guestfs-release-notes-1.40(1)

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6       guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs Release Notes
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RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.40

9       These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
10       stable/dev branch split (1.38.0).  For detailed changelogs, please see
11       the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
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13   New features
14       New features in existing tools
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16       Virt-inspector now displays the libosinfo short ID for guests (Pino
17       Toscano).
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19       Guestfish -N will now generate 1G disks instead of 100M disks by
20       default.
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22       Virt-resize supports f2fs filesystems (Pino Toscano).
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24       libguestfs-test-tool now supports bash tab completion (Pino Toscano).
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26       The --machine-readable option now supports sending output to files or
27       stdout/stderr.  This works uniformly across most OCaml-based virt
28       tools, specifically: virt-builder, virt-builder-repository, virt-dib,
29       virt-get-kernel, virt-resize, virt-sparsify, and virt-v2v (Pino
30       Toscano).
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32       Virt-builder --uninstall option now works on SUSE (Sebastian Meyer).
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34       Virt-builder now supports Windows.  We are not able to ship Windows
35       templates in the public repository for obvious licensing reasons, but
36       if you are an MSDN subscriber you may build your own.  See
37       https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/creating-windows-templates-for-virt-builder/
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39       Many tools now support a --key option allowing you to pass in
40       decryption keys for filesystems stored in local files on the host
41       rather than having to feed them in over stdin (Pino Toscano).
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43       virt-v2v and virt-p2v
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45       New -o rhv-upload mode for directly uploading images to RHV, bypassing
46       the Export Storage Domain (Tomáš Golembiovský, Nir Soffer, Daniel Erez,
47       Pino Toscano).
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49       New -o openstack mode for directly uploading images to OpenStack and
50       Cinder using OpenStack APIs.
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52       Virt-v2v now has a general mechanism for input and output options: -io
53       and -oo.
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55       Virt-v2v can now install the RHV tools or QEMU GA in guests (Tomáš
56       Golembiovský).
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58       The huge manual has now been split into several smaller documents and
59       is more focused on helping users to accomplish specific v2v tasks.
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61       Multiple improvements to the OVF metadata when converting to RHV (Tomáš
62       Golembiovský, Pino Toscano, Arik Hadas).
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64       Virt-v2v can now convert Linux guests with split kernel packages,
65       especially Ubuntu 18.04 (Pino Toscano).
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67       Virt-v2v old --password-file option has been replaced by -ip (the old
68       option remains for backwards compatibility).
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70       Virt-v2v now preserves the VM Generation ID.
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72       Virt-v2v has a new --mac option allowing specific NICs to be mapped
73       precisely to networks or bridges on the target.
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75       New virt-v2v --print-estimate option to estimate the size of data that
76       virt-v2v will copy.
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78       Virt-v2v is now usually able to remove open-vm-tools and VMware Tools
79       from the Linux guest during conversion (Pino Toscano).
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81       Virt-v2v can now support UEFI conversions to RHV (Tomáš Golembiovský).
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83       Virt-p2v now prefers you to shut down instead of rebooting the machine
84       after conversion has finished (Pino Toscano).
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86       Virt-v2v now writes the libosinfo short ID to the libvirt metadata when
87       using -o local and -o libvirt output modes (Martin Kletzander).
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89       Language bindings
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91       OpenJDK 10+ is supported (Pino Toscano).
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93       Java bindings fixed for Gentoo host (Martin Kletzander).
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95       Inspection
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97       Support Kali Linux (Pino Toscano).
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99       When inspecting mountpoints, look for /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf as well as
100       /etc/mdadm.conf (Nikolay Ivanets).
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102       Improved support for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (Pino Toscano).
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104       Architectures and platforms
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106       Miscellaneous macOS build fixes (Adam Robinson).
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108       Other
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110       Multiple documentation typos fixed (Yuri Chornoivan).
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112   Security
113       See also guestfs-security(1).
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115       CVE-2018-11806
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117       Qemu's slirp (userspace networking) had several buffer overflows which
118       could be triggered from the guest or network side.
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120   API
121       New APIs
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123       "f2fs_expand"
124           Expand an f2fs filesystem (Pino Toscano).
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126       "inspect_get_osinfo"
127           Get the libosinfo short ID for the inspected guest (Pino Toscano).
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129       "lvm_scan"
130           This rescans all PVs, VGs and LVs, optionally activating them.
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132       Other API changes
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134       "part_get_mbr_part_type" was reimplemented in OCaml (Nikolay Ivanets).
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136       "list_filesystems" now filters out MBR extended partitions (Nikolay
137       Ivanets).
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139       "vgscan" has been deprecated.  Use the new "lvm_scan" API in
140       preference.
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142   Build changes
143       The JSON library switched from yajl to Jansson ≥ 2.7 (Pino Toscano).
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145       Support for The Sleuth Kit 4.5 (Pino Toscano).
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147       Multiple improvements in the "./configure" script (Lin Ma).
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149       More out-of-tree build fixes (Hilko Bengen).
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151       Some work on reproducible builds (Bernhard M. Wiedemann).
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153   Internals
154       lvmetad is now used unconditionally, and is started much earlier in the
155       appliance boot process.  This fixes support for certain PV types.
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157       On Debian, dash is installed inside the appliance and in virt-rescue
158       (Pino Toscano).
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160       The amount of RAM assigned to the appliance has been increased from
161       500M to 768M (on x86_64, other architectures have different limits).
162       This enables use of up to 255 disks when using recent Linux kernels.
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164       Virt-v2v now models the source machine type (eg. i440FX, Q35 or virt).
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166       Virt-p2v now generates configuration code automatically, also code for
167       parsing the kernel command line.
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169       Use "LT_INIT" instead of "AC_PROG_LIBTOOL".
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171       The OCaml "JSON" code for parsing and serializing has been unified into
172       a single abstract data type.
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174       Most OCaml tools are now built using the PIC runtime.  This has a
175       performance penalty on i686, but is relatively free on other
176       architectures and has security benefits.
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178       The direct backend now queries the qemu binary for availability of KVM,
179       instead of using a heuristic based on /dev/kvm (Andrea Bolognani).
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181       Our "clever" libxml2 writer macros are now used consistently across all
182       parts of the code base.
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184       Qemu dropped -nodefconfig without telling us.  The equivalent
185       -no-user-config option is now used instead.  Qemu also moved the
186       "serial" option from -drive to -device, again without any notice, and
187       this is also fixed.
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189   Bugs fixed
