Okay, it is finally out of the box :-) available as usual on ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/ The snapshot support in that version should have improved a lot, and for the curious there is some early support for Microsoft hypervisor now, updated support for USB should also be a major user improvement. Considering the amount of bug fixes, I would suggest to upgrade to that version even if you don't need any new features ! Features: - many snapshot improvements (Eric Blake) - latency: Define new public API and structure (Osier Yang) - USB2 and various USB improvements (Marc-André Lureau) - storage: Add fs pool formatting (Osier Yang) - Add public API for getting migration speed (Jim Fehlig) - Add basic driver for Microsoft Hyper-V (Matthias Bolte) Documentation: - virsh: tweak previous domblkstat patch (Eric Blake) - virsh: doc: Fix supported driver types for attach-disk command (Peter Krempa) - doc: Add statment about permissions needed to do a core dump (Peter Krempa) - snapshot: tweak snapshot-create-as diskspec docs (Eric Blake) - qemu_api: doc improvements (Eric Blake) - virsh: Fix command name in man page (Peter Krempa) - fix incorrect option in send-key (Alex Jia) - virsh: improve send-key documentation (Eric Blake) - hyperv: Add basic documentation (Matthias Bolte) - schedinfo: update man page about virsh schedinfo command (Taku Izumi) - virsh: Clarify documentation of -d option (Jiri Denemark) - schedinfo: add missing documentation (Taku Izumi) - Improve tokenizing of linkable terms (Philipp Hahn) - Add some docs about the RPC protocol and APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Align table cells on top (Philipp Hahn) - use IPv6 addresses in range reserved for documentation (Laine Stump) - describe new virtual switch configuration in network XML docs (Laine Stump) Portability: - Update to require sanlock 1.8 for license compliance (Daniel P. Berrange) - build: work around lack of MacOS fdatasync (Eric Blake) - python: Fix bindings generated in VPATH build (Jiri Denemark) - build: storage: Macro 'MKFS' is undefined on some platforms. (Peter Krempa) - build: storage: Conditionaly compiled structure caused build fail on OSX (Peter Krempa) - Avoid using "devname" as an identifier. (Peter Krempa) - mingw: Don't use interface as an identifier (Matthias Bolte) - esx: Use $(PYTHON) instead of the shebang to run the generator (Matthias Bolte) - build: work around older systemtap header (Eric Blake) - build: fix compilation on mingw64 (Eric Blake) - build: fix virnetsocket on mingw (Eric Blake) - build: fix virpidfile on mingw (Eric Blake) - maint: fix some compilation issues on non-linux platforms (part 2) (Stefan Berger) - maint: fix some compilation issues on non-linux platforms (Stefan Berger) - Fix detection of GnuTLS 1.x.y (Matthias Bolte) Bug Fixes: - Fix crash on events due to allocation errors (Daniel Veillard) - conf: Assign newDef of active domain as persistent conf if it is NULL (Osier Yang) - storage: Ensure the device path exists before refreshing disk pool (Osier Yang) - daemon: Error and exit if specified value for timeout is not valid (Osier Yang) - vmx: avoid memory leak (Alex Jia) - util: avoid memory leak (Alex Jia) - remote: avoid memory leak (Alex Jia) - qemu: avoid memory leak (Alex Jia) - daemon: avoid memory leak (Alex Jia) - Prevent crash from dlclose() of libvirt.so (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: add return value check (Alex Jia) - Avoid crash on restart if running guest has filterref (Stefan Berger) - conf: avoid memory leak on virDomainDefParseXML (Alex Jia) - Fix build after commit 829bce17 (Jim Fehlig) - conf: add missing break in virDomainAuditRedirdev (Marc-André Lureau) - snapshot: ABI stability must include memory sizing (Eric Blake) - make: Fix 'make syntax-check' failing. (Peter Krempa) - snapshot: fix double free of qemuImgBinary (Guannan Ren) - virnetsocket: Pass KRB5CCNAME env variable (Michal Privoznik) - Fix URL-escaping for domainDefine (Philipp Hahn) - snapshot: fix regression with system checkpoints (Eric Blake) - Don't treat