[libvirt] Release?
I've just had a chat with Daniel about whether it's time for a new release of libvirt. My own primary focus is getting the virDomain*Peek APIs into a released version so I can use them from Fedora. libvirt 0.4.2 was released on 8th Apr 2008. I just scanned the changelog and there's a pretty long list of new features: - Support for serial and parallel devices in Xend - Network interface model in QEMU network devs - SetVcpus, DomainGetMaxVcpus, VCPU pinning in QEMU - Disk "bus"es - Support for Xenner - Deprecate conn/dom/net fields in virterror - HTML documentation completely restructured - MinGW fixes - Memory leaks plugged - Added HACKING file and lots of work on unifying syntax and methods used in the code base to a single standard - Lots of LXR changes - virDomain*Peek APIs - and of course many bug fixes So is it time for a release? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I've just had a chat with Daniel about whether it's time for a new release of libvirt. My own primary focus is getting the virDomain*Peek APIs into a released version so I can use them from Fedora.
libvirt 0.4.2 was released on 8th Apr 2008.
I just scanned the changelog and there's a pretty long list of new features:
[snip]
So is it time for a release?
Yes, I guess it makes sense :-) I will try to push a new release before the end of the week. Do we have patches pending which should be incorporated before ? I yes please (re)push them, thanks ! Danie -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
Daniel Veillard schreef:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I've just had a chat with Daniel about whether it's time for a new release of libvirt. My own primary focus is getting the virDomain*Peek APIs into a released version so I can use them from Fedora.
libvirt 0.4.2 was released on 8th Apr 2008.
I just scanned the changelog and there's a pretty long list of new features:
[snip]
So is it time for a release?
Yes, I guess it makes sense :-) I will try to push a new release before the end of the week. Do we have patches pending which should be incorporated before ? I yes please (re)push them,
Can the pool.patch be incorporated before the next release? http://kinkrsoftware.nl/contrib/libvirt/pool.patch (Is probably the latest) This basically hangs on the creation of a 'test' for pools in general. Stefan
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:12:29PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
Daniel Veillard schreef:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I've just had a chat with Daniel about whether it's time for a new release of libvirt. My own primary focus is getting the virDomain*Peek APIs into a released version so I can use them from Fedora.
libvirt 0.4.2 was released on 8th Apr 2008.
I just scanned the changelog and there's a pretty long list of new features:
[snip]
So is it time for a release?
Yes, I guess it makes sense :-) I will try to push a new release before the end of the week. Do we have patches pending which should be incorporated before ? I yes please (re)push them,
Can the pool.patch be incorporated before the next release?
No, this is not developed enough. It doesn't support QEMU, it doesn't support XM, and there's not test cases. Dan. -- |: 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 :|
No, this is not developed enough. It works fine with Xen, so 'not developed' might not be the right word. The only thing that you mentioned, reverse mapping the configuration, is not a trivial problem. But this doesn't justify not including something
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It doesn't support QEMU, Why doesn't QEMU use the same xml parsing routines? If you want me to add the same support to qemu_conf.c you are asking me this a bit late.
it doesn't support XM, What is the difference between Xen and XM?
and there's not test cases. Likewise for the rest of the storage pool commands.
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Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
So is it time for a release?
Yes, I guess it makes sense :-) I will try to push a new release before the end of the week. Do we have patches pending which should be incorporated before ? I yes please (re)push them,
If the last two patches I posted could be pushed, I'd appreciate it. They are needed for the storage driver (Rich already ACK'd them). https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00042.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00082.html Thanks, Cole
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:45:56AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
So is it time for a release?
Yes, I guess it makes sense :-) I will try to push a new release before the end of the week. Do we have patches pending which should be incorporated before ? I yes please (re)push them,
If the last two patches I posted could be pushed, I'd appreciate it. They are needed for the storage driver (Rich already ACK'd them).
haha, I knew I had missed some !
