similar to: [PATCH v3] Fix virt-rescue.

This fixes the main issues in virt-rescue and is usable. There are some enhancements which could be made (in follow up work): - An escape sequence and escape commands that could be handled by virt-rescue, eg. to shut down the appliance, mount or unmount filesystems. - `virt-rescue -i' could be implemented cleanly by performing the right API calls before handing control to the

This supersedes the two previous patch series: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-March/msg00017.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-March/msg00046.html Rich.

This set of patches fixes virt-rescue rather cleanly. In particular the problems with handling ^C are completely fixed. Work still to be done before this can go upstream: - Shutdown doesn't work properly if you exit the shell. At the moment to exit you must do 'reboot -f'. Future improvements: - An escape sequence and escape commands that could be handled by virt-rescue,

I thought this should produce a fairly dramatic performance gain. In fact I couldn't measure any performance difference at all. I think what's happening is we're actually paying an extra syscall (to discover the socket would block) and then doing the poll anyway. So I don't know if it's worth having this patch. It could be argued that it makes the code shorter (therefore

Depends on the previous 5 patches that modified virt-rescue to work without direct mode: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-March/msg00017.html Rich.

This isn't quite finished because not all of the tests or examples have been updated, but it demonstrates an idea: Should we forget about the concept of having multiple connections managed under a single handle? In this patch there is a single ‘struct nbd_handle *’ which manages a single state machine and connection (and therefore no nbd_connection). To connect to a multi-conn server you must

This implements a few useful escape sequences: ><rescue> ^]? virt-rescue escape sequences: ^]? - print this message ^]h - print this message ^]i - print inspection data ^]q - quit virt-rescue ^]u - unmount filesystems ^]x - quit virt-rescue to send the escape key to the rescue shell, type it twice ^]i root device: /dev/sda3 product name: Fedora 25 (Twenty Five) type: linux

Hi All, The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so reasons of any problems occurring in a guest may be from other guests or a host. Then, to collect some tracing data of a number of guests and a host is needed when some

Hi All, The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so reasons of any problems occurring in a guest may be from other guests or a host. Then, to collect some tracing data of a number of guests and a host is needed when some

Some of these affect attempts to connect to older qemu-nbd versions, some of them were triggered by manual edits to qemu-nbd source code to provoke various other compliant (if uncommon) server behaviors. Eric Blake (4): starttls: Skip error payload if falling back to unencrypted states: Reject payload to NBD_REP_ACK meta-context: Skip error payload if server lacks meta_context states: Add

Make sure they can build also in no as-neede setups. Pino Toscano (1): utils: split string list functions in own file build: use split stringlist functions from common/utils utils/Makefile.am | 2 + utils/guestfs-stringlists-utils.h | 30 +++++ utils/guestfs-utils.h | 7 +- utils/stringlists-utils.c | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ utils/utils.c

Similar to the recent --mask-handshake command line added to nbdkit to test client fallbacks to crippled servers, it can be worth testing server fallbacks to crippled clients. And just as we have exposed whether the client will request structured replies, we can also expose whether the client will understand various handshake flags from the NBD protocol. Of course, we default to supporting all

When processing a server reply within the REPLY subgroup, we will often hit a situation where recv() requires us to block until the next NotifyRead. But since NotifyRead is the only permitted external action while in this group, we are effectively blocking CmdIssue and NotifyWrite events from happening until the server finishes the in-progress reply, even though those events have no strict

Hi All, The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so reasons of any problems occurring in a guest may be from other guests or a host. Then, to collect some tracing data of a number of guests and a host is needed when some

Hi All, The following patch set provides a low-overhead system for collecting kernel tracing data of guests by a host in a virtualization environment. A guest OS generally shares some devices with other guests or a host, so reasons of any problems occurring in a guest may be from other guests or a host. Then, to collect some tracing data of a number of guests and a host is needed when some

This works, but there's no time saving and I'm still investigating whether it does what I think it does. Nevertheless I thought I would post it because it (probably) implements the idea I had last night outlined in: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-June/msg00010.html The meat of the change is patch 4. Patch 5 is an example which I would probably fold into patch 4 for

Appears to have a measurable benefit, see 3/3 for test results. Rich.

--autosysroot option uses suggestions to user on how to mount filesystems and change root suggested by --suggest option in virt-rescue. Commands are passed on kernel command line in format guestfs_command=command;. Command ends with a semicolon and there can be multiple commands specified. These are executed just before bash starts. On successfull run user is presented directly with bash in

Proposal for new APIs to list exports. The general shape of the API can probably best be seen from the examples/list-exports.c example. Rich.

Use %d to parse them as int (since the variables for them as int) instead of %u, even if they both need to be at least > 0. --smp was already checked to be >= 1 while --memsize not, so check that the specified memory size is not < 128 (which is semi-arbitrary, but enough as a minimum threshold). --- rescue/rescue.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)