pci_system_init failure as fatal if no PCI bus is present (Soren Hansen) - rpc: avoid memory leak on virNetTLSContextValidCertificate (Alex Jia) - tests: avoid memory leak on testTLSSessionInit (Alex Jia) - libxl: avoid a dereference of a null pointer (Alex Jia) - blockinfo: fix qemu regression in handling disk name (Eric Blake) - esx: Fix managed object lookup with optional occurrence (Matthias Bolte) - Threadpool: Initialize new dynamic workers (Michal Privoznik) - Default USB device is on slot 1 function 2 (Marc-André Lureau) - Fix localtime handling for Xen-PV domains (Philipp Hahn) - snapshot: fix corner case on OOM during creation (Eric Blake) - API: Init conn in case of it might be used uninitialized (Osier Yang) - qemu: detect incomplete save files (Eric Blake) - reserve slot 1 on pci bus0 (Wen Congyang) - libvirtd: create run dir when running at non-root user (Xu He Jie) - Don't overwrite errors from xend_{get,req} (Jim Fehlig) - virsh: avoid memory leak on cmdVolCreateAs (Alex Jia) - Fix tracking of RPC messages wrt streams (Daniel P. Berrange) - Avoid use-after-free on streams, due to message callbacks (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix parted sector size assumption (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Fix a regression of domain save (Osier Yang) - lxc: Fix incorrect changes on error codes. (Osier Yang) - Stop libxl driver polluting logs on non-Xen hosts (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix memory leak parsing 'relabel' attribute in domain security XML (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix memory leak dispatching domain events (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't leak memory if a cgroup is mounted multiple times (Daniel P. Berrange) - stream: remove redundant reference to client while sending stream data (Guannan Ren) - Fix sanlock socket security labelling (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix incorrect path length check in sanlock lockspace setup (Daniel P. Berrange) - snapshot: forbid snapshot on autodestroy domain (Eric Blake) - Fix error detection in device change (Philipp Hahn) - qemu: properly label outgoing pipe for tunneled migration (Eric Blake) - Fix persistent migration config save (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - rpc: Don't close connection if program is unknown (Jiri Denemark) - remote: Refuse connecting to remote socket (Michal Privoznik) - Detect errors from the 'sendkey' command (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Correctly label migration TCP socket (Jiri Denemark) - Do not try to cancel non-existent migration on source (Jiri Denemark) - snapshot: don't leak resources on qemu snapshot failure (Eric Blake) - Fix command test wrt gnutls initialize & fix debugging (Daniel P. Berrange) - daemon: Move TLS initialization to virInitialize (Michal Privoznik) - util: only fchown newly created files in virFileOpenAs (Laine Stump) - qemu: fix off-by-one in pci slot reservation (Shradha Shah) - pci: fix pciDeviceListSteal on multiple devices (Shradha Shah) - qemu: Report error if qemu monitor command not found for BlockJob (Osier Yang) - send-key: fix scan keycode map (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki) - storage: Flush host cache after write (Michal Privoznik) - daemon: initialize GnuTLS (Michal Privoznik) - Ensure async packets never get marked for sync replies (Daniel P. Berrange) - Don't attempt to read from a stream if it is closed (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Init reattaching related members of pciDevice before reattach (Osier Yang) - Fix race condition in abort of stream (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure client streams are closed when marking a client for close (Daniel P. Berrange) - Ensure stream is aborted when exiting console (Daniel P. Berrange) - daemon: Add early libvirtd start verbose errors. (Peter Krempa) - qemu: error message should show uri instead of (null) (Peter Krempa) - libvirtd.init.in: stop/restart() - wrong return value in case of failure (Douglas Schilling