jim Fehlig) - xen: check if device is assigned to guest before reattaching (Yufang Zhang) - util: Initialize hooks at daemon shutdown if no hooks defined (Osier Yang) - fix virsh's regression (Wen Congyang) - release PCI address only when we have ensured it successfully (Wen Congyang) - free memory properly in cleanup patch (Hu Tao) - free buf content when vsnprintf() failed (Wen Congyang) - esx: Fix dynamic dispatch for CastFromAnyType functions (Matthias Bolte) - Make crash and live flags mutually exclusive in virDomainCoreDump (Mark Wu) - Fix small memory leaks in config parsing related functions (Matthias Bolte) - daemon: Don't try to free an unsigned int in error paths (Matthias Bolte) - Fix QEMU tunnelled migration FD handling (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove artificial minimum limit for guest memory (Jiri Denemark) - fix tunnelled migration's regression (Wen Congyang) - qemu: fix the check of virDomainObjUnref()'s return value (Wen Congyang) - Fix checking of return codes in dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: avoid qemu_driver being unlocked twice when virThreadPoolNew() failed (Wen Congyang) - virsh: fix regression in parsing optional integer (Eric Blake) - phyp: avoid memory leaks in command values (Eric Blake) - phyp: avoid memory leak on failure (Eric Blake) - phyp: avoid a logic bug (Eric Blake) - free cpumask of vcpupinDef (Hu Tao) - network: Fix NULL dereference during error recovery (Michal Privoznik) - Add missing checks for QEMU domain state in tunables APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - phyp: Fix too small buffer allocation in phypAttachDevice (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Don't overwrite error from virDomainDeviceDefParse by OOM error (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Don't try to use a string from a failed virAsprintf (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Remove stack allocating a 4kb volume key and fix related memory leaks (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: fix a dead-lock problem (Hu Tao) - util: Fix crash when removing entries during hash iteration (Jiri Denemark) - Fix possible infinite loop in remote driver (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Remove the managed state file only if restoring succeeded (Osier Yang) - reattach pci devices when qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices() failed (Wen Congyang) - reattach pci device when pciBindDeviceToStub() failed (Wen Congyang) - remove devices from driver activePciHostdevs when qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices() failed (Wen Congyang) - pci: avoid invalid free, init path to NULL (Wen Congyang) - qemu: Support for overriding NPROC limit (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Always reserves slot 0x02 for primary VGA. (Osier Yang) - Fix typo in systemtap tapset directory name (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Ignore unusable binaries (Jiri Denemark) Improvements: - maint: detect clang 2.9 (Eric Blake) - qemu: update qemuCgroupControllerActive signature (Eric Blake) - lxc: report correct error (Eric Blake) - libxl: avoid compiler warning (Eric Blake) - storage: use virCommand to avoid compiler warning (Eric Blake) - tests: Lower stack usage below 4096 bytes (Matthias Bolte) - tests: Update valgrind suppressions file (Matthias Bolte) - tests: simplify common setup (Eric Blake) - network: fix return value of hostsFileWrite (Laine Stump) - libvirt/qemu - support persistent attach/detach disks (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - libvirt/qemu - support persistent modification of devices (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - util: Simplify hash implementation (Jiri Denemark) - tests: More unit tests for internal hash APIs (Jiri Denemark) - Move call to virReportOOMError into virFileBuildPath (Matthias Bolte) - build: use gnulib passfd for simpler SCM_RIGHTS code (Eric Blake) - qemu: Add flags checking in DomainCoreDump (Jiri Denemark) - Make sure DNSMASQ_STATE_DIR exists (Guido Günther) - build: make VIR_FREE do some type checking (Eric Blake) - threads: add one-time initialization support (Eric Blake) - esx: Add a wrapper for shared CURL handles (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Move CURL handling code to it's own type (Matthias Bolte) - daemon: Honor error variable name change in the generator (Matthias Bolte) - libvirt/qemu - clean up UpdateDevice for consolidation. (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - libvirt/qemu - clean up At(De)tachDeviceFlags() for consolidation. (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - libvirt/qemu - Centralize device modification in the more flexible APIs (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - Add support for s390(x) cpu options parsing (Michal Privoznik) - PHYP: Adding reboot domain function (Eduardo Otubo) - nwfilter: no support for direct type of interface (Stefan Berger) - Add cputune support to libxl driver (Markus Groß) - Update and sort msg_gen_function list and mark unmarked messages (Matthias Bolte) - Write error check conditionals in more compact form for dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - Merge all returns paths from dispatcher into single path (Daniel P. Berrange) - Experimental libvirtd upstart job (Alan Pevec) - enhance processWatchdogEvent() (Wen Congyang) - xen: Replace statsErrorFunc with a macro (Matthias Bolte) - tests: Unit tests for internal hash APIs (Jiri Denemark) - build: include esx_vi.generated.