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Richard W.M. Jones
2a76aa22c7 build: xz is required.
It is needed for libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance and many other places.
2013-10-22 13:58:33 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
fd63d89644 builder: Remove nbdkit-xz-plugin support (it was disabled anyway).
We can re-add this later if libvirt gets fixed, but for now simplify
the code and concentrate on the one code path.
2013-10-15 14:19:53 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
9ba6717e94 New tool: virt-builder: For quickly building virtual machine images.
On baremetal you can build and customize a new guest in under 2
minutes.  For example:

$ virt-builder fedora-19 \
    --root-password password:test \
    --install minicom \
    --firstboot-command 'yum -y update' \
    --firstboot-command 'useradd -m -p "" rjones ; chage -d 0 rjones'
[     0.0] Downloading: file:///home/rjones/d/libguestfs/builder/website/fedora-19.xz
[     1.0] Uncompressing: file:///home/rjones/d/libguestfs/builder/website/fedora-19.xz
[    24.0] Running virt-resize to expand the disk to 4.2G
[    77.0] Opening the new disk
[    81.0] Installing packages: minicom
[    94.0] Installing firstboot command: [001] yum -y update
[    94.0] Installing firstboot command: [002] useradd -m -p "" rjones ; chage -d 0 rjones
[    94.0] Finishing off
2013-10-03 22:02:16 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
ccc9a891df docs: Remove misleading / outdated section about other arches from README. 2013-09-10 23:31:58 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
bcd7e6d879 uml: Add uml_mkcow requirement to README.
This fixes commit 858d6e7176.
2013-08-15 22:31:30 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
5cb7f294f6 New APIs: Add systemd journal support (RHBZ#988100).
This adds simple support for reading the journal files from guests
that use the systemd journal.

The new APIs are:

  journal-open
  journal-close
  journal-next
  journal-skip
  journal-get
  journal-get-data-threshold
  journal-set-data-threshold
  internal-journal-get

More complex journal support (eg. for seeking within the journal,
support for cursors) could be added later.
2013-07-28 19:16:03 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
b6f01f3260 Add Go (language) bindings. 2013-07-03 15:02:57 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
2c4e7ad135 Augeas >= 1.0.0 is now required. 2013-06-18 15:34:01 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
0a60332e1b tests: Add new 'make check-all' rule.
This runs all of the check* rules.  Since this includes 'make check',
'make check-all' is not quite equivalent to the old 'make extra-tests'
which was removed in the previous commit.
2013-05-28 21:33:56 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
ffde7b4d71 tests: Remove 'make extra-tests' rule. 2013-05-28 21:33:26 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
95ed4949f2 README: Clarify that building from git needs './autogen.sh'. 2013-05-19 16:40:19 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
5d6a08e2c8 tests/guests: Don't include fake Windows binary hive files in git.
This means that people compiling from git will be required to have the
'hivexregedit' command (from hivex).
2013-04-25 14:21:51 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
2f0a4d7c18 Require libxml2.
libxml2 is very commonly available on Linux distros and has also been
ported (and is widely available) on Mac OS X and Windows.  Therefore
simply require libxml2, and remove a lot of conditional code.
2013-04-16 16:46:01 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
68990840b6 "attach method" is from now on known as "backend".
This large, but mainly mechanical commit, renames "attach method"
everywhere to "backend".

Backwards compatibility of the API (guestfs_{set,get}_attach_method)
and environment (LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD) is maintained, but in new
code use guestfs_{set,get}_backend and LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND instead.

The default backend (launching qemu directly) is now called 'direct'
instead of 'appliance', although you can still use 'appliance' as a
synonym.
2013-04-01 11:16:18 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
3c34db9808 Use new-style demand-loaded bash-completion scripts. 2013-03-28 18:46:06 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
694a091d3f lib: Add direct support for the NBD (Network Block Device) protocol.
You can now add remote NBD drives using:

 ><fs> add-drive "" format:raw protocol:nbd server:localhost

(Note that you also need to add port:NNNN if the server is running on
a non-standard port).

The corresponding qemu-nbd service can be started by doing:

 qemu-nbd disk.img -t

This commit also adds a test.
2013-03-15 20:47:54 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
04acc32abf README: Discourage general users from doing 'make install'.
It causes plenty of problems with people have multiple parallel
versions of libguestfs installed, and there's no benefit because you
can easily run libguestfs and tools from the build directory.
2013-03-14 12:20:52 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
87c9ec881c ruby: Support 'make INSTALLDIRS=vendor install' for Ruby as well as Perl.
As with Perl, you can now set INSTALLDIRS to control where Ruby places
its files (ie. in the site dir, which is the default, or in the vendor
dir).

