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[Libvirt-announce] [ANNOUNCE] libvirt-glib 0.1.4 release
by Daniel P. Berrange 16 Nov '12

16 Nov '12

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 0.1.4, 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) New in this release: - Add support for configuring power management config - Add API binding for updating device config - Avoid SEGV when querying storage volune with NULL name - Avoid reference count leak when constructing wrapped libvirt objects - Avoid calling g_type_init for newer glib - Add flags for domain reboot API - Fix leak with GMutex compatibility wrappers - Don't use storage volumes before the pool refresh finishes - Add binding for destroying storage pools - Add binding for defining storage pools 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 yet guaranteeing that libvirt-glib libraries are API/ABI permanently stable. As of the 0.0.8 release, we have tentatively frozen the API/ABI with the intent of being longterm stable hereafter, but there is still a small chance we might find flaws requiring an API/ABI change. The likelihood of this is low, however, and we will strive to 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] Seven years of libvirt development history animated
by Daniel P. Berrange 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

To celebrate our 1.0.0 release / 7th birthday, I have prepared a new annimation of libvirt development history using gource, and made it available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKynN8TwC0M Notice the big increase in number of contributors after the switch to GIT in mid-2009. 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-1.0.0
by Daniel Veillard 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Well we just crossed that important milestone in the life of any project, so congratulation everybody the 1.0.0 release is out !!! For a bit of history, this is actually the 7th birthday of the project accounted from the first commit, on Nov 2 2005, public from day one ! CVS converted commit labelled "Initial revision" 2005-11-02 20:50:21 At the time I had one hypervisor (Xen) to play with, and except the general idea and some of the earlier entry point there is nothing left from that first commit, and that is just fine :-) ! Anyway back to useful informations, the release is as usual at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ as a tarball and signed rpms. For just over a month of development we are at nearly 350 commits so the pace is apparently not slowing down! There is a number of important improvements, but for a change I would like to point out the silent work of our translators communities, work being done in the framework of Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/libvirt/ we have around 10 languages with near complete translation, historically we had 2 complete localization : japanese and ukrainian at 100% and updating within hours of a new pot source file being pushed, in the last month 5 new indian languages have completed, and various others have made significant improvements. So to those group of people helping mostly silently in the background I want to say Thank You, your work makes a difference !!! Features: - virNodeGetCPUMap: Define public API. (Viktor Mihajlovski) - Add systemd journal support (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemu capabilities cache manager (Daniel P. Berrange) - USB migration support (Jiri Denemark) - various improvement and fixes when using QMP QEmu interface - Support for Xen 4.2 (Jim Fehlig) - Lot of localization enhancements (Transifex teams) Documentation: - net-update docs: s/domain/network/ (Michal Privoznik) - docs: libvirtd no longer uses abstract namespace (Eric Blake) - documentation: HTML tag fix (Philipp Hahn) - virsh: Fix POD syntax (Jiri Denemark) - docs: Fix installation of internals/*.html (Cole Robinson) - docs: virsh: clarify behavior of send-key (Cole Robinson) - maint: fix license on polkit script (Eric Blake) - doc: Sort out the relationship between <vcpu>, <vcpupin>, and <emulatorpin> (Osier Yang) - Tweak comments in the policykit rules file (Cole Robinson) - Various typos and misspellings (Ján Tomko) - qemu: Fix misleading comment for qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver() (Peter Krempa) - Correct name of domain/pm/suspend-to-mem in docs (Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)) - doc: update description about user/group in qemu.conf (Marcelo Cerri) - docs: Drop useless </p> in drvphyp.html.in (Michal Privoznik) - docs: fix links in migration.html TOC (Eric Blake) - doc: Add Maven repository to Java bindings documentation (Wido den Hollander) - docs: rudimentary phyp documentation (Eric