2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
NEWS file for libvirt
Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
http://libvirt.org/news.html
2009-08-05 14:00:41 +00:00
0.7.0: Aug 5 2009:
- New features: Interface implementation based on netcf (Laine Stump,
Daniel Veillard), Add new net filesystem glusterfs (Harshavardhana),
Initial VMWare ESX driver (Matthias Bolte), Add support for VBox
3 and event callbacks on vbox (Pritesh Kothari), First version
of the Power Hypervisor driver (Eduardo Otubo), Run QEMU guests
as an unprivileged user (Daniel P. Berrange), Support cgroups
in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange), QEmu hotplug NIC support
(Mark McLoughlin), Storage cloning for LVM and Disk backends(Cole
Robinson), Switching to GIT (Jim Meyering)
- Documentation: Typo and comment fixes (Aron Griffis),
Fix virCapabilitiesDefaultGuestMachine documentation. (Chris
Lalancette), ESX Scheduler documentation and cleanup (Matthias
Bolte), Update the java bindings page (Bryan Kearney), Added
Matthias Bolte to AUTHORS list (Daniel Veillard), doc: clone+build
instructions (Jim Meyering), docs: say that the old repository
is deprecated... (Jim Meyering), document tcp listen and raw
wire option (Guido Günther), Fix docs and code disagreements
for character devices. (Cole Robinson), Fix documentation of
virStoragePoolUndefine return (Thomas Treutner), Fix gitweb link on
download page. (Cole Robinson), update download informations after
switch to git (Daniel Veillard), Update links to bugzilla (Garry
Dolley), Update the links for RHEL libvirt bugzillas (Garry Dolley)
- Portability: Xen Inotify support needs sys/inotify.h
(Maximilian Wilhelm), Workaround for broken GCC in Debian Etch
(Maximilian Wilhelm), LXC driver requires sched.h and unshare()
(Maximilian Wilhelm), Configure UML support only if sys/inotify.h
present (Maximilian Wilhelm), Fix libcurl automatic check and ESX
status (Maximilian Wilhelm), Enable ESX driver build on Mingw32
(Daniel P. Berrange), Fix build on mingw32 by disabling netcf
(Daniel P. Berrange), Reduce glusterfs dependency to 2.0.1
(Mark McLoughlin), Desactivate phyp build and indicate libssh
builreq (Daniel Veillard), Fix misc Win32 compile warnings
(Daniel P. Berrange), Rename variable for compilation in Mingw32
(end) (Laine Stump), Rename variable for compilation in Mingw32
(Laine Stump), rpm spec cleanup and split off client only package
(Daniel Veillard)
- Bug fixes: Add uniqueness checking for LXC define/create methods
(Daniel P. Berrange), Fix removal of transient VMs when LXC aborts
(Daniel P. Berrange), Don't try to activate cgroups if not present
for LXC (Daniel P. Berrange), Refresh /etc/xen if inotify wasn't
(Cole Robinson), Don't loose id on xen domain redefine (Cole
Robinson), Fix memory leak in openvz driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
Protected against potential crash scenarios (Daniel P. Berrange),
Fix crash when attempting to shutdown inactive QEMU vm (Daniel
P. Berrange), Fix PCIe FLR detection (Mark McLoughlin), Set perms
on /var/lib/libvirt/images to 0711 (Mark McLoughlin), Fix problem
writing QEMU pidfile (Daniel P. Berrange), Fix vcpupin on Xen
problem (Henrik Persson), Fix RPM upgrades from F11 to F12 (Daniel
P. Berrange), Fix deadlock in remote driver domain events (Daniel
P. Berrange), qemu: fix monitor socket reconnection (Ryota Ozaki),
Fix polkit/netcf disabling on older fedoras (Mark McLoughlin),
Fix crashes in Xen capabilities code (Daniel P. Berrange),
Always add -no-kvm and -no-kqemu, for qemu domains (Jim Paris),
Avoid raising an internal error (Paolo Bonzini), Don't allow NULL
paths for BlockStats and InterfaceStats (Cole Robinson), Don't
leak vm-monitorpath on re-connect (Mark McLoughlin), Don't restore
labels on shared/readonly disks (Daniel P. Berrange), Ensure spawned
children have a stderr/out set to /dev/null if requested (Daniel
P. Berrange), Ensure test:/// URIs get routed to the non-privileged
libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange), fix another failing "make distcheck"
(qemuhelptest) (Jim Meyering), Fix an uninitialized variable
