similar to: [PATCH] Add support for SSH (Secure Shell) block device.

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.

On Tuesday 11 March 2014 23:13:46 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > diff --git a/src/drives.c b/src/drives.c > index 2c85b52..68e37f7 100644 > --- a/src/drives.c > +++ b/src/drives.c > @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ static struct drive * > create_drive_file (guestfs_h *g, const char *path, > bool readonly, const char *format, > const char *iface,

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' :

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

Parse the query string from URLs, and pass it as new add_drive optarg; use it when building the file= URL for qemu. Accept query string only for http and https protocols, for now. --- Possibly it looks like an ad-hoc solution for http(s), although I'm not sure how it could possibly be generalized somehow (maybe "extra params" which would be the query string for http(s)?).

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.

As discussed in the thread on validating $TERM, it would be good to have a common function to do this. This is such a function. The main advantage is it includes unit tests which the previous functions did not. 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

Miscellaneous fixes to: - Handling of Ceph drives now works end-to-end (RHBZ#1026688). - In particular, you can now use rbd:/// URIs in guestfish (and they work). - Parse Ceph & NBD network drives from libvirt XML correctly, so that existing domains with Ceph/NBD drives can be added (eg. using guestfish -d option). - Add more testing of the above.

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.

v1 -> v2: - Rebase on top of Pino's version work. Two patches went upstream, these are the two remaining patches. Note the generation number is still inside the qemu.stat file. We could put it in the filename, I have no particular preference. Rich.

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

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

Doing qemu feature detection in the direct backend takes ~100ms because we need to run `qemu -help' and `qemu -devices ?', and each of those interacts with glibc's very slow link loader. Fixing the link loader is really hard. Instead memoize the output of those two commands. This patch series first separates all the code dealing with qemu into a separate module (src/qemu.c) and

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.

So far, passwords in URLs (eg http://user:password@host..) have been handled as part of the username, and thus passing add-drive path username:username:password ... instead of add-drive path username:username secret:password ... Fix the parsing of URLs to handle passwords as separate elements, properly passing it as "secret" parameter for add-drive, and properly readd it when

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

Hi All, Here's the latest patch. I think this should address the problem. The query string is now only appended to the end of a URI in the HTTP and HTTPS cases. The add-uri test now passes, and 'make check' still passes. -- Gabriel

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. ---

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