We've been carrying this exact patch in RHEL 7 for several years. It
reverts the change made in 2014 where we switched to using the virbr0
bridge for libguestfs networking instead of SLIRP. We thought SLIRP
was going to become unsupported in qemu, but recently there have been
more encouraging signs since it looks like SLIRP will be spun off as a
separate project, running as a modular process and properly secured
and supported.
This reverts commit 224de20b9a.
After the previous commit, wherever we had:
start_element ("foo") {
string ("bar");
} end_element ();
this can now be replaced by:
single_element ("foo", "bar");
In some places when generating XML output in C code we use some clever
macros:
start_element ("memory") {
attribute ("unit", "MiB");
string_format ("%d", g->memsize);
} end_element ();
This commit which is mostly refactoring moves the repeated definitions
of these macros into a common header file.
I also took this opportunity to change / clean up the macros:
- The macros are now documented properly.
- comment() and empty_element() macros are now available everywhere.
- Error handling has been made generic.
- Added do..while(0) around some of the macros to make them safe to
use in all contexts.
Commit aa9e0057b1 made the libvirt backend
use <shareable/> for the disk of the appliance, since at that time all
the instances were using the disk directly.
OTOH, commit 3ad44c8660 switched to
overlays for read-only disks, including the appliance, so effectively
protecting the appliance.
Because of this, the libvirt backend does not need <shareable/> anymore.
Thanks to: Daniel Berrange, Richard W.M. Jones, Peter Krempa.
We were dropping the add_drive copyonread flag when using the libvirt
backend. This resulted in significant performance degradation (2x-3x
slower) when running virt-v2v against VMware servers.
Thanks: Kun Wei.
This feature allows you to use different image formats for the fixed
appliance. The raw format is used by default.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>
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
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#!/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");
}
