It's out ! Tagged in git, signed tarball and rpms are available from the usual place: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ I also pushed the python bindings out at: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/python This is still a relatively small release at around 200 commits, but with user noticeable features rolled in, as long with the usual set of bug fixes and improvements: Features: - Big improvements on ppc64 support (Andrea Bolognani) - New virDomainRename API (Tomas Meszaros) - Support for QEMU new pci emulations (Laine Stump) Documentation: - Rename page about vz driver (Sergey Bronnikov) - docs: Rename 'parallels' to 'vz' (Sergey Bronnikov) - virDomainRename: Extend API documentation (Tomas Meszaros) - virt-aa-helper: document --probing and --dry-run (Guido Günther) - docs: Drop unused rule for internals/%.html.tmp target (Guido Günther) - api: Adjust comment for virDomainAddIOThread (John Ferlan) - fix typo in comments (Cao jin) - virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat: Mention enum for @dumpformat (Michal Privoznik) Portability: - lxc: ensure setns() syscall is defined (Daniel P. Berrange) - selinux: fix compile errors (Guido Günther) - util: fix build without cgroup (Roman Bogorodskiy) - build: fix mingw build (Eric Blake) - protocol: Don't use rename as a variable name (Martin Kletzander) - Remove static keyword from vshReadline when readline does not exist (Moshe Levi) - Detect location of qemu-bridge-helper (Guido Günther) - Check if qemu-bridge-helper exists and is executable (Guido Günther) - nodeinfo: Fix build failure when KVM headers are not available (Andrea Bolognani) Bug Fixes: - apparmor: Adjust path to domain monitor socket (Guido Günther) - util: fallback to ioctl(SIOCBRDELBR) if netlink RTM_DELLINK fails (Laine Stump) - util: fallback to ioctl(SIOCBRADDBR) if netlink RTM_NEWLINK fails (Laine Stump) - Revert "LXC: show used memory as 0 when domain is not active" (Jim Fehlig) - libxl: acquire a job when receiving a migrating domain (Jim Fehlig) - libxl: don't attempt to resume domain when suspend fails (Jim Fehlig) - libxl: fix ref counting of libxlMigrationDstArgs (Jim Fehlig) - libvirt_lxc: Claim success for --help (Michal Privoznik) - util: Allow virProcessSetNamespaces() to have sparse FD list (Michal Privoznik) - virt-aa-helper: Improve valid_path (Michal Privoznik) - lxc: Resolve Coverity RESOURCE_LEAK (John Ferlan) - qemu: Emit correct audit message for memory hot unplug (Luyao Huang) - qemu: Emit correct audit message for memory hot plug (Luyao Huang) - hostdev: skip ACS check when using VFIO for device assignment (Laine Stump) - qemu: Label correct per-VM path when starting (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: Update blkio.weight value after successful set (Luyao Huang) - Eliminate incorrect and unnecessary check for changed IP address (Vasiliy Tolstov) - storage: only run safezero if allocation is > 0 (Guido Günther) - virt-aa-helper: allow access to /usr/share/ovmf/ (intrigeri) - qemu: Fix access to auto-generated socket paths (Martin Kletzander) - cpu: Move check for NULL CPU model inside the driver (Andrea Bolognani) - qemu: Sync BlkioDevice values when setting them in cgroups (Martin Kletzander) - lxc: Sync BlkioDevice values when setting them in cgroups (Martin Kletzander) - qemuDomainRename: Don't leave a domain locked uppon fail (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Add check for invalid iothread_id in qemuDomainChgIOThread (John Ferlan) - virsh: Reset global error after successfull domain lookup (Luyao Huang) - libvirt-domain: forbid use virDomainRename in readonly connection (Luyao Huang) - virsh: fix always return false in domrename (Luyao Huang) - qemu: Resolve Coverity UNINIT (John Ferlan) - qemu: Fix segfault when parsing private domain data (Martin Kletzander) - conf: Check for hostdev conflicts when assign default disk address (John Ferlan) - conf: Add SCSI hostdev check for disk drive address already in use (John Ferlan) - Revert "qemu: Allow to plug virtio-net-pci into PCIe slot" (Laine Stump) - domain: Fix crash if trying to live update disk <serial> (Cole Robinson) - util: don't overwrite stack when getting ethtool gfeatures (Laine Stump) - cpu: Fix segfault in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - conf: Don't try formating non-existing addresses (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: fail on attempts to use <filterref> for non-tap network connections (Laine Stump) - network: validate network NAT range (Laine Stump) - qemu: Enable ioeventfd usage for virtio-scsi controllers (Martin Kletzander) - virNetDevBandwidthParseRate: Reject negative values (Michal Privoznik) - network: verify proper address family in updates to <host> and <range> (Laine Stump) - virDomainDefParseXML: Check for malicious cpu ids in <numa/> (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Fix reporting of physical capacity for block devices (Peter Krempa) - qemu: Build correct command line for PCI NICs on ARM (Pavel Fedin) - qemu: Forbid image pre-creation for non-shared storage migration (Peter Krempa) - conf: Resolve Coverity FORWARD_NULL (John Ferlan) - virsh: fix domfsinfo output in quiet mode (Luyao Huang) - Avoid starting a PowerPC VM with floppy disk (Kothapally Madhu Pavan) - Caps: Disable floppy disk for PowerPC VM (Kothapally Madhu Pavan) - qemu: fix some api cannot work when disable cpuset in conf (Luyao Huang) Improvements: - src: Check for symbols ordering in ADMIN_SYM_FILES (Michal Privoznik) - src: Cleanup libvirt_admin.syms (Michal Privoznik) - src: Check libvirt_admin.syms for exported symbols (Michal Privoznik) - lxc_container: Turn lxcAttachNS into calling virProcessSetNamespaces (Michal Privoznik) - utils: Remove the logging of errors from virNetDevSendEthtoolIoctl (Moshe Levi) - Start daemon only after filesystems are mounted (Martin Kletzander) - virt-aa-helper: add NVRAM store file for read/write (Peter Kieser) - Fix link to page for Virtuozzo driver (Sergey Bronnikov) - lxc: Inherit namespace feature (ik.nitk) - qemu: add a check for nodeset in qemuDomainSetNumaParamsLive (Luyao Huang) - virt-aa-helper: Simplify restriction logic (Guido Günther) - tests: Use qemuProcessPrepareMonitorChr in qemuxmlnstest (Martin Kletzander) - security_dac: Add SetDirLabel support (Martin Kletzander) - security_selinux: Add SetDirLabel support (Martin Kletzander) - security_stack: Add SetDirLabel support (Martin Kletzander) - security: Add virSecurityDomainSetDirLabel (Martin Kletzander) - security_dac: Label non-listening sockets (Martin Kletzander) - security_selinux: Use proper structure to access socket data (Martin Kletzander) - locking: Remove redundant 'srv' element from virLockDaemon (Erik Skultety) - tests: Add some compatibility-related cases to the CPU tests (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Better support for ppc64 compatibility modes (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Don't update host-model guest CPUs on ppc64 (Andrea Bolognani) - Add generated libvirt_admin.syms into .gitignore (Martin Kletzander) - conf: Check for attach disk usage of iothread=0 (John Ferlan) - libvirt-admin: Generate symbols file (Guido Günther) - daemon: Use $(NULL) for libvird_admin's flags (Guido Günther) - virconf: correct code formatting (Cao jin) - virConfWalk: fix the inconsistent name (Cao jin) - qemu: Report better error message when renaming to existing domain name (Martin Kletzander) - util: Add getters for cgroup block device I/O throttling (Martin Kletzander) - util: Add virCgroupGetBlockDevString (Martin Kletzander) - util: Add virStringGetFirstWithPrefix (Martin Kletzander) - api: Remove check on iothread_id arg in virDomainPinIOThread (John Ferlan) - qemuDomainAddCgroupForThread: Don't overwrite the error (Luyao Huang) - virconf: fix the inconsistent name (Cao jin) - qemuDomainRename: Explicitly check if domain is renaming to itself (Michal Privoznik) - virHashAddEntry: Report error on duplicate key (Michal Privoznik) - virHashAddOrUpdateEntry: Turn @new_name into void * (Michal Privoznik) - tools: Introduce new client generic module vsh (Erik Skultety) - qemu: Implement virDomainRename (Tomas Meszaros) - Introduce new VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_DEFINED_RENAMED event (Tomas Meszaros) - domain_conf: Introducde virDomainObjListRenameAddNew() & virDomainObjListRenameRemove() (Tomas Meszaros) - virsh: Implement "domrename" command (Tomas Meszaros) - Introduce virDomainRename API (Tomas Meszaros) - conf: Remove 'vmdef' from virDomainHostdevDefParseXML (John Ferlan) - qemu: Use numad information when getting pin information (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: Keep numad hint after daemon restart (Martin Kletzander) - conf: Pass private data to Parse function of XML options (Martin Kletzander) - conf: Create locals for virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress (John Ferlan) - Drive hot-unplug: reliable parsing of HMP results (Frank Schreuder) - cmdAttachInterface: Fully implement @floor support (Michal Privoznik) - networkBandwidthGenericChecks: Drop useless check (Michal Privoznik) - networkBandwidthUpdate: Don't blindly dereference pointers (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: Refactor parseRateStr to avoid false-positive uninitialized variable (Peter Krempa) - qemu: fix qemuDomainSupportsPCI() for ARM machines of "virt" machinetype (Laine Stump) - virNetSocketCheckProtocols: handle EAI_NONAME as IPv6 unavailable (Guido Günther) - qemu: Implement VIR_DOMAIN_BANDWIDTH_IN_FLOOR (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: Implement VIR_DOMAIN_BANDWIDTH_IN_FLOOR (Michal Privoznik) - Introduce VIR_DOMAIN_BANDWIDTH_IN_FLOOR (Michal Privoznik) - virsh: Rework parseRateStr (Michal Privoznik) - qemuDomainSetInterfaceParameters: Use new functions to update bandwidth (Michal Privoznik) - bridge_driver: Introduce networkBandwidthUpdate (Michal Privoznik) - bridge_driver: Introduce networkBandwidthChangeAllowed (Michal Privoznik) - virNetDevBandwidthUpdateRate: turn class_id into integer (Michal Privoznik) - virNetDevParseMcast: Avoid magic constant (Michal Privoznik) - tests: Add a bunch of cpu test case for ppc64 (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: Re-enable ppc64 cpu tests (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Forbid model fallback in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Implement backwards compatibility in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Add POWER8NVL information to CPU map XML (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Parse and use PVR masks