similar to: [PATCH 00/46] Proposed patches for libguestfs 1.20.11.

In the kernel and qemu communities it is routine for patches that will be backported to stable branches to be posted for review. I'm proposing we do the same for libguestfs stable branches. All of the attached have been tested with 'make check-release'. Rich.

This is a User-Mode Linux backend for libguestfs. You can select it by doing: export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=uml export LIBGUESTFS_QEMU=/path/to/vmlinux Note we're reusing the 'qemu' variable in the handle for convenience. QEmu is not involved when using the UML backend. This almost works. UML itself crashes when the daemon tries to connect to the serial port. I suspect it's

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-August/msg00005.html This now works, to some extent. The main problem now is that devices are named /dev/ubd[a-] which of course confuses everything. I'm thinking it may be easier to add a udev rule to rename them. Rich.

Previously posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/msg00266.html Rich.

This patch series lets you run the daemon under valgrind. Many errors were found and fixed. With the complete series applied, valgrind doesn't show any errors.

Error out early if the path to the socket will not fit into sockaddr_un::sun_path, as we will not be able to connect to it. --- src/launch-unix.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/launch-unix.c b/src/launch-unix.c index 740c554..973e14b 100644 --- a/src/launch-unix.c +++ b/src/launch-unix.c @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ launch_unix (guestfs_h *g, void *datav, const char

This attempts to implement the idea proposed in https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-April/msg00087.html The idea is that an externally managed QEMU (manual, or via libvirt) can boot the appliance kernel/initrd. libguestfs can then be just told of the UNIX domain socket associated with the guest daemon. An example based on guestfish. 1. Step one, find the appliance kernel/initrd

These assorted patches end up with adding virtio-scsi support to libguestfs. It passes libguestfs-test-tool, but I haven't yet tried to run the full set of tests. In theory > 26 devices can be added, but it's likely that certain parts of the daemon will break if you actually try this. This of course needs to be fixed. Thanks Paolo Bonzini for invaluable help. Rich.

Hi, newer lvm2 releases don't have have uncommented "filter" lines, so the current way to edit lvm.conf doesn't work anymore. Instead, switch to augeas (with a "custom" len) for a cleaner and working way to set the lvm filter. Pino Toscano (3): daemon: add add_sprintf daemon: move AUGEAS_ERROR to the common header daemon: lvm-filter: use augeas for setting the

More comprehensive support for virtio-scsi. Passes all the tests. Rich.

Result of earlier copy and paste. --- align/scan.c | 35 ++++++++++--------- cat/cat.c | 39 +++++++++++---------- cat/filesystems.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- cat/log.c | 35 ++++++++++--------- cat/ls.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++---------------- df/main.c | 43 ++++++++++++------------ diff/diff.c | 67

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-March/thread.html#00157 Not running the 'hwclock' command reduces boot times considerably. However I'm not sure if it is safe. See the question I posted on qemu-devel: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/402194 At the moment, about 50% of the time is consumed by SeaBIOS. Of this, about ⅓rd is SGABIOS

Currently we are unable to properly run guestfsd (the daemon) under valgrind. Attempts to run valgrind inside the appliance have not been successful (see patch 1/7). However we desperately need better valgrind coverage of the daemon, particularly because it is doing a lot of complex parsing of program output. This has been a problem for a long time. A better way to attack this problem is to

Doing qemu feature detection in the direct backend takes ~100ms because we need to run `qemu -help' and `qemu -devices ?', and each of those interacts with glibc's very slow link loader. Fixing the link loader is really hard. Instead memoize the output of those two commands. This patch series first separates all the code dealing with qemu into a separate module (src/qemu.c) and

In v2: - Kernel command line parsing now moved to the appliance. - In the captive daemon test, the daemon cleanly shuts down on exit. - Add another btrfs test. Rich.

This is the libguestfs companion patch to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-September/msg00045.html Rich.

libguestfs has used double and triple underscores in identifiers. These aren't valid for global names in C++. (http://stackoverflow.com/a/228797) These large but completely mechanical patches change the illegal identifiers to legal ones. Rich.

Lots of changes since v2, too much to remember or summarize. Please ignore patch 11/11, it's just for my testing. Rich.

This rounds off hotplugging support by allowing you to add and remove drives at any stage (before and after launch). Rich.

This set of 10 patches removes the need for any vmchannel implementation, although we can still choose to use vmchannel if we want. In this so-called "null vmchannel" configuration, the appliance connects directly to a port on the library. The exact method is described in patch 9/10. This method still requires SLIRP (user mode networking) so it is not a panacea, because recent