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[Let's start a new thread for this so all the mail archives will appear in one place. Please follow up on any of these items, and hopefully we can formulate policy together.] (1) Policy for commits. [with thanks to Dan Berrange for helping to formulate this ...] "In order to become a committer, someone must demonstrate an ongoing skill posting patches of high quality and

[This announcement covers version 1.0.58 too since it didn't get a separate message.] We are pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.0.59. Home page: http://libguestfs.org/ Downloads: http://libguestfs.org/download Git repo: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=summary New in this release: - Support for Linux extended attributes. - Allow guestfish to be controlled

For several people who asked me about the status of the virt-* tools in EPEL, I have now been able to build the libguestfs-tools package: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=139029 However I haven't tested this package yet, so YMMV. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com

(This bug was found by Matthew Booth during routine code review) We found a security issue which affects libguestfs programs in some circumstances. Since we don't pass the disk format through to qemu, a malicious guest backed by raw-format storage might craft a qcow2 header into its own disk. QEmu would interpret this, and qcow2 offers a wide range of features such as accessing arbitrary

Although 1.6.0 was only released 6 weeks ago, there have been 276 commits and 23 releases since then. It's therefore time to think about what needs to be done for 1.8. This is my personal list. Please follow up if you have other suggestions. Rich. * Implement guestfish --rw option / configuration file. http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#opening_disks_for_read_and_write * Alternate

I've added some commits to ensure libguestfs can compile on Fedora/ARM (with all options and bindings enabled except Haskell). However it doesn't quite run yet: (1) The Fedora qemu package is broken. Don't use it; compile qemu from source instead. (2) You have to configure libguestfs to pass extra qemu options. Currently you should use: PATH=/path/to/your/qemu/arm-softmmu:$PATH

So I got a lot further building libguestfs on Ubuntu, up to the point where I can boot the appliance and run some simple commands. We need to push some patches upstream, and there are still some things in Ubuntu itself which are broken. This documents how far I've got. (1) libguestfs from git, Ubuntu 9.10, all updated to the latest versions. You will of course also need to read the README

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:28:29AM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > hi Richard, > > i am trying libguestfs 1.0.64, and have below errors at "make" step: > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/quynh/projects/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance' > mv initramfs.fedora-11.i686.img initramfs.fedora-11.i686.img.bak > mv: cannot stat `initramfs.fedora-11.i686.img':

[Since Hilko asked me about this on IRC ...] The current plan is to rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719879 I would like to get as many features from upstream libguestfs into this as possible, but also make sure they have been well-tested by Fedora users. Also there are some new tools arriving in libguestfs upstream in the current development branch

I've tested this with both upstream qemu from git, and the old non-broken qemu from Fedora 12. 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 -------------- next part

-- 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

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:28:42AM -0500, Dan The Man wrote: > Tried resizing a standard UFS partition on a freebsd guest, booting > from it resulted in "missing boot loader". We can't currently resize BSD guests; patches welcome ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com

-- 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 0420307349a71b7b9af58003c2591fc33b7939af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard

This series of patches, now up to 13 parts, contains lots of bug fixes and groundwork required before we add write support to the hivex library. 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#)

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:40:44PM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > Hm..it's been 10 mins..I don't see anything more in the file where I > redirected stdout of 'febootstrap' cmd. > > Roughly, can you guess how much time this takes? For me it has so far taken a lot longer. The problem is that the number of dependent packages is probably 100s. If you want something

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:10:04AM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Hello Richard. > > I didn't find any dedicated mailing-list for febootstrap, so sending > this directly seems the best option. CC-ing this to libguestfs at redhat.com which is the right list. > I'm interested to have > libguestfs on mageia, meaning I have to port febootstrap first. I > had a quick

As some may remember, in the run-up to RHEL 6.3 I made a yum repository available of libguestfs and other packages. It's time for the same thing for RHEL 6.4. These packages should work on RHEL 6.3, CentOS 6.3 and other RHEL 6 derivatives (although I've only tried them on RHEL 6.3). A source RPM is also supplied in case you want to try rebuilding the package. To use the repo, run the

Just a note that I released version 1.0.56 yesterday. The main reason for doing a release was a large number of RHEL 5 fixes that allowed me to actually get an EPEL build out. The source is here: http://libguestfs.org/download/ and Fedora 11, 12 and EPEL 5 binaries are here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 There are some experimental, internal changes in this

Earlier today I added this feature: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=34d2df41626f1ee4172a6d40b06d72d6ed9d6348 Unfortunately this feature doesn't work out. I forgot about kernel modules, which are contained in the initramfs, and stop working noisily if you just try to change the kernel. So I'm going to revert this patch, and perhaps think of some other way to do

This patch isn't quite finished. I also need to modify the virt-inspector "query mode" so that it can display the architecture. Nevertheless, text and XML output works for both Linux and Windows guests. Rich. -- 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