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Release notes for libguestfs 1.10.0
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-----------------------------------
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[Not complete. Last update commit e751293e10d5ecbb2ef43a61b9c153a1fc4f0304]
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[Not complete. Last update commit 872e67ffdf6c7b19782514445d13e8f405e435c1]
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These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
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stable/dev branch split (1.8.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
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New features
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- [NOT DONE] --ro is now the default for guestfish.
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- libguestfs and tools can be used against live virtual machines.
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See the 'guestfish --live' and 'guestmount --live' options, and (for
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the low-level interface) the new APIs set-attach-method and
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- New virt tools:
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virt-copy-in, virt-copy-out, virt-tar-in, virt-tar-out.
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- libguestfs can get the drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
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- virt-inspector displays drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
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- Drive letters can now be used in virt-edit and guestfish programs
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when operating on Windows guests.
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- You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
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operating systems.
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- guestfish <! cmd which executes a shell cmd and inlines the result.
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- guestfish, guestmount, virt-rescue now all support --ro and --rw
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options, and the default for this can be chosen via a configuration
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file (/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf).
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- New event API allows more than one callback to be registered for
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each event, makes it possible to call the API from other languages,
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and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
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- Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
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for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
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- guestfish, guestmount -m option allows mount options to be passed
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through to the underlying filesystem.
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- mkfs-opts allows filesystem features to be specified.
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- More intelligent handling of mountpoints, allowing mkmountpoint, mount
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- Trace messages are prefixed with a distinct string, allowing them to
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be easily 'grepped' out from debug output.
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- guestfs_launch (guestfish 'run' command) now produces progress
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messages (a guestfish progress bar) if it takes longer than 5
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seconds to run.
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- Several long-running commands where we are unable to estimate time
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to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
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in guestfish has been updated to display these.
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- Publish example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
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- New virt-dhcp-address example program.
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- The Java and Ruby bindings have been improved greatly.
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- Perl includes a way to get the errno of the last error.
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- Python bindings now compatible with rpyc (thanks Erez Shinan).
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- Transifex is now being used to manage translations.
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http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/libguestfs/
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- Inspection can now tell the difference between Windows 2008 Server
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and Windows 7.
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- Inspection can detect 32 bit applications installed in 64 bit
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Windows, running on the WOW64 emulator.
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- New logo!
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Security
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[none]
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New APIs
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first-private,
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get-attach-method,
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inspect-get-drive-mappings,
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inspect-get-product-variant,
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inspect-get-windows-current-control-set,
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next-private,
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resize2fs-M,
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set-attach-method,
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- 668112 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
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- 668574 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
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- 673479 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
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- 674130 Inspection code fails for Windows guest with two disks
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- 682756 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
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- 682979 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
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- 690819 mkfs fails creating a filesytem on a disk device when using a disk with 'ide' interface
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- 691389 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
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- 691724 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
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- 692545 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
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- 693324 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
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Release notes for libguestfs 1.8.0
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