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.
Instead of calling out to the pxzcat program, use an internal
implementation. This requires liblzma to be available at build time.
If it's not available, fall back to using regular xzcat.
It is intended that eventually this code will go away when regular
xzcat / unxz is able to use threads.
Instead of typing:
./run ./fish/guestfish ...
you can now use:
./run guestfish ...
This is shorter, but there are also two good reasons for this change:
It never made any sense to run the system-installed guestfish (or
other) binary. It would be unlikely to work. Also binaries in
libguestfs should be able to call other binaries freely without adding
special exceptions (which we had before this change).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
