guestfs-release-notes-1.28(1) Virtualization Support (NAME) guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs LIBGUESTFS 1.28 (RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.28) / (1.26.0) . git ChangeLog tarball . (New features) (Tools) virt-v2v(1) virt-p2v(1) ( VMware Xen) KVM . . libguestfs . virt-p2v ( Ruby C) virt-v2v qemu . virt-v2v(1) : VMware vCenter VMware OVA libvirt RHEL 5 Xen. : oVirt Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV-M) OpenStack Glance libvirt qemu . virt-log(1) (log) . journal event log . virt-builder(1) "--machine-readable" virt-builder . --chmod virt-builder(1) virt-customize(1). virt-sysprep(1) : journal systemd anaconda lightdm debian-installer apt exim ConsoleKit firewalld grubby proftpd libvirt/libxml . "user-account" virt-sysprep (Pino Toscano). --fd guestmount(1) guestmount (captive) . virt-sparsify(1) --tmp . virt-sparsify(1) (block device) . virt-customize(1) virt-sysprep(1) firstboot Windows . virt-cat(1) virt-edit(1) virt-ls(1) -m (Pino Toscano). virt : OK . (Language bindings) "make -C python sdist" Python . Ruby "Test::Unit" "MiniTest" . Java OpenJDK 8 (Pino Toscano). (Inspection) Oracle Linux "oraclelinux" (Nikos Skalkotos). Linux /etc/fstab (Pino Toscano). Minix "minix" (Pino Toscano). (Architectures) Aarch64 ( ARM ) . "guestfs_file_architecture" arm ( ) aarch64 ..SS " (Security)" CVE-2014-0191 XML Libguestfs libxml2 XML libvirt . XML . XML CPU . XML libvirt ( libvirt) . libguestfs >= 1.27.9 >= 1.26.2 >= 1.24.9 >= 1.22.10 >= 1.20.13 . ( : Dan Berrange Pino Toscano). Shellshock (bash CVE-2014-6271) bash libguestfs . : https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-September/msg00252.html (API) "guestfs_clear_backend_setting" "guestfs_get_backend_setting" "guestfs_set_backend_setting" . "guestfs_cpio_out" cpio. "guestfs_journal_get_realtime_usec" sd_journal_get_realtime_usec(3). "guestfs_lstatns" "guestfs_lstatnslist" "guestfs_statns" "guestfs_lstat" "guestfs_lstatlist" "guestfs_stat" . (Build changes) Libguestfs qemu 2.x . appliance Mageia ( Joseph Wang Thierry Vignaud). Augeas . Flex bison . (Internals) User-Mode Linux (UML) ( ). (Linux) UML . "LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=gdb" gdb qemu . (sgabios) libvirt ( x86) BIOS . virt OCaml . GCC . . appliance . . : tests/qemu/qemu-boot.c qemu virtio-serial . : tests/qemu/qemu-speed-test.c GCC OCaml-C virt OCaml . virt-edit(1) "edit" guestfish(1) --edit virt-customize(1) ( Pino Toscano). FUSE C . update-bugs.sh Bugzilla "BUGS" . virt-resize(1) (stochastic) . appliance DHCP IP . libvirt appliance "virbr0" ( "LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=network_bridge=" ). ICMP ping ..SS " (Bugs fixed)" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1153515 LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND ( ) libguestfs: error: invalid backend: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1151766 libguestfs-bash-completion /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/virt-log _virt_log() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1151738 virt-edit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1151033 virt-v2v VMware vCenter https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1150880 virt-v2v: : rhel5 sdl https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1150867 'copy-file-to-file /src /dest' /dest 'copy-file-to-file /src /dest' https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1150815 "RECURSIVE LONG LISTING" 'man virt-diff' https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1150701 virt-v2v fstrim https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1150475 RHEV https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1148355 virt-filesystems: LVM vg Fedora 21 Alpha Atomic https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1148072 --no-selinux-relabel https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1148012 (RFE): qemu-bridge-helper guestfs_set_network https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1146815 virt-v2v : /files/etc/fstab/8/spec references unknown device "cdrom" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1146275 virt-builder/virt-customize https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1146017 virt-v2v -v -x hivex: hivex_open: used block id https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1145995 (unclean) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1145916 virt-v2v win7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1144891 (RFE): stat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1144766 futimens() guestmount (no-op) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1144201 guestfish https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1143949 '--password-crypto' virt-customize https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1143887 rhev: chown: changing ownership of `/tmp/v2v.u48xag/*.ovf': Invalid argument https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1143883 rhel7: virt-v2v:could not update grub2 console: aug_get: no matching node (ignored) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1143866 virt-v2v : cannot open Packages index using db5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142416 part-get-name 'part-get-name /dev/sda 1' 'libguestfs: error: part_get_name: parted does not support the machine output (-m)' https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142186 '--mount-options' virt-sysprep https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142158 'part-get-name /dev/sda1 1' (crash) libguestfs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1142004 virt-v2v : WARNING:/files/boot/grub/device.map references unknown device "xvda" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141723 xen hvm virt-v2v: error: disk sda has no defined format https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141680 [ ] virt-v2 UUID https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141631 [ ] virt-v2 dir-pool uuid (pool) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141157 '--user-accounts' virt-sysprep https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141145 virt-v2v xen pv . https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1141113 virt-v2v esx https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140946 qemu-img backing file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140894 '--format qcow2' '-a guest.img' guest.img (raw) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140547 '--format' virt-builder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140156 (RFE): RHEV https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1140050 virt-v2v https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139973 xen SSH https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1139543 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138586 virt-v2v https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138184 virt-v2v initramfs-*kdump.img /boot https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1138182 xen virt-v2v (kernel panic) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1130189 /dev/kvm https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1123007 (backend) 'direct' libguestfs exec qemu !O_CLOEXEC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1122557 virt-sparsify https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1113156 fstab libguestfs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1111662 Guestfs.Error("vgchange_uuid_all: Volume group has active logical volumes") https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1109174 virt-win-reg https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1106548 (root) guestmount VMDK https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1103877 API `guestfish -h` https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1102448 mageia https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1102447 libguestfs 1.27.13 libxml https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1100498 (RFE): (non-polling) guestmount --no-fork https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1099490 scrub-file (link) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1099284 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1098718 (RFE): (aliases) virt-builder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1096465 "proxy=off" virt-builder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1094746 virt-sparsify qcow2 ( ).IP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1092753 4 virt-builder: os-version -l https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1091803 tar-in-opts libguestfs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1088424 virt-resize: libguestfs error: part_set_name: parted: /dev/sdb: Error during translation: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1088262 virt-builder block device https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1085029 Ruby Ruby https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079210 virt-sparsify --in-place (sparsify) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079182 virt-df 6.5 windows https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1077817 virt-builder: "syntax error at line 3: syntax error" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1056290 block device virt-sparsify https://bugzilla.redhat.com/812970 virt-rescue Ubuntu 12.04 >= (SEE ALSO) guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1), guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1), guestfs(3), guestfish(1), http://libguestfs.org (AUTHORS) Richard W.M. 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