* into dist file (Wen Congyang) - tests: test recent virsh option parsing changes (Eric Blake) - virsh: list required options first (Eric Blake) - phyp: use consistent return string handling (Eric Blake) - maint: use lighter-weight function for straight appends (Eric Blake) - libvirt-guests: implement START_DELAY (Alexander Todorov) - network: truncate bridges' dummy tap device names to IFNAMSIZ (15) chars (Laine Stump) - Introduce virDomainChrDefNew() (Michal Novotny) - esx: Make the parsed URI part of the private connection data (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Mark error message in macros for translation (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Extend VI generator to cover managed object types (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Cleanup and refactor CastFromAnyType macros (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Cleanup VI generator code (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Reduce code duplication in error and success paths (Matthias Bolte) - Replace REMOTE_DEBUG with VIR_DEBUG in daemon dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add missing checks for whether the connection is open in dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - PHYP: Adding network interface (Eduardo Otubo) - xen: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation from block stats code (Matthias Bolte) - setmaxmem: add the new options to "virsh setmaxmem" command (Taku Izumi) - maxmem: implement virDomainSetMaxMemory API of the qemu driver (Taku Izumi) - maxmem: introduces VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_MAXIMUM flag (Taku Izumi) - nwfilters: support for TCP flags evaluation (Stefan Berger) - setmem: add --current option to virsh setmem command (Taku Izumi) - setmem: add VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_CURRENT support to qemu (Taku Izumi) - setmem: introduce VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_CURRENT flag (Taku Izumi) - build: Install libxenlight log dir (Jim Fehlig) - Add domainSet/GetSchedulerParameters to libxl driver (Markus Groß) - rename pciUnBindDeviceFromStub() to pciUnbindDeviceFromStub() and float it up (Wen Congyang) - Add domainIsUpdated to libxl driver (Markus Groß) - Change locking for udev monitor and callbacks (Serge Hallyn) - Improve SCSI volume key generation (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Rewrite LOOKUP_PTYS macro into a function (Jiri Denemark) - Enable use of -Wold-style-definition compiler flag (Daniel P. Berrange) - Enable use of -Wmissing-noreturn (Daniel P. Berrange) - Enable -Wmissing-format-attribute warning (Daniel P. Berrange) - Use gnulib's manywarnings and warnings modules (Daniel P. Berrange) - Use virBufferPtr for sexpr2string instead of manual buffer handling (Matthias Bolte) - xend: Remove 4kb stack allocation (Matthias Bolte) - uml: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation from /proc parsing code (Matthias Bolte) - storage: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation from iSCSI backend (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation used in commandline building (Matthias Bolte) - Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation from virFileOpenTtyAt (Matthias Bolte) - openvz: Remove several larger stack allocations (Matthias Bolte) - daemon: Remove 4kb stack allocation of security label (Matthias Bolte) - virsh: Remove two 4kb stack allocations (Matthias Bolte) - Use virFileAbsPath instead of manually creating the absolute path (Matthias Bolte) - xenxs: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation in XM script parsing (Matthias Bolte) - sasl: Remove stack allocated 8kb temporary buffers (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Use heap allocated memory to read the monitor greeting (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: Remove 16kb stack allocation (Matthias Bolte) - virt-aa-helper: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocations (Matthias Bolte) - ebtables: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocation (Matthias Bolte) - pci: Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocations (Matthias Bolte) - Remove PATH_MAX sized stack allocations related to virFileBuildPath (Matthias Bolte) - vmx: Use case-insensitive compare functions for all content (Matthias Bolte) - vmx: Support persistent CPU shares (Matthias Bolte) - Add autostart support to libxl driver (Markus Groß) - Allow relative path for qemu backing file (Jesse Cook) - build: detect potentential uninitialized variables (Eric Blake) Cleanups: - esx: Disable performance counter queries in esxDomainGetInfo (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Remove dead store in esxUtil_ParseDatastorePath (Matthias Bolte) - util: remove dead assignment (Eric Blake) - qemu: remove dead assignment (Eric Blake) - qemu: silence clang false positives (Eric Blake) - tests: suppress more valgrind situations (Eric Blake) - tests: avoid compiler warning (Eric Blake) - qemu: fix uninitialized variable warning (Christophe Fergeau) - build: fix syntax-check failure (Eric Blake) - virsh: nuke use of TRUE and FALSE (Eric Blake) - phyp: another simplification (Eric Blake) - maint: ignore built file (Eric Blake) - Change some variable names to follow standard in daemon dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove curly braces on all single-line conditional jumps in dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove virConnectPtr from virRaiseErrorFull (Matthias Bolte) - phyp: prefer memcpy over memmove when legal (Eric Blake) - phyp: use consistent style for labels (Eric Blake) - phyp: more return handling cleanup (Eric Blake) - esx: Fix gcc 4.6 warning about initialized but unused variables (Matthias Bolte) - maint: silence cppi warnings (Eric Blake) - Fix gcc 4.6 warnings in vbox_tmpl.c (Christophe Fergeau) - Fix gcc 4.6 warnings (Christophe Fergeau) - Remove C99 variable declare in PHYP network driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Standard on error variable name in libvirtd dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove all whitespace before function brackets in daemon dispatcher (Daniel P. Berrange) - docs: tweak virsh restore warning (Eric Blake) - setmaxmem: remove the code to invoke virDomainSetMemory in cmdSetmaxmem (Taku Izumi) - build: fix gitignore sorting (Eric Blake) - tests: fix recent test failures (Eric Blake) - libxl: avoid compiler warning (Eric Blake) - Avoid compiler warnings about int to void * casts (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove acinclude.m4 file (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove possible uninitialized variable in openvz driver (Daniel P. Berrange) Thanks to everybody who helped with this release in any way, bug reports, documentation, patches or features ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] Libvirt 0.9.1 week freeze, RC1 version to test
by Daniel Veillard 02 May '11

02 May '11

So we are entering the week freeze for the new version. I have made an rc1 tarball available at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.9.1-rc1.tar.gz I have tried it locally and basic operations seems to work fine, please give it a try too, thanks ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel(a)veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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