Blake) - doc: update description about security labels on formatdomain.html (Marcelo Cerri) - Add note about numeric domain names to manpage (Dave Allan) - Fix typo in header file comment (Daniel P. Berrange) - Update how to compile with -Werror (Doug Goldstein) - node_memory: Improve the docs (Osier Yang) Portability: - Don't assume pid_t is the same size as an int (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: Fix RPM build for non-x86 platforms (Viktor Mihajlovski) - build: fix linking with systemtap probes (Eric Blake) - parallels: fix build for some older compilers (Laine Stump) - Fix build with apparmor (Jiri Denemark) - build: use correct printf types for uid/gid (Eric Blake) - spec: Fix multilib issue with systemtap tapsets (Cole Robinson) - spec: Require newer sanlock on recent distros 2 (Jiri Denemark) - spec: Add runtime requirement for libssh2 (Peter Krempa) - spec: Require newer sanlock on recent distros (Jiri Denemark) - locking: Fix build with sanlock < 2.4 (Jiri Denemark) - Fix virProcessKillPainfully on Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange) - Properly parse (unsigned) long long (Guido Günther) - win32: Pretend that close-on-exec works (Matthias Bolte) - build: fix VPATH builds (Eric Blake) - build: avoid journald on rhel 5 (Eric Blake) - build: fix bitmap conversion when !CPU_ALLOC (Eric Blake) - Fix compilation of legacy xen driver with Xen 4.2 (Jim Fehlig) - build: fix detection of netcf linked with libnl1 (Christophe Fergeau) Bug Fixes: - qemu: QMP capabilities support starts with 1.2 (Doug Goldstein) - Linux Containers are not allowed to create device nodes. (Dan Walsh) - qemu: Fix name comparison in qemuMonitorJSONBlockIoThrottleInfo() (Stefan Hajnoczi) - qemu: Keep QEMU host drive prefix in BlkIoTune (Stefan Hajnoczi) - iohelper: fdatasync() at the end (Michal Privoznik) - conf: Fix private symbols exported by files in conf (Peter Krempa) - Fix arch detection for qemu-system-i386 with QMP (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: prefer mkostemp for multi-thread safety (Eric Blake) - qemu: Fix EmulatorPinInfo without emulatorpin (Martin Kletzander) - ip6tables rule removal (Gene Czarcinski) - Create temporary dir for socket (Guido Günther) - cpu: Fix definition of flag smap (Peter Krempa) - nodeinfotest: Delete NUL bytes from test data (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Do not ignore address for USB disks (Vladislav Bogdanov) - esx: Fix connection to ESX 5.1 (Martin Kletzander) - build: place attributes in correct location (Eric Blake) - qemu: Fix domxml-to-native network model conversion (Cole Robinson) - build: typo fix for qemu cpu affinity (Eric Blake) - qemu: fix attach/detach of netdevs with matching mac addrs (Laine Stump) - cpustat: fix regression when cpus are offline (Eric Blake) - build: fix type-punning bug (Eric Blake) - network: fix networkValidate check for default portgroup and vlan (Laine Stump) - Fix detection of Xen sysctl version 9 (Jim Fehlig) - selinux: Don't fail RestoreAll if file doesn't have a default label (Cole Robinson) - xml: omit domain name from comment if it contains double hyphen (Ján Tomko) - Fix disabling of apparmor/selinux security drivers (Christophe Fergeau) - storage: Don't do wait loops from VolLookupByPath (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Don't use -enable-nesting with qemu 1.2.0+ (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Don't blindly assume VNC is supported (Doug Goldstein) - test: Don't assume VNC is always available (Doug Goldstein) - virsh: Fix segfault of snapshot-list (Osier Yang) - qemu: Fix the unused parameter which causes the build failure (Osier Yang) - daemon: Avoid 'Could not find keytab file' in syslog (Cole Robinson) - network: don't allow multiple default portgroups (Laine Stump) - network: always create dnsmasq hosts and addnhosts files, even if empty (Laine Stump) - network: free/null newDef if network fails to start (Laine Stump) - blockjob: avoid segv on early error (Eric Blake) - selinux: relabel tapfd in qemuPhysIfaceConnect (Guannan Ren) - qemu: Set arch to i686 if qemu-system-i386 is found (Guido Günther) - qemu: Don't fail without emulatorpin or cpumask (Guido Günther) - network: Set to NULL after virNetworkDefFree() (Michal Privoznik) - spec: Fix dependency for lock-sanlock subpackage (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Correctly wait for spice to migrate (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Clear async job when p2p migration fails early (Jiri Denemark) - selinux: fix wrong tapfd relablling (Guannan Ren) - storage: lvm: lvcreate fails with allocation=0, don't do that (Cole Robinson) - conf: Fix crash with cleanup (Martin Kletzander) - Avoid straying </cpuset> (Guido