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[libvirt] libvirt-0.3.3-14.el5 (redhat rpm) vs libvirt-0.6.5 (source)
by Jim Bergensen 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hello everyone, I am looking to write a simple php interface to create, stop, start, restart, configure, backup, transfer VM's across a network of servers. Storage is done locally on the particular node (lvm), but I am considering to do this through iscsi in the future. Xen, KVM, IP management, firewalling is an important requirement. The redhat backport version looks outdated, but I know the version number isn't the best way to compare features. My questions are: - Featurewise, is the difference between the redhat version and the libvirt.org source version small or as big as it looks (branch versions?) - Considering the above functions I am going to need, will the redhat version suffice? Any help would be truely appreciated, Thank you, Jim

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[Fwd: Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.7.0]
by Robert L Cochran 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Ooops! I sent this to Dan when I meant to send it to the list. To be a bit repetitive...how do I get this for Fedora 11 -- and all of its dependencies? Thanks Bob -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.7.0 Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:37:09 -0400 From: Robert L Cochran <cochranb(a)speakeasy.net> To: veillard(a)redhat.com How do I get this for Fedora 11 -- and all of its dependencies? Thanks a lot! Bob On 08/05/2009 11:15 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote: > A couple days later than expected, but considering the current > flow of fixes, that's not a bad thing. This is a huge release, > this includes more than 250 commits in a month and many new > functionalities or drivers, and a lot of improvements and bug fixes: > > New features: > - Interface implementation based on netcf (Laine Stump Daniel Veillard) > - Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana) > - Initial VMWare ESX driver (Matthias Bolte) > - Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari) > - First version of the Power Hypervisor driver (Eduardo Otubo) > - Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Support cgroups in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) > - QEmu hotplug NIC support (Mark McLoughlin) > - Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends(Cole Robinson) > - Switching to GIT (Jim Meyering) > > Documentation: > - Typo and comment fixes (Aron Griffis) > - Fix virCapabilitiesDefaultGuestMachine documentation. (Chris Lalancette) > - ESX Scheduler documentation and cleanup (Matthias Bolte) > - Update the java bindings page (Bryan Kearney) > - Added Matthias Bolte to AUTHORS list (Daniel Veillard) > - doc: clone+build instructions (Jim Meyering) > - docs: say that the old repository is deprecated... (Jim Meyering) > - document tcp listen and raw wire option (Guido Günther) > - Fix docs and code disagreements for character devices. (Cole Robinson) > - Fix documentation of virStoragePoolUndefine return (Thomas Treutner) > - Fix gitweb link on download page. (Cole Robinson) > - update download informations after switch to git (Daniel Veillard) > - Update links to bugzilla (Garry Dolley) > - Update the links for RHEL libvirt bugzillas (Garry Dolley) > > Portability: > - Xen Inotify support needs sys/inotify.h (Maximilian Wilhelm) > - Workaround for broken GCC in Debian Etch (Maximilian Wilhelm) > - LXC driver requires sched.h and unshare() (Maximilian Wilhelm) > - Configure UML support only if sys/inotify.h present (Maximilian Wilhelm) > - Fix libcurl automatic check and ESX status (Maximilian Wilhelm) > - Enable ESX driver build on Mingw32 (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix build on mingw32 by disabling netcf (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Reduce glusterfs dependency to 2.0.1 (Mark McLoughlin) > - Desactivate phyp build and indicate libssh builreq (Daniel Veillard) > - Fix misc Win32 compile warnings (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Rename variable for compilation in Mingw32 (end) (Laine Stump) > - Rename variable for compilation in Mingw32 (Laine Stump) > - rpm spec cleanup and split off client only package (Daniel Veillard) > > Bug fixes: > - Add uniqueness checking for LXC define/create methods (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix removal of transient VMs when LXC aborts (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Don't try to activate cgroups if not present for LXC (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Refresh /etc/xen if inotify wasn't (Cole Robinson) > - Don't loose id on xen domain redefine (Cole Robinson) > - Fix memory leak in openvz driver (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Protected against potential crash scenarios (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix crash when attempting to shutdown inactive QEMU vm (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix PCIe FLR detection (Mark McLoughlin) > - Set perms on /var/lib/libvirt/images to 0711 (Mark McLoughlin) > - Fix problem writing QEMU pidfile (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix vcpupin on Xen problem (Henrik Persson) > - Fix RPM upgrades from F11 to F12 (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix deadlock in remote driver domain events (Daniel P. Berrange) > - qemu: fix monitor socket reconnection (Ryota Ozaki) > - Fix polkit/netcf disabling on older fedoras (Mark McLoughlin) > - Fix crashes in Xen capabilities code (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Always add -no-kvm and -no-kqemu, for qemu domains (Jim Paris) > - Avoid raising an internal error (Paolo Bonzini) > - Don't allow NULL paths for BlockStats and InterfaceStats (Cole Robinson) > - Don't leak vm->monitorpath on re-connect (Mark McLoughlin) > - Don't restore labels on