in Unix socket open (Jun Koi), Fix configure flags in spec file
(Daniel Veillard), Fix error reporting for security driver over
remote protocol (Daniel P. Berrange), fix failing "make distcheck"
(Jim Meyering), Fix free of unitialized data upon PCI open fail
(Daniel P. Berrange), Fix informations about previous git server
(Daniel Veillard), Fix memory leaks in esxDomainDumpXML (Matthias
Bolte), Fix multiple memory leaks in virsh (Laine Stump), Fix PCI
device hotplug/unplug with newer QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange), Fix
problem with QEMU monitor welcome prompt confusing libvirt after a
libvirtd daemon restart with active guests (Daniel P. Berrange),
Fix python examples to use read-write conn (Dan Kenigsberg), Fix
reconnect bug for VBox (Pritesh Kothari), Fix SELinux denial during
hotplug (Daniel P. Berrange), Fix typo in check for glusterfs format
pools (Daniel P. Berrange), Fix typo in storage cloning (Daniel
P. Berrange), qemu: Check driver is initialized up front, to avoid
segfault. (Cole Robinson), qemu: Try multiple times to open unix
monitor socket (Cole Robinson), Release conn lock before reporting
errors (end) (Laine Stump), Release conn lock before reporting
interface errors (Laine Stump), Remove the network backend if NIC
hotplug fails (Mark McLoughlin), Set specific flags for glusterfs
fs mounts (Harshavardhana), storage: disk: Default to 'ext2' for
new volumes. (Cole Robinson), storage: disk: Fix parthelper '-g'
option handling. (Cole Robinson), storage: disk: Fix segfault
creating volume without target path (Cole Robinson), storage:
Fix deadlock when cloning across pools. (Cole Robinson), Update
modified mac address in place in virGetInterface (Laine Stump)
- Improvements: Add an allocation unit when calling qemu-img
(Ryota Ozaki), Improve diagnostics when pidfile writing fails
(Daniel P. Berrange), Disable IPv6 on virtual networks (Daniel
P. Berrange), Allow dnsmasq to provide DNS without DHCP (Daniel
P. Berrange), Fix an initialization problem in previous patch
(Aron Griffis), Remove MAX_TAP_ID and let kernel do numbering
(Aron Griffis), Kernel command line support for UML (Ron Yorston),
Activate the interface drivers, and cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
Add an error code for conflicting mac addresses (Laine Stump),
Add a test interface driver (Laine Stump), Add canonical machine
name to capabilities output (Mark McLoughlin), add cd and pwd
commands to virsh (Paolo Bonzini), Add checks for some NIC hotplug
related features added in qemu-0.10.0 (Mark McLoughlin), Add
domain autostart for LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange), Add domain
events support to LXC driver (Daniel P. Berrange), Add interface
object list manipulation functions (Laine Stump), Add internal XML
parsing/formatting flag (Mark McLoughlin), Add netcf XML schemas
and test data (Daniel Veillard), Add new net filesystem glusterfs
(Harshavardhana), Add NIC and hostnet names to domain state XML
(Mark McLoughlin), Add no_verify query parameter to ESX URIs
(Matthias Bolte), Add SCM_RIGHTS support to QEMU monitor code
(Mark McLoughlin), Add support for attaching network/bridge NICs
in QEMU driver (Mark McLoughlin), add support for netcf XML import
and export (Daniel Veillard), Add support for network device detach
(Mark McLoughlin), Add support for physical memory access for QEmu
(Nguyen Anh Quynh), Add support for VBox 3 and event callbacks on
vbox (Pritesh Kothari), Add the monitor type to the domain state
XML (Mark McLoughlin), Add virCapsGuestMachine structure (Mark
McLoughlin), Add virsh commands for network interface management
(Laine Stump), Allow autostart of libvirtd to be disabled with
LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART=0 (Daniel P. Berrange), Allow leading dots in VMX
config entry names (Matthias Bolte), Assign names to qemu NICs and
network backends (Mark McLoughlin), Basic qemu NIC hotplug support
(Mark McLoughlin), build: adjust aclocal's search patch to prefer
gnulib's m4 files. (Jim Meyering), build: automatically rerun