Günther) - conf: fix virDevicePCIAddressEqual args (Laine Stump) - virsh: block SIGINT while getting BlockJobInfo (Ján Tomko) - esx: Fix dynamic dispatch for types with more than one level of inheritance (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: Fix QMP detection of QXL graphics (Jiri Denemark) - Call curl_global_init from virInitialize to avoid thread-safety issues (Matthias Bolte) - fix kvm_pv_eoi with kvmclock (Martin Kletzander) - Fix typo in HAVE_DBUS automake conditional (Alexander Larsson) - esx: Disable libcurl's use of signals to fix a segfault (Matthias Bolte) - S390: Buffer too small for large CPU numbers. (Viktor Mihajlovski) - Correct checking of virStrcpyStatic() return value (Kyle Mestery) - qemu: Kill processes used for QMP caps probing (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Use proper agent entering function when freezing filesystems (Peter Krempa) - lxc: Correctly report active cgroups (Michal Privoznik) - build: avoid infinite autogen loop (Eric Blake) - Avoid bogus I/O event errors when closing the QEMU monitor (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix QEMU test with 1.2.0 help output (Daniel P. Berrange) - network: fix dnsmasq/radvd binding to IPv6 on recent kernels (Benjamin Cama) - Fix regression starting QEMU instances without query-events (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix handling of itanium arch name in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix potential deadlock when agent is closed (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix (rare) deadlock in QEMU monitor callbacks (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't skip over socket label cleanup (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't ignore return value of qemuProcessKill (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix deadlock in handling EOF in LXC monitor (Daniel P. Berrange) - parallels: don't give null pointers to virBitmapEqual (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: fix memory allocation (Dmitry Guryanov) - qemu: wait for SPICE to migrate (Michal Privoznik) - Don't use O_TRUNC when opening QEMU logfiles (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix start of containers with custom root filesystem (Daniel P. Berrange) Improvements: - cpumap: optimize for clients that don't need online count (Eric Blake) - daemon: Make the default PolicyKit policy auth_admin_keep. (Richard W.M. Jones) - util: Improve error reporting from absolutePathFromBaseFile helper (Peter Krempa) - Make non-KVM machines work with QMP probing (Martin Kletzander) - maint: log xml during volume creation (Eric Blake) - util: do a better job of matching up pids with their binaries (Laine Stump) - sanlock: Introduce 'user' and 'group' conf variables (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: pass -usb and usb hubs earlier, so USB disks with static address are handled properly (Vladislav Bogdanov) - qemu: Report errors from iohelper (Michal Privoznik) - util: Re-format literal strings in virXMLEmitWarning (Peter Krempa) - xml: print uuids in the warning (Ján Tomko) - blockjob: relabel entire existing chain (Eric Blake) - blockjob: allow mirroring under SELinux and cgroup (Eric Blake) - blockjob: allow for existing files in block-copy (Eric Blake) - blockjob: implement block copy for qemu (Eric Blake) - blockjob: make block pivot safer (Eric Blake) - blockjob: support pivot operation on cancel (Eric Blake) - blockjob: return appropriate event and info (Eric Blake) - blockjob: react to active block copy (Eric Blake) - blockjob: add qemu capabilities related to block jobs (Eric Blake) - build: check for pod errors (Eric Blake) - build: silence compiler warning about signedness (Eric Blake) - maint: Sort .gitignore (Peter Krempa) - virsh: Remove --flags from nodesuspend (Jiri Denemark) - snapshot: improve snapshot-list error message (Eric Blake) - maint: ignore unsaved emacs files (Eric Blake) - daemon: Fix LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 default output (Cole Robinson) - virNodeGetCPUMap: Add python binding (Viktor Mihajlovski) - virNodeGetCPUMap: Implement driver support (Viktor Mihajlovski) - virNodeGetCPUMap: Implement support function in nodeinfo (Viktor Mihajlovski) - nodeinfo: improve probing node cpu bitmap (Eric Blake) - bitmap: add virBitmapCountBits (Eric Blake) - esx: Update version checks for vSphere 5.1 (Matthias Bolte) - cpu: Add recently added cpu feature flags. (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Prohibit chaning affinity of domain process if placement is 'auto' (Osier Yang) - qemu: Keep the affinity when creating cgroup for emulator thread (Osier Yang) - qemu: Add helper to prepare cpumap for affinity setting (Osier