shared/readonly disks (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Ensure spawned children have a stderr/out set to /dev/null if requested (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Ensure test:/// URIs get routed to the non-privileged libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange) > - fix another failing "make distcheck" (qemuhelptest) (Jim Meyering) > - Fix an uninitialized variable in Unix socket open (Jun Koi) > - Fix configure flags in spec file (Daniel Veillard) > - Fix error reporting for security driver over remote protocol (Daniel P. Berrange) > - fix failing "make distcheck" (Jim Meyering) > - Fix free of unitialized data upon PCI open fail (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix informations about previous git server (Daniel Veillard) > - Fix memory leaks in esxDomainDumpXML (Matthias Bolte) > - Fix multiple memory leaks in virsh (Laine Stump) > - Fix PCI device hotplug/unplug with newer QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix problem with QEMU monitor welcome prompt confusing libvirt after a libvirtd daemon restart with active guests (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix python examples to use read-write conn (Dan Kenigsberg) > - Fix reconnect bug for VBox (Pritesh Kothari) > - Fix SELinux denial during hotplug (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix typo in check for glusterfs format pools (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix typo in storage cloning (Daniel P. Berrange) > - qemu: Check driver is initialized up front, to avoid segfault. (Cole Robinson) > - qemu: Try multiple times to open unix monitor socket (Cole Robinson) > - Release conn lock before reporting errors (end) (Laine Stump) > - Release conn lock before reporting interface errors (Laine Stump) > - Remove the network backend if NIC hotplug fails (Mark McLoughlin) > - Set specific flags for glusterfs fs mounts (Harshavardhana) > - storage: disk: Default to 'ext2' for new volumes. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: disk: Fix parthelper '-g' option handling. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: disk: Fix segfault creating volume without target path (Cole Robinson) > - storage: Fix deadlock when cloning across pools. (Cole Robinson) > - Update modified mac address in place in virGetInterface (Laine Stump) > > Improvements: > - Add an allocation unit when calling qemu-img (Ryota Ozaki) > - Improve diagnostics when pidfile writing fails (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Disable IPv6 on virtual networks (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Allow dnsmasq to provide DNS without DHCP (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix an initialization problem in previous patch (Aron Griffis) > - Remove MAX_TAP_ID and let kernel do numbering (Aron Griffis) > - Kernel command line support for UML (Ron Yorston) > - Activate the interface drivers, and cleanups (Daniel Veillard) > - Add an error code for conflicting mac addresses (Laine Stump) > - Add a test interface driver (Laine Stump) > - Add canonical machine name to capabilities output (Mark McLoughlin) > - add cd and pwd commands to virsh (Paolo Bonzini) > - Add checks for some NIC hotplug related features added in qemu-0.10.0 (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add domain autostart for LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Add domain events support to LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Add interface object list manipulation functions (Laine Stump) > - Add internal XML parsing/formatting flag (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add netcf XML schemas and test data (Daniel Veillard) > - Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana) > - Add NIC and hostnet names to domain state XML (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add no_verify query parameter to ESX URIs (Matthias Bolte) > - Add SCM_RIGHTS support to QEMU monitor code (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add support for attaching network/bridge NICs in QEMU driver (Mark McLoughlin) > - add support for netcf XML import and export (Daniel Veillard) > - Add support for network device detach (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add support for physical memory access for QEmu (Nguyen Anh Quynh) > - Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari) > - Add the monitor type to the domain state XML (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add virCapsGuestMachine structure (Mark McLoughlin) > - Add virsh commands for network interface management (Laine Stump) > - Allow autostart of libvirtd to be disabled with LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART=0 (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Allow leading dots in VMX config entry names (Matthias Bolte) > - Assign names to qemu NICs and network backends (Mark McLoughlin) > - Basic qemu NIC hotplug support (Mark McLoughlin) > - build: adjust aclocal's search patch to prefer gnulib's m4 files. (Jim Meyering) > - build: automatically rerun ./bootstrap when needed (Jim Meyering) > - build: make autogen.sh use autoreconf -if (Jim Meyering) > - build: submodule machinery now works also when no tag is reachable (Jim Meyering) > - Canonicalize qemu machine types (Mark McLoughlin) > - Change code generator to give async event messages their own postfix (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Change the way client event loop watches are managed (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Decode incoming request header before invoking dispatch code (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Define an API for registering incoming message dispatch filters (Daniel P. Berrange) > - ESX driver accept VI API version 4.0 (Matthias Bolte) > - Fill in vCPU<-> pCPU current mapping, and vCPU cpuTime for QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) > - generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball (Jim Meyering) > - Implement qemu dump capabilities (Paolo Bonzini) > - Implement schedular tunables API using cgroups (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Implement the new virinterface functions (Laine Stump) > - Make cgroups a little more efficient (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Make it easier to debug tests running programs (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Make qemuBuildHostNetStr() take tapfd as a string (Mark McLoughlin) > - Make QEMU cgroups use configurable (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Make qemuCmdFlags available in qemudDomainAttachDevice() (Mark McLoughlin) > - Move queuing of RPC replies into dispatch code (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Move vnet_hdr logic into qemudNetworkIfaceConnect() and export it (Mark McLoughlin) > - Netcf based interface driver implementation (Laine Stump) > - netcf XML validation and input and output tests (Daniel Veillard) > - Only probe qemu for machine types when binary changes (Mark McLoughlin) > - Place every QEMU guest in a private cgroup (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Probe for QEMU machine types (Mark McLoughlin) > - Probe QEMU directly for machine aliases if not found in capabilties (Mark McLoughlin) > - Public API for new virInterface functions (Laine Stump) > - python: Raise exceptions if virDomain*Stats fail. (Cole Robinson) > - Refactor cgroups to allow a group per driver to be managed directly (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Re-factor pci_add reply parsing and parse domain/bus numbers (Mark McLoughlin) > - Retain disk PCI address across libvirtd restarts (Mark McLoughlin) > - Retain PCI address from NIC attach (Mark McLoughlin) > - Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Separate code for encoding outgoing remote message headers (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Split generic RPC message dispatch code out from remote protocol API handlers (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Split out code for handling incoming method call messages (Daniel P. Berrange) > - storage: Break out actual raw cloning to separate function. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: cleanup: do away with 'createFile' (Cole Robinson) > - storage: disk: Use capacity, not allocation, when creating volume. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: Don't try sparse detection if writing to block device. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: Implement 'CreateBlockFrom' helper. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: Implement CreateVolFrom for logical and disk backend. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: Move most of the FS creation functions to common backend. (Cole Robinson) > - storage: Refactor FS backend 'create' function choosing. (Cole Robinson) > - Store the interface vlan number in the domain state (Mark McLoughlin) > - Support<video> element for QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Support<video> tag for defining VGA card properties (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Switch to using a unix socket for the qemu monitor (Mark McLoughlin) > - test: Generate net interface names when assigning XML. (Cole Robinson) > - test: Implement BlockStats and InterfaceStats (Cole Robinson) > - Use cgroups for block device whitelisting in QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Use enums for cgroup controller types / labels (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Use sendmsg() on QEMU monitor socket (Mark McLoughlin) > - Use virDomainChrTypeFromString() instead of open coding (Mark McLoughlin) > - Use virFileReadAll/virFileWriteStr for key cgroup read/write helpers (Daniel P. Berrange) > - virGetinterface matching of MAC and interface name (Laine Stump) > > Cleanups: > - Fix configure checks from previous commits (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Avoid a warning if compiling without inotify (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Remove a stray semicolon (Daniel Veillard) > - Extend the ESX URL to habdle ports and GSX (Matthias Bolte) > - Fix escaping of 8-bit high characters (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Remove ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED from flags to qemudDomainMigratePerform. (Chris Lalancette) > - Add a comment about setting errors after qemudStartVMDaemon(). (Chris Lalancette) > - Fix an erroneous debug error to KVM; it should read QEMU/KVM. (Chris Lalancette) > - Remove a stray semicolon in qemudDomainMigratePrepare2. (Chris Lalancette) > - Convert a few stray users of free() in libvirt.c to VIR_FREE(). (Chris Lalancette) > - Use virGetHostname instead of gethostname. (Chris Lalancette) > - Fix up a minor indentation issue with virDomainMigratePrepare. (Chris Lalancette) > - Fix up a silly typo in apibuild.py. (Chris Lalancette) > - Avoid warning when compiling without IFF_VNET_HDR (Maximilian Wilhelm) > - Capilize libvirt-client summary (Mark McLoughlin) > - Move ldconfig calls to libvirt-client %post/%postun (Mark McLoughlin) > - Convert NEWS to UTF-8 (Mark McLoughlin) > - Fix trailing whitespace in NEWS (Mark McLoughlin) > - No need to build require both python-devel and python (Mark McLoughlin) > - Remove executable perms from /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd (Mark McLoughlin) > - Use a %postun -p for one line scriptlet (Mark McLoughlin) > - Don't explicitly require libxml2 (Mark McLoughlin) > - Fix some unowned directories (Mark McLoughlin) > - Kill qemu BuildRequires (Mark McLoughlin) > - Enable netcf by default (Mark McLoughlin) > - Default to with_polkit (Mark McLoughlin) > - Make vbox support configurable (Mark McLoughlin) > - Build with --without-capng if capng is disabled (Mark McLoughlin) > - BuildRequires libcap-ng-devel not capng-devel (Mark McLoughlin) > - Drop curl host check when