similar to: [PATCH] appliance: Ignore unreadable dbus helper programs.

This patch series adds support for some simple operations on hive files, and I've now tested and verified that those operations work correctly. All except for the last patch (12/12) are ready to be committed. The last patch is WIP. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any

Couple of notes: (1) You may need to 'make clean' after applying this patch. There is some missing dep so it seems the appliance isn't fully rebuilt. (2) [Comment mainly directed to Matt] This is not a candidate to be automatically added to the stable 1.2 branch. It's far too large of a change for a stable release. Since this change may be required for V2V, please clone

This is the only patch I currently have outstanding. No changes from the previous posting, except I rebased it against the head of git. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.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://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

Just simple code fixes ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw

This series of patches fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597112 -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora

The background to this is that virt-v2v needs to boot the appliance with a specific block device emulation (eg. IDE, not virtio), because when it runs mkinitrd, mkinitrd will assume that the block devices available in the appliance are also the ones which apply at guest boot time. There's no way to override this assumption in mkinitrd (particularly in the old mkinitrd versions that shipped

This patch isn't very elegant, but it should be a conservative change that has the least chance of breaking something else. 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://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

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

The Wikipedia pages about schedulers are quite informative. I don't know _why_ this makes a difference, but it does seem to make a small one. Even though for a single process (guestfsd) it would seem that the choice of scheduler should make no difference. BTW the default scheduler in the guest is 'cfq'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFQ

One of the things we would really like to be able to do for V2V is to install a new driver in a Windows guest. There are a couple of reasons for this: * The guest may not be bootable without the driver installed, for example because the underlying virtual hardware has changed from vmscsi to virtio. * If the guest can boot, the alternative is to modify the guest to run a script on next boot.

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

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

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From a9f70c25326116215af71b1679d78e02defc3aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard W.M.

A new version of this patch, previously posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-August/thread.html#00031 I've made some of the changes that Jim suggested, but I didn't fix the error handling of readdir because that loop always reads from a tmpfs. It didn't seem like there would realistically be any read errors(?) These commands are compromised in their

Hi, I am using guestfish, and found subcommand "launch" took about 20 seconds to finish for a 4GB disk image. Is there any way to improve the performance? Thanks! Regards, Qian

This is a pretty uncontroversial patch which just allows the selinux=? and enforcing=? flags on the kernel command line to be controlled. Currently libguestfs unconditionally passes selinux=0. By default this patch does the same thing, but allows programs to enable SELinux in the kernel and/or set it to enforcing mode. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat

This patch documents how to use the new SELinux configuration. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -------------- next part

>From cfab42b40752f6dc44971b3c48523b917b374e91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 18:00:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH libguestfs] avoid build-from-scratch failure due to missing daemon/configure * bootstrap: Don't use autoreconf's --norecursive option. We require the default --recursive behavior in order to create

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

Currently guestfs_equal is broken on Fedora 12. It turns out this is because /usr/bin/cmp isn't being included in the appliance, which is because diffutils is no longer an implicit dependency of something else. This patch makes diffutils an explicit package so we avoid this problem. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk