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6 guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
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9 These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
10 stable/dev branch split (1.8.0). For detailed changelogs, please see
11 the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
12 New features
14 - libguestfs and tools can be used against live virtual machines.
15 See the 'guestfish --live' and 'guestmount --live' options, and (for
16 the low-level interface) the new APIs set-attach-method and
17 get-attach-method.
18 - New virt tools:
20 virt-copy-in, virt-copy-out, virt-tar-in, virt-tar-out.
21 - libguestfs can get the drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
23 - virt-inspector displays drive letter mappings for Windows guests.
25 - Drive letters can now be used in virt-edit and guestfish programs
27 when operating on Windows guests.
28 - virt-resize now works on 32 bit hosts.
30 - You can now inspect the install disks and live CDs of many different
32 operating systems.
33 - guestfish <! cmd which executes a shell cmd and inlines the result.
35 - guestfish, guestmount, virt-rescue now all support --ro and --rw
37 options, and the default for this can be chosen via a configuration
38 file (/etc/libguestfs-tools.conf).
39 - New event API allows more than one callback to be registered for
41 each event, makes it possible to call the API from other languages,
42 and allows nearly all log, debug and trace messages to be rerouted
43 from stderr.
44 - Greater FHS compliance for temporary files, including using /var/tmp
46 for large cached files that should survive reboot (instead of /tmp).
47 - guestfish, guestmount -m option allows mount options to be passed
49 through to the underlying filesystem.
50 - mkfs-opts allows filesystem features to be specified.
52 - More intelligent handling of mountpoints, allowing mkmountpoint, mount
54 and umount-all commands to work together properly.
55 - Trace messages are prefixed with a distinct string, allowing them to
57 be easily 'grepped' out from debug output.
58 - guestfs_launch (guestfish 'run' command) now produces progress
60 messages (a guestfish progress bar) if it takes longer than 5
61 seconds to run.
62 - Several long-running commands where we are unable to estimate time
64 to completion generate "pulse mode" progress events. Progress bar
65 in guestfish has been updated to display these.
66 - Publish new example code in: C, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby.
68 - New virt-dhcp-address example program.
70 - The Java and Ruby bindings have been improved greatly.
72 - Perl includes a way to get the errno of the last error.
74 - Python bindings now compatible with rpyc (thanks Erez Shinan).
76 - Transifex is now being used to manage translations.
78 http://www.transifex.net/projects/p/libguestfs/
79 - Inspection now supports Red Hat Desktop, Slackware distributions.
81 - Inspection no longer fails for Windows guests that have two or
83 more disks.
84 - Inspection can now tell the difference between Windows 2008 Server
86 and Windows 7.
87 - Inspection can detect 32 bit applications installed in 64 bit
89 Windows, running on the WOW64 emulator.
90 - A series of protocol fixes has fixed the old bug RHBZ#576879
92 which used to cause errors during the upload command to lose
93 protocol synchronization.
94 - New logo!
96 Security
98 [none]
99 New APIs
101 first-private, get-attach-method, inspect-get-drive-mappings,
102 inspect-get-product-variant,
103 inspect-get-windows-current-control-set, next-private, resize2fs-M,
104 set-attach-method.
105 Internals
107 - The 'HACKING' file is obsolete. The contents have been moved into
108 a section of the guestfs(3) manual page.
109 - libguestfs-test-tool simplified. It no longer needs the static
111 binary or tries to construct an ISO.
112 - rpcgen-generated files are compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing
114 which should be safer (thanks Matt Booth).
115 - virt-resize was rewritten in OCaml.
117 - guestfish and other tools tested with valgrind; some memory leaks
119 were fixed.
120 Bugs fixed
122 - 502533 Updated Polish translation of libguestfs
123 - 576879 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
124 - 599503 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
125 - 617440 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
126 - 664558 RFE: Allow to set log callback in Ruby bindings
127 - 665358 Punjabi Translation Completed (pa_IN)
128 - 666577 libguestfs: unknown filesystem /dev/fd0
129 - 667610 Multiple bugs, memory leaks in libguestfs ruby bindings
130 - 668112 virt-filesystems command fails on guest with corrupt filesystem label
131 - 668574 guestfish -i is trying to mount all mounts from /etc/fstab and fails with an error when device doesn't exists
132 - 673479 Add a grep-friendly string to LIBGUESTFS_TRACE output
133 - 674130 Inspection code fails for Windows guest with two disks
134 - 682756 libguestfs trace segfaults when list-filesystems returns error
135 - 682979 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
136 - 690819 mkfs fails creating a filesystem on a disk device when using a disk with 'ide' interface
137 - 691389 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
138 - 691724 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem /dev/vda1
139 - 692545 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
140 - 693324 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
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143 guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1),
144 guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1), guestfs(3), guestfish(1),
145 http://libguestfs.org/
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148 Richard W.M. Jones
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151 Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc.
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154 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
155 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
156 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
157 option) any later version.
158 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
160 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
161 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
162 General Public License for more details.
163 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
165 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
166 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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169 To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
170 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
171 To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
173 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
174 When reporting a bug, please supply:
176 • The version of libguestfs.
178 • Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
180 source, etc)
181 • Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
183 • Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
185 into the bug report.
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