The difference in file layout between 'make install' and
'make INSTALLDIRS=vendor install' is shown below (for Fedora 18).

--- /tmp/site	2013-03-14 12:14:35.740015694 +0000
+++ /tmp/vendor	2013-03-14 12:14:13.668093944 +0000
@@ -119,21 +119,20 @@
 ./usr/lib64/ocaml/guestfs/mlguestfs.cmxa
 ./usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs/dllmlguestfs.so
 ./usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs/dllmlguestfs.so.owner
-./usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Sys/Guestfs/Guestfs.bs
-./usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Sys/Guestfs/Guestfs.so
-./usr/lib64/perl5/auto/Sys/Guestfs/.packlist
 ./usr/lib64/perl5/perllocal.pod
-./usr/lib64/perl5/Sys/bindtests.pl
-./usr/lib64/perl5/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm
-./usr/lib64/perl5/Sys/Guestfs.pm
+./usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Sys/Guestfs/Guestfs.bs
+./usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Sys/Guestfs/Guestfs.so
+./usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Sys/Guestfs/.packlist
+./usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/bindtests.pl
+./usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/Guestfs/Lib.pm
+./usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/Guestfs.pm
 ./usr/lib64/php/modules/guestfs_php.so
 ./usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libguestfs-gobject-1.0.pc
 ./usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libguestfs.pc
 ./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/guestfs.py
 ./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libguestfsmod.la
 ./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libguestfsmod.so
-./usr/local/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/_guestfs.so
-./usr/local/share/ruby/site_ruby/guestfs.rb
+./usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/_guestfs.so
 ./usr/sbin/libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance
 ./usr/share/doc/libguestfs/example-debian-netinst-cd.xml
 ./usr/share/doc/libguestfs/example-debian.xml
@@ -406,3 +405,4 @@
 ./usr/share/man/uk/man3/guestfs-perl.3
 ./usr/share/man/uk/man3/guestfs-python.3
 ./usr/share/man/uk/man3/guestfs-ruby.3
+./usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/guestfs.rb

For prompting me to fix this, thanks: Hilko Bengen.
2013-03-14 12:19:22 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
5e5026b730 qemu-img info: Use --output json and YAJL (JSON parser) to safely parse output (RHBZ#920225).
The old parser is still used if either YAJL is not available or
qemu-img info doesn't support the --output json option.
2013-03-11 19:10:04 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
d950e1a3bc run: Refer to README and correct documentation for linking to script.
Any link works, even a hard link.
2013-02-23 08:19:10 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
87d1f7714f java: Note that JVM >= 1.6 is now required. 2013-02-15 12:57:19 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
a0a4ee5245 Use 'supermin' and 'supermin-helper' in preference to febootstrap.
Febootstrap has been renamed upstream to 'supermin':
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-February/msg00004.html

This commit changes libguestfs so it can use either program to build
the supermin appliance.
2013-02-05 15:31:05 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
5e4f03ccf2 README: Format the list of requirements better. 2013-02-02 15:24:23 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
abb1d46636 python: Inherit from 'object' base class.
This fixes the following Debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=698771

For an overview, see this question and the links from there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015417/python-class-inherits-object
2013-01-24 13:09:16 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
f58b6c5953 Refresh README file. 2013-01-15 18:40:16 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
20e23ab2a3 Update copyright dates for 2013.
On generated files in git and README.
2013-01-15 18:40:16 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
9ae248e03f arm: Recomment vexpress-a15 instead of vexpress-a9.
Neither works (because of lack of PCI) but A15 emulation is probably
better than A9 emulation.
2012-12-27 20:02:31 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
fa162417ed daemon: Make gdisk into an optional dependency and optgroup.
Also document that gdisk is a dependency at all.

This fixes commit 956e30effa.
2012-12-18 11:52:41 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
0efe61b19d Add support for Windows dynamic disks (libldm / ldmtool) (RHBZ#782167).
New APIs:

  list-ldm-volumes
  list-ldm-partitions
  ldmtool-create-all
  ldmtool-remove-all
  ldmtool-scan
  ldmtool-scan-devices
  ldmtool-diskgroup-name
  ldmtool-diskgroup-volumes
  ldmtool-diskgroup-disks
  ldmtool-volume-type
  ldmtool-volume-hint
  ldmtool-volume-partitions
2012-12-11 15:20:19 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
fae8d7cafb New APIs: Implement Linux filesystem capabilities.
This adds the following new APIs:
 - cap_get_file
 - cap_set_file
2012-11-22 16:45:32 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
3636c5fcff tests: Replace 'make extra-tests' with individual tests.
'make extra-tests' was a monolithic set of tests that did all sorts of
things: valgrind, tests over local guests, tests with upstream qemu,
tests with upstream libvirt, tests with the appliance attach method.