Yang) - virNodeGetCPUMap: Implement virsh support. (Viktor Mihajlovski) - libvirt.h.in: Add new cpumap macro VIR_CPU_USED (Viktor Mihajlovski) - virNodeGetCPUMap: Implement wire protocol. (Viktor Mihajlovski) - header: declare node memory parameter handling earlier (Eric Blake) - header: declare typed parameter handling earlier (Eric Blake) - build: improve FORTIFY_SOURCE usage (Eric Blake) - qemu_migration: Transport OVS per-port data during live migration (Kyle Mestery) - openvswitch: Add utility functions for getting and setting Open vSwitch per-port data (Kyle Mestery) - qemu_migration: Add hooks to transport network data during migration (Kyle Mestery) - build: print uids as unsigned (Eric Blake) - storage: don't shadow global 'wait' declaration (Ján Tomko) - maint: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake) - snapshot: sanity check when reusing file for snapshot (Eric Blake) - storage: let format probing work on root-squash NFS (Eric Blake) - migrate: v2: use VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE when available (Ján Tomko) - qemu: set seamless migration capability (Michal Privoznik) - Log parameters passed to virFileMakePath (Cole Robinson) - Log file name passed to virConfReadFile (Cole Robinson) - blockjob: properly label disks for qemu block-commit (Eric Blake) - blockjob: refactor qemu disk chain permission grants (Eric Blake) - blockjob: implement shallow commit flag in qemu (Eric Blake) - blockjob: wire up online qemu block-commit (Eric Blake) - blockjob: manage qemu block-commit monitor command (Eric Blake) - blockjob: remove unused parameters after previous patch (Eric Blake) - storage: use cache to walk backing chain (Eric Blake) - storage: cache backing chain while qemu domain is live (Eric Blake) - storage: make it easier to find file within chain (Eric Blake) - storage: remember relative names in backing chain (Eric Blake) - storage: don't require caller to pre-allocate metadata struct (Eric Blake) - storage: get entire metadata chain in one call (Eric Blake) - storage: don't probe non-files (Eric Blake) - storage: use enum for snapshot driver type (Eric Blake) - storage: use enum for disk driver type (Eric Blake) - storage: use enum for default driver type (Eric Blake) - storage: match RNG to supported driver types (Eric Blake) - storage: treat 'aio' like 'raw' at parse time (Eric Blake) - storage: list more file types (Eric Blake) - Autogenerate AUTHORS (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Allow migration with host USB devices (Jiri Denemark) - dist: added cpu/cpu_ppc_data.h to Makefile.am (Viktor Mihajlovski) - qemu: Always format CPU topology (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Add support for HyperV Enlightenment feature "relaxed" (Peter Krempa) - conf: Add support for HyperV Enlightenment features (Peter Krempa) - conf: Make tri-state feature options more universal (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Fixed default machine detection in qemuCapsParseMachineTypesStr (Viktor Mihajlovski) - qemu: Pin the emulator when only cpuset is specified (Martin Kletzander) - interface: add virInterfaceGetXMLDesc() in udev (Doug Goldstein) - Implement CPU model driver for PowerPC (Li Zhang) - Add one file cpu_ppc_data.h to define CPU data for PPC (Li Zhang) - selinux: remove unused variables in socket labelling (Guannan Ren) - storage: lvm: Don't overwrite lvcreate errors (Cole Robinson) - Make virInitialize thread safe (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add JSON serialization of virNetServerPtr objects for process re-exec() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add JSON serialization of virNetServerClientPtr objects for process re-exec() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add JSON serialization of virNetServerServicePtr objects for process re-exec() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add JSON serialization of virNetSocketPtr objects for process re-exec() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add JSON serialization of virLockSpacePtr objects for process re-exec() (Daniel P. Berrange) - Introduce an internal API for handling file based lockspaces (Daniel P. Berrange) - tests: Fix domain-events python test (Martin Kletzander) - maint: prepare for next release number (Eric Blake) - conf: add test for boot dev and order (Martin Kletzander) - selinux: Use raw contexts 2 (Martin Kletzander) - selinux: add security selinux function to label tapfd (Guannan Ren) - Add support for SUSPEND_DISK event (Martin Kletzander) - util: switch virLogEatParams to virLogSource (Ján Tomko) - node_memory: Add new parameter field to tune the new sysfs knob (Osier Yang) - qemu: reorganize qemuDomainChangeNet and qemuDomainChangeNetBridge (Laine Stump) - conf: virDomainDeviceInfoCopy utility function (Laine Stump) - qemu: Ignore def->cpumask if emulatorpin is specified (Osier Yang) - conf: Ignore emulatorpin if vcpu placement is auto (Osier Yang) - qemu: Initialize cpuset for hotplugged vcpu as def->cpuset (Osier Yang) - qemu: Create or remove cgroup when doing vcpu hotpluging (Osier Yang) - conf: Initialize the pinning policy for vcpus (Osier Yang) - conf: Ignore vcpupin for not onlined vcpus when parsing (Osier Yang) - Only keep one polkit rules file (Cole Robinson) - daemon: Use $(AM_V_GEN) in a few more places (Cole Robinson) - spec: Add support for libssh2 transport (Peter Krempa) - selinux: Use raw contexts (Martin Kletzander) - conf: Mark missing optional USB devices in domain XML (Jiri Denemark) - virsh: remove reference to migration in blockcopy (Ján Tomko) - qemu: Make save/restore with USB devices usable (Jiri Denemark) - Add MIGRATABLE flag for virDomainGetXMLDesc (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Implement startupPolicy for USB passed through devices (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Add option to treat missing USB devices as success (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Introduce qemuFindHostdevUSBDevice (Jiri Denemark) - conf: Add support for startupPolicy for USB devices (Jiri Denemark) - locking: Implement lock failure action in sanlock driver (Jiri Denemark) - locking: Add support for lock failure action (Jiri Denemark) - locking: Pass hypervisor driver name when acquiring locks (Jiri Denemark) - locking: Add const char * parameter to avoid ugly typecasts (Jiri Denemark) - conf: Add on_lockfailure event configuration (Jiri Denemark) - conf: Rename life cycle actions to event actions (Jiri Denemark) - storage: Report UUID/name consistently in driver errors (Cole Robinson) - Change qemuSetSchedularParameters to use AFFECT_CURRENT (Daniel P. Berrange) - interface: add udevIfaceIsActive() to udev backend (Doug Goldstein) - interface: always build all available backends (Doug Goldstein) - interface: fix netcf based backend naming (Doug Goldstein) - interface: add udev based backend for virInterface (Doug Goldstein) - hooks: let virCommand do the error reporting (Eric Blake) - nodeinfo: Fully convert to new virReportError (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: add qemu-monitor-command --pretty (Eric Blake) - security: update user and group parsing in security_dac.c (Marcelo Cerri) - util: extend virGetUserID and virGetGroupID to support names and IDs (Marcelo Cerri) - python: keep consistent handling of Python integer conversion (Guannan Ren) - python: cleanup vcpu related binding APIs (Guannan Ren) - Check for private symbols presence as well (Michal Privoznik) - spec: prefer canonical name of util-linux (Eric Blake) - build: update gnulib for FreeBSD build (Eric Blake) - security: also parse user/group names instead of just IDs for DAC labels (Marcelo Cerri) - build: avoid -Wno-format on new-enough gcc (Eric Blake) - build: fix typo in debug message (Eric Blake) - hyperv: Fix and improve hypervListAllDomains (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Fix and improve esxListAllDomains function (Matthias Bolte) - build: default selinuxfs mount point to /sys/fs/selinux (Daniel J Walsh) - Add support for detecting capablities using QMP commands (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ignore error from query-cpu-definitions (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove need to pass in a virDomainObjPtr instance to qemuMonitorOpen (Daniel P. Berrange) - ARMHF: implement /proc/cpuinfo parsing (Chuck Short) - Automatically enable systemd journal logging (Daniel P. Berrange) - Refactor qemuCapsParseDeviceStr to work from data tables (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't initialize logging twice in libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange) - Change logging category parameter into an enum (Daniel P. Berrange) - Include filename explicitly in logging APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Whitespace cleanup in logging files (Daniel P. Berrange) - s/int/virLogDestination/ in logging code (Daniel P. Berrange) - s/long long/size_t/ for file line numbers in logging code (Daniel P. Berrange) - s/int/virLogPriority/ in logging code (Daniel P. Berrange) - python: return error if PyObject obj is NULL for unwrapper helper functions (Guannan Ren) - Pass the "raw" log message to each virLogOutputFunc (Miloslav Trmač) - Split priority conversion from virLogOutputToSyslog (Miloslav Trmač) - Move command/event capabilities detection out of QEMU monitor code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove some unused includes in QEMU