Landgraf) - daemon: Fix regression of libvirtd reloading support (Osier Yang) - virsh: fix logic bug (Eric Blake) - storage: Directory shouldn't be listed as type 'file' (Peter Krempa) - network: eliminate potential memory leak on parse failure (Laine Stump) - nwfilter: tolerate disappearing interfaces while instantiating filter (Stefan Berger) - qemu: Fix -chardev udp if parameters are omitted (Cole Robinson) - managedsave: prohibit use on transient domains (Eric Blake) - Check stdoutWatch before removing the handler. (Juerg Haefliger) - Fix memory leak while scanning snapshots (Philipp Hahn) - build: fix regression in large file support (Eric Blake) - Don't mount /dev for application containers (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: avoid crash on process attach (Eric Blake) - rpc:fix sasl session relocking intead of unlocking it (Guannan Ren) - daemon: Unlink unix socket paths on shutdown (Osier Yang) Improvements: - Remove devname identifier from autogenerated RPC code (Peter Krempa) - maint: Prefer names over email in 'git shortlog' (Eric Blake) - virsh: Add more human-friendly output of domblkstat command (Peter Krempa) - spec: silence warnings when installing in F16 (Eric Blake) - snapshot: allow disk snapshots of qcow2 disks (Eric Blake) - snapshot: affect persistent xml after disk snapshot (Eric Blake) - qemu: Introduce shutdown reason for paused state (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Prevent disk corruption on domain shutdown (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Properly detect crash of a rebooted domain (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Fix shutoff reason when domain crashes (Jiri Denemark) - rpc: convert unknown procedures to VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT (Eric Blake) - python: Fix libvirt.py generation to include virterror info (Cole Robinson) - sanlock: add missing test command in virt-sanlock-cleanup.in (Alex Jia) - spec: Require augeas for sanlock (Michal Privoznik) - Use max bandwidth from qemuDomainObjPrivate struct when migrating (Jim Fehlig) - Set qemu migration speed unlimited when migrating to file (Jim Fehlig) - Save migration speed in qemuDomainMigrateSetMaxSpeed (Jim Fehlig) - Impl virDomainMigrateGetMaxSpeed in qemu driver (Jim Fehlig) - Store max migration bandwidth in qemuDomainObjPrivate struct (Jim Fehlig) - network: add missing exports (Eric Blake) - xml: Clean up rest of virtual XML document names for XML strings (Peter Krempa) - qemu_api: Update libvirt spec file (Osier Yang) - qemu_api: Update Makefile to generate libvirtmod_qemu lib (Osier Yang) - qemu_api: Update Py binding generator to generate files for QEMU APIs (Osier Yang) - qemu_api: Add override XML and C files for QEMU APIs (Osier Yang) - qemu_api: Add comments for API virDomainQemuMonitorCommand (Osier Yang) - qemu_api: Update Makefile for subdir docs (Osier Yang) - qemu_api: Modify apibuild.py to generate docs for QEMU APIs (Osier Yang) - Do not log invalid operations in libvirtd logs (Daniel Veillard) - selinux: Detect virt_use_nfs boolean set (Michal Privoznik) - xml: Change virtual file names of xml documents parsed in memory (Peter Krempa) - maint: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake) - snapshot: use new API for less work (Eric Blake) - snapshot: new APIs for inspecting snapshot object (Eric Blake) - virsh: fix typo in opts_send_key (Alex Jia) - link-state: virsh: Add wrapper commands for changing link state (Peter Krempa) - link-state: qemu: Add net intf modification to virUpdateDeviceFlags (Peter Krempa) - link-state: qemu: Add monitor handling for link state modification (Peter Krempa) - link-state: conf: Add element to XML for controling link state (Peter Krempa) - link-state: util: Add equality comparison functions for structures (Peter Krempa) - XML: Improve XML parsing error messages (Peter Krempa) - redirdev: allows to specify device address (Marc-André Lureau) - latency: Update virsh command domblkstat to use new API (Osier Yang) - latency: Expose the new API for Python binding (Osier Yang) - latency: Implemente