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[Libvirt-announce] Entering freeze for libvirt-1.2.8
by Daniel Veillard 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

So I tagged 1.2.8-rc1 in git and made tarball and signed rpms available at the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ While we seems to have the new API in place it's also clear that there is a bunch of patches still waiting, either related to the new APIs or blocked by lack of review. Please try to prioritize filling up API implementations, and bug fixes for the reviews but I think we need to be open about incremental improvements when they are very specific and allow them in ! I will try to release by Tuesday 2nd Sep, as I will be on the road next week after that time. However the good point of that monthly cycle is that if you get the ACKs needed even if that's not in 1.2.8 that will be in for 1.2.9 next month, in time for KVM Forum :-) Please give a try to the current version, I'm a limited capacity to test it this time, thanks ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt-glib release 0.1.9
by Daniel P. Berrange 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 0.1.9, is now available from ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/glib/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) Changes in this release: - Require glib2 >= 2.36.0 - Add support for spiceport chardev - Misc fixes to build system - Fix ref counting of snapshot devices - Add API for deleting snapshots - Fix RPM layout for vala files - Fix race in build of vala code - Add API for getting security models - Add classes for dealing with CPU models - Fix enum generation - Add API for fetching snapshots libvirt-glib comprises three distinct libraries: - libvirt-glib - Integrate with the GLib event loop and error handling - libvirt-gconfig - Representation of libvirt XML documents as GObjects - libvirt-gobject - Mapping of libvirt APIs into the GObject type system NB: While libvirt aims to be API/ABI stable forever, with libvirt-glib we are not currently guaranteeing that libvirt-glib libraries are permanently API/ABI stable. That said we do not expect to break the API/ABI for the forseeable future and will always strive avoid it. Follow up comments about libvirt-glib should be directed to the regular libvir-list(a)redhat.com development list. Thanks to all the people involved in contributing to this release. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|

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[Libvirt-announce] Release of libvirt-1.2.7
by Daniel Veillard 03 Aug '14

03 Aug '14

As planned it's out, tagged in git, source tarball and rpms are available as usual from: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ This is a rather large release for the month of July, close to 300 commits, mostly around incremental improvements and bug fixes. There is a new API however: Features: - Introduce virConnectGetDomainCapabilities (Michal Privoznik) Documentation: - bhyve: document recent changes (Roman Bogorodskiy) - fix an incorrect example for memoryBacking (Chen Hanxiao) - libvirt-guests: fix some typos in a comment (Martin Kletzander) - libvirt: Fix 'quest' typo in comment (Li Yang) - Point to list of valid pool target volume formats (John Ferlan) - Documented VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_CAPABILITIES use of virDomainCapabilitesPolicy (Cédric Bosdonnat) - Explicitly specify how to override spice channel mode (Peter Krempa) - add domain to address of hostdev pci (Hu Tao) - domain: Clarify that disk type 'lun' works with iSCSI too (Peter Krempa) - esx: Fix a comment about VSphere versions (Geoff Hickey) - virsh: Document bandwidth maximum more clearly (John Ferlan) - mention more about older capability feature bits (Eric Blake) - Be more specific about semantics of _REUSE_EXT flag (Peter Krempa) - Document that snapshot name of block-backed disk isn't autogenerated (Peter Krempa) - virsh: document the possibility of accepting integers for numatune mode (Martin Kletzander) - Document the need to free vir*Ptr objects per-function (Ján Tomko) - Document the need to free vir*Ptr objects (Ján Tomko) - LXC: fix an improper comments for lxcDomainDestroyFlags (Chen Hanxiao) - formatdomain.html fixes (Michele Paolino) - Fix broken link in the HACKING page (Michele Paolino) - formatdomain: Fix issues found describing auth (John Ferlan) - LXC: update comments of lxcDomainCreateXMLWithFiles() and lxcDomainCreateXML() (Yue wenyuan) Portability: - build: fix build on cygwin (Eric Blake) - domtop: Fix build on mingw (Michal Privoznik) - build: fix build without numactl (Eric Blake) - Fix build on non-Linux platforms (Roman Bogorodskiy) - check for cfg->spiceTLS