code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetTargetArch() method for QMP query-target command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetObjectProps() method for QMP device-list-properties command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetObjectTypes() method for QMP qom-list-types command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetEvents() method for QMP query-events command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetCommands() method for QMP query-commands command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetCPUDefinitions method for QMP query-cpu-definitions command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetMachines() method for QMP query-machines command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a qemuMonitorGetVersion() method for QMP query-version command (Daniel P. Berrange) - Refactor guest init to support qemu-system-i386 binary too (Daniel P. Berrange) - Make qemuCapsProbeMachineTypes & qemuCapsProbeCPUModels static (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove probing of CPU models when launching QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove probing of machine types when canonicalizing XML (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove probing of flags when launching QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange) - Switch over to use cache for building QEMU capabilities (Daniel P. Berrange) - Use size_t instead of int for virDomainDefPtr struct (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move most of qemuProcessKill into virProcessKillPainfully (Daniel P. Berrange) - Support Xen sysctl version 9 in Xen 4.2 (Jim Fehlig) - network: backend for virNetworkUpdate of interface list (Laine Stump) - build: avoid older gcc warning (Eric Blake) - Simplify some redundant locking while unref'ing objects (Daniel P. Berrange) - Convert virLXCMonitor to use virObject (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move virProcess{Kill,Abort,TranslateStatus} into virprocess.{c,h} (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move virProcessKill into virprocess.{h,c} (Daniel P. Berrange) - Rename virCommandTranslateStatus to virProcessTranslateStatus (Daniel P. Berrange) - Rename virPid{Abort,Wait} to virProcess{Abort,Wait} (Daniel P. Berrange) - Rename virKillProcess to virProcessKill (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Avoid holding the driver lock in trivial snapshot API's (Peter Krempa) - storage: Add timeout for iscsi volume's stable path discovery (Osier Yang) - tests: test previous commit (Eric Blake) - command: Change virCommandAddEnv so it replaces existing environment variables. (Richard W.M. Jones) - command: Move environ-adding code to common function virCommandAddEnv. (Richard W.M. Jones) Cleanups: - gitignore: Ignore 'tags' (Michal Privoznik) - build: fix syntax-check tab violation (Eric Blake) - maint: consistent whitespace after 'if' (Eric Blake) - Remove a couple duplicates from AUTHORS.in (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Cleanup the unused 'nodeinfo' (Osier Yang) - AUTHORS: Remove double entry (Michal Privoznik) - Doc-fix for PowerPC CPU model driver (Li Zhang) - Fix typo in previous commit s/lik/like/ (Daniel P. Berrange) - maint: drop spurious semicolons (Eric Blake) - Fix tab vs space (Guido Günther) - private.syms: Drop virKillProcess (Michal Privoznik) - Remove xenner support (Daniel P. Berrange) - parallels: remove unneded code from parallelsDoCmdRun (Dmitry Guryanov) - parallels: remove unused member 'os' from parallelsDomObj (Dmitry Guryanov) - Remove pointless virLXCProcessMonitorDestroy method (Daniel P. Berrange) So thanks everybody for the help assembling that milestone version, and let's celebrate :-) !!! 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] Entering freeze for libvirt-1.0.0 release
by Daniel Veillard 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

As scheduled, we are entering freeze for 1.0.0, yay ! I have tagged the git tree and pushed libvirt-1.0.0-rc1.tar.gz release candidate 1 to the ftp (along with rpms): ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ Due to the slightly higher visibility of this release, we are giving a bit more time for testing of the candidates, and the plan is to push the final version at the end of next week, so expect an rc2 at the end of the week and probably an rc3 by mid next week. Give it a try and report, 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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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 0.10.2.1 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