This made it hard to perform individual tests, eg. just valgrind
testing.  It was also hard to maintain because the tests were not
located in the same directories as the programs and sometimes
duplicated tests that were run elsewhere.

This commit splits up 'make extra-tests' into 5 separate targets:

 make check-valgrind              # run a subset of tests under valgrind
 make check-valgrind-local-guests # test under valgrind with local guests
 make check-with-appliance        # test with attach-method == appliance
 make check-with-upstream-qemu    # test with an alternate/upstream qemu
 make check-with-upstream-libvirt # test with an alternate/upstream libvirt

(You can also still run 'make extra-tests' which is now simply
a rule that runs the above 5 targets in order).

This replaces everything that was in the tests/extra directory,
so that has now gone.
2012-11-13 15:26:29 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
b3bf53714b libvirt >= 0.10.2 required for libvirt backend. 2012-09-24 21:25:31 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
05beac65e5 rescue: Add an expect-driven test for the virt-rescue command.
This command was not tested at all.  As a result we didn't notice that
it was broken for a long time (RHBZ#853159).

This adds a test that drives the command through a pty.  It uses the
perl 'Expect' module, although this is not required.
2012-09-04 14:43:26 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
3ed3e23ed0 Copy the kernel so that libvirt can add an SELinux label to it. NB. This requires febootstrap >= 3.20 with --copy-kernel flag. 2012-08-31 16:17:24 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
c2ac512f12 docs: Revise README file. 2012-08-25 17:28:37 -04:00
Richard W.M. Jones
9f59d11625 launch: libvirt: Minimum libvirt version is now 0.10.0. 2012-08-21 12:29:25 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
1e17a32060 Replace podwrapper shell script with custom Perl script.
This uses Pod::Simple so it properly parses the input POD and can
generate proper custom output as required specifically by libguestfs.

One immediate benefit is that links between and within manual pages
now work mostly correctly.
2012-07-16 22:53:01 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
7996e08824 qemu or qemu-kvm >= 1.1.0 is required.
Earlier versions of qemu contained a bug in the qcow2 code which
causes qemu to segfault when shutting down and flushing its internal
cache, and this can result in data loss.
2012-07-04 16:17:44 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
199cc2853c Require febootstrap >= 3.17. 2012-06-14 09:57:28 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
69e2616b6c Require febootstrap >= 3.16. 2012-06-13 11:27:50 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
0c0a7d0d86 appliance: Add support for virtio-scsi.
This requires febootstrap >= 3.15.
2012-06-12 21:16:32 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
295d6af48d Require QEMU >= 1.0.
QEMU 1.0 was released at the end of 2011.

Remove all the cruft about detecting broken -machine type which
was only required for QEMU 0.15.

This also reverts commit 30ecbf3ec2.
Even on ARM you can pass -machine accel=kvm:tcg and qemu does the
right thing, so I'm not sure why we wanted to disable that.
2012-06-12 16:02:10 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
4f671c829e ppc64: Update README with notes about ppc64 support. 2012-06-08 19:36:34 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
eb29a9424c arm: Add configure flag '--with-qemu-options'.
This flag allows extra QEMU options to be passed on the command line.

This is useful mainly on arm (see the notes in the updated README
file).
2012-05-12 17:21:24 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
a50db3be60 doc: Add a note about compiling under clang. 2012-05-11 13:50:56 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
027fefd517 Add gettext support for OCaml tools (virt-resize, virt-sparsify, virt-sysprep).
Note that this support is optional: To enable it, install the
ocaml-gettext library from
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-gettext .  If this library
is not installed, then configure detects this and inserts dummy
gettext functions that do nothing.
2012-05-01 09:39:35 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
4b86f1ad03 debian: Suggest 'apt-get build-dep' to install dependencies. 2012-04-04 12:46:40 +01:00
Richard W.M. Jones
a14021078b Remove debian/ subdirectory. 2012-03-22 10:05:12 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
2c9c0525eb build: Make netpbm and icoutils into proper optional dependencies.
Netpbm and icoutils (wrestool) have always been dependencies.  Since
they are not always present, make these into optional dependencies
(which they were, sort of, before).

Also document these dependencies in the README file.
2012-03-07 18:36:46 +00:00
Richard W.M. Jones
08840bab44 Tempus fugit.
Update all copyright dates to 2012.
2012-01-18 22:05:02 +00:00