similar to: FYI: Coverity scan of libguestfs 1.22.0

I'm going to rename some test directories to make the names more logical: * caution -> tests/qemu This directory contains tests of qemu (safety and liveness). 'make check' will be changed so that this directory is tested first. At present, 'make check' happens to build images/ first which makes it harder to track down qemu breakage. * capitests -> tests/c-api

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:31:36PM +0100, Khan Ferdous Wahid wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know if it is possible to "Find everything modified in the > last 10 minutes" as you did for last 7 days in > > virt-ls -lR -d guest --time-days / | awk '$6 <= 7' You can use: virt-ls -lR -d guest --time-relative / | awk '$6 <= 10' > Where should I

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

[Note I'm not bothering with 32 bit ppc any more since it is effectively obsolete.] Libguestfs now works on ppc64 using the 'direct' backend. You will need: - libguestfs 1.23.21 + 7f90aa0998 - supermin 4.1.x (only tested with supermin-4.1.5-2.fc21.ppc64, but earlier versions should work) - qemu-system-ppc64 compiled from git (qemu 1.4 & 1.6 known to be broken) -

In RHEL 6.5 we are probably going to rebase libguestfs, febootstrap and virt-v2v. As usual when this happens, I've put up a preview repository: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/libguestfs-RHEL-6.5/ If you want to use these packages, the easiest thing to do is to copy the attached file into /etc/yum.repos.d/ and simply install or upgrade libguestfs. If you want to test libguestfs, obviously

well, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is at least one module that is used and is GPL: xvasprintf On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:18:09AM +0300, Or Goshen wrote: > > after creating a git clone I executed "bootstrap" and then entered > > "libguestfs/.gnulib/modules" and

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

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On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:37:34PM +0300, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: > [tmp]> diff -u rwm perl > --- rwm 2013-05-30 13:24:21.066286908 +0300 > +++ perl 2013-05-30 13:26:27.149615793 +0300 > @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ > - if ($t =~ /\G([^\n]{0,$ll})($break|\n+|\z)/xmgc) { > + if ($t =~ /\G((?:(?=[^\n])\X){0,$ll})($break|\n+|\z)/xmgc) { > $r .=

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:42:52AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > I'm pleased to announce libguestfs 1.26, a library and set of tools > > This fails to link at least in sles11sp3, 1.25.37 was still ok: > > ... > [ 288s] virt_index_validate-index-validate.o: In function `main': > [ 288s]

Attaching the patch to the mailing list. 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#)

If you rebuild the Makefiles using automake >= 1.13 then you'll likely hit this error: Makefile:1904: *** unterminated variable reference. Stop. This is caused by automake miscompiling GNU make macros that appear in the 'TESTS' variable decl in 'ocaml/Makefile.am'. I posted a bug about this upstream. It hasn't appeared yet, but it should turn up here in the near

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:28:47AM +0800, Edwin Cen wrote: > I wonder if libguestfs supports sheepdog which means if I can inject > some config info into virtual machine built on sheepdog with > libgeustfs or not? If the current version cannot support it can I > change something to make it happen? It's likely that sheepdog could be made to work, and adding support would probably

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#)

There's a denial of service attack possible from guests on any program that does inspection (eg. virt-inspector, many other virt-* tools, virt-v2v, OpenStack). The attack causes the host process to crash because of a double free. It's probably not exploitable (definitely not on Fedora because of the default memory hardening settings). This patch contains the fix and a reproducer:

[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

libguestfs 1.12 will be the next stable release of libguestfs, following the usual version numbering scheme: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers In order to coincide with the Fedora 16 schedule, I'd like to make the 1.12.0 release on or around 2011-07-20. The Fedora 16 branch date is 2011-07-26. Why might you care? (1) RHEL 6.3: *If* we were going to rebase

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