earlier in qemuProcessSPICEAllocatePorts (Ján Tomko) - build: package .pc files for mingw64 (Eric Blake) - build: fix gnulib build for mingw (Eric Blake) - util: cgroup: Fix build on non-cgroup platforms (Peter Krempa) - Don't require iptables-ipv6 on >= F17 and RHEL >= 7 (Ján Tomko) - tools/wireshark: fix rpm build (Pavel Hrdina) - tests: Avoid double linking some libraries (Michal Privoznik) Bug fixes: - network: always set disable_ipv6, even when it should be 0 (Laine Stump) - Fix a crash when cloning a volume with no backing store (Ján Tomko) - qemu: error out if PCI passthrough type is not supported (Hu Tao) - storage: create: Create files with correct mode (Peter Krempa) - nodedev: fix a uninitialized variable build failure (Chen Hanxiao) - nodedev: fix pci express memory leak (Eric Blake) - qemu: sound: Fix uninitialized model string (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Fix starting of VMs with empty CDROM drives (Peter Krempa) - util: virTimeFieldsThenRaw never returns negative (James) - qemu: cgroup: Don't use NULL path on default backed RNGs (Peter Krempa) - qemuConnectGetDomainCapabilities: Report error on unknown arch (Michal Privoznik) - remove range checking for blkiotune weight (Martin Kletzander) - qemuConnectGetDomainCapabilities: Use wiser defaults (Michal Privoznik) - leaseshelper: avoid mem leak after storing lease entries (Nehal J Wani) - conf: avoid memory leaks while parsing seclabel (Eric Blake) - nwfilter: plug memory leak with firewall (Eric Blake) - metadata: track title edits across libvirtd restart (Eric Blake) - Fix build after 47e5b5ae3262f140955abd57bbb13337c65a3497 (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Forbid taking/reverting snapshots in PMSUSPENDED state (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Forbid taking snapshot in invalid state (Peter Krempa) - schema: pool: netfs: Don't enforce slash in glusterfs pool source (Peter Krempa) - examples: domtop: Avoid leaking memory (Peter Krempa) - examples: domtop: Fix uninitialized variable use (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Forbid snapshots of iSCSI passthrough devices (Peter Krempa) - storage: Disallow vol_wipe for sparse logical volumes (John Ferlan) - virsh vol-upload/download disallow negative offset (John Ferlan) - storage: Split out volume wiping as separate backend function (Peter Krempa) - esx: Fix a bug in the XML code for storage pools (Geoff Hickey) - blockjob: wait for pivot to complete (Eric Blake) - Fix const correctness (Michal Privoznik) - Fix assignment of comparison against zero (Ján Tomko) - Fix error on fs pool build failure (Ján Tomko) - spec: fix invalid syntax (Eric Blake) - libxl: fix return value error Attach|DetachDeviceFlags (Chunyan Liu) - qemu: blockcopy: Initialize correct source structure (Peter Krempa) - GetBlockInfo: Use the correct path to qemuOpenFile (John Ferlan) - virseclabel: Resolve Coverity FORWARD_NULL issue (John Ferlan) - conf: Always format seclabel's model (Michal Privoznik) - conf: Fix possible NULL dereference in virStorageVolTargetDefFormat (Matthias Bolte) - conf: Don't allow multiple seclabels for same model (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: don't error out when cgroups don't exist (Martin Kletzander) - util: storage: Fix build after 25924dec0f9329d429aadae14e273602307e2214 (Peter Krempa) - qemu: fix domxml-to-native failing when spice_tls is not enabled (Jincheng Miao) - virEventPollDispatchHandles: Honour array boundaries (Michal Privoznik) - Allow updating names in DHCP hosts by matching IPs. (Ján Tomko) - Actually fix the spec file (Ján Tomko) - libxl: fix crash in migrate confirm for transient domains (Jim Fehlig) - libxl: acquire job though begin phase only (Jim Fehlig) - libxl: remove domain when migration prepare fails (Jim Fehlig) - qemu: raise an eror when using aio=native without cache=none (Giuseppe Scrivano) - Do not allow changing the UUID of a nwfilter (Hu Jianwei) - LXC: Allow setting max mem lower than current mem (Ján Tomko) - virsh: domain: Use inactive XML when unplugging interface with --config (Peter Krempa) - Free the return value of virFileFindResource (Ján Tomko) - qemu_domain: fix startup policy for disks (Pavel Hrdina) - Fix segfault when starting a domain with no cpu definition (Ján Tomko) - qemu: raise an error when trying to use readonly ide disks (Giuseppe Scrivano) Improvements: - blockcommit: turn on active commit (Eric Blake) - blockcommit: track job type in xml (Eric Blake) - Domain config: write <features/> if some capabilities are set. (Cédric Bosdonnat) - blockjob: properly track blockcopy xml changes on disk (Eric Blake) - blockcopy: add more XML for state tracking (Eric Blake) - qemu: Implement ./hugepages/page/[@size, @unit, @nodeset] (Michal Privoznik) - domain: Introduce ./hugepages/page/[@size, @unit, @nodeset] (Michal Privoznik) - virbitmap: Introduce virBitmapOverlaps (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Utilize virFileFindHugeTLBFS (Michal Privoznik) - Introduce virFileFindHugeTLBFS (Michal Privoznik) - schema: bhyve and nmdm updates (Roman Bogorodskiy) - nodedev: move pci express types to virpci.h (Eric Blake) - nodedev: let compiler help us on switches (Eric Blake) - qemu: sound: Handle all possible sound cards in switch statement (Peter Krempa) - conf: RNG: Always fill in default random source path for default backend (Peter Krempa) - spec: arm and aarch64 have kvm support with F20+ (Cole Robinson) - spec: Use power64 macro (Cole Robinson) - test: qemu: Add tests for multiple virtio-rng devices (Peter Krempa) - virtio-rng: allow multiple RNG devices (Peter Krempa) - bhyve: cdrom support (Roman Bogorodskiy) - virsh: add option for selecting domdisplay type (Martin Kletzander) - virsh: add error message when no graphical display is found (Martin Kletzander) - hostdev: Introduce virDomainHostdevSubsysSCSIiSCSI (John Ferlan) - Add virConnectPtr for qemuBuildSCSIHostdevDrvStr (John Ferlan) - hostdev: Introduce virDomainHostdevSubsysSCSIHost (John Ferlan) - hostdev: Introduce virDomainHostdevSubsysSCSI (John Ferlan) - hostdev: Introduce virDomainHostdevSubsysPCI (John Ferlan) - hostdev: Introduce virDomainHostdevSubsysUSB (John Ferlan) - qemu: snapshot: Use storage driver to pre-create snapshot file (Peter Krempa) - storage: Implement virStorageFileCreate for local and gluster files (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Implement DAC driver chown callback to co-operate with storage drv (Peter Krempa) - security: DAC: Plumb usage of chown callback (Peter Krempa) - security: DAC: Introduce callback to perform image chown (Peter Krempa) - security: DAC: Remove superfluous link resolution (Peter Krempa) - storage: Add witness for checking storage volume use in security driver (Peter Krempa) - storage: Implement storage driver helper to chown disk images (Peter Krempa) - numatune: finish the split from domain_conf and remove all dependencies (Martin Kletzander) - maint: simplify some syntax check exemptions (Eric Blake) - spec: Enable sanlock on qemu_kvm_arches for RHEL (Jiri Denemark) - Added myself in AUTHORS.in (Cédric Bosdonnat) - Introduce virTristateSwitch enum (Ján Tomko) - Introduce virTristateBool enum type (Ján Tomko) - LXC: show used memory as 0 when domain is not active (Chen Hanxiao) - lxc domain from xml: convert lxc.cap.drop (Cédric Bosdonnat) - lxc: allow to keep or drop capabilities (Cédric Bosdonnat) - LXC: create a bind mount for sysfs when enable userns but disable netns (Chen Hanxiao) - storage: logical: drop useless if (Roman Bogorodskiy) - getAdapterName: Lookup stable scsi_host (John Ferlan) - scsi_host: Introduce virFindSCSIHostByPCI (John Ferlan) - Add unique_id to nodedev output (John Ferlan) - virutil: Introduce virReadSCSIUniqueId (John Ferlan) - scsi_backend: Use existing LINUX_SYSFS_SCSI_HOST_PREFIX definition (John Ferlan) - storage: Introduce parentaddr into virStoragePoolSourceAdapter (Osier Yang) - virStoragePoolSourceAdapter: Refine the SCSI_HOST adapter name (Osier Yang) - getAdapterName: check for SCSI_HOST (John Ferlan) - node_device: HAL: Ignore return value of virStrToLong_ui (Peter Krempa) - util: Check return value from virStrToLong* functions (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Reject revertion from clearly bad states (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Convert if-else switch to switch statement (Peter Krempa) - bhyve: reconnect to domains after libvirtd restart (Roman Bogorodskiy) - examples: Introduce domtop (Michal Privoznik) - Kill last strto{l,ll,d} scouts (Michal Privoznik) - lxc conf2xml: convert lxc.network.name for veth networks (Cédric Bosdonnat) - lxc network configuration allows setting target container NIC name (Cédric Bosdonnat) - spec: Consolidate with_qemu* definitions (Jiri Denemark) - storage: Convert 'building' into a bool (John Ferlan) - Fix build by dropping redefined typedefs (Roman Bogorodskiy) - test: metadata: Improve test coverage (Peter Krempa) - Log an error when we fail to set the COW attribute (Ján Tomko) - storage: wipe: Move helper code into storage backend (Peter Krempa) - schema: put interleave at correct level (Eric Blake) - schema: add interleave inside numatune (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: leave restricting cpuset.mems after initialization (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: split out cpuset.mems setting (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: pass numa node binding preferences