[libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.8.7

The New Year gift just arrived :-) As expected I made the release this morning, it is available as usual at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.8.7.tar.gz Due to specific condition (without my workstation and networking troubles) the release was made a bit differently than usual, but hopefully that won't lead to troubles, the only thing noticeable should be that the rpm are not signed and I didn't push a tag for the release commit, maybe Eric or Dan can push a git tag for it with their key. The release include among other things new hypervisors support, and a lot of bugs fixes: Features: - Initial support for VirtualBox 4.0 (Matthias Bolte) - IPv6 support (Laine Stump) - Add VMware Workstation and Player driver (Jean-Baptiste Rouault) - add network disk support (MORITA Kazutaka and Josh Durgin) Documentation: - esx: Fix "occurence" typo (again) (Matthias Bolte) - update docs for network disks (MORITA Kazutaka) - docs: Make VMware Workstation / Player page appear in the menu (Matthias Bolte) - Add info about VMware driver to the libvirt website (Jean-Baptiste Rouault) - docs: fixed typo, added table of contents (Justin Clift) - docs: added compiling page and significantly expanded windows page (Justin Clift) - docs: Add additional indentation to level 3 menu items (Matthias Bolte) - maint: doc fix (Eric Blake) - Update documentation of watchdog dump option and add test data for it (Hu Tao) - virsh: fix a typo in the memtune help description (Justin Clift) - docs: updated virsh command reference download links to new version (Justin Clift) - Moved the nodeinfo command to the 'host' help keyword group (Justin Clift) - man pages: update the description for the virsh help command (Justin Clift) - virsh: move two commands from domain group to storage pool group (Osier Yang) - virCommand: docs for usage of new command APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - virsh: update help for "virsh help help" (Osier Yang) - virsh: remove a badly placed line break in virsh -h output (Justin Clift) - virsh: Categorize commands into groups for virsh help (Osier Yang) Portability: - vbox: Handle different IID representation in Version 2.2 on Windows (Matthias Bolte) - build: make building on cygwin easier (Eric Blake) - build: improve testsuite results with older automake (Eric Blake) - build: allow older libselinux again (Eric Blake) - build: allow autoconf 2.59 again (Eric Blake) - build: allow mingw compilation with virCommand (Eric Blake) - build: quote AC_LANG_PROGRAM to avoid warnings with autoconf 2.68 (Diego Elio Pettenò) - build: properly handle ./configure --with-libpcap (Diego Elio Pettenò) - build: avoid shadowing devname() on BSD systems (Eric Blake) - Fix undefined symbol errors when macvtap support is disabled (Matthias Bolte) - Fix warning when macvtap support is disabled (Jean-Baptiste Rouault) Bug fixes: - virExec: fix logic bug (Eric Blake) - Set broadcast address for IPv4 addresses on virtual network bridges (Laine Stump) - Fix misuse of VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN (Matthias Bolte) - build: fix building error when building without libvirtd (Wen Congyang) - spec: Enable ESX driver on RHEL (Jiri Denemark) - bridge: Fix uninitialized variable (Jiri Denemark) - make the <dhcp> element optional in network.rng (Laine Stump) - fix syntax error in configure.ac (Wen Congyang) - qemu: Reparent children when deleting a snapshot (Matthias Bolte) - Set bitmap size when allocating a bitmap (Jim Fehlig) - qemu: Return SPICE ports on domain shutdown (Jiri Denemark) - virterror: avoid API breakage with vmware (Eric Blake) - Fix memory leak in virsh (Hu Tao) - Distribute libvirt_vmx.syms (Matthias Bolte) - vmware: Fix undefine symbol with loadable drivers enabled (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Fix cluster resource lookup when connecting to a vCenter (Matthias Bolte) - command: avoid hanging on daemon processes (Eric Blake) - storage: Ignore dangling symbolic link for filesystem pool (Osier Yang) - Skip file-based security checks for network disks (Josh Durgin) - tests: avoid data race (Eric Blake) - bridge_driver: avoid double call to VIR_FREE (Paweł Krześniak) - vbox: Don't leak domain names in vboxListDefinedDomains (Matthias Bolte) - vbox: Don't leak arrays from XPCOM (Matthias Bolte) - build: fix typo that broke 'make dist' (Eric Blake) - util: Fix logical error in virReportSystemErrorFull (Jiri Denemark) - util: Fix error message in __virExec (Jiri Denemark) - daemon: Change CWD to / before daemonizing (Jiri Denemark) - daemon, threads: plug a memory leak (Eric Blake) - daemon: plug a memory leak (Eric Blake) - conf: plug memory leaks (Eric Blake) - tests: plug memory leaks (Eric Blake) - virExec: avoid undefined behavior (Eric Blake) - command: plug memory leak (Eric Blake) - build: distribute commandtest files (Eric Blake) - spec: do not start libvirt-guests if that service is off (Dan Kenigsberg) - correct the signal's name (Wen Congyang) - command: avoid memory leak (Eric Blake) - qemu: call drive_del in DetachPciDiskDevice (Ryan Harper) - qemu: call drive_unplug in DetachPciDiskDevice (Ryan Harper) - qemud: fix memory leak in io error events (Anthony Liguori) - qemu: Enable disabled debug messages (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Use -vga none only if it is supported (Jiri Denemark) - openvz: avoid potential buffer overflow (Eric Blake) - tests: fix leaks in commandtest (Eric Blake) - uuid: require smbios uuid and domain uuid to match (Eric Blake) - qemu: avoid adding "" in smbios arguments (Eric Blake) - Fix funny off-by-one error in clock-variable (Dan Kenigsberg) - syntax error "Bad fd number" when stopping libvirt-guests (Laurent Léonard) - util: Fix bug which will cause libvirtd crash (Osier Yang) - qemu: Fix a possible deadlock in p2p migration (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Don't try to set input FD to -1 (Matthias Bolte) - Fix memory leak in logging setup (Daniel P. Berrange) - schemas: Fix cpu element schema (Jiri Denemark) - virsh: Remove using phy as default disk driver in cmdAttachDisk (Osier Yang) - OpenVZ: drop fd leackage (Guido Günther) - qemu: plug memory leak (Eric Blake) - libvirtd: avoid memory leak on shutdown (Eric Blake) - Fix flaw in thread creation APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) Improvements: - build: avoid compilation warnings (Eric Blake) - Improve virSocketAddrMask[ByPrefix] API (Laine Stump) - Utility functions to produce an IPv4 broadcast address (Laine Stump) - qemu: add -incoming fd:n capability checking (Eric Blake) - spec: Automatically turn on cgconfig service (Daniel P. Berrange) - Replace setuid/setgid/initgroups with virSetUIDGID() (Laine Stump) - new virSetUIDGID() utility function (Laine Stump) - Preserve errno across calls to error reporting functions & VIR_FREE (Laine Stump) - Run radvd for virtual networks with IPv6 addresses (Laine Stump) - Turn on IPv6 support in the bridge_driver.c virtual network driver (Laine Stump) - Update iptables.c to also support ip6tables. (Laine Stump) - Support multiple IP addresses on one network in bridge_driver.c (Laine Stump) - Change virtual network XML parsing/formatting to support IPv6 (Laine Stump) - Replace brSetInetAddress/brSetInetNetmask with brAddInetAddress (Laine Stump) - Make virtual network netmasks optional (Laine Stump) - Pass prefix rather than netmask into iptables functions (Laine Stump) - Consistently return 0 on success, -1 on failure in bridge_driver.c (Laine Stump) - Fix logging of failed iptables commands (Laine Stump) - New virNetworkDef utility functions (Laine Stump) - New virSocketAddr utility functions (Laine Stump) - virsh: Add --force option to update-device (Jiri Denemark) - esx: Add support for storage volume wiping (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Add support for storage volume deletion (Matthias Bolte) - maint: avoid space-tab (Eric Blake) - build: skip vmware driver when building for RHEL (Eric Blake) - tests: avoid spurious failure of nodeinfotest (Eric Blake) - libvirt-guests: avoid sourcing failure (Eric Blake) - vbox: Handle different array representations of XPCOM and MSCOM (Matthias Bolte) - vbox: Add glue layer for MSCOM on Windows (Matthias Bolte) - vbox: Match struct layout of the MSCOM implementation on Windows (Matthias Bolte) - vbox: Use stdcall convention for all COM methods on Windows (Matthias Bolte) - maint: improve tests distribution (Eric Blake) - Update QEMU test cases for new file locations & API renames (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU hotplug helper code out of the QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU domain lock / job helper code to separate file (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU driver lock helpers to a separate file (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU hostdev helper code out of the QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU cgroup helper code out of the QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU audit helper