[Fwd: Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.7.0]

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