internal API for qemu driver (Osier Yang) - latency: Update monitor functions for new latency fields (Osier Yang) - latency: Wire up the remote protocol (Osier Yang) - latency: Implemente the public API (Osier Yang) - latency: Define the internal driver callback (Osier Yang) - qemu: Deal with stucked qemu on daemon startup (Michal Privoznik) - qemu: Introduce job queue size limit (Michal Privoznik) - daemon: Create priority workers pool (Michal Privoznik) - snapshot: use SELinux and lock manager with external snapshots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: wire up live qemu disk snapshots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: wire up new qemu monitor command (Eric Blake) - snapshot: make it possible to audit external snapshot (Eric Blake) - snapshot: reject unimplemented disk snapshot features (Eric Blake) - snapshot: wire up disk-only flag to snapshot-create (Eric Blake) - snapshot: add flag for requesting disk snapshot (Eric Blake) - snapshot: add virsh domblklist command (Eric Blake) - snapshot: also support disks by path (Eric Blake) - snapshot: add <disks> to snapshot xml (Eric Blake) - snapshot: support extra state in snapshots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: expose halt-after-creation in virsh (Eric Blake) - snapshot: allow halting after snapshot (Eric Blake) - snapshot: expose new delete flag in virsh (Eric Blake) - snapshot: introduce new deletion flag (Eric Blake) - snapshot: reject transient disks where code is not ready (Eric Blake) - snapshot: additions to domain xml for disks (Eric Blake) - Check for source conflicts in storage pools (Lei Li) - Add a usb1 & usb2 qemuxml2argv test (Marc-André Lureau) - PIIX3 USB controller is on function 2 (Marc-André Lureau) - snapshot: store qemu domain details in xml (Eric Blake) - snapshot: update rng to support full domain in xml (Eric Blake) - snapshot: correctly escape generated xml (Eric Blake) - snapshot: allow full domain xml in snapshot (Eric Blake) - snapshot: refactor domain xml output (Eric Blake) - snapshot: prevent migration from stranding snapshot data (Eric Blake) - snapshot: support new undefine flags in qemu (Eric Blake) - snapshot: cache qemu-img location (Eric Blake) - snapshot: refactor some qemu code (Eric Blake) - snapshot: teach virsh about new undefine flags (Eric Blake) - snapshot: prevent stranding snapshot data on domain destruction (Eric Blake) - snapshot: add qemu snapshot redefine support (Eric Blake) - snapshot: add qemu snapshot creation without metadata (Eric Blake) - snapshot: improve virsh snapshot-create, add snapshot-edit (Eric Blake) - snapshot: refactor virsh snapshot creation (Eric Blake) - snapshot: allow recreation of metadata (Eric Blake) - snapshot: identify qemu snapshot roots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: reflect new dumpxml and list options in virsh (Eric Blake) - snapshot: identify which snapshots have metadata (Eric Blake) - snapshot: let qemu discard only snapshot metadata (Eric Blake) - snapshot: allow deletion of just snapshot metadata (Eric Blake) - snapshot: simplify acting on just children (Eric Blake) - snapshot: track current domain across deletion of children (Eric Blake) - snapshot: avoid crash when deleting qemu snapshots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: speed up snapshot location (Eric Blake) - snapshot: add snapshot-list --parent to virsh (Eric Blake) - snapshot: fine-tune qemu snapshot revert states (Eric Blake) - snapshot: properly revert qemu to offline snapshots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: improve reverting to qemu paused snapshots (Eric Blake) - snapshot: fine-tune qemu saved images starting paused (Eric Blake) - snapshot: expose --running and --paused in virsh (Eric Blake) - snapshot: fine-tune ability to start paused (Eric Blake) - snapshot: better events when starting paused (Eric Blake) - Learn to use spicevmc as a redirection type for usb-redir (Marc-André Lureau) - Add "redirdev" redirection device (Marc-André Lureau) - qemu: Don't append 0 at usb id, so that it is compatible with legacy -usb (Marc-André Lureau) - qemu: don't reserve slot 1 if a PIIX3 USB controller is defined there (Marc-André Lureau) - Modify USB port to be defined as a port path (Marc-André Lureau) - Add USB companion controllers support (Marc-André Lureau) - USB devices gain a new USB address child element (Marc-André Lureau) - test: USB controller can have a PCI address child element (Marc-André Lureau) - Add a new controller type 'usb' with optionnal 'model' (Marc-André Lureau) - Add USB controller models (Marc-André Lureau) - Rename virDomainControllerModel to virDomainControllerModelSCSI (Marc-André Lureau) - Add various USB devices QEMU_CAPS (Marc-André Lureau) - tests: add missing files (Eric Blake) - Add directsync cache mode support for disk driver (Osier Yang) - storage: Add virsh support for fs pool formating (Osier Yang) - storage: Add mkfs and libblkid to build system (Osier Yang) - qemu: refactor file opening (Eric Blake) - lxc: do not require 'ifconfig' or 'ipconfig' in container (Scott Moser) - Create ptmx as a device (Serge Hallyn) - BlockPull: Set initial bandwidth limit if specified (Adam Litke) - BlockJob: Bandwidth parameter is in MB when using text monitor (Adam Litke) - Increase size of buffer for xend response (Jim Fehlig) - virsh: support 'virsh start --force-boot' on older servers (Eric Blake) - build: fix 'make check' with pdwtags (Eric Blake) - virsh: Expose virDomainMigrateGetMaxSpeed API (Jim Fehlig) - virsh: prefer unsigned flags (Eric Blake) - storage: Fix incorrect error codes (Osier Yang) - remote: Fix incorrect error codes (Osier Yang) - nodeinfo: Fix incorrect error codes (Osier Yang) - conf: Substitute OPERATION_INVALID with INTERNAL_ERROR (Osier Yang) - start: allow discarding managed save (Eric Blake) - build: simplify use of verify (Eric Blake) - rpc: fix a typo in debugging log in virNetServerProgramSendStreamData (Guannan Ren) - maint: fix spelling errors on lose (Eric Blake) - Fix generator to cope with call-by-ref long types (Jim Fehlig) - hyperv: Add OpenWSMAN based client for the Hyper-V WMI API (Matthias Bolte) - hyperv: Add driver skeleton (Matthias Bolte) - hyperv: Add configure check for OpenWSMAN (Matthias Bolte) - virterror: Fix error message for VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG (Michal Privoznik) - Fix keymap used to talk with QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange) - security: Introduce SetSocketLabel (Jiri Denemark) - security: Rename SetSocketLabel APIs to SetDaemonSocketLabel (Jiri Denemark) - Ignore unused streams in virStreamAbort (Jiri Denemark) - snapshot: track current snapshot across restarts (Eric Blake) - snapshot: only pass snapshot to qemu command line when reverting (Eric Blake) - libvirt: log all flags parameters (Eric Blake) - virsh: add list --managed-save (Eric Blake) - esx: Refactor a repeated string in the generator (Matthias Bolte) - maint: fix comment typos (Eric Blake) - virsh: Substitute goto label out with cleanup (Osier Yang) - virsh: Do not try to free domain if it is NULL (Osier Yang) - xen: Cleanup improper VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT use (Osier Yang) - storage: Cleanup improper VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT use (Osier Yang) - remote: Cleanup improper VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT use (Osier Yang) - qemu: Cleanup improper VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT use (Osier Yang) - nodeinfo: Cleanup improper VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT use (Osier Yang) - lxc: Cleanup improper VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT use (Osier Yang) - conf: Cleanup improper use of VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT in node_device_conf (Osier Yang) - qemu: Substitute VIR_ERR_NO_SUPPORT with VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID (Osier Yang) - virsh: Print error if specified bandwidth is invalid for blockjob (Osier Yang) - virsh: properly interleave shared stdout and stderr (Eric Blake) - maint: simplify lots of libxml2 clients (Eric Blake) - xml: add another convenience