similar to: [PATCH v2 0/9]

These assorted patches end up with adding virtio-scsi support to libguestfs. It passes libguestfs-test-tool, but I haven't yet tried to run the full set of tests. In theory > 26 devices can be added, but it's likely that certain parts of the daemon will break if you actually try this. This of course needs to be fixed. Thanks Paolo Bonzini for invaluable help. Rich.

Tested with 'make check-release'. tests/parallel (in check-slow) failed, although it does regularly and that seems to be because of libvirt. Rich.

This rounds off hotplugging support by allowing you to add and remove drives at any stage (before and after launch). Rich.

Various changes/fixes to use smaller stack frames. Rich.

In the kernel and qemu communities it is routine for patches that will be backported to stable branches to be posted for review. I'm proposing we do the same for libguestfs stable branches. All of the attached have been tested with 'make check-release'. Rich.

These two patches are probably not completely independent, but separating them is a lot of work. With *both* patches applied, all the tests and extra-tests pass. That's no guarantee however that there isn't a mistake, so I don't think this patch is a candidate for the 1.16 branch, until it's had a lot more testing in development. Rich.

v2 -> v3: - Rebase on top of the other patches. Rich.

NOTE: not for upstream, yet. v1 -> v2: - Remove the dependency on enabling ACPI, since ACPI is now enabled all the time. Rich.

The latter is a better way to disable the qemu display output as we need to, without enabling extra devices (which are disabled already, anyway). Also, related to the change above, ban the -display parameter from the ones that can be supplied by the user. --- configure.ac | 8 ++++---- src/launch-direct.c | 12 ++++++++---- src/launch.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8

Currently we have an OCaml library for generating the qemu command line (used only by ‘virt-v2v -o qemu’). However we also generate a qemu command line in ‘lib/launch-direct.c’, and we might in future need to generate a ‘-readconfig’-compatible configuration file if we want to go beyond 10,000 drives for scalability testing. Therefore this patch series reimplements the qemu command line code as

This patch series lets you run the daemon under valgrind. Many errors were found and fixed. With the complete series applied, valgrind doesn't show any errors.

Previously posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/msg00266.html Rich.

NB: This requires a qemu patch by Eduardo which is currently awaiting review: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg422959.html So not to be applied yet unless that qemu change goes upstream. Rich.

This is the libguestfs companion patch to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-September/msg00045.html Rich.

As the start of work to add remote support, I'm taking a close look at the protocol layer in the library. These are some small cleanups. Rich.

NOTE: Not for upstream, yet. This depends on 3 non-upstream patches. - The qemu rework in libguestfs, which in turn depends on what Pino is up to. - Support for '-L ?' in qemu: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/threads.html#02596 - Support for bios-fast.bin in qemu: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/threads.html#02408 This commit

This commit uses -bios bios-fast.bin if available, which basically stops SeaBIOS from trying to do PCI probing during boot, which is a waste of time when using the -kernel option. v1 -> v2: - Rebase on top of Pino's work. This still has 3 dependencies: - The qemu memoization work (v2). - Support for '-L ?' in qemu:

This is the first iteration of the GObject bindings. I have 'kicked the tyres' on these, meaning I have ensured that a bunch of basic manual tests work as expected. I'm in the process of adding more comprehensive tests. Here's an example simple javascript program which uses these bindings: === const Guestfs = imports.gi.Guestfs; print('Starting'); var g = new

This set of 10 patches removes the need for any vmchannel implementation, although we can still choose to use vmchannel if we want. In this so-called "null vmchannel" configuration, the appliance connects directly to a port on the library. The exact method is described in patch 9/10. This method still requires SLIRP (user mode networking) so it is not a panacea, because recent

Patches 1 & 2 were posted previously here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-May/msg00134.html Patch 3 is a hack so I can test this using my own version of qemu (the `-L ?' stuff is not upstream). Patch 4 is where the real action takes place: Replace the caching of qemu features in blob-like files with a sqlite database. Probably the best way to approach this patch is to