190       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1664310
191           [RHEL 7.6 LP] openstack output leaks passwords
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193       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1661038
194           virt-inspector fails with "error: int_of_string" on a Linux image
195           when /etc/fstab contains a partionless device
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197       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1651432
198           v2v - support for -insecure option to support OSP SSL connection
199           for VM migrations
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201       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1642044
202           [RFE] virt-p2v UI should give the option to shutdown after
203           conversion is finished
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205       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1634248
206           virt-v2v cannot convert opensuse15 guest
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208       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1624902
209           Fix rhev-apt command that virt-v2v runs in Windows guests on first
210           boot
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212       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1624878
213           Update v2v docs to describe support for SHA 2 certs required for
214           converting Windows 7 and 2008 R2 guests
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216       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1615885
217           Minor log issue of virt-v2v
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219       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1614276
220           VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Read: Read 4096 sectors at 57516160 failed.
221           Error 2 (Memory allocation failed. Out of memory.) (DiskLib error
222           802: NBD_ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES) at 5240.
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224       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1612785
225           "warning: <target dev='sr0'> was ignored because the device name
226           could not be recognized" should be hidden since convert cdrom is
227           supported by virt-v2v
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229       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1611690
230           part_to_dev "/dev/sdp1" returns "/dev/sd" instead of "/dev/sdp"
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232       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1608131
233           inspection fails when swap partition in /etc/fstab has incorrect
234           UUID compared to actual swap partition
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236       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1605071
237           On machines where /dev/kvm exists but KVM doesn't work, libguestfs
238           will not fall back to TCG
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240       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1602353
241           virt-inspector can't inspect LUKS-encrypted RHEL7 guest image
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243       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1601943
244           Improve error "No module named ovirtsdk4" in v2v rhv-upload
245           conversion
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247       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1598715
248           Adding QXL device in OVF causes Cirrus Logic device to be added to
249           guest
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251       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1598350
252           RFE: virt-v2v should preserve <genid>
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254       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1596851
255           Transfer fails if local host is in maintenance mode
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257       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1596810
258           Transfer fails if local host belongs to another DC
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260       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1592468
261           v2v to RHV transfer fails with: error: [empty name]: cannot read
262           '//*/disksection' with value: null
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264       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1592061
265           virt-v2v convert rhel5.3 failure when executing rpm -ql
266           kernel-2.6.18-128.el5 command
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268       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1591789
269           p2v: error: XML error: CPU vendor specified without CPU model
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271       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1590220
272           Hide rhv-upload option in virt-p2v client
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274       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1588451
275           Don't use relative socket paths for NBD
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277       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1588088
278           RFE: Support for -o rhv-upload via Unix domain socket
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280       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1586198
281           ovirt-imageio-daemon times out during migration
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283       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1580309
284           virt-v2v rhel7.6 build can't convert guest to null with qemu-kvm
285           rhel7.5.z build
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287       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1580292
288           Virt-v2v rhel7.6 build can't convert guest with qemu-kvm rhel7.5.z
289           build
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291       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1579047
292           virt-builder: ubuntu-18.04 template has stray HTTP proxy configured
293           for apt
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295       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1575640
296           virt-builder: error: host cpu (x86_64) and guest arch (unknown) are
297           not compatible
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299       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1570407
300           virt-v2v -i ova gives checksum error when missing files are
301           mentioned in .mf
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303       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1567763
304           guestfsd: error: /Windows/Drivers/VirtIO: Read-only file system
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306       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1564983
307           The mount-vfs failed to mount the logical volume
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309       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1561828
310           RHV tools not properly installed in migrated Windows VM's causing
311           boot failure
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313       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1559027
314           virt-v2v does not honor --network with -o rhv-upload
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316       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1557273
317           [RFE] Upload images directly to oVirt (virt-v2v -o rhv-upload)
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319       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1544842
320           [RFE] Add libosinfo short-id to virt-inspector output
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322       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1544674
323           virt-inspector --help differs from manpage
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325       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1544227
326           RFE: recognize the Kali Linux distribution
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328       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1532224
329           Resume=/dev/sdaX can't be updated to resume=/dev/vdaX in rhel7
330           guest's grub file after v2v conversion
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332       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1530967
333           Change categories of "Guest Operating system management by VIX API"
334           in v2v man page
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336       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1527334
337           Various -it vddk -io vddk* options should be documented, removed or
338           fixed
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340       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1148012
341           Reverted: RFE: Allow qemu-bridge-helper to be used to implement
342           guestfs_set_network
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AUTHOR

350       Richard W.M. Jones
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BUGS

371       To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
372       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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374       To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
375       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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377       When reporting a bug, please supply:
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379       •   The version of libguestfs.
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381       •   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
382           source, etc)
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384       •   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
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386       •   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
387           into the bug report.
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