similar to: ANNOUNCE: nbdkit 1.8 - an NBD server toolkit with stable plugin API and permissive license

NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or included in

I’m pleased to announce the next stable release of nbdkit. This release concentrates on numerous feature enhancements - see the release notes below. NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good

I would really like to release a new stable nbdkit (1.8) soon. The reasons are not only because of the many great new features (which I summarise below) but also a few practical reasons: - Dropping mandatory [key=].. (ie. "magic config key") for many plugin parameters makes nbdkit much easier to use and easier to describe to potential users. - Demonstrated utility of log filter

nbdkit is an NBD server toolkit with stable ABI and permissive license. "Non-traditional" disk images can be served to anything that can consume disk images over NBD (qemu, libguestfs, etc.) More information: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit Source download: http://download.libguestfs.org/nbdkit/ I'm pleased to announce the first new release in over a year. New in this

I'm pleased to announce the release of nbdkit 1.22, a high performance plugin-based Network Block Device (NBD) server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device Key features of nbdkit: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or

NBD is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. 'nbdkit' is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or included in proprietary code.

I’m pleased to announce the next stable release of nbdkit. This release concentrates on performance and fuzzing, along with numerous other enhancements (full list below). NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written

Always truncating a log can wipe out useful history. Add an option to change this. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> --- v2: tweaks to documentation, rely on nbdkit_parse_bool filters/log/nbdkit-log-filter.pod | 5 +++-- filters/log/log.c | 12 ++++++++++-- tests/test-log.sh | 6 +++++- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> Do not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to locate the VDDK library. Setting this always causes problems because VDDK comes bundled with broken replacements for system libraries, such as libcrypto.so and libstdc++.so. Two problems this causes which we have seen in the real world: (1) User does ‘export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=vmware-vix-disklib-distrib’

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >From: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> > >Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> Just to mention, this is not complete yet. The disk needs to be opened as SINGLE_LINK only for the purpose of extents(), but without that flag for reading. I hope VDDK let's us have two concurrent

In the next patch, we want to get rid of the requirement for the user to supply LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to vddk libs, if we can derive it ourselves from libdir. However, VDDK itself requires LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set (because it tries to load libraries that in turn depend on a bare library name, which no manner of dlopen() hacking can work around, and implementing la_objsearch() is no better for

Hi Eric: Here's the problem: We have a VMware VDDK file or snapshot. The virtual size of the snapshot is generally much larger than what's allocated. Copying the snapshot using: nbdkit vddk file=foo.vmdk --run 'qemu-img convert $nbd out' is therefore much slower than it could be. (In the real world version of this we're actually copying the source over the network, but

Always truncating a log can wipe out useful history. Add an option to change this. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> --- Hmm - logappend=false enables appending. Maybe we need a common utility function for parsing bool values (parse 0 and case-insensitive "off" or "false" as off, all others as true, or even report values that can't be parsed reasonably)

From: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> --- plugins/vddk/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.pod | 7 ++++++- plugins/vddk/vddk-structs.h | 1 + plugins/vddk/vddk.c | 10 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/plugins/vddk/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.pod

I'm pleased to announce the release of nbdkit 1.18, a high performance plugin-based Network Block Device (NBD) server. Key features of nbdkit: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or included in proprietary code. * Well-documented, simple

This filter can be used to transparently reopen/retry when a plugin fails. The connection is closed and reopened which for most plugins causes them to attempt to reconnect to their source. For example if doing a long or slow SSH copy: nbdkit -U - ssh host=remote /var/tmp/test.iso \ --run 'qemu-img convert -p -f raw $nbd -O qcow2 test.qcow2' if the SSH connection or network goes

This filter can be used to transparently reopen/retry when a plugin fails. The connection is closed and reopened which for most plugins causes them to attempt to reconnect to their source. For example if doing a long or slow SSH copy: nbdkit -U - ssh host=remote /var/tmp/test.iso \ --run 'qemu-img convert -p -f raw $nbd -O qcow2 test.qcow2' if the SSH connection or network goes

I'm pleased to announce the release of nbdkit 1.20, a high performance plugin-based Network Block Device (NBD) server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device Key features of nbdkit: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or

Allow password parameters such as ‘password=-FD’ where FD is a file descriptor number inherited by nbdkit from the parent process. This is another way to allow programs to hand passwords to nbdkit in a very secure way, for example over a pipe so they never touch the filesystem. Previously nbdkit allowed you to use literal passwords on the command line if they began with a ‘-’ (but were not just

I'm pleased to announce the joint release of libnbd 1.0 and nbdkit 1.14. These are a high performance NBD client library and server. Key features of libnbd: * Synchronous API for ease of use. * Asynchronous API for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. You can mix both APIs freely. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. * Well-documented, stable