similar to: [PATCH v4 0/5] Finish hotplugging support.

This is, I guess, version 3 of this patch series which adds disk labels and hotplugging (only hot-add implemented so far). The good news is .. it works! Rich.

QEMU upstream has broken snapshot=on ... again. These two patches stop using it entirely. Instead we run 'qemu-img create' to create overlay disks as required. Note that the libvirt and UML backends were already doing this: The libvirt backend because <transient/> has never worked, and the UML backend was running uml_mkcow because the UML-equivalent syntax of snapshot=on was

Link to version 1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-February/thread.html#00122 Changes since version 1: - I've pushed two (of the three) code refactoring patches. The third one proved rather hard to move. - selinuxnorelabel option is no more. Instead there is a second internal API (internal_set_libvirt_selinux_norelabel_disks). - fixed bogus commit message -

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-October/msg00047.html However it was broken in a few ways. First of all the documentation was broken because "/**" enhanced comments were not permitted on macros. This is fixed in the new 1/4 patch. Secondly we didn't use single_element() everywhere possible, which is fixed in the new 4/4 patch. Lastly I've

Consolidate and extend the use of funky start_element() etc macros. Rich.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912499 (especially comments 7 & 10) This patch set is the final fix so that we can access disks in use by other guests when SELinux and sVirt are enabled. Previously such disks were inaccessible because sVirt labels the disks with a random SELinux label to prevent other instances of qemu from being able to read them. So naturally the libguestfs

Note this patch requires a non-upstream qemu patch that I've been experimenting with. See qemu-devel list. Rich.

This preliminary patch series adds a libvirt backend to libguestfs. It's for review only because although it launches the guest OK, there are some missing features that need to be implemented. The meat of the patch is in part 4/4. To save you the trouble of interpreting libxml2 fragments, an example of the generated XML and the corresponding qemu command line are attached below. Note the

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-October/msg00047.html v2 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-October/msg00051.html v3: - Back to using string/string_format and attribute/attribute_format. - Add both single_element and single_element_format. - Rebased and retested. Rich.

These patches contain the beginnings of discard (a.k.a. trim or unmap) support. This will allow us to change virt-sparsify to work on disk images in-place (instead of using slow & inefficient copying). The approach used is to add an optional 'discard' parameter to add-drive. It has 3 possible settings: - 'disable' : the default, no discard is done - 'besteffort' :

This series improves ceph rbd support in libguestfs. It uses the servers list, adds support for a custom username, and starts to add support for custom secret.

From: Nikolay Ivanets <stenavin@gmail.com> I faced with situation where libguestfs cannot recognize partitions on a disk image which was partitioned on a system with "4K native" sector size support. In order to fix the issue we need to allow users to specify desired physical and/or logical block size per drive basis. It is definitely not a complete patch but rather a way to

Here's the new API method and update to virt-inspector. I still need to implement app_arch for debian and windows (if applicable), for now they just return empty strings. New in v2: incorporated feedback from v1, also added patch #3 which updates the documentation where it references the deprecated API. Take it or leave it.

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> You can now add remote NBD drives using: ><fs> add-drive "" format:raw protocol:nbd server:localhost (Note that you also need to add port:NNNN if the server is running on a non-standard port). The corresponding qemu-nbd service can be started by doing: qemu-nbd disk.img -t This commit also adds a test. ---

Here's the new API method and update to virt-inspector. I still need to implement app_arch for debian and windows (if applicable), for now they just return empty strings.

--- inspector/inspector.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/inspector/inspector.c b/inspector/inspector.c index 3583c61df..30d279987 100644 --- a/inspector/inspector.c +++ b/inspector/inspector.c @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ output_root (xmlTextWriterPtr xo, char *root) char buf[32]; char *canonical_root; size_t size; + int is_bsd; XMLERROR

This set of patches: - Adds new APIs to support discard in libguestfs. - Adds discard support to virt-format. - Adds discard support to virt-sysprep. - Implements virt-sparsify --in-place. This is now working, after fixing the rather stupid bug in fstrim. I've pushed the ones which were ACKed previously + the fstrim fix. Rich.

# virt-filesystems -v -d 6326ad4e-5805-2ab4-1338-d1dad8c76162 --all libguestfs: libvirt version = 10002 libguestfs: [00000ms] connect to libvirt libguestfs: [00001ms] get libvirt capabilities libguestfs: [00234ms] build appliance libguestfs: [00234ms] create libvirt XML libguestfs: error: error constructing libvirt XML at "xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute (xo, BAD_CAST "file", BAD_CAST

This still isn't working at the moment. See: http://marc.info/?t=139457409300003&r=1&w=2 This set of patches: - Adds new APIs to support discard in libguestfs. - Adds discard support to virt-format. - Adds discard support to virt-sysprep. - Implements virt-sparsify --in-place. Rich.

Result of earlier copy and paste. --- align/scan.c | 35 ++++++++++--------- cat/cat.c | 39 +++++++++++---------- cat/filesystems.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- cat/log.c | 35 ++++++++++--------- cat/ls.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++---------------- df/main.c | 43 ++++++++++++------------ diff/diff.c | 67