Libguestfs - May 2013 - ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.22 has been released

I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).

libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
machine disk images.  http://libguestfs.org/

This release represents 5 months of development and has many
significant new features including:

 - access remote disk images over nbd, ssh, http, ftp, iscsi, ceph, and more

 - syslinux and extlinux bootloader support

 - full support for btrfs guests

 - large performance improvements in virt-df and virt-alignment-scan tools

 - new bash completions for tools

 - many bug fixes

 - full release notes: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html

Download source:
http://libguestfs.org/download/1.22-stable/
or: git clone git://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git

Binaries will be available shortly for Fedora 19 in the Fedora repository.

Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04 binary packages will be available shortly here:
http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine.  Supports Linux and Windows.
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

On 05/23/2013 05:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).
Great work!

=========$ ./autogen.sh && make -j 7 && \
time make -k check LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 \
LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1 |& tee \
/var/tmp/make-check-libugestfs-24-may.log
=========
is stuck at:

[...]
PASS: test-inspect-fstab-md.sh
10 seconds: ./test-list-filesystems.sh
PASS: test-list-filesystems.sh
14 seconds: ./test-list-md-devices.sh
PASS: test-list-md-devices.sh


$ uname -r
3.10.0-0.rc2.git0.3.fc20.x86_64

Now, re-trying w/: export SKIP_TEST_MDADM_SH=1
> 
> libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
> machine disk images.  http://libguestfs.org/
> 
> This release represents 5 months of development and has many
> significant new features including:
> 
>  - access remote disk images over nbd, ssh, http, ftp, iscsi, ceph, and
more
> 
>  - syslinux and extlinux bootloader support
> 
>  - full support for btrfs guests
Side question: /me hasn't been keeping up. Do you have any info on how
"use-able" (for
some definitions of it) is 'btrfsck' ? Did you get a chance to try it at
all in your
"copious" free time :)

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfsck says "This page may contain
outdated,
inaccurate or incomplete information."
> 
>  - large performance improvements in virt-df and virt-alignment-scan tools
> 
>  - new bash completions for tools
> 
>  - many bug fixes
> 
>  - full release notes: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html
> 
> Download source:
> http://libguestfs.org/download/1.22-stable/
> or: git clone git://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git
> 
> Binaries will be available shortly for Fedora 19 in the Fedora repository.
> 
> Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04 binary packages will be available shortly here:
> http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/
> 
> Rich.
> 

-- 
/kashyap