[virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.40 released

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 17 15:19:43 UTC 2019


I'm pleased to announce libguestfs 1.40, a library and a set of tools
for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images.

This release represents about a year of work by many contributors.
I'd like to call out in particular substantial contributions from:
Pino Toscano, Tomáš Golembiovský, Nir Soffer and Nikolay Ivanets.
See the release notes below for full details.

You can get libguestfs 1.40 from here:

   Main website: http://libguestfs.org/ [not updated yet]
         Source: http://libguestfs.org/download/1.40-stable/
         Fedora: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391
 Debian/experimental: https://packages.debian.org/libguestfs0

Rich.

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Release notes for libguestfs 1.40

These are also available online at:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html

   New features
     New features in existing tools

       Virt-inspector now displays the libosinfo short ID for guests (Pino
       Toscano).

       Guestfish -N will now generate 1G disks instead of 100M disks by
       default.

       Virt-resize supports f2fs filesystems (Pino Toscano).

       libguestfs-test-tool now supports bash tab completion (Pino Toscano).

       The --machine-readable option now supports sending output to files or
       stdout/stderr.  This works uniformly across most OCaml-based virt
       tools, specifically: virt-builder, virt-builder-repository, virt-dib,
       virt-get-kernel, virt-resize, virt-sparsify, and virt-v2v (Pino
       Toscano).

       Virt-builder --uninstall option now works on SUSE (Sebastian Meyer).

       Virt-builder now supports Windows.  We are not able to ship Windows
       templates in the public respository for obvious licensing reasons, but
       if you are an MSDN subscriber you may build your own.  See
       https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/13/creating-windows-templates-for-virt-builder/

       Many tools now support a --key option allowing you to pass in
       decryption keys for filesystems stored in local files on the host
       rather than having to feed them in over stdin (Pino Toscano).

     virt-v2v and virt-p2v

       New -o rhv-upload mode for directly uploading images to RHV, bypassing
       the Export Storage Domain (Tomáš Golembiovský, Nir Soffer, Daniel Erez,
       Pino Toscano).

       New -o openstack mode for directly uploading images to OpenStack and
       Cinder using OpenStack APIs.

       Virt-v2v now has a general mechanism for input and output options: -io
       and -oo.

       Virt-v2v can now install the RHV tools or QEMU GA in guests (Tomáš
       Golembiovský).

       The huge manual has now been split into several smaller documents and
       is more focused on helping users to accomplish specific v2v tasks.

       Multiple improvements to the OVF metadata when converting to RHV (Tomáš
       Golembiovský, Pino Toscano, Arik Hadas).

       Virt-v2v can now convert Linux guests with split kernel packages,
       especially Ubuntu 18.04 (Pino Toscano).

       Virt-v2v old --password-file option has been replaced by -ip (the old
       option remains for backwards compatibility).

       Virt-v2v now preserves the VM Generation ID.

       Virt-v2v has a new --mac option allowing specific NICs to be mapped
       precisely to networks or bridges on the target.

       New virt-v2v --print-estimate option to estimate the size of data that
       virt-v2v will copy.

       Virt-v2v is now usually able to remove open-vm-tools and VMware Tools
       from the Linux guest during conversion (Pino Toscano).

       Virt-v2v can now support UEFI conversions to RHV (Tomáš Golembiovský).

       Virt-p2v now prefers you to shut down instead of rebooting the machine
       after conversion has finished (Pino Toscano).

       Virt-v2v now writes the libosinfo short ID to the libvirt metadata when
       using -o local and -o libvirt output modes (Martin Kletzander).

     Language bindings

       OpenJDK 10+ is supported (Pino Toscano).

       Java bindings fixed for Gentoo host (Martin Kletzander).

     Inspection

       Support Kali Linux (Pino Toscano).

       When inspecting mountpoints, look for /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf as well as
       /etc/mdadm.conf (Nikolay Ivanets).

       Improved support for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (Pino Toscano).

     Architectures and platforms

       Miscellaneous macOS build fixes (Adam Robinson).

     Other

       Multiple documentation typos fixed (Yuri Chornoivan).

   Security
       See also guestfs-security(1).

       CVE-2018-11806

       Qemu's slirp (userspace networking) had several buffer overflows which
       could be triggered from the guest or network side.

   API
       New APIs

       "f2fs_expand"
           Expand an f2fs filesystem (Pino Toscano).

       "inspect_get_osinfo"
           Get the libosinfo short ID for the inspected guest (Pino Toscano).

       "lvm_scan"
           This rescans all PVs, VGs and LVs, optionally activating them.

       Other API changes

       "part_get_mbr_part_type" was reimplemented in OCaml (Nikolay Ivanets).

       "list_filesystems" now filters out MBR extended partitions (Nikolay
       Ivanets).

       "vgscan" has been deprecated.  Use the new "lvm_scan" API in
       preference.

   Build changes
       The JSON library switched from yajl to Jansson ≥ 2.7 (Pino Toscano).

       Support for The Sleuth Kit 4.5 (Pino Toscano).

       Multiple improvements in the "./configure" script (Lin Ma).

       More out-of-tree build fixes (Hilko Bengen).

       Some work on reproducible builds (Bernhard M. Wiedemann).

   Internals
       lvmetad is now used unconditionally, and is started much earlier in the
       appliance boot process.  This fixes support for certain PV types.

