similar to: [PATCH] arm: appliance: Add support for device trees (dtb's).

Inspired by libvirt's virCommand* internal mini-library, this adds some internal APIs for running commands. The first patch contains the new APIs. The subsequent patches change various parts of the library over to use it. Rich.

Hi, this is a prototype of something I've around for some time. Basically it is about adding new appliances in addition to the main one currently used and kept up-to-date automatically: this way it is possible to create new appliances with extra packages, to be used in specific contexts (like virt-rescue, with more network/recovery tools) without filling the main appliance. It's still

libguestfs has used double and triple underscores in identifiers. These aren't valid for global names in C++. (http://stackoverflow.com/a/228797) These large but completely mechanical patches change the illegal identifiers to legal ones. 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

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

A lot of code runs 'qemu-img create' or 'truncate' to create blank disk images. In the past I resisted adding an API to do this, since it essentially duplicates what you can already do using other tools (ie. qemu-img). However this does simplify calling code quite a lot since qemu-img is somewhat error-prone to use (eg: don't try to create a disk called "foo:bar")

--- src/command.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- src/guestfs-internal.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/command.c b/src/command.c index 4bb469b..e26573d 100644 --- a/src/command.c +++ b/src/command.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ debug_command (struct command *cmd) } static int -run_command (struct command *cmd)

Hi, attached there is the second version of the patch series adding copy_in and copy_out in the library, mostly moving them from guestfish. It also adds the copy_in usage in virt-customize, as aid in a new image building. Thanks, Pino Toscano (7): cmd: add a way to run (and wait) asynchronously commands cmd: add a child-setup callback cmd: add the possibility to get a fd to the process

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769680

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

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> AAVMF is an open source UEFI implementation for aarch64 based on OVMF. As aarch64 is heading for requiring UEFI even inside guests, if the AAVMF firmware is installed on the host, use it as a hint that we should boot the guest using AAVMF instead of the default "empty machine". Note this requires very recent AAVMF, libvirt,

Hi, things are progressing slowly, but I feel that eventually I'll be getting there: supermin can be built on all Linux-based architectures that are part of Debian/unstable[1] -- (except for sparc, but I'll ignore that for now.) libguestfs on the other hand currently fails launching the appliance (necessary for running tests) on everything but x86 and mips. Apparently, qemu-system-arm

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > Currently implemented as guestfish commands, provide them instead as > single source -> destination functions for the library, so they can be > used also in other places. > > These functions are not added to guestfish, since guestfish has its own > implementation (which will soon switch to call copy-in and

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-August/msg00005.html This now works, to some extent. The main problem now is that devices are named /dev/ubd[a-] which of course confuses everything. I'm thinking it may be easier to add a udev rule to rename them. Rich.

This is a User-Mode Linux backend for libguestfs. You can select it by doing: export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=uml export LIBGUESTFS_QEMU=/path/to/vmlinux Note we're reusing the 'qemu' variable in the handle for convenience. QEmu is not involved when using the UML backend. This almost works. UML itself crashes when the daemon tries to connect to the serial port. I suspect it's

This two-part patch for supermin implements device trees (for ARM). The first patch introduces a more rational way to handle command line arguments in 'supermin-helper'. See the commit message for details. The old style is still supported for compatibility. The second patch adds an extra supermin-helper --dtb parameter specifying a wildcard. A device tree file which matches the

xc_dom_alloc_segment requires start address to be page align. Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org> --- tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c index ffe575b..366061d 100644 --- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_arm.c @@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ int

Hi, Now that the Arndale board is supported in upstream Xen I don''t get any output on the serial console. I followed the instructions on the wiki with no luck: The xen repository I''m using is: git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git last commit: 61c6dfce3296da2643c4c4f90eaab6fa3c1cf8b3 The linux repository is: git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/linux-arm.git last commit:

Document what each module does, using *.mli files. Remove the --dtb option, it's obsolete. Rename modules according to their purpose. Rich.

* Richard W.M. Jones: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:27:07PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: >> --- >> src/kernel.ml | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- >> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/src/kernel.ml b/src/kernel.ml >> index ed5aea3..436b1b0 100644 >> --- a/src/kernel.ml >> +++ b/src/kernel.ml