This was only theoretically supported, via curl. It's unlikely that
it really worked as it was never tested.
If needed it's better to use nbdkit-curl-plugin instead (this applies
to http and ftp as well).
Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
This experimental feature allowed you (in theory) to connect to an
existing instance of the libguestfs daemon. (Again, in theory) it
allowed you to attach to running guests. This didn't work well in
practice. If you want to do this, install qemu-guest-agent inside
your guest instead.
This also disables the --live options in guestfish and guestmount.
(The option now prints an error).
This was never supported in RHEL.
The daemon tests relied on this connection method to perform tests on
a bare daemon, so this removes those tests. They were not especially
valuable.
See-also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/798980
The majority of the tools have already options (--echo-keys &
--keys-from-stdin) to deal with LUKS credentials, although there is no
way to automatically provide credentials. --keys-from-stdin is
suboptimal, because it is a usable solution only when there is just one
device to open, and no other input passed via stdin to the tool (like
the commands for guestfish).
To overcome this limitation, introduce a new --key option in tools:
* --key /dev/device:file:/filename/with/key
* --key /dev/device:string:the-actual-key
this way it is possible to pass all the credentials needed for the
specific devices to open, with no risk of conflict with stdin, and also
in a secure way (when using the "file" way).
On the technical side: this adds a new "key_store" API for the C tools,
making sure it is used only when needed. Partially mirror it also for
the OCaml tools, although there will be a conversion to the C API
because the decryption helpers used are in the common C parts.
The guestfish prepared disks (-N option) all defaulted to 100M. This
has always been too small for btrfs (so for example ‘-N fs:btrfs’ has
failed for a long time), and can be too small for LVs with new LVM2 /
kernel >= 4.16.
This changes the default from 100M to 1G. The beginning of the 1.39
branch seems like a good time to make this change.
virt-builder-repository allows users to easily create or update
a virt-builder source repository out of disk images. The tool can
be run in either interactive or automated mode.
Only in end-user messages and documentation. This change was done
mostly mechanically using the Perl script attached below.
I also changed don't -> don’t etc and made some other simple fixes.
See also: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
----------
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Locale::PO;
my $re = qr{'([-\w%.,=?*/]+)'};
my %files = ();
foreach my $filename ("po/libguestfs.pot", "po-docs/libguestfs-docs.pot") {
my $poref = Locale::PO->load_file_asarray($filename);
foreach my $po (@$poref) {
if ($po->msgid =~ $re) {
my @refs = split /\s+/, $po->reference;
foreach my $ref (@refs) {
my ($file, $lineno) = split /:/, $ref, 2;
$file =~ s{^\.\./}{};
if (exists $files{$file}) {
push @{$files{$file}}, $lineno;
} else {
$files{$file} = [$lineno];
}
}
}
}
}
foreach my $file (sort keys %files) {
unless (-w $file) {
warn "warning: $file is probably generated\n"; # have to edit generator
next;
}
my @lines = sort { $a <=> $b } @{$files{$file}};
#print "editing $file at lines ", join (", ", @lines), " ...\n";
open FILE, "<$file" or die "$file: $!";
my @all = ();
push @all, $_ while <FILE>;
close FILE;
my $ext = $file;
$ext =~ s/^.*\.//;
foreach (@lines) {
# Don't mess with verbatim sections in POD files.
next if $ext eq "pod" && $all[$_-1] =~ m/^ /;
unless ($all[$_-1] =~ $re) {
# this can happen for multi-line strings, have to edit it
# by hand
warn "warning: $file:$_ does not contain expected content\n";
next;
}
$all[$_-1] =~ s/$re/‘$1’/g;
}
rename "$file", "$file.bak";
open FILE, ">$file" or die "$file: $!";
print FILE $_ for @all;
close FILE;
my $mode = (stat ("$file.bak"))[2];
chmod ($mode & 0777, "$file");
}
Run the following command over the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[01][0-9])-2016/$1-2017/g' `git ls-files`
(Thanks Rich for the perl snippet, as used in past years.)
podcheck.pl is run as part of the tests to perform various checks on
the documentation and the tool.
Currently we check only that the documented options matches the
options that the tool implements and vice versa. This commit would
also allow us (in future) to check --help, --long-options,
--short-options, --version output.
This commit includes scripts to run the tests and various fixes to the
manual pages to ensure that the tests pass.
Introduce a new read-only API to get a path where to store temporary
sockets: this is different from tmpdir, as we need short paths for
sockets (due to sockaddr_un::sun_path), and it is either
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if set, or /tmp; adapt guestfs_int_create_socketname
to create sockets in that location.
Furthermore, print sockdir and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in test-tool for
debugging.
Done using a sequence of regular expressions like this:
perl -pi.bak -e 's{C</}{F</}g' `git ls-files \*.pod` generator/actions.ml
perl -pi.bak -e 's{C<C:\\}{F<C:\\}g' `git ls-files \*.pod` generator/actions.ml
[etc]
and then tediously checking every change by hand.
The escape sequence \e[0;30m sets the colour to black. This is fine
if you use a black-on-white terminal, but fails rather badly if you
use a white-on-black terminal.
Instead use the escape sequence \e[0m which restores the terminal to
the defaults, and works in both cases.
This is a graphical standalone front-end to virt-v2v which can be run
on physical machines (usually linked into a ISO or PXE boot image) to
convert the physical machine to a virtual machine.
This changes podwrapper so that the input (POD) files should not
contain an =encoding directive. However they must be UTF-8.
Podwrapper then adds the '=encoding utf8' directive back during final
generation.
This in particular avoids problems with nested =encoding directives in
fragments. These break POD, and are undesirable anyway.
This adds:
- GUESTFISH_INIT
- GUESTFISH_OUTPUT
- GUESTFISH_RESTORE
which along with existing GUESTFISH_PS1 allow you to fine control the
colour of the output.
This fixes the handling of paths for the protocols named above, with
respect to leading '/' (or not) on the volume/export name.
See previous commits which did the same fixes for Ceph:
commit 53a3ff9c00
commit 992a6b2970
The path at the API level (for guestfs_add_drive_opts) is:
pool/disk
The URI syntax is either rbd:///pool/disk or rbd://server:port/pool/disk.
Because of the way URI parsing works we may need to remove a leading
'/' character before passing the path down to the API.
Allow settings (an arbitrary list of strings) to be passed to the
current backend. This will allow us to tweak how the backend works,
eg. by forcing TCG.
This is essentially just code motion, except:
(1) It cleans up a few variable declarations which were implicitly
used by the old macro that aren't needed any more.
(2) The options are reordered alphabetically.