to qemu (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: enable disjoint numa cpu ranges (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: newer -numa parameter capability probing (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: memory-backend-ram capability probing (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: allow qmp probing for cmdline options without params (Martin Kletzander) - numatune: add support for per-node memory bindings in private APIs (Martin Kletzander) - conf, schema: add support for memnode elements (Martin Kletzander) - numatune: Encapsulate numatune configuration in order to unify results (Martin Kletzander) - numatune: unify numatune struct and enum names (Martin Kletzander) - numatune: create new module for numatune (Martin Kletzander) - conf, schema: add 'id' field for cells (Martin Kletzander) - conf: purely a code movement (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: remove useless error check (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: purely a code movement (Martin Kletzander) - support for QEMU vhost-user (Michele Paolino) - util: forbid freeing const pointers (Eric Blake) - add nocow test case (Chunyan Liu) - storagevol: add nocow to vol xml (Chunyan Liu) - storage: fs: Don't fail volume update if backing store isn't accessible (Peter Krempa) - storage: fs: Properly parse backing store info (Peter Krempa) - storage: fs: Process backing store data in virStorageBackendProbeTarget (Peter Krempa) - storage: backend: fs: Touch up coding style (Peter Krempa) - storage: Track backing store of a volume in the target struct (Peter Krempa) - storage: backend: Fix formatting of function arguments (Peter Krempa) - Rework lxc apparmor profile (Cédric Bosdonnat) - Implement interface stats for BSD (Roman Bogorodskiy) - util: virstatslinux: make more generic (Roman Bogorodskiy) - libxl: support hotplug of <interface> (Chunyan Liu) - libxl: add HOSTDEV type in libxlDomainDetachDeviceConfig (Chunyan Liu) - spec: Update polkit dependencies for CVE-2013-4311 (Jiri Denemark) - capabilities: use bool instead of int (Eric Blake) - openvswitch: Delete port if it exists while adding a new one (Chunhe Li) - virSecurityLabelDefParseXML: Rework (Michal Privoznik) - aa-helper: adjust previous patch (Cédric Bosdonnat) - Don't output libvirt-UUID.files for LXC apparmor profiles (Cédric Bosdonnat) - libxl: Correct cast to virDomainDiskDiscard enum. (Ian Campbell) - LXC: add support for --config in setmem command (Chen Hanxiao) - virSecurityDeviceLabelDef: substitute 'norelabel' with 'relabel' (Michal Privoznik) - virSecurityLabelDef: substitute 'norelabel' with 'relabel' (Michal Privoznik) - storage: Split out volume upload/download as separate backend function (Peter Krempa) - libxl: add discard support to libxl_device_disk (Olaf Hering) - conf: Improve metadata type verification (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Refactor image labelling of new snapshot files (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Refactor qemuDomainPrepareDiskChainElement (Peter Krempa) - qemu: snapshot: Improve approach to deal with snapshot metadata (Peter Krempa) - qemu: block: Properly track disk source while pivoting to new image (Peter Krempa) - qemu: blockcopy: Use the mirror disk source to label the files (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Return complete parent info from virStorageFileChainLookup (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Make virStorageFileChainLookup more network storage aware (Peter Krempa) - security: AppArmor: Implement per-image seclabel set (Peter Krempa) - security: AppArmor: Implement per-image seclabel restore (Peter Krempa) - security: DAC: Implement per-image seclabel set (Peter Krempa) - security: DAC: Implement per-image seclabel restore (Peter Krempa) - security: selinux: Implement per-image seclabel set (Peter Krempa) - security: selinux: Implement per-image seclabel restore (Peter Krempa) - security: Introduce APIs to label single images (Peter Krempa) - locking: Add APIs to lock individual image files (Peter Krempa) - qemu: cgroup: Setup only the top level disk image for read-write access (Peter Krempa) - qemu: cgroup: Add functions to set cgroup image stuff on individual imgs (Peter Krempa) - util: XML: Avoid forward function declaration (Peter Krempa) - libxl: rename goto label (Jim Fehlig) - maint: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake) - properly indent virSecurityLabelDefsParseXML() parameters (Martin Kletzander) - Fix the indentation in libvirt.spec.in (Ján Tomko) - util: cgroup: Add helper to convert device mode to string (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Copy parent's disk metadata to backing