'-cpu host' makes the CPU look like the host CPU. This is useful
because it means the appliance can use all the host CPU's features,
eg. for fast checksumming or MD XORing.
'kvmclock' is the paravirtualized clock for qemu/KVM. It's much more
stable than relying on tsc or a virtualized device such as HPET, and
clock instability is one of the problems we have encountered when
running libguestfs on a heavily loaded machine, especially in a nested VM.
Note that we require qemu >= 1.2 (and have for a while) which has long
supported both of these options.
- Use 'op' instead of 'xxx_op' for operation table.
- Add a 'defaults' for the operation table and remove any default
values.
This is just code motion and there is no functional change.
This adds a virt-sysprep 'password' operation which adds the
following command line options:
--root-password Set the guest's root password.
--password Set any guest password.
Disable this operation because it is more likely than not to break
Linux guests.
To fix this properly will involve finding all the places in the guest
where the UUIDs are used to locate and mount filesystems,
eg. /etc/fstab and possibly initramfs.
This updates commit 8965368eb8.
journal.c: In function 'do_journal_skip':
journal.c:134:5: error: format '%zd' expects argument of type 'signed size_t', but argument 3 has type 'int64_t' [-Werror=format=]
reply_with_perror_errno (-r, "failed to skip %zd journal entries", skip);
^
This fixes commit 5cb7f294f6.
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.
Although g->tmpdir is always set after launch, and none of these calls
should be used before launch, it's always possible that a caller would
use one of these APIs before launching the handle.
If guestfs___lazy_make_tmpdir is not called, then g->tmpdir is NULL,
and the constructed filename would look like "(null)/...".
In fact it's possible to observe this error (although it seems to have
no especially bad effects):
$ strace guestfish ls / |& fgrep '(null)'
unlink("(null)/ls1") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
The FileIn/FileOut parameters are not passed through to the daemon.
Previously we generated incorrect RPC code (an empty 'struct
guestfs_<fn>_args') because we didn't account for these FileIn/FileOut
parameters correctly.
Review every test(!) to ensure that it:
- Doesn't use a generic name (eg. "test1.img", "test.out") for any
temporary file it needs.
- Does instead use a unique name or a temporary name (eg. a name like
"name-of-the-test.img", or a scratch disk).
- Does not use 'rm -f' to clean up its temporary files (so we can
detect errors if the wrong temporary file is created or removed).
This allows tests to be run in parallel, so they don't stomp on each
other's temporary files.
Although autodetecting is safe (we always have just created a drive),
it saves a little bit of time if we don't have to run qemu-img to
detect the disk format with the libvirt backend.
Note that for prepared drives the format is always raw and we don't
anticipate creating drives in other formats.
