[libvirt] Release of libvirt-1.2.7

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 ! 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