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00042.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00082.html
Thanks,
Thanks, i had reviewed the UUID string one, but hadn't commited then i needed a reminder :-) Both commited now, Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:45:56AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
Daniel Veillard wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
So is it time for a release? Yes, I guess it makes sense :-) I will try to push a new release before the end of the week. Do we have patches pending which should be incorporated before ? I yes please (re)push them,
If the last two patches I posted could be pushed, I'd appreciate it. They are needed for the storage driver (Rich already ACK'd them).
haha, I knew I had missed some !
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00042.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00082.html
Thanks,
Thanks, i had reviewed the UUID string one, but hadn't commited then i needed a reminder :-)
Both commited now,
Daniel
I actually just hit another python bindings bug with the storage driver. I'll be sending the patch shortly. I'd like for that one to be pulled too since we will need it for future virt-manager work. Thanks, Cole
Hi, Rich Would you commit this patch? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00031.html Other patches are minor issue, it may skip it. Thanks Atsushi SAKAI "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
I've just had a chat with Daniel about whether it's time for a new release of libvirt. My own primary focus is getting the virDomain*Peek APIs into a released version so I can use them from Fedora.
libvirt 0.4.2 was released on 8th Apr 2008.
I just scanned the changelog and there's a pretty long list of new features:
- Support for serial and parallel devices in Xend
- Network interface model in QEMU network devs
- SetVcpus, DomainGetMaxVcpus, VCPU pinning in QEMU
- Disk "bus"es
- Support for Xenner
- Deprecate conn/dom/net fields in virterror
- HTML documentation completely restructured
- MinGW fixes
- Memory leaks plugged
- Added HACKING file and lots of work on unifying syntax and methods used in the code base to a single standard
- Lots of LXR changes
- virDomain*Peek APIs
- and of course many bug fixes
So is it time for a release?
Rich.
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:13:06PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
Would you commit this patch? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00031.html
I'm not sure that I understand the use of this patch. Is this so that we can specify devices in /etc/xen files like 'phy:' or 'file:' (ie. without any actual device or filename following)? Then according to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/0a8fc1a62796 XenD will give an error? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
Hi, Rich Yes. When the user forget to add "phy" or "file" in VM image path, The error handled on libvirt previously without error message now. This patch change the VM image path error handling from libvirt to Xend. For this purpose, libvirt just pass VM image path without check. Xend reports error with following Xen patch. Thanks Atsushi SAKAI "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:13:06PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
Would you commit this patch? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00031.html
I'm not sure that I understand the use of this patch.
Is this so that we can specify devices in /etc/xen files like 'phy:' or 'file:' (ie. without any actual device or filename following)?
Then according to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/0a8fc1a62796 XenD will give an error?
Rich.
-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
When the user forget to add "phy" or "file" in VM image path, The error handled on libvirt previously without error message now.
This patch change the VM image path error handling from libvirt to Xend. For this purpose, libvirt just pass VM image path without check. Xend reports error with following Xen patch.
Yes, I think it looks fine. Any comments Dan?
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00031.html http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/0a8fc1a62796
Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:14:34PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:36:50PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
When the user forget to add "phy" or "file" in VM image path, The error handled on libvirt previously without error message now.
This patch change the VM image path error handling from libvirt to Xend. For this purpose, libvirt just pass VM image path without check. Xend reports error with following Xen patch.
Yes, I think it looks fine. Any comments Dan?
If it doesn't break the XM test suite then its probably ok to commit - if someone can add an extra test case datafile for it, even better. Though I'm still not entirely clear on why its only recently needed. Dan. -- |: 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 :|
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:17:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:13:06PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
Would you commit this patch? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00031.html
I'm not sure that I understand the use of this patch.
Yes, I'm not sure why its needed either. It is only touching the xm_internal driver, which is only active for Xen <= 3.0.3. Any new changeset will not impact it, because we'll be using the builtin inactive domain management. Dan. -- |: 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 :|
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:56:56PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:17:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:13:06PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
Would you commit this patch? https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-June/msg00031.html
I'm not sure that I understand the use of this patch.
Yes, I'm not sure why its needed either. It is only touching the xm_internal driver, which is only active for Xen <= 3.0.3. Any new changeset will not impact it, because we'll be using the builtin inactive domain management.
With a minor modification to remove a gcc warning, it passes all tests so I've committed it now. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
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