using ESX without check (Shahar Klein) > - Fix typo in xen capabilities code (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Add bare format string to printf-derivatives troubles (Laine Stump) > - Add phyp files to POTFILES, to make syntax-check happy. (Cole Robinson) > - avoid a make distcheck failure: distribute docs/schemas/interface.rng (Jim Meyering) > - avoid a make distcheck failure: distribute tests/interfaceschemadata/ (Jim Meyering) > - avoid a "make syntax-check" failure (Jim Meyering) > - build: do not emit a trailing blank line into VC'd file, NEWS (Jim Meyering) > - build: update from gnulib, for latest maint.mk (Jim Meyering) > - Clean up error handling in qemudDomainAttachNetDevice() (Mark McLoughlin) > - Cleanup qemu binary detection logic in qemudCapsInitGuest() (Mark McLoughlin) > - Commit newly generated docs, after changes from commit 2348cf. (Cole Robinson) > - Factor qemuBuildHostNetStr() out from qemuBuildCommandLine() (Mark McLoughlin) > - Factor qemuBuildNicStr() out from qemuBuildCommandLine() (Mark McLoughlin) > - Factor qemudMonitorSend() out of qemudMonitorCommandExtra() (Mark McLoughlin) > - Fix cgroup compile warnings (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix misc build problems due to new drivers (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Fix wierd build problems due to autopoint overwriting gnulib m4 (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Makefile.cfg: Rename to... (Jim Meyering) > - make .gnulib a submodule (Jim Meyering) > - make "make syntax-check" consistent with "git diff --check" (Jim Meyering) > - Minor qemu monitor coding style fixes (Mark McLoughlin) > - Prepare to use maint.mk from gnulib (Jim Meyering) > - Refactor incoming message handling to prepare for data stream support (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Refactor message sending to allow code reuse for data streams (Daniel P. Berrange) > - remove all .cvsignore files (Jim Meyering) > - remove all trailing blank lines (Jim Meyering) > - Remove some unused variables and cut long lines (Daniel Veillard) > - Remove trailing blank lines (Daniel Veillard) > - Rename a bunch of internal methods to clarify their meaning (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Rename 'direction' to 'type' in remote_message_header (Daniel P. Berrange) > - Report the object name on lookup error (Daniel Veillard) > - Simplify remote driver error reporting (Daniel P. Berrange) > - skip some of gnulib's new rules (Jim Meyering) > - use automake-1.11's silent-rules option, when possible (Jim Meyering) > - use gnumakefile and maintainer-makefile modules from gnulib (Jim Meyering) > > > It's also good to see a lot of new contributors in this release, > so thanks to everybody ! > > Daniel > >

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[libvirt] VMware ESX 2/3: Fix memleak if esxOpen fails
by Matthias Bolte 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Subject says it all. Matthias

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[libvirt] VMware ESX 1/3: Add proper OOM reporting for esxDomainGetOSType
by Matthias Bolte 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Subject says it all. Matthias

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[libvirt] running with UID != 0: internal error about bridged network
by Harald Dunkel 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi folks, I would like to avoid running the virtual hosts with UID=0. But if I try to create a new virtual machine without being root, then it fails with % name=Lenny_amd64 % kvmdir=/local/kvm % mkdir -p $kvmdir/$name % qemu-img create -f qcow2 $kvmdir/$name/hda.qcow2 32G Formatting '/local/kvm/Lenny_amd64/hda.qcow2', fmt=qcow2, size=33554432 kB % virt-install --connect=qemu:///session -n $name -r 1024 -vcpus=1 -f $kvmdir/$name/hda.qcow2 --network=bridge:br0 --vnc --accelerate -v -c /usr/local/source/hdunkel/debian-502-i386-netinst.iso --os-type=linux --os-variant=debianLenny 14:18:35.586: warning : Cannot set group when not running as root 14:18:35.757: error : Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'Lenny_amd64' libvir: QEMU error : Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'Lenny_amd64' The log file shows [Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:18:35 virt-install 14229] ERROR (virt-install:786) internal error Failed to add tap interface 'vnet%d' to bridge 'br0' : Operation not permitted Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 780, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 678, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 733, in do_install dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 892, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error Failed to add tap interface 'vnet%d' to bridge 'br0' : Operation not permitted Of course an unprivileged user is not allowed to mess around with the network interfaces, but since it says "internal error" I wonder how this is supposed to work? Is there something misconfigured? Any helpful comments would be highly appreciated Harri

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[libvirt] [PATCH 0/7] QEMU network/bridge backed NIC hotplug
by Mark McLoughlin 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hey, So, here are the patches needed to complete the QEMU NIC hotplug work by supporting network and bridge backed interfaces. We support this by passing a tap file descriptor to qemu over the monitor socket using SCM_RIGHTS. The monitor commands required for this (getfd and closefd) are queued up in Anthony's queue and should be in qemu-0.11-rc1 which is due to be released very soon: http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=4edd6c2645 http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=f4069061e3 Note: I just remembered I'm not handling missing support for these commands very well. I'll make it handle an 'unknown command' reply gracefully by failing the attach tommorrow. Cheers, Mark.