./bootstrap when needed (Jim Meyering), build: make autogen.sh use
autoreconf -if (Jim Meyering), build: submodule machinery now works
also when no tag is reachable (Jim Meyering), Canonicalize qemu
machine types (Mark McLoughlin), Change code generator to give async
event messages their own postfix (Daniel P. Berrange), Change the
way client event loop watches are managed (Daniel P. Berrange),
Decode incoming request header before invoking dispatch code
(Daniel P. Berrange), Define an API for registering incoming message
dispatch filters (Daniel P. Berrange), ESX driver accept VI API
version 4.0 (Matthias Bolte), Fill in vCPU - pCPU current mapping,
and vCPU cpuTime for QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange), generate ChangeLog
from git logs into distribution tarball (Jim Meyering), Implement
qemu dump capabilities (Paolo Bonzini), Implement schedular
tunables API using cgroups (Daniel P. Berrange), Implement the
new virinterface functions (Laine Stump), Make cgroups a little
more efficient (Daniel P. Berrange), Make it easier to debug tests
running programs (Daniel P. Berrange), Make qemuBuildHostNetStr()
take tapfd as a string (Mark McLoughlin), Make QEMU cgroups use
configurable (Daniel P. Berrange), Make qemuCmdFlags available in
qemudDomainAttachDevice() (Mark McLoughlin), Move queuing of RPC
replies into dispatch code (Daniel P. Berrange), Move vnet_hdr logic
into qemudNetworkIfaceConnect() and export it (Mark McLoughlin),
Netcf based interface driver implementation (Laine Stump), netcf
XML validation and input and output tests (Daniel Veillard), Only
probe qemu for machine types when binary changes (Mark McLoughlin),
Place every QEMU guest in a private cgroup (Daniel P. Berrange),
Probe for QEMU machine types (Mark McLoughlin), Probe QEMU directly
for machine aliases if not found in capabilties (Mark McLoughlin),
Public API for new virInterface functions (Laine Stump), python:
Raise exceptions if virDomain*Stats fail. (Cole Robinson), Refactor
cgroups to allow a group per driver to be managed directly (Daniel
P. Berrange), Re-factor pci_add reply parsing and parse domain/bus
numbers (Mark McLoughlin), Retain disk PCI address across libvirtd
restarts (Mark McLoughlin), Retain PCI address from NIC attach
(Mark McLoughlin), Run QEMU guests as an unprivileged user (Daniel
P. Berrange), Separate code for encoding outgoing remote message
headers (Daniel P. Berrange), Split generic RPC message dispatch
code out from remote protocol API handlers (Daniel P. Berrange),
Split out code for handling incoming method call messages
(Daniel P. Berrange), storage: Break out actual raw cloning to
separate function. (Cole Robinson), storage: cleanup: do away with
'createFile' (Cole Robinson), storage: disk: Use capacity, not
allocation, when creating volume. (Cole Robinson), storage: Don't
try sparse detection if writing to block device. (Cole Robinson),
storage: Implement 'CreateBlockFrom' helper. (Cole Robinson),
storage: Implement CreateVolFrom for logical and disk backend. (Cole
Robinson), storage: Move most of the FS creation functions to
common backend. (Cole Robinson), storage: Refactor FS backend
'create' function choosing. (Cole Robinson), Store the interface
vlan number in the domain state (Mark McLoughlin), Support video
element for QEMU guests (Daniel P. Berrange), Support video tag
for defining VGA card properties (Daniel P. Berrange), Switch to
using a unix socket for the qemu monitor (Mark McLoughlin), test:
Generate net interface names when assigning XML. (Cole Robinson),
test: Implement BlockStats and InterfaceStats (Cole Robinson),
Use cgroups for block device whitelisting in QEMU guests (Daniel
P. Berrange), Use enums for cgroup controller types / labels
(Daniel P. Berrange), Use sendmsg() on QEMU monitor socket (Mark
McLoughlin), Use virDomainChrTypeFromString() instead of open
coding (Mark McLoughlin), Use virFileReadAll/virFileWriteStr for
key cgroup read/write helpers (Daniel P. Berrange), virGetinterface
matching of MAC and interface name (Laine Stump)
- Cleanups: Fix configure checks from previous commits (Daniel
P. Berrange), Avoid a warning if compiling without inotify
