[libvirt] Release of libvirt-1.2.21

So as planned I tagged libvirt-1.2.21 in git, we are out of freeze ! The signed tarballs and rpms for 1.2.21 are in the usual places for libvirt ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ and for python bindings ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python/ This is a moderately sized release with around 150 commits, a lot of refactoring and cleanups on the migration code, the python bindings and updates to the vz driver: Documentation: - event impl. registration before hypervisor connection (Dominik Perpeet) - libvirt-secret: Fix typo (Wei Jiangang) - NEWS: Fix XSLT stylesheet (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Split releases by year (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Unify date format (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Unify section titles (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Add empty lines (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Fix indentation (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Fix newlines (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Fix whitespace (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Organize old entries (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Split old entries (2009) (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Split old entries (2008) (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Split old entries (2006-2007) (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Properly escape > in HTML (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Split off merged sections (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Remove empty sections (Andrea Bolognani) - NEWS: Include description for release 0.7.3 (Andrea Bolognani) - domain: Show canonical pvspinlock XML (Cole Robinson) - Add Cuckoo Sandbox into apps.html (Martin Kletzander) Portability: - Fix virNetDevWaitDadFinish stub (Roman Bogorodskiy) - util: implement virProcessGetStartTime on GNU/kFreeBSD (Pino Toscano) - build: include xdr cflags for libvirt-admin (Eric Blake) - virt-host-validate: disable mntent code on Win32 (Daniel P. Berrange) - src: Remove $(builddir) usage (Andrea Bolognani) Bug Fixes: - wireshark: Install to generic plugin directory (Michal Privoznik) - network: wait for DAD to finish for bridge IPv6 addresses (Maxim Perevedentsev) - qemu: Use live autoNodeset when numatune placement is auto (Luyao Huang) - virsh-domain: use correct base for virStrToLong_ui (Pavel Hrdina) - libvirt-domain: fix the error reporting when use the localhost as target uri (Luyao Huang) - qemu: fix migration flags undefinesource cannot work (Luyao Huang) - virsh: Display an error when passing count <= 0 to setvcpus (Luyao Huang) - virtlockd: Don't SIGSEGV on SIGUSR1 (Michal Privoznik) - Close the source fd if the destination qemu exits during tunnelled migration (Shivaprasad G Bhat) - qemu: Fix qemu startup check for QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_IOTHREAD (John Ferlan) - virsh: Use 'format' argument only when specified (Peter Krempa) - storage: Track successful creation of LV for removal (John Ferlan) - storage: Fix a resource leak in storageVolCreateXML (John Ferlan) - storage: Fix incorrect format for <disk> <auth> XML (John Ferlan) - migration: check dconnuri in p2p mode (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - qemu: Resolve Coverity FORWARD_NULL (John Ferlan) - libxl: Resolve Coverity FORWARD_NULL (John Ferlan) - tests: eventtest: Fix coverity warning (Cole Robinson) - qemu: migration: Skip few checks while doing offline migration (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Wait until destination QEMU consumes all migration data (Jiri Denemark) - conf: Remove <metadata> elements with no namespace (Peter Krempa) - storage: Adjust calculation of alloc/capacity for disk (John Ferlan) - storage: Prior to creating a volume, refresh the pool (John Ferlan) - virfile: Fix error path for forked virFileRemove (John Ferlan) - rpc: libssh2: Fix regression in ssh host key verification (Peter Krempa) - interface: fail on OOM from virGetInterface() (Laine Stump) - libvirt.spec: fix accidental conditional inclusion of polkit docs (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Use memory-backing-file only when needed (Martin Kletzander) Improvements: - util: set max wait for IPv6 DAD to 20 seconds (Laine Stump) - util: set error if DAD is not finished (Luyao Huang) - netlink: add support for multi-part netlink messages. (Maxim Perevedentsev) - rbd: Remove snapshots if the DELETE_WITH_SNAPSHOTS flag has been provided (Wido den Hollander) - bhyve: implement domainGetOSType (Roman Bogorodskiy) - libvirt-domain: fix no error report when p2p migrate fail (Luyao Huang) - conf: Add serial target type to ABI stability check (Luyao Huang) - lock_daemon: Switch to wrapper locking functions (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: hostdev: Introduce qemuHostdevUpdateActiveDomainDevices() (Andrea Bolognani) - qemu: hostdev: Unify naming for qemuHostdevUpdateActive*Devices() (Andrea Bolognani) - qemu: hostdev: Unify naming for qemuHostdevReAttach*Devices() (Andrea Bolognani) - qemu: hostdev: Unify naming for qemuHostdevPrepare*Devices() (Andrea Bolognani) - hostdev: Rename virHostdevUpdateDomainActiveDevices() (Andrea Bolognani) - conf: Fix error message to use correct parameter (John Ferlan) - util: Produce friendlier error message to user (Luyao Huang) - util: Adjust error paths for virNumaSetPagePoolSize (Luyao Huang) - util: split the virNumaGetHugePageInfoPath into separate function (Luyao Huang) - Avoid using !STREQ and !STRNEQ (Ishmanpreet Kaur Khera) - vz: implement some domain API calls (Maxim Nestratov) - vz: implement API calls of nodeGetxxx family (Maxim Nestratov) - vz: implement connectGetMaxVcpus API calls (Maxim Nestratov) - security_dac: Introduce remember/recall APIs (Michal Privoznik) - security_dac: Limit usage of virSecurityDACSetOwnershipInternal (Michal Privoznik) - virSecurityDACRestoreSecurityFileLabel: Pass virSecurityDACDataPtr (Michal Privoznik) - virSecurityDACSetOwnership: Pass virSecurityDACDataPtr (Michal Privoznik) - virSecurityDACSetOwnershipInternal: Don't chown so often (Michal Privoznik) - security_dac: Fix TODO marks (Michal Privoznik) - conf: Optimize the iothreadid initialization (John Ferlan) - qemu: Check for niothreads == 0 in qemuSetupCgroupForIOThreads (John Ferlan) - qemu: Use 'niothreadids' instead of 'iothreads' (John Ferlan) - Fix conficts with HACKING doc (Wei Jiangang) - conf: Refactor the iothreadid initialization (John Ferlan) - tests: make redirects happen in correct order (Wei Jiangang) - storage: Rework error paths for virStorageBackendCreateExecCommand (John Ferlan) - storage: On error rmdir created directory in virDirCreate[NoFork] (John Ferlan) - storage: On error unlink created file in virFileOpen{As|Forked} (John Ferlan) - storage: Remove duplicitous refreshVol in Sheepdog buildVol (John Ferlan) - storage: Remove duplicitous refreshVol in RBD buildVol (John Ferlan) - virt-host-validate: check for IOMMU support (Daniel P. Berrange) - libvirt-domain: Drop virDomainMigrateCheckNotLocal attribute (Michal Privoznik) - virt-host-validate: check for required cgroups (Daniel P. Berrange) - virt-host-validate: distinguish exists vs accessible for devices (Daniel P. Berrange) - virt-host-validate.c: check for kernel namespaces (Daniel P. Berrange) - migration: refactor: introduce parameter checking function (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: merge all proto branches into single function (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: refactor parameter compatibility checks (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: extract parameter adaption functions (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: introduce params version of unmanaged (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: merge direct and p2p into unmanaged (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: rename uri parameter to miguri (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: remove direct migration dependency on version1 of driver (Michal Privoznik) - migration: move implementation check to branches in p2p (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: reuse p2p url check (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - migration: refactor: get rid of use_params p2p_full (Nikolay Shirokovskiy) - virJSONValueArraySize: return ssize_t (Michal Privoznik) - src: Include $(builddir)/util in the header search path (Andrea Bolognani) - storage: Perform some cleanup of calls (John Ferlan) - AUTHORS: Add myself to the list of committers (Andrea Bolognani) - virSecurityManagerNew: Turn array of booleans into flags (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Fix indentation issue (Andrea Bolognani) - qemu: Remove explicit values from virQEMUCapsFlags (Andrea Bolognani) - qemu: migration: Use migration flags in qemuMigrationIsAllowed (Peter Krempa) - qemu: migration: Drop @def from qemuMigrationIsAllowed (Peter Krempa) - qemu: migration: Split source and destination migration checks (Peter Krempa) - spec: Delete .git after applying patches (Cole Robinson) - tests: qemu: Add aarch64 virtio pci tests (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Make updating stats in qemuMigrationCheckJobStatus optional (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Introduce flags in qemuMigrationCompleted (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Copy completed migration stats only on success (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Always update migration times on destination (Jiri Denemark) - tests: Check GIC-related XMLs in qemuxml2xmltest (Martin Kletzander) - Do not distribute generated virkeymaps.h (Martin Kletzander) - apparmor: differentiate between error and unconfined profiles (Cédric Bosdonnat) - testutils: Drop virtTestResult (Cole Robinson) - tests: eventtest: Open code virtTestResult (Cole Robinson) - tests: sheepdog: Drop use of virtTestResult (Cole Robinson) - testutils: Add coloring to verbose PASS/FAILED output (Cole Robinson) - storage: Introduce virStorageBackendDiskStartPool (John Ferlan) - storage: Add additional errors/checks for disk label (John Ferlan) - storage: Add param to check whether we can write a disk label (John Ferlan) - storage: Refactor disk label checking (John Ferlan) - virfile: Add extra check for direct delete in virFileRemove (John Ferlan) - qemu: Add conditions for qemu-kvm use on ppc64 (Andrea Bolognani) - rpc: libssh2: Add more debugging info (Peter Krempa) - conf: Reuse virDomainDefCheckDuplicateDiskWWN to check disk serial too (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Perform the disk WWN check only on fresh starts (Peter Krempa) - interface: let netcf pre-filter for active vs. inactive (Laine Stump) - interface: re-use name and mac address rather than re-retrieving (Laine Stump) - interface: report correct interface count when not returning list (Laine Stump) - qemu: Add -mem-path even with numa (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: Extract -mem-path building into its own function (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: Move memory size detection to the top of the function (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: Move simplification variable to begining of the function (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: Add test cases for gic-version option (Pavel Fedin) - qemu: Add support for gic-version machine option (Pavel Fedin) - qemu: Introduce QEMU_CAPS_MACH_VIRT_GIC_VERSION capability (Pavel Fedin) - Post-release version bump to 1.2.21 (Martin Kletzander) Cleanups: - tests: Remove unused nodeinfo test data (Andrea Bolognani) - vz: cleanup (Maxim Nestratov) - vz: remove storage driver as never used (Maxim Nestratov) - vz: remove network driver as never used (Maxim Nestratov) Thanks everybody for your contributions to this release ! 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/