function (Eric Blake) - maint: treat more libxml2 functions as free-like (Eric Blake) - test: rewrite test to match change in behavior (Eric Blake) - build: fix typo in recent test patch (Eric Blake) - vmware: Allow to undefine a running domain (Osier Yang) - uml: Allow to undefine a running domain (Osier Yang) - test: Allow to undefine a running domain (Osier Yang) - qemu: Allow to undefine a running domain (Osier Yang) - openvz: Allow to undefine a running domain (Osier Yang) - lxc: Allow to undefine a running domain (Osier Yang) - libxl: Allow to undefine a running domain. (Osier Yang) - qemu: Get memory balloon info correctly for text monitor (Osier Yang) - qemu: disk migration verbose progress (Tom Vijlbrief) - virsh: concatenate qemu-monitor-command arguments (Eric Blake) - virsh: tweak misleading wording (Eric Blake) - Tweak debugging message in RPC client code (Daniel P. Berrange) - maint: add missing symbols (Stefan Berger) - macvtap: Fix getPhysfn to get the PF of a direct attach network interface (Roopa Prabhu) - interface: Add functions to get sriov PF/VF relationship of a net interface (Roopa Prabhu) - pci: Add helper functions for sriov devices (Roopa Prabhu) - pci: Move some pci sriov helper code out of node device driver to util/pci (Roopa Prabhu) - qemu: support event_idx parameter for virtio disk and net devices (Laine Stump) - qemu: Use fd: protocol for migration (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Use virNetSocket for tunneled migration (Jiri Denemark) - qemu: Refactor do{Tunnel,Native}Migrate functions (Jiri Denemark) - Support changing UNIX socket owner in virNetSocketNewListenUNIX (Jiri Denemark) - Add backlog parameter to virNetSocketListen (Jiri Denemark) - Add API for duplicating a socket/client file descriptor (Daniel P. Berrange) - Swap virDomain / virDomainSnapshot declaration (Philipp Hahn) - build: fix recent build failures (Eric Blake) - Convert libvirtd to use crash-safe pidfile APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add some APIs which use locking for crashsafe pidfile handling (Daniel P. Berrange) - Introduce functions for checking whether a pidfile is valid (Daniel P. Berrange) - Move pidfile functions into util/virpidfile.{c,h} (Daniel P. Berrange) - Add virFileLock and virFileUnlock APIs (Daniel P. Berrange) - vbox, xenapi: add virDomainUndefineFlags (Eric Blake) - virsh: don't reject undefine on active domain (Eric Blake) - virsh: Add dir type for listing volumes with vol-list (Peter Krempa) - virsh: add snapshot-parent (Eric Blake) - virsh: add virsh snapshot-current --name (Eric Blake) - virsh: fix snapshot-create-as to handle arbitrary names (Eric Blake) - qemu: minor formatting cleanup (Eric Blake) - Allow use of file images for LXC container filesystems (Daniel P. Berrange) - Fix typo in LXC cgroups setup error message (Daniel P. Berrange) - Allow use of block devices for guest filesystem (Daniel P. Berrange) - qemu: Avoid overwriting errors from virGetHostname (Jiri Denemark) - network: eliminate lag in updating dnsmasq hosts files (Laine Stump) - build: update to latest gnulib (Eric Blake) Cleanups: - maint: ignore generated files (Eric Blake) - Remove two references to files not generated (Daniel Veillard) - latency: fix make check for remote protocol structs and numbers (Daniel Veillard) - security: fix build (Eric Blake) - Remove bogus virSecurityManagerSetProcessFDLabel method (Daniel P. Berrange) - libvirt: avoid dead store in virDomainMigrateVersion3 (Alex Jia) - qemu: avoid dead store in doPeer2PeerMigrate3 (Alex Jia) - maint: ignore generated file (Eric Blake) - maint: ignore generated file (Eric Blake) - maint: let emacs avoid tabs in rng files (Eric Blake) - virsh: fix dead store (Eric Blake) - qemu: silence clang false positive (Eric Blake) - qemu: avoid dead store in qemuMonitorTextBlockJob (Alex Jia) - qemu: avoid dead store in qemuProcessStart (Alex Jia) Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release, by submitting bug, reports, documentation, patches or just ideas ! 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/