libvirt 0.10.2.1 maintenance release is now available. This is libvirt 0.10.2 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-0.10.2.1.tar.gz Changes in this version: * qemu: Fix domxml-to-native network model conversion * parallels: fix build for some older compilers * documentation: HTML tag fix * network: fix networkValidate check for default portgroup and vlan * esx: Update version checks for vSphere 5.1 * Fix detection of Xen sysctl version 9 * selinux: Don't fail RestoreAll if file doesn't have a default label * storage: don't shadow global 'wait' declaration * Remove a couple duplicates from AUTHORS.in (cherry picked from commit 2e99fa0385eea0084c520b4a3798a8663fb11b7a) * storage: Don't do wait loops from VolLookupByPath * storage: Add timeout for iscsi volume's stable path discovery * spec: Fix multilib issue with systemtap tapsets * docs: Fix installation of internals/*.html * virsh: Fix segfault of snapshot-list * docs: virsh: clarify behavior of send-key * daemon: Avoid 'Could not find keytab file' in syslog * network: don't allow multiple default portgroups * network: always create dnsmasq hosts and addnhosts files, even if empty * network: free/null newDef if network fails to start * Autogenerate AUTHORS * build: avoid infinite autogen loop * selinux: relabel tapfd in qemuPhysIfaceConnect * network: Set to NULL after virNetworkDefFree() * selinux: remove unused variables in socket labelling (cherry picked from commit d37a3a1d6c6508f235965185453602ba310cc66e) * selinux: fix wrong tapfd relablling * selinux: Use raw contexts 2 * selinux: add security selinux function to label tapfd * selinux: Use raw contexts * network: fix dnsmasq/radvd binding to IPv6 on recent kernels * qemu: Clear async job when p2p migration fails early * storage: lvm: lvcreate fails with allocation=0, don't do that * storage: lvm: Don't overwrite lvcreate errors * spec: Add runtime requirement for libssh2 * spec: Add support for libssh2 transport * conf: Fix crash with cleanup * Properly parse (unsigned) long long * Correct name of domain/pm/suspend-to-mem in docs (cherry picked from commit 0ec6aebb6461b3d6ef71322114cf160ae2d3de19) * storage: Report UUID/name consistently in driver errors * Change qemuSetSchedularParameters to use AFFECT_CURRENT * nodeinfo: Fully convert to new virReportError * Call curl_global_init from virInitialize to avoid thread-safety issues * fix kvm_pv_eoi with kvmclock * esx: Disable libcurl's use of signals to fix a segfault * S390: Buffer too small for large CPU numbers. * spec: prefer canonical name of util-linux * docs: fix links in migration.html TOC * Correct checking of virStrcpyStatic() return value * build: avoid -Wno-format on new-enough gcc * qemu: Use proper agent entering function when freezing filesystems * lxc: Correctly report active cgroups * build: fix bitmap conversion when !CPU_ALLOC * Add note about numeric domain names to manpage * build: default selinuxfs mount point to /sys/fs/selinux * ARMHF: implement /proc/cpuinfo parsing * python: return error if PyObject obj is NULL for unwrapper helper functions * Fix compilation of legacy xen driver with Xen 4.2 * Fix handling of itanium arch name in QEMU driver * Fix potential deadlock when agent is closed * Fix (rare) deadlock in QEMU monitor callbacks * Don't skip over socket label cleanup * Don't ignore return value of qemuProcessKill * Fix deadlock in handling EOF in LXC monitor * Support Xen sysctl version 9 in Xen 4.2 * build: avoid older gcc warning * parallels: don't give null pointers to virBitmapEqual * parallels: fix memory allocation * Don't use O_TRUNC when opening QEMU logfiles * Simplify some redundant locking while unref'ing objects * Remove pointless virLXCProcessMonitorDestroy method * Convert virLXCMonitor to use virObject * Move virProcess{Kill,Abort,TranslateStatus} into virprocess.{c,h} * Move virProcessKill into virprocess.{h,c} * Rename virCommandTranslateStatus to virProcessTranslateStatus * Rename virPid{Abort,Wait} to virProcess{Abort,Wait} * Rename virKillProcess to virProcessKill * Fix start of containers with custom root filesystem * Update how to compile with -Werror * build: fix detection of netcf linked with libnl1 * command: Change virCommandAddEnv so it replaces existing environment variables. (cherry picked from commit 2b32735af480055e27400068d27364d521071117) * command: Move environ-adding code to common function virCommandAddEnv. For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 0.9.11.7 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