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[libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.7.0
by Daniel Veillard 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

A couple days later than expected, but considering the current flow of fixes, that's not a bad thing. This is a huge release, this includes more than 250 commits in a month and many new functionalities or drivers, and a lot of improvements and bug fixes: New features: - Interface implementation based on netcf (Laine Stump Daniel Veillard) - Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana) - Initial VMWare ESX driver (Matthias Bolte) - Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari) - First version of the Power Hypervisor driver (Eduardo Otubo) - Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange) - Support cgroups in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - QEmu hotplug NIC support (Mark McLoughlin) - Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends(Cole Robinson) - Switching to GIT (Jim Meyering) Documentation: - Typo and comment fixes (Aron Griffis) - Fix virCapabilitiesDefaultGuestMachine documentation. (Chris Lalancette) - ESX Scheduler documentation and cleanup (Matthias Bolte) - Update the java bindings page (Bryan Kearney) - Added Matthias Bolte to AUTHORS list (Daniel Veillard) - doc: clone+build instructions (Jim Meyering) - docs: say that the old repository is deprecated... (Jim Meyering) - document tcp listen and raw wire option (Guido Günther) - Fix docs and code disagreements for character devices. (Cole Robinson) - Fix documentation of virStoragePoolUndefine return (Thomas Treutner) - Fix gitweb link on download page. (Cole Robinson) - update download informations after switch to git (Daniel Veillard) - Update links to bugzilla (Garry Dolley) - Update the links for RHEL libvirt bugzillas (Garry Dolley) Portability: - Xen Inotify support needs sys/inotify.h (Maximilian Wilhelm) - Workaround for broken GCC in Debian Etch (Maximilian Wilhelm) - LXC driver requires sched.h and unshare() (Maximilian Wilhelm) - Configure UML support only if sys/inotify.h present (Maximilian Wilhelm) - Fix libcurl automatic check and ESX status (Maximilian Wilhelm) - Enable ESX driver build on Mingw32 (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix build on mingw32 by disabling netcf (Daniel P. Berrange) - Reduce glusterfs dependency to 2.0.1 (Mark McLoughlin) - Desactivate phyp build and indicate libssh builreq (Daniel Veillard) - Fix misc Win32 compile warnings (Daniel P. Berrange) - Rename variable for compilation in Mingw32 (end) (Laine Stump) - Rename variable for compilation in Mingw32 (Laine Stump) - rpm spec cleanup and split off client only package (Daniel Veillard) Bug fixes: - Add uniqueness checking for LXC define/create methods (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix removal of transient VMs when LXC aborts (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't try to activate cgroups if not present for LXC (Daniel P. Berrange) - Refresh /etc/xen if inotify wasn't (Cole Robinson) - Don't loose id on xen domain redefine (Cole Robinson) - Fix memory leak in openvz driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Protected against potential crash scenarios (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix crash when attempting to shutdown inactive QEMU vm (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix PCIe FLR detection (Mark McLoughlin) - Set perms on /var/lib/libvirt/images to 0711 (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix problem writing QEMU pidfile (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix vcpupin on Xen problem (Henrik Persson) - Fix RPM upgrades from F11 to F12 (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix deadlock in remote driver domain events (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: fix monitor socket reconnection (Ryota Ozaki) - Fix polkit/netcf disabling on older fedoras (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix crashes in Xen capabilities code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Always add -no-kvm and -no-kqemu, for qemu domains (Jim Paris) - Avoid raising an internal error (Paolo Bonzini) - Don't allow NULL paths for BlockStats and InterfaceStats (Cole Robinson) - Don't leak vm->monitorpath on re-connect (Mark McLoughlin) - Don't restore labels on shared/readonly disks (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure spawned children have a stderr/out set to /dev/null if requested (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure test:/// URIs get routed to the non-privileged libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange) - fix another failing "make distcheck" (qemuhelptest) (Jim Meyering) - Fix an uninitialized variable in Unix socket open (Jun Koi) - Fix configure flags in spec file (Daniel Veillard) - Fix error reporting for security driver over remote protocol (Daniel P. Berrange) - fix failing "make distcheck" (Jim Meyering) - Fix free of unitialized data upon PCI open fail (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix informations about previous git server (Daniel Veillard) - Fix memory leaks in esxDomainDumpXML (Matthias Bolte) - Fix multiple memory leaks in virsh (Laine Stump) - Fix PCI device hotplug/unplug with newer QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix problem with QEMU monitor welcome prompt confusing libvirt after a libvirtd daemon restart with active guests (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix python examples to use read-write conn (Dan Kenigsberg) - Fix reconnect bug for VBox (Pritesh Kothari) - Fix SELinux denial during hotplug (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix typo in check for glusterfs format pools (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix typo in storage cloning (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Check driver is initialized up front, to avoid segfault. (Cole Robinson) - qemu: Try multiple times to open unix monitor socket (Cole Robinson) - Release conn lock before reporting errors (end) (Laine Stump) - Release conn lock before reporting interface errors (Laine Stump) - Remove the network backend if NIC hotplug fails (Mark McLoughlin) - Set specific flags for glusterfs fs mounts (Harshavardhana) - storage: disk: Default to 'ext2' for new volumes. (Cole Robinson) - storage: disk: Fix parthelper '-g' option handling. (Cole Robinson) - storage: disk: Fix segfault creating volume without target path (Cole Robinson) - storage: Fix deadlock when cloning across pools. (Cole Robinson) - Update modified mac address in place in virGetInterface (Laine Stump) Improvements: - Add an allocation unit when calling qemu-img (Ryota Ozaki) - Improve diagnostics when pidfile writing fails (Daniel P. Berrange) - Disable IPv6 on virtual networks (Daniel P. Berrange) - Allow dnsmasq to provide DNS without DHCP (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix an initialization problem in previous patch (Aron Griffis) - Remove MAX_TAP_ID and let kernel do numbering (Aron Griffis) - Kernel command line support for UML (Ron Yorston) - Activate the interface drivers, and cleanups (Daniel Veillard) - Add an error code for conflicting mac addresses (Laine Stump) - Add a test interface driver (Laine Stump) - Add canonical machine name to capabilities output (Mark McLoughlin) - add cd and pwd commands to virsh (Paolo Bonzini) - Add checks for some NIC hotplug related features added in qemu-0.10.0 (Mark McLoughlin) - Add domain autostart for LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add domain events support to LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add interface object list manipulation functions (Laine Stump) - Add internal XML parsing/formatting flag (Mark McLoughlin) - Add netcf XML schemas and test data (Daniel Veillard) - Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana) - Add NIC and hostnet names to domain state XML (Mark McLoughlin) - Add no_verify query parameter to ESX URIs (Matthias Bolte) - Add SCM_RIGHTS support to QEMU monitor code (Mark McLoughlin) - Add support for attaching network/bridge NICs in QEMU driver (Mark McLoughlin) - add support for netcf XML import and export (Daniel Veillard) - Add support for network device detach (Mark McLoughlin) - Add support for physical memory access for QEmu (Nguyen Anh Quynh) - Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari) - Add the monitor type to the domain state XML (Mark McLoughlin) - Add virCapsGuestMachine structure (Mark McLoughlin) - Add virsh commands for network interface management (Laine Stump) - Allow autostart of libvirtd to be disabled with LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART=0 (Daniel P. Berrange) - Allow leading dots in VMX config entry names (Matthias Bolte) - Assign names to qemu NICs and network backends (Mark McLoughlin) - Basic qemu NIC hotplug support (Mark McLoughlin) - build: adjust aclocal's search patch to prefer gnulib's m4 files. (Jim Meyering) - build: automatically rerun ./bootstrap when needed (Jim Meyering) - build: make autogen.sh use autoreconf -if (Jim Meyering) - build: submodule machinery now works also when no tag is reachable (Jim Meyering) - Canonicalize qemu machine types (Mark McLoughlin) - Change code generator to give async event messages their own postfix (Daniel P. Berrange) - Change the way client event loop watches are managed (Daniel P. Berrange) - Decode incoming request header before invoking dispatch code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Define an API for registering incoming message dispatch filters (Daniel P. Berrange) - ESX driver accept VI API version 4.0 (Matthias Bolte) - Fill in vCPU <-> pCPU current mapping, and vCPU cpuTime for QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball (Jim Meyering) - Implement qemu dump capabilities (Paolo Bonzini) - Implement schedular tunables API using cgroups (Daniel P. Berrange) - Implement the new virinterface functions (Laine Stump) - Make cgroups a little more efficient (Daniel P. Berrange) - Make it easier to debug tests running programs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Make qemuBuildHostNetStr() take tapfd as a string (Mark McLoughlin) - Make QEMU cgroups use configurable (Daniel P. Berrange) - Make qemuCmdFlags available in qemudDomainAttachDevice() (Mark McLoughlin) - Move queuing of RPC replies into dispatch code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move vnet_hdr logic into qemudNetworkIfaceConnect() and export it (Mark McLoughlin) - Netcf based interface driver implementation (Laine Stump) - netcf XML validation and input and output tests (Daniel Veillard) - Only probe qemu for machine types when binary changes (Mark McLoughlin) - Place every QEMU guest in a private cgroup (Daniel P. Berrange) - Probe for QEMU machine types (Mark McLoughlin) - Probe QEMU directly for machine aliases if not found in capabilties (Mark McLoughlin) - Public API for new virInterface functions (Laine Stump) - python: Raise exceptions if virDomain*Stats fail. (Cole Robinson) - Refactor cgroups to allow a group per driver to be managed directly (Daniel P. Berrange) - Re-factor pci_add reply parsing and parse domain/bus numbers (Mark McLoughlin) - Retain disk PCI address across libvirtd restarts (Mark McLoughlin) - Retain PCI address from NIC attach (Mark McLoughlin) - Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange) - Separate code for encoding outgoing remote message headers (Daniel P. Berrange) - Split generic RPC message dispatch code out from remote protocol API handlers (Daniel P. Berrange) - Split out code for handling incoming method call messages (Daniel P. Berrange) - storage: Break out actual raw cloning to separate function. (Cole Robinson) - storage: cleanup: do away with 'createFile' (Cole Robinson) - storage: disk: Use capacity, not allocation, when creating volume. (Cole Robinson) - storage: Don't try sparse detection if writing to block device. (Cole Robinson) - storage: Implement 'CreateBlockFrom' helper. (Cole Robinson) - storage: Implement CreateVolFrom for logical and disk backend. (Cole Robinson) - storage: Move most of the FS creation functions to common backend. (Cole Robinson) - storage: Refactor FS backend 'create' function choosing. (Cole Robinson) - Store the interface vlan number in the domain state (Mark McLoughlin) - Support <video> element for QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange) - Support <video> tag for defining VGA card properties (Daniel P. Berrange) - Switch to using a unix socket for the qemu monitor (Mark McLoughlin) - test: Generate net interface names when assigning XML. (Cole Robinson) - test: Implement BlockStats and InterfaceStats (Cole Robinson) - Use cgroups for block device whitelisting in QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange) - Use enums for cgroup controller types / labels (Daniel P. Berrange) - Use sendmsg() on QEMU monitor socket (Mark McLoughlin) - Use virDomainChrTypeFromString() instead of open coding (Mark McLoughlin) - Use virFileReadAll/virFileWriteStr for key cgroup read/write helpers (Daniel P. Berrange) - virGetinterface matching of MAC and interface name (Laine Stump) Cleanups: - Fix configure checks from previous commits (Daniel P. Berrange) - Avoid a warning if compiling without inotify (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove a stray semicolon (Daniel Veillard) - Extend the ESX URL to habdle ports and GSX (Matthias Bolte) - Fix escaping of 8-bit high characters (Daniel P. Berrange) - Remove ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED from flags to qemudDomainMigratePerform. (Chris Lalancette) - Add a comment about setting errors after qemudStartVMDaemon(). (Chris Lalancette) - Fix an erroneous debug error to KVM; it should read QEMU/KVM. (Chris Lalancette) - Remove a stray semicolon in qemudDomainMigratePrepare2. (Chris Lalancette) - Convert a few stray users of free() in libvirt.c to VIR_FREE(). (Chris Lalancette) - Use virGetHostname instead of gethostname. (Chris Lalancette) - Fix up a minor indentation issue with virDomainMigratePrepare. (Chris Lalancette) - Fix up a silly typo in apibuild.py. (Chris Lalancette) - Avoid warning when compiling without IFF_VNET_HDR (Maximilian Wilhelm) - Capilize libvirt-client summary (Mark McLoughlin) - Move ldconfig calls to libvirt-client %post/%postun (Mark McLoughlin) - Convert NEWS to UTF-8 (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix trailing whitespace in NEWS (Mark McLoughlin) - No need to build require both python-devel and python (Mark McLoughlin) - Remove executable perms from /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd (Mark McLoughlin) - Use a %postun -p for one line scriptlet (Mark McLoughlin) - Don't explicitly require libxml2 (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix some unowned directories (Mark McLoughlin) - Kill qemu BuildRequires (Mark McLoughlin) - Enable netcf by default (Mark McLoughlin) - Default to with_polkit (Mark McLoughlin) - Make vbox support configurable (Mark McLoughlin) - Build with --without-capng if capng is disabled (Mark McLoughlin) - BuildRequires libcap-ng-devel not capng-devel (Mark McLoughlin) - Drop curl host check when using ESX without check (Shahar Klein) - Fix typo in xen capabilities code (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add bare format string to printf-derivatives troubles (Laine Stump) - Add phyp files to POTFILES, to make syntax-check happy. (Cole Robinson) - avoid a make distcheck failure: distribute docs/schemas/interface.rng (Jim Meyering) - avoid a make distcheck failure: distribute tests/interfaceschemadata/ (Jim Meyering) - avoid a "make syntax-check" failure (Jim Meyering) - build: do not emit a trailing blank line into VC'd file, NEWS (Jim Meyering) - build: update from gnulib, for latest maint.mk (Jim Meyering) - Clean up error handling in qemudDomainAttachNetDevice() (Mark McLoughlin) - Cleanup qemu binary detection logic in qemudCapsInitGuest() (Mark McLoughlin) - Commit newly generated docs, after changes from commit 2348cf. (Cole Robinson) - Factor qemuBuildHostNetStr() out from qemuBuildCommandLine() (Mark McLoughlin) - Factor qemuBuildNicStr() out from qemuBuildCommandLine() (Mark McLoughlin) - Factor qemudMonitorSend() out of qemudMonitorCommandExtra() (Mark McLoughlin) - Fix cgroup compile warnings (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix misc build problems due to new drivers (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix wierd build problems due to autopoint overwriting gnulib m4 (Daniel P. Berrange) - Makefile.cfg: Rename to... (Jim Meyering) - make .gnulib a submodule (Jim Meyering) - make "make syntax-check" consistent with "git diff --check" (Jim Meyering) - Minor qemu monitor coding style fixes (Mark McLoughlin) - Prepare to use maint.mk from gnulib (Jim Meyering) - Refactor incoming message handling to prepare for data stream support (Daniel P. Berrange) - Refactor message sending to allow code reuse for data streams (Daniel P. Berrange) - remove all .cvsignore files (Jim Meyering) - remove all trailing blank lines (Jim Meyering) - Remove some unused variables and cut long lines (Daniel Veillard) - Remove trailing blank lines (Daniel Veillard) - Rename a bunch of internal methods to clarify their meaning (Daniel P. Berrange) - Rename 'direction' to 'type' in remote_message_header (Daniel P. Berrange) - Report the object name on lookup error (Daniel Veillard) - Simplify remote driver error reporting (Daniel P. Berrange) - skip some of gnulib's new rules (Jim Meyering) - use automake-1.11's silent-rules option, when possible (Jim Meyering) - use gnumakefile and maintainer-makefile modules from gnulib (Jim Meyering) It's also good to see a lot of new contributors in this release, so thanks to everybody ! 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] [PATCH] address incompatible change of qemu-img
by Ryota Ozaki 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hi, Latest qemu-img (maybe from 0.11.0-rc0 or later?) changes default unit of size as bytes, it was kilo-bytes so far. (see http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg19183.html) This patch addresses this incompatibility by adding postfix 'K'. This fix is able to keep backward compatibility for old qemu as well, and also even if qemu-img falls back old style or any, this explicit specifying should work well. Thanks, ozaki-r >From 7d3dd9e592deab5a1d793532cf230d8367372280 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:11:31 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] address incompatible change of qemu-img --- src/storage_backend.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/storage_backend.c b/src/storage_backend.c index 07a2e48..8824218 100644 --- a/src/storage_backend.c +++ b/src/storage_backend.c @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ virStorageBackendCreateQemuImg(virConnectPtr conn, /* Size in KB */ - snprintf(size, sizeof(size), "%llu", vol->capacity/1024); + snprintf(size, sizeof(size), "%lluK", vol->capacity/1024); if (virRun(conn, imgargv, NULL) < 0) { VIR_FREE(imgargv[0]); -- 1.6.0.6

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[libvirt] [PATCH] Support the usage of socat instead of netcat
by Jonas Eriksson 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Some netcat implementations does not support unix domain sockets (-U). Distros that ship these implementations often also ships socat, that do support this. This is a reworked patch based on the openSUSE libvirt package. The original patch may be found in this source rpm: http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/src/lib… * configure.in: Check for --with-socat and set USE_SOCAT in config.h * src/remote_internal.c: Honour USE_SOCAT by selecting between netcat/nc and socat at compile time. --- configure.in | 7 +++++++ src/remote_internal.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index b905b23..732ef68 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ if test -n "$MODPROBE"; then [Location or name of the modprobe program]) fi +dnl Check if socat should be used instead of netcat +AC_ARG_WITH([socat], +[ --with-socat use socat instead of netcat (off)]) +if test "$with_socat" = "yes" ; then + AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([USE_SOCAT], 1, [whether socat should be used instead of netcat]) +fi + dnl Specific dir for HTML output ? AC_ARG_WITH([html-dir], [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-html-dir=path], [path to base html directory, default $datadir/doc/html])], diff --git a/src/remote_internal.c b/src/remote_internal.c index a58b768..7678317 100644 --- a/src/remote_internal.c +++ b/src/remote_internal.c @@ -725,6 +725,18 @@ doRemoteOpen (virConnectPtr conn, cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("-e"); cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("none"); } +#ifdef USE_SOCAT + cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("socat"); + cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("-"); + + char *socat_addr = 0; + if ((asprintf (&socat_addr, "GOPEN:%s", + sockname ? sockname : LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET)) < 0) { + error (conn, VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR, strerror (ENOMEM)); + goto failed; + } + cmd_argv[j++] = socat_addr; +#else cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (priv->hostname); cmd_argv[j++] = strdup (netcat ? netcat : "nc"); cmd_argv[j++] = strdup ("-U"); @@ -732,6 +744,7 @@ doRemoteOpen (virConnectPtr conn, (flags & VIR_CONNECT_RO ? LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET_RO : LIBVIRTD_PRIV_UNIX_SOCKET)); +#endif cmd_argv[j++] = 0; assert (j == nr_args); for (j = 0; j < (nr_args-1); j++) -- 1.6.2

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[libvirt] PATCH: Add name uniqueness checking to LXC driver
by Daniel P. Berrange 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

The LXC driver define/create methods didn't yet have name uniqueness checking enabled Daniel commit 4b23a44f34392b5c6d1c5aa483cbe81b010e47c4 Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Jul 31 15:25:03 2009 +0100 Add uniqness checking for LXC define/create methods * src/lxc_driver.c: Check for name & UUID uniqueness when defining or creating domains diff --git a/src/lxc_driver.c b/src/lxc_driver.c index d62c2d7..a9c4f79 100644 --- a/src/lxc_driver.c +++ b/src/lxc_driver.c @@ -311,6 +311,35 @@ static virDomainPtr lxcDomainDefine(virConnectPtr conn, const char *xml) VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE))) goto cleanup; + /* See if a VM with matching UUID already exists */ + vm = virDomainFindByUUID(&driver->domains, def->uuid); + if (vm) { + /* UUID matches, but if names don't match, refuse it */ + if (STRNEQ(vm->def->name, def->name)) { + char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN]; + virUUIDFormat(vm->def->uuid, uuidstr); + lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("domain '%s' is already defined with uuid %s"), + vm->def->name, uuidstr); + goto cleanup; + } + + /* UUID & name match */ + virDomainObjUnlock(vm); + newVM = 0; + } else { + /* UUID does not match, but if a name matches, refuse it */ + vm = virDomainFindByName(&driver->domains, def->name); + if (vm) { + char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN]; + virUUIDFormat(vm->def->uuid, uuidstr); + lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("domain '%s' is already defined with uuid %s"), + def->name, uuidstr); + goto cleanup; + } + } + if ((def->nets != NULL) && !(driver->have_netns)) { lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT, "%s", _("System lacks NETNS support")); @@ -1082,6 +1111,39 @@ lxcDomainCreateAndStart(virConnectPtr conn, VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE))) goto cleanup; + /* See if a VM with matching UUID already exists */ + vm = virDomainFindByUUID(&driver->domains, def->uuid); + if (vm) { + /* UUID matches, but if names don't match, refuse it */ + if (STRNEQ(vm->def->name, def->name)) { + char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN]; + virUUIDFormat(vm->def->uuid, uuidstr); + lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("domain '%s' is already defined with uuid %s"), + vm->def->name, uuidstr); + goto cleanup; + } + + /* UUID & name match, but if VM is already active, refuse it */ + if (virDomainIsActive(vm)) { + lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("domain is already active as '%s'"), vm->def->name); + goto cleanup; + } + virDomainObjUnlock(vm); + } else { + /* UUID does not match, but if a name matches, refuse it */ + vm = virDomainFindByName(&driver->domains, def->name); + if (vm) { + char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN]; + virUUIDFormat(vm->def->uuid, uuidstr); + lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("domain '%s' is already defined with uuid %s"), + def->name, uuidstr); + goto cleanup; + } + } + if ((def->nets != NULL) && !(driver->have_netns)) { lxcError(conn, NULL, VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT, "%s", _("System lacks NETNS support")); -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|

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