       On Debian, dash is installed inside the appliance and in virt-rescue
       (Pino Toscano).

       The amount of RAM assigned to the appliance has been increased from
       500M to 768M (on x86_64, other architectures have different limits).
       This enables use of up to 255 disks when using recent Linux kernels.

       Virt-v2v now models the source machine type (eg. i440FX, Q35 or virt).

       Virt-p2v now generates configuration code automatically, also code for
       parsing the kernel command line.

       Use "LT_INIT" instead of "AC_PROG_LIBTOOL".

       The OCaml "JSON" code for parsing and serializing has been unified into
       a single abstract data type.

       Most OCaml tools are now built using the PIC runtime.  This has a
       performance penalty on i686, but is relatively free on other
       architectures and has security benefits.

       The direct backend now queries the qemu binary for availability of KVM,
       instead of using a heuristic based on /dev/kvm (Andrea Bolognani).

       Our "clever" libxml2 writer macros are now used consistently across all
       parts of the code base.

       Qemu dropped -nodefconfig without telling us.  The equivalent
       -no-user-config option is now used instead.  Qemu also moved the
       "serial" option from -drive to -device, again without any notice, and
       this is also fixed.

   Bugs fixed
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1664310
           [RHEL 7.6 LP] openstack output leaks passwords

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1661038
           virt-inspector fails with "error: int_of_string" on a Linux image
           when /etc/fstab contains a partionless device

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1651432
           v2v - support for -insecure option to support OSP SSL connection
           for VM migrations

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1642044
           [RFE] virt-p2v UI should give the option to shutdown after
           conversion is finished

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1634248
           virt-v2v cannot convert opensuse15 guest

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1624902
           Fix rhev-apt command that virt-v2v runs in Windows guests on first
           boot

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1624878
           Update v2v docs to describe support for SHA 2 certs required for
           converting Windows 7 and 2008 R2 guests

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1615885
           Minor log issue of virt-v2v

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1614276
           VixDiskLib: VixDiskLib_Read: Read 4096 sectors at 57516160 failed.
           Error 2 (Memory allocation failed. Out of memory.) (DiskLib error
           802: NBD_ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES) at 5240.

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1612785
           "warning: <target dev='sr0'> was ignored because the device name
           could not be recognized" should be hidden since convert cdrom is
           supported by virt-v2v

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1611690
           part_to_dev "/dev/sdp1" returns "/dev/sd" instead of "/dev/sdp"

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1608131
           inspection fails when swap partition in /etc/fstab has incorrect
           UUID compared to actual swap partition

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1605071
           On machines where /dev/kvm exists but KVM doesn't work, libguestfs
           will not fall back to TCG

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1602353
           virt-inspector can't inspect LUKS-encrypted RHEL7 guest image

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1601943
           Improve error "No module named ovirtsdk4" in v2v rhv-upload
           conversion

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1598715
           Adding QXL device in OVF causes Cirrus Logic device to be added to
           guest

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1598350
           RFE: virt-v2v should preserve <genid>

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1596851
           Transfer fails if local host is in maintenance mode

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1596810
           Transfer fails if local host belongs to another DC

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1592468
           v2v to RHV transfer fails with: error: [empty name]: cannot read
           '//*/disksection' with value: null

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1592061
           virt-v2v convert rhel5.3 failure when executing rpm -ql
           kernel-2.6.18-128.el5 command

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1591789
           p2v: error: XML error: CPU vendor specified without CPU model

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1590220
           Hide rhv-upload option in virt-p2v client

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1588451
           Don't use relative socket paths for NBD

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1588088
           RFE: Support for -o rhv-upload via Unix domain socket

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1586198
           ovirt-imageio-daemon times out during migration

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1580309
           virt-v2v rhel7.6 build can't convert guest to null with qemu-kvm
           rhel7.5.z build

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1580292
           Virt-v2v rhel7.6 build can't convert guest with qemu-kvm rhel7.5.z
           build

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1579047
           virt-builder: ubuntu-18.04 template has stray HTTP proxy configured
           for apt

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1575640
           virt-builder: error: host cpu (x86_64) and guest arch (unknown) are
           not compatible

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1570407
           virt-v2v -i ova gives checksum error when missing files are
           mentioned in .mf

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1567763
           guestfsd: error: /Windows/Drivers/VirtIO: Read-only file system

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1564983
           The mount-vfs failed to mount the logical volume

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1561828
           RHV tools not properly installed in migrated Windows VM's causing
           boot failure

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1559027
           virt-v2v does not honor --network with -o rhv-upload

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1557273
           [RFE] Upload images directly to oVirt (virt-v2v -o rhv-upload)

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1544842
           [RFE] Add libosinfo short-id to virt-inspector output

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1544674
           virt-inspector --help differs from manpage

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1544227
           RFE: recognize the Kali Linux distribution

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1532224
           Resume=/dev/sdaX can't be updated to resume=/dev/vdaX in rhel7
           guest's grub file after v2v conversion

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1530967
           Change categories of "Guest Operating system management by VIX API"
           in v2v man page

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1527334
           Various -it vddk -io vddk* options should be documented, removed or
           fixed

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1148012
           Reverted: RFE: Allow qemu-bridge-helper to be used to implement
           guestfs_set_network



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