code out of the QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU private data & namespace code into separate file (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU command line management into a separate file (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move QEMU capabilities management into a separate file (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add a new function doStartCPUs (Hu Tao) - Add a new function doStopCPUs (Hu Tao) - Add a macro timeval_to_ms to compute micro seconds from timeval (Hu Tao) - cpu: Unify CPUID data structures (Jiri Denemark) - esx: Add support for storage volume cloning (Matthias Bolte) - selinux: avoid memory overhead of matchpathcon (Eric Blake) - tests: test Fedora 14 qemu-kvm -help parsing (Eric Blake) - tests: test RHEL 6.0 qemu-kvm -help parsing (Eric Blake) - sysinfo: convert to virCommand (Eric Blake) - build: update gnulib for pipe on mingw (Eric Blake) - test: fix commandtest under autobuild.sh (Eric Blake) - qemu: Introduce two new job types (Osier Yang) - qemu: Add RBD support and some network disk fixes (Josh Durgin) - Missing "Default-Stop" field in LSB comment in libvirt-guests (Laurent Léonard) - 802.1Qbh: Add support for IFLA_VF_MAC (Roopa Prabhu) - command: ease use with virBuffer, and fix qemu leak (Eric Blake) - Convert dhcpStartDhcpDaemon from virRun to virCommand (Laine Stump) - esx: Refactor storage pool type lookup into a function (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Improve error reporting for failed tasks (Matthias Bolte) - tests: Add tests for network disks (Josh Durgin) - Add a watchdog action `dump' (Hu Tao) - Add a new function doCoreDump (Hu Tao) - threadpool impl (Hu Tao) - qemu: Distinguish between domain shutdown and crash (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Only build devstr when needs (attach PCI controller) (Osier Yang) - configure: improve misleading libnl missing error message (Justin Clift) - maint: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake) - openvz: convert popen to virCommand (Eric Blake) - command: improve behavior on no output (Eric Blake) - command: enforce fd vs. buffer considerations (Eric Blake) - tests: Fix commandtest in VPATH build (Jiri Denemark) - command: improve allocation failure reporting (Eric Blake) - tests: Fix detection of expected error (Jiri Denemark) - tests: Fix code formating in commandtest (Jiri Denemark) - smbios: allow () in smbios strings (Eric Blake) - smbios: support system family (Eric Blake) - threads: add virThreadID for debugging use (Eric Blake) - tests: Don't ignore return value of getcwd() (Jiri Denemark) - build: Fix internal docs generation in VPATH builds (Jiri Denemark) - Change return value of VIR_DRV_SUPPORTS_FEATURE to bool (Jiri Denemark) - Implement virVMOperationType{To|From}String independent from WITH_MACVTAP (Matthias Bolte) - Create file in virFileWriteStr() if it doesn't exist (Jean-Baptiste Rouault) - Remove bogus includes (Daniel P. Berrange) - uml: convert to virCommand (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: convert to virCommand (Eric Blake) - Port hooks and iptables code to new command execution APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Introduce new APIs for spawning processes (Daniel P. Berrange) - util: add virVasprintf (Eric Blake) - util: fix saferead type (Eric Blake) - Tweak daemon event debug to include errno (Daniel P. Berrange) - tests: Add tests for CPU selection in qemu driver (Jiri Denemark) - tests: Support for faking emulator in qemuxml2argv (Jiri Denemark) - maint: update .gitignore (Eric Blake) - qemu: Use macro for max and min vnc port instead of number (Osier Yang) - tests: Add unit tests for internal CPU APIs (Jiri Denemark) - cpu: Add support for overriding path to CPU map XML file (Jiri Denemark) - Fall back to QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW if compression method fails. (Hu Tao) Cleanups: - esx: Move VMX handling code out of the driver directory (Matthias Bolte) - qemu: use virAsprintf instead of PATH_MAX (Eric Blake) - build: fix typo that broke 'make dist' (Wen Congyang) - sysinfo: formatting cleanups (Eric Blake) - virsh: Remove redundant commands in group domain (Osier Yang) - virsh: Remove redundant optional option for cmdHelp (Osier Yang) - qemu: Fix typo in qemuTeardownDiskPathDeny (Osier Yang) - maint: allow 'make syntax-check' to run again (Eric Blake) thanks everybody who helped for this release, with ideas, patches report or documentation ! 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/