The path at the protocol level is:
pool/disk
(with no leading '/' character). This is now what you have to pass to
guestfs_add_drive_opts.
Also Ceph can be called with no explicit servers (it uses the contents
of /etc/ceph/ceph.conf instead). So allow zero servers to be used.
Switch the internal storage for the notes of each entry to a sorted list
with all the subkeys available (which should represent the translations
to various languages).
The current outputs are the same (i.e. still the untranslated notes), so
this is just internal refactoring/preparation.
Because EXTRA_DIST simply used $(TESTS), and because the list of tests
includes C binaries, these were included in the tarball (actually not
binaries, but libtool scripts, but it's still undesirable).
virt-sparsify doesn't work if the output is a block device, and cannot
possibly work if the output is a char device. Currently if you try
this it actually overwrites (deletes) the output device which is not
exactly desirable. Therefore throw an error and exit.
'chmod --reference' is not available on Mac OS X.
Keeping the original file and directing edits into it preserves permissions and removes the need to chmod.
(Tried 'sed -i' for inplace editing but unfortunately it isn't portable either.)
The index files already allowed the 'key[subkey]=...' syntax for keys,
but considering such string as whole key. Proper split the parsing and
the handling of the subkeys, so they can be searched a bit easier.
This causes no actual behaviour changes, it is just internal
micro-refactoring. (Thanks Rich for the hints, too.)
Previously callbacks would return a list of flags, such as []
or [`Created_files].
In this commit we introduce two new objects, filesystem_side_effects
and device_side_effects (the latter is not used yet).
The callbacks that create files now need to call
side_effects#created_file ()
instead of returning flags.
There is no functional change in this patch.
Improve the index grammar to allow more than one empty line between
sections, and to allow any number of empty lines at the end of the file
(after the last section).
0.10.2+ is still available on some recent-ish stable distros (like
Fedora 19, Ubuntu 13.04), and should work fine for guestfs.
This reverts commit 6b3e05e8da.
By using:
export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg
you can force the libvirt backend to use TCG (software emulation)
instead of KVM (hardware accelerated virtualization).
By using:
export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct
export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg
you can force the direct backend to use TCG (software emulation)
instead of KVM (hardware accelerated virtualization).
This is sometimes useful, especially if you are trying to use
nested KVM on Intel.
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.
tests/nbd/test-nbd.pl contains a hack (a call to sleep) to wait
for qemu-nbd to start up in another process.
This sleep was previously located before the call to $g->launch()
since that is where (previous to commit 4a0f5ed382) the backend would
have connected to the NBD server.
However in the new code, an initial NBD connection test is done when
the drive is added (ie. $g->add_drive (..., protocol=>"nbd")), which
duly failed intermittently because the qemu-nbd server had not opened
its socket yet.
Move the wait earlier -- just after the fork -- to avoid this.
This updates commit 4a0f5ed382.
In some places we turn relative paths passed by the caller into
absolute paths: for example in the libvirt backend, all relative paths
to disk images have to be turned into absolute paths (by calling
realpath) because otherwise libvirt doesn't work.
This has the potential to break things, especially considering that
qemu uses the path passed to it in order to resolve the relative paths
of backing files.
For example consider the case where 'overlay' is a symbolic link to
/dev/dm-1, but /dev/dm-1 contains a qcow2 which references './backing'
as its backing file. If we rewrote 'overlay' to '/dev/dm-1', then
qemu would try to look up '/dev/backing' for the backing file and
fail.
See also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053684https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-January/thread.html#00087
This fixes commit 4a0f5ed382.
A simple test of this:
guestfish <<EOF
add-drive "" readonly:1 format:raw protocol:nbd server:localhost:10000
EOF
which would core dump.