chain elements (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Add function to transfer config parts to new chain element (Peter Krempa) - util: storagefile: Add deep copy for struct virStorageSource (Peter Krempa) - storage: Move readonly and shared flags to disk source from disk def (Peter Krempa) - conf: Don't output seclabels for backingStore elements (Peter Krempa) - storage: file: Tolerate NULL src when uninitializing the backend (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Add helper to initialize storage file backend with correct uid/gid (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Don't propagate whole disk definition into qemuDomainGetImageIds (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Add support for networked disks for block pull/block rebase (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Add support for networked disks for block commit (Peter Krempa) - lib: Introduce flag VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_RELATIVE (Peter Krempa) - lib: Introduce flag VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COMMIT_RELATIVE (Peter Krempa) - qemu: refactor qemuDomainGetBlockInfo to work with remote storage (Peter Krempa) - storage: gluster: Optimize header reader functions (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Allow specifying format for virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Inline use of virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFDInternal (Peter Krempa) - audit: Audit smartcard devices (Peter Krempa) - audit: Add auditing for serial/parallel/channel/console character devs (Peter Krempa) - virt-lxc-convert: make free return values in bytes (Cédric Bosdonnat) - qemu: dump: Report better error when dumping VM with passthrough devices (Peter Krempa) - LXC: remove duplicate controller check code (Chen Hanxiao) - wireshark: Honor API change coming with 1.12 release (Michal Privoznik) - wireshark: Include more of libvirt internals (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: monitor: Add support for backing name specification for block-stream (Peter Krempa) - qemu: monitor: Add argument for specifying backing name for block commit (Peter Krempa) - qemu: caps: Add capability for change-backing-file command (Peter Krempa) - audit: disk: Refactor disk auditing to avoid auditing remote storage (Peter Krempa) - conf: audit: Split out common steps to audit domain devices (Peter Krempa) - conf: audit: rng: Reorder new and old RNG device definitions (Peter Krempa) - util: storage: Add helper to determine whether storage is local (Peter Krempa) - Utilize virDomainDiskAuth for storage pools (John Ferlan) - Utilize virDomainDiskAuth for domain disk (John Ferlan) - qemuargv2xmltest: Resurrect RBD and iSCSI auth (John Ferlan) - virstorage: Introduce virStorageAuthDef (John Ferlan) - blockjob: turn on qemu capability bit for active commit (Eric Blake) - blockjob: allow omitted arguments to QMP block-commit (Eric Blake) - qemu: Implement virConnectGetDomainCapabilities (Michal Privoznik) - qemu_capabilities: Introduce virQEMUCapsGetDefaultMachine (Michal Privoznik) - qemu_capabilities: Introduce virQEMUCapsIsMachineSupported (Michal Privoznik) - qemu_capabilities: Introduce virQEMUCapsCacheLookupByArch (Michal Privoznik) - tests: Move qemu caps XML parsing into shared unit (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: expose virConnectGetDomainCapabilities (Michal Privoznik) - Introduce domain_capabilities (Michal Privoznik) - Remove double OOM error reporting (Ján Tomko) - Remove double OOM error reporting from JSON monitor (Ján Tomko) - Add OOM error reporting to a few fucntions (Ján Tomko) - Set errno on OOM in lxcProcReadMeminfo (Ján Tomko) - Use virBufferCheckError everywhere we report OOM error (Ján Tomko) - Report errors in virCapabilitiesFormatXML (Ján Tomko) - Introduce virBufferCheckError (Ján Tomko) - Use virStringReplace instead of openvz_replace (Ján Tomko) - Remove useless condition in networkRadvdConfContents (Ján Tomko) - usb: Remove redundant comment (Ján Tomko) - More indentation fixes (Ján Tomko) - Fix indentation in bridge driver (Ján Tomko) - virsh: Allow attach-disk to specify disk target bus (Yanbing Du) - qemu: Add cmd_per_lun, max_sectors to virtio-scsi (Mike Perez) - Add invariant TSC cpu flag (Ján Tomko) - util: unify extra asterisk in viralloc.h (Martin Kletzander) Cleanups: - tests: Remove stale scsihostdata dir (Michal Privoznik) - xenapiConnectGetCapabilities: Remove unused 'cleanup' label (Michal Privoznik) Thanks everybody for the help with this release, be it with ideas, bug reports, patch and reviews or translations ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/

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