similar to: [PATCH] Use the noop scheduler inside the appliance.

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 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

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

-- 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.

-- 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 -------------- next part -------------- >From 256f39edaac0c83eb428c8c212586ebd750cbfc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard

-- 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 -------------- next part -------------- >From ba39ced8804765705f4c61a92db0fddb8d672c7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard

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/

-- 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

This set of patches implements a test script for FUSE, and fixes some of the bugs that I found by doing that. Rich. -- 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

-- 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 -------------- next part -------------- >From 3ec1380eb6425b4f73024200817bd6b192d3b0b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard

At the moment the daemon code contains an incredibly hairy function called shell_quote for safely quoting strings passed to the shell. The patch replaces that with a glibc custom printf format (actually two, but very closely related), %Q and %R. %Q is like %s but it safely shell quotes the string. %R is like %Q but it prefixes the path with /sysroot. Example usage (w/o error checks):

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/

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

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

This avoids an error where the appliance cannot start up because this dbus helper script (which is never used) is unreadable by non-root. Why do we have unreadable binaries in Fedora at all? You may wonder: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-October/msg00987.html Maintaining a blacklist like this is generally a bad thing. We should change this code so it automatically

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

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

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.

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

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