in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Simplify ppc64 part of CPU map XML (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Support multiple PVRs in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Align ppc64 CPU data with x86 (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: Temporarily disable ppc64 cpu tests (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Use ppc64Compute() to implement ppc64DriverCompare() (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: CPU model names have to match on ppc64 (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Never skip CPU model name check in ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: Improve result handling in cpuTestGuestData() (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Reorder functions in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Simplify ppc64ModelFromCPU() (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Simplify NULL handling in ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Mark driver functions in ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - admin: Drop 'internal.h' include from libvirt-admin.h (Erik Skultety) - conf: Add ioeventfd option for controllers (Martin Kletzander) - qemuMonitorOpenInternal: remove redundant code (Cao jin) - rpc: Remove keepalive_required option (Martin Kletzander) - qemu: support new pci controller model "pcie-switch-downstream-port" (Laine Stump) - conf: new pcie-controller model "pcie-switch-downstream-port" (Laine Stump) - qemu: add capabilities bit for device xio3130-downstream (Laine Stump) - qemu: support new pci controller model "pcie-switch-upstream-port" (Laine Stump) - conf: new pci controller model "pcie-switch-upstream-port" (Laine Stump) - qemu: add capabilities bit for device x3130-upstream (Laine Stump) - qemu: support new pci controller model "pcie-root-port" (Laine Stump) - conf: new pci controller model "pcie-root-port" (Laine Stump) - qemu: add capabilities bit for device ioh3420 (Laine Stump) - qemu: implement <target chassisNr='n'/> subelement/attribute of <controller> (Laine Stump) - conf: add new <target> subelement with chassisNr attribute to <controller> (Laine Stump) - qemu: implement <model> subelement to <controller> (Laine Stump) - conf: add new <model> subelement with name attribute to <controller> (Laine Stump) - conf: more useful error message when pci function is out of range (Laine Stump) - numa_conf: Introduce virDomainNumaGetMaxCPUID (Michal Privoznik) - Allow vfio hotplug of a device to the domain which owns the iommu (Shivaprasad G Bhat) - qemuDomainDefPostParse: Adjust indent (Michal Privoznik) - bootstrap: Don't require python-config (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Allow to plug virtio-net-pci into PCIe slot (Pavel Fedin) - qemu: Add PCI-Express root to ARM virt machine (Pavel Fedin) - qemu: Introduce QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_GPEX (Pavel Fedin) - cpu: Indentation changes in the ppc64 driver (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Rename {powerpc,ppc} => ppc64 (internal symbols) (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Rename {powerpc,ppc} => ppc64 (exported symbols) (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Rename {powerpc,ppc} => ppc64 (filesystem) (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: extend workaround for gnutls private key loading failure (Daniel P. Berrange) - conf: Allow error reporting in virDomainDiskSourceIsBlockType (John Ferlan) - docs: Add Fibre Channel NPIV supported option for volume lun config (John Ferlan) - conf: Change when virDomainDiskDefAssignAddress is called (John Ferlan) - conf: Remove unused param from virDomainHostdevDefParseXML (John Ferlan) - conf: Change when virDomainHostdevAssignAddress is called (John Ferlan) - conf: Try controller add when searching hostdev bus for unit (John Ferlan) - conf: Add check for host address type while checking in use (John Ferlan) - conf: Add xmlopt to virDomainDeviceDefPostParseInternal (John Ferlan) - conf: Move hostdev and disk address validations (John Ferlan) - conf: Add 'bus' and 'target' to SCSI address conflict checks (John Ferlan) - conf: Remove extraneous check in virDomainHostdevAssignAddress (John Ferlan) - qemu: Remove double unlock for domains (Martin Kletzander) - tests: Add subcores3 nodeinfo test (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: Add subcores2 nodeinfo test (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: Add subcores1 nodeinfo test (Andrea Bolognani) - tests: Prepare for subcore tests (Shivaprasad G Bhat) - nodeinfo: Fix output on PPC64 KVM hosts (Shivaprasad G Bhat) - rpc: Fix slow volume download (virsh vol-download) (Ossi Herrala) - There is no virDomainFindBy{ID, Name, UUID} anymore (Cao jin) - Post-release version bump to 1.2.19 (Martin Kletzander) - Fix a trailing space in spec file (Daniel Veillard) Cleanups: - Revert "lxc: ensure setns() syscall is defined" (Michal Privoznik) - test: Replace tabs with spaces in virnetdaemondata json files (Erik Skultety) - tests: Remove unused file (Andrea Bolognani) - cpu: Remove ISA information from CPU map XML (Andrea Bolognani) So thanks everybody for your contributions to this release, be it bug reports, patches, new code, dcumentation, etc ... Enjoy ! 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/