similar to: [PATCH] Rename virt-[tool].pl as virt-[tool]

All the run-*-locally scripts were broken ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -------------- next part -------------- >From 5d01670e31ef3259fb1fc84a83ab27aec8fdac0b

CentOS 5.3 and RHEL 5.4 both fail on these 3 tests only: 82/212 test_zero_0 umount: /dev/sda1: umount: /dev/sda1: not found test_zero_0 FAILED 83/212 test_fsck_0 umount: /dev/sda1: umount: /dev/sda1: not found test_fsck_0 FAILED 84/212 test_fsck_1 umount: /dev/sda1: umount: /dev/sda1: not found test_fsck_1 FAILED Debian fails on 57 / 212 tests, but they all seem to be of the same type:

If you just git clone, ./autogen.sh, make, then the first time you get this error: Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rjones/d/libguestfs/po' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/config.status', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rjones/d/libguestfs/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory

OK let's restart this whole architecture thing. Firstly two patches which pass the '-z' parameter to 'file' so it looks inside compressed files. (Thanks to Matt for finding this not-so-obscure option). This means the 'zfile' command is now obsolete. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical

This patch adds a new function, guestfs_file_arch, which is like guestfs_file but specifically intended to determine the architecture of binaries and libraries. Usage is: guestfs_file_arch (g, "/bin/ls") ==> "x86_64" (or whatever) What it can do: - ELF binaries - ELF shared libraries - Windows Win32 and Win64 binaries - Windows Win32 and Win64 DLLs - Linux

I think this patch is also uncontroversial. If selinux=1 then we mount /selinux in the appliance. We also bind-mount it into guests when running commands, just like we do for /proc, /dev etc. If SELinux is disabled, then /selinux doesn't get mounted. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -------------- next part -------------- >From a2f7faeeca9109e18ea8b90d5326d63c055e899b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Jones

Matt asked me this morning if we could generate guestfish scripts automatically from running programs like virt-v2v. Good idea. This patch however doesn't do this, but it lays the groundwork for it: In order for us to generate code for any functions which don't go through the daemon, we need to add an indirection to those calls via some generated code. This will allow us to add

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -------------- next part -------------- >From 4a3d4323745a4222adf4377d62c0c66a1b80d0fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Jones

This patch is for discussion only. The multiport virtio-console is not accepted upstream, and in any case is currently being rewritten for the nth time. Getting a test environment to test this out is also non-trivial. It look me about a day. You need to compile the alternate qemu (see URL in the patch + attached qemu patch on top of this). You also need to compile the alternate kernel - NOTE:

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -------------- next part -------------- >From 9efa77d717bd9bba5f61965eb6920429b7ae5d8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard W.M. Jones

I'm pleased to announce the virt-tools.org website: http://virt-tools.org/ The "virt tools" are an informal group of system administration tools for small-scale Linux virtualization, including virt-manager, virt-install, libvirt, virt-v2v, libguestfs, virt-df, virt-top and more. The virt tools website is an umbrella project to provide documentation, tutorials, online help and

This adds a virt-edit command. This is already possible using guestfish: guestfish -i domain ><fs> vi /some/file but having a special command to do it makes the operation more obvious and easier. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages.

Re: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers Currently perl RPM deps are unversioned. Apparently if we add a version number into the perl module(s) then we can fix that, eg: our $VERSION = "1.0.68"; This would allow Perl users to specify the version either through an RPM dependency or in code like this:

These are general updates to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-October/msg00037.html [Libguestfs] [PATCH 4/5] New tool: virt-tar and: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-October/msg00038.html [Libguestfs] [PATCH 5/5] New tool: virt-ls The code uses die "prog: ...\n". The parameters to virt-tar are swapped so they always go in source -> destination

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 01:29:58PM -0800, dan farmer wrote: > Is there anyway to convince find0 to put the results in memory rather than > writing to a file? I really don't want to have to write it to a file and > then read it again just to process the results. I see guestfish has an > option to write to stdout (but the lib doesn't have a documented way) for > some reason.

Currently virt-df launches the appliance once for each guest. With these two patches the number of times the appliance launches is reduced to once every 26 block devices. In theory we could do better by adding support for disk hot-add (supported by qemu but not via libguestfs at the moment). However this patch is still an improvement on the current situation. Rich. -- Richard Jones,

This three part patch series extends virt-win-reg so it supports HKEY_USERS\... paths, for reading and writing user preferences. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v

qemu <= 0.10 randomly adds a CD-ROM device to the appliance because of this bit of code: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/tree/vl.c?h=stable-0.10#n5495 Thankfully this code has been removed from upstream qemu. Anyway I'm not quite sure why we never saw this before - it seems like this code didn't exist in the versions of qemu that were in Fedora, or somehow this code only

Old versions of both virt-edit and the guestfish "edit" command created a new file containing the changes but did not set the permissions, etc of the new file to match the old one. The result of this was that if you edited a security sensitive file such as "/etc/shadow" then it would be left world-readable after the edit. This issue was assigned CVE-2012-2690, and is fixed in