similar to: [PATCH 0/2] Support statvfs operation in Windows

Patches 1-6 are general code quality improvements. Note that Guido previously asked us for the ability to build libguestfs without building the appliance. Patches 7-10 are specific to Mac OS X, but shouldn't break the build for existing platforms. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports

This is a set of bugfixes and enhancements to allow virt-resize to really expand Linux and Windows guests. Previously there were lots of bugs. This version has been tested on a variety of guests successfully. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages.

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html

This is the third version of the FUSE bindings for libguestfs. Still, read and write calls don't work, but you can now navigate through the filesystem hierarchy efficiently. Rich. .gitignore | 3 + HACKING | 3 + Makefile.am | 5 + README | 2 + TODO | 37 +-- bindtests | 13 + bootstrap | 2 +

Various build fixes for gcc 4.5. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html

This patch series starts by tidying up the code for the virt-cat, virt-df, virt-edit, etc tools, moving them into a single directory and making the build system much simpler as a consequence. Then we add two new tools, virt-tar (a general purpose archive and upload tool) and virt-ls (for listing directories). No new functionality is enabled by these tools -- that is to say, you can do everything

** FOR DISCUSSION ONLY ** Not to be applied, and (at the moment) not really working very well. These two patches contain a partial implementation of a FUSE filesystem built on top of libguestfs. What is FUSE? Read: http://fuse.sf.net/ The implementation is a very straightforward mapping of FUSE primitives to guestfs(3) API calls. Note that read/write of files is missing (a rather obvious

The more I look at this patch, the less I like it. I would summarise why I think it's wrong here, but it's better if you look at the message I posted on the gnulib mailing list here first: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-11/msg00434.html Directly accessing errno on Windows is wrong: you won't see the true reasons for an error by doing that. However depending on

This is the previously controversial 1/3 patch, split into two parts. The first patch contains these changes from last time: - set errno = 0 before readdir, and check for errors after - check for other errors from the chdir call which weren't ENOTDIR - the documentation is clarified about when you might use this function - more comprehensive tests, including the corner cases Matt

Second round of patches. These work so far that you can get directory listings and stuff like that ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do:

We've split off virt-v2v components into a separate repository: http://gitorious.org/virt-v2v/ (Previously they were part of the libguestfs repository). So virt-v2v stuff will disappear from the libguestfs repository shortly. You can get it from the link above instead. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual

Fixes for both of these bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766 virt-resize --shrink fails I'm still doing testing on these, but the patches seem good enough to review. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

As outlined here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00171.html These patches fix some of the simpler things. Some of the things (the missing headers) are genuine bugs. Note in order to cross-compile at all you have to comment out the section in the daemon/configure.ac where it detects custom format specifiers. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:08:38PM +0100, Pierre Riteau wrote: > For a project of mine I would like to create VMs from tarballs of > root filesystems. I would like to use libguestfs since this is > exactly what the tar2vm.sh guestfish recipe does. > > However, I need to extract tarballs that are in the hundreds of > megabytes, but my tests showed that performance is very low,

This short patch series fixes various problems with the Java bindings, including enabling support for functions that return hash tables (returned as Map<String,String>). With this, the Java bindings are improved although still not perfect. The last remaining issue is to implement support for functions that take optional arguments. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

With these, I was able to compile guestfish. 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

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

I've only done limited testing, but it does let you connect to an existing guestfsd running inside a guest, over virtio-serial. This is not ready to be applied. One thing I've not thought about is how well this fits in with plans to use this mechanism as an alternate way to launch the appliance via libvirt. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

Problems were found using valgrind. With these 5 patches, hivex can process registry files without provoking any valgrind warnings. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org

This patch series implements user cancellation. What this means is that the "user" (or any library caller) can cancel certain long-running operations. Currently it is only possible to cancel upload and download operations (ie. anything in the generator which uses FileIn and FileOut). The mechanism in the protocol to implement cancellation already exists, and it is already used to