libvirt 0.9.11.7 maintenance release is now available. This is libvirt 0.9.11 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-0.9.11.7.tar.gz Changes in this version: * qemu: Fix domxml-to-native network model conversion * selinux: Don't fail RestoreAll if file doesn't have a default label * spec: Fix multilib issue with systemtap tapsets * docs: Fix installation of internals/*.html * docs: virsh: clarify behavior of send-key * daemon: Avoid 'Could not find keytab file' in syslog * storage: lvm: Don't overwrite lvcreate errors * qemu: Clear async job when p2p migration fails early * Revert "build: fix compilation without struct ifreq" For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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[Libvirt-announce] [ANNOUNCE] libvirt-designer 0.0.1 release
by Daniel P. Berrange 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

I am pleased to announce that the first release of the libvirt-designer package, version 0.0.1, is now available from ftp://ftp.libvirt.org/libvirt/designer/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) New in this release: - Everything ! The libvirt-designer package provides a library that integrates libosinfo and libvirt-gconfig. Given an operating system identifier and libvirt host capabilities, it queries the libosinfo database to determine optimal hardware configuration and uses this information to design suitable domain XML for running the OS as a guest. In a similar manner it facilitates the setup of guest hardware devices such as disks, network interfaces, video cards, etc. These APIs are inspired by experience creating internal APIs for similar tasks in the virt-install/virt-manager projects. Since it builds on libosinfo and libvirt-gconfig, the libvirt-designer library relies on GObject introspection to provide access to its APIs for non-C programming languages. In addition it explicitly avoids a direct depedancy on libvirt.so, to enable usage by applications using alternative SNMP, CIM, etc bindings to libvirt, or those applications which simply need to construct libvirt XML without actually booting the guests afterwards. These early releases of libvirt-designer should be considered experimental. While we don't actively plan to change/break the API/ABI, we are not going to guarantee API/ABI stability of libvirt-designer at this time. Follow up comments about libvirt-designer should be directed to the regular libvir-list(a)redhat.com development list. Thanks to all the people involved in contributing to this release, in particular Michal who is actually doing the vast majority of the hard work here. 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] [ANNOUNCE] libvirt-glib 0.1.3 release
by Daniel P. Berrange 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 0.1.3, 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) New in this release: - Improve documentation for set_memory method in GVirConfigDomain - Handle size units for memory attributes - Add API for current memory - Fix python example to specify virt type - Use 1 GB of RAM in python example instead 1 TB ! - Add API to get hypervisor name and version - Avoid NULL format string for g_set_error - Fix XXX_new_with_xml constructors for config objects - Add misc getters for VNC/SPICE config attributes - Add handling of PMSUSPENDED state - Add handling of WAKEUP events - Require libvirt 0.10.2 minimum - Add API for domain PM wakeup 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 yet guaranteeing that libvirt-glib libraries are API/ABI permanently stable. As of the 0.0.8 release, we have tentatively frozen the API/ABI with the intent of being longterm stable hereafter, but there is still a small chance we might find flaws requiring an API/ABI change. The likelihood of this is low, however, and we will strive to 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] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 0.9.11.6 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

libvirt 0.9.11.6 maintenance release is now available. This is libvirt 0.9.11 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-0.9.11.6.tar.gz Changes in this version: * remove dnsmasq command line parameter "--filterwin2k" * dnsmasq: avoid forwarding queries without a domain * security: Fix libvirtd crash possibility For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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[Libvirt-announce] ANNOUNCE: libvirt 0.9.6.3 maintenance release
by Cole Robinson 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

libvirt 0.9.6.3 maintenance release is now available. This is libvirt 0.9.6 with additional bugfixes that have accumulated upstream since the initial release. This release can be downloaded at: http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/libvirt-0.9.6.3.tar.gz Changes in this version: * security: Fix libvirtd crash possibility For info about past maintenance releases, see: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Thanks, Cole

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