This returns the index of the device, eg. /dev/sdb => 1.
Or you can think of it as the order that the device was
added, or the index of the device in guestfs_list_devices.
Apparently e2fsprogs only knows that "/dev/sda" is a whole device, but
doesn't think that "/dev/vda" is. On switching the default device
over to virtio-scsi, that causes mke2fs without -F option to complain
and ask for an interactive prompt. Adding -F forces it to go ahead
anyway.
This caused several less-used APIs to break with virtio-scsi.
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.
These were used to select the default drive and network interface.
They both default to 'virtio'.
These were added back in the day when virtio was buggy, so that
packagers could revert to using ide/ne2k_pci to work around distro
bugs. However virtio has been stable in qemu for a very long time, so
it seems unlikely that any packager would need to use these, and in
any case it would be better to do this detection at runtime (cf. for
virtio-scsi).
The test used the external 'od' command to compare the output of
guestfish with what it's supposed to be. Unfortunately by default
this outputs groups of 2-byte words, with the words' endianness
affected by the current hardware endianness. For example:
x86-64$ echo -n ab | od
0000000 061141
0000002
ppc64$ echo -n ab | od
0000000 060542
0000002
By using 'od -b' instead we can output bytes instead of words, and
there is no endianness issue, and the output is clearer:
x86-64$ echo -n ab | od -b
0000000 141 142
0000002
ppc64$ echo -n ab | od -b
0000000 141 142
0000002
This is closer to the real meaning of "availability of btrfs", since
just having the btrfs tool doesn't help much if it's not supported by
the kernel too.
Since RHBZ was updated, the old python-bugzilla program broke. When
it was fixed, I found the (undocumented) ordering of the results from
the old tool was no longer true.
This commit adds a small Perl script to sort the output predictably.
Now bugs are sorted by both bug state and bug number, so the output
should be more stable than before.
Re-enable creation of the BUGS file in 'make dist'
(this reverts commit 91f3456244).
Also the BUGS file has been updated.
Previously the code would drop the first character in any sequence of
non-printing characters that occurred within a string.
Fix for commit e6f18c59d5.
