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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

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

--- docs/nbdkit-service.pod | 1 + filters/exitlast/nbdkit-exitlast-filter.pod | 58 +++++++++++++++ filters/ip/nbdkit-ip-filter.pod | 1 + filters/rate/nbdkit-rate-filter.pod | 1 + configure.ac | 3 + filters/exitlast/Makefile.am | 60 ++++++++++++++++ tests/Makefile.am | 3 +

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

--- docs/nbdkit-service.pod | 1 + filters/exitlast/nbdkit-exitlast-filter.pod | 1 + filters/ip/nbdkit-ip-filter.pod | 1 + filters/limit/nbdkit-limit-filter.pod | 61 +++++++++ filters/rate/nbdkit-rate-filter.pod | 1 + configure.ac | 2 + filters/limit/Makefile.am | 66 ++++++++++

--- docs/nbdkit-captive.pod | 6 +- docs/nbdkit-service.pod | 1 + filters/exitlast/nbdkit-exitlast-filter.pod | 3 + filters/exitwhen/nbdkit-exitwhen-filter.pod | 156 ++++++ filters/ip/nbdkit-ip-filter.pod | 1 + filters/limit/nbdkit-limit-filter.pod | 1 + filters/rate/nbdkit-rate-filter.pod | 1 +

I’m pleased to announce the next stable release of nbdkit. 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

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'm pleased to announce the releases of libnbd 1.2 and nbdkit 1.16. These are a high performance Network Block Device (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. *

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

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

On 3/4/20 1:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > --- > docs/nbdkit-service.pod | 1 + > filters/exitlast/nbdkit-exitlast-filter.pod | 1 + > filters/ip/nbdkit-ip-filter.pod | 1 + > filters/limit/nbdkit-limit-filter.pod | 61 +++++++++ > filters/rate/nbdkit-rate-filter.pod | 1 + > configure.ac

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’ and that breaks lots of ordinary utilities on their system. (2)

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’

See this thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-June/thread.html#00012 This commit also adds a regression test of vddk password=- and password=-FD. --- tests/Makefile.am | 4 ++ plugins/vddk/vddk.h | 1 + plugins/vddk/reexec.c | 43 ++++++++++++- plugins/vddk/vddk.c | 2 +-

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:11:28PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > I posted this patch for vdsm, adding NBD APIs: > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/96079/ Great stuff. What's the minimum version of oVirt which will have this feature and what's the approximate date when we can assume most users of oVirt will have this? I don't have time now to implement the rest but I filed an RFE bug

Plugins and filters may call this to initiate an asynchronous shutdown of the server. This would only be used in the connected phase — plugins should still call exit(3) directly for configuration failure. It is equivalent to sending a kill signal to self, but it's cleaner to have an API for this and better for potential future non-POSIX platforms. --- docs/nbdkit-plugin.pod | 19

I posted this patch for vdsm, adding NBD APIs: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/96079/ The main purpose of these APIs are enabling incremental restore, but they also enable a more efficient rhv-upload via NBD, and importing to thin disks, which is not possible with current solution. The same idea can work for KubeVirt or other targets, minimizing specific target code. Here is how rhv-upload can work

Introduce a new helper function to resolve a path name, calling nbdkit_error on failure: other than doing what nbdkit_absolute_path does, it also checks that the file exist (and thus avoid errors later on). Apply it where an existing path is required, both in nbdkit itself and in plugins. Related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527334 --- docs/nbdkit-plugin.pod | 13