(Daniel P. Berrange), Remove a stray semicolon (Daniel Veillard),
Extend the ESX URL to habdle ports and GSX (Matthias Bolte), Fix
escaping of 8-bit high characters (Daniel P. Berrange), , Remove
ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED from flags to qemudDomainMigratePerform. (Chris
Lalancette), Add a comment about setting errors after
qemudStartVMDaemon(). (Chris Lalancette), Fix an erroneous
debug error to KVM; it should read QEMU/KVM. (Chris Lalancette),
Remove a stray semicolon in qemudDomainMigratePrepare2. (Chris
Lalancette), Convert a few stray users of free() in libvirt.c
to VIR_FREE(). (Chris Lalancette), Use virGetHostname instead
of gethostname. (Chris Lalancette), Fix up a minor indentation
issue with virDomainMigratePrepare. (Chris Lalancette), Fix up a
silly typo in apibuild.py. (Chris Lalancette), Avoid warning when
compiling without IFF_VNET_HDR (Maximilian Wilhelm), Capilize
libvirt-client summary (Mark McLoughlin), Move ldconfig calls
to libvirt-client %post/%postun (Mark McLoughlin), Convert NEWS
to UTF-8 (Mark McLoughlin), Fix trailing whitespace in NEWS
(Mark McLoughlin), No need to build require both python-devel
and python (Mark McLoughlin), Remove executable perms from
/etc/sysconfig/libvirtd (Mark McLoughlin), Use a %postun -p for
one line scriptlet (Mark McLoughlin), Don't explicitly require
libxml2 (Mark McLoughlin), Fix some unowned directories (Mark
McLoughlin), Kill qemu BuildRequires (Mark McLoughlin), Enable
netcf by default (Mark McLoughlin), Default to with_polkit
(Mark McLoughlin), Make vbox support configurable (Mark
McLoughlin), Build with --without-capng if capng is disabled
(Mark McLoughlin), BuildRequires libcap-ng-devel not capng-devel
(Mark McLoughlin), Drop curl host check when using ESX without
check (Shahar Klein), Fix typo in xen capabilities code (Daniel
P. Berrange), Add bare format string to printf-derivatives troubles
(Laine Stump), Add phyp files to POTFILES, to make syntax-check
happy. (Cole Robinson), avoid a make distcheck failure: distribute
docs/schemas/interface.rng (Jim Meyering), avoid a make distcheck
failure: distribute tests/interfaceschemadata/ (Jim Meyering), avoid
a "make syntax-check" failure (Jim Meyering), build: do not emit
a trailing blank line into VC'd file, NEWS (Jim Meyering), build:
update from gnulib, for latest maint.mk (Jim Meyering), Clean up
error handling in qemudDomainAttachNetDevice() (Mark McLoughlin),
Cleanup qemu binary detection logic in qemudCapsInitGuest() (Mark
McLoughlin), Commit newly generated docs, after changes from
commit 2348cf. (Cole Robinson), Factor qemuBuildHostNetStr()
out from qemuBuildCommandLine() (Mark McLoughlin), Factor
qemuBuildNicStr() out from qemuBuildCommandLine() (Mark McLoughlin),
Factor qemudMonitorSend() out of qemudMonitorCommandExtra() (Mark
McLoughlin), Fix cgroup compile warnings (Daniel P. Berrange),
Fix misc build problems due to new drivers (Daniel P. Berrange),
Fix wierd build problems due to autopoint overwriting gnulib m4
(Daniel P. Berrange), Makefile.cfg: Rename to... (Jim Meyering),
make .gnulib a submodule (Jim Meyering), make "make syntax-check"
consistent with "git diff --check" (Jim Meyering), Minor qemu
monitor coding style fixes (Mark McLoughlin), Prepare to use
maint.mk from gnulib (Jim Meyering), Refactor incoming message
handling to prepare for data stream support (Daniel P. Berrange),
Refactor message sending to allow code reuse for data streams
(Daniel P. Berrange), remove all .cvsignore files (Jim Meyering),
remove all trailing blank lines (Jim Meyering), Remove some unused
variables and cut long lines (Daniel Veillard), Remove trailing
blank lines (Daniel Veillard), Rename a bunch of internal methods
to clarify their meaning (Daniel P. Berrange), Rename 'direction'
to 'type' in remote_message_header (Daniel P. Berrange), Report
the object name on lookup error (Daniel Veillard), Simplify remote
driver error reporting (Daniel P. Berrange), skip some of gnulib's
new rules (Jim Meyering), use automake-1.11's silent-rules
option, when possible (Jim Meyering), use gnumakefile and
maintainer-makefile modules from gnulib (Jim Meyering)
2009-07-16 20:46:43 +00:00
0.6.5: Jul 3 2009:
- New features: create storage columes on disk backend (Henrik Persson),
drop of capabilities based on libcap-ng when possible (Daniel
Berrange)
- Portability: fix build on non-Linux targets (Daniel Berrange)
- Documentation: typo and english fixes (Runa Bhattacharjee and
Garry Dolley), Docs on extending APIs (Dave Allan), cleanup
of debug and logging documentation (Amy Griffis), add
HACKING doc to the website (Daniel Berrange),
documentation for OpenNebula driver (Abel Miguez Rodriguez)
- Bug fixes: forbid autostart on transcient networks,
xen device removal crash (Daniel Berrange), re-detection of
transient VMs after libvirtd restart(Daniel Berrange),
bug in virFindFileInPath (Daniel Berrange), handle new
availheap sysctl in Xen (Daniel Berrange), allow USB hostdev
product 0 (Cole Robinson), cleanup when creating a storage pool
fails (Henrik Persson), domain id fix on redefinition in
test driver (Cole Robinson), fix raw storage allocation (Cole
Robinson), memory reporting for inactive qemu drivers (Cole
Robinson), segfault if storage pool has no type attribute (Cole
Robinson), OpenNebula compilation issues (Javier Fontan),
dominfo command without security driver (Daniel Berrange),
domain state problems after migration or destroy (Federico
Simoncelli), leak in node device parsing (Dave Allan),
storage pool definitions reading at startup (Cole Robinson),
bogus WWN in NPIV support (David Allan), avoid a segfault with
recent Xen (Sascha), cope with libnuma failures on weird
topologies (Dan Berrange), crash in QEMU driver with bad capabilities
data (Dan Berrange), trying to re-create a pool should not destroy
it (Dave Allan), endless loop in node device XML dump (Cole Robinson),
Re-label shared and readonly images (Dan Berrange)
- Improvements: create and destroy NPIV support (David Allan),
networking in UML driver (Daniel Berrange), HAL driver restart
thread safety (Daniel Berrange), capabilities and nodeinfo
APIs for LXC (Daniel Berrange), iNUMA API for VBox (Daniel Berrange),
dynamically search and use kvm-img qemu-img or qcow-create (Doug
Goldstein), fix qemu and kvm version parsing (Mark McLoughlin),
serial number for HAL storage (Dave Allan), improve error reporting
for virConnectOpen URIs (Daniel Berrange), include OS driver name
in device XML (Daniel Berrange), fix qemu command flags fetching
(Cole Robinson), check that qemu support -drive format= (Cole
Robinson), improve emulator detection (Cole Robinson), changes
to config parser to accomodate VMX syntax (Matthias Bolte),
update network schemas and driver for missing elements (Satoru SATOH),
avoid changing file context if not needed (Tim Waugh),
skip labelling if no src path (Cole Robinson), add arm emulation
if qemu-system-arm is present (C.J. Adams-Collier)
- Cleanups: daemon check logging env variables (Daniel Berrange),
User Mode Linux start and stop cleanups (Daniel Berrange),
share the NUMA api implementations (Daniel Berrange), storage
module dependancies (Dave Allan), refactor storage XML parsing
(Cole Robinson), big cleanup of logging code (Amy Griffis),
superfluous % on format (Matthias Bolte), cleanups and updates
on OpenNebula driver (Daniel Berrange and Abel Miguez Rodriguez)
2009-05-29 16:51:15 +00:00
0.6.4: May 29 2009:
- New features: new API virStorageVolCreateXMLFrom (Cole Robinson),
full VBox graphic capabilities (Pritesh Kothari), Interface config
APIs (Laine Stump), APIs for domain XML conversions (Daniel
Berrange), initial version of OpenNebula driver (Abel Miguez
Rodriguez)
- Portability: better compiler warning selection (Daniel Berrange),
Win32 portability fixes (Daniel Berrange)
- Documentation: documentation for <sound> device XML format (Cole
Robinson), storage format documentation fixes (Ryota Ozaki),
docs for XML conversion APIs (Daniel Berrange), inconsistencies
in storage volume docs and schemas (Ryota Ozaki)
- Bug fixes: fix hostdev managed handling (Mark McLoughlin),
lxc_controller should not cash without args (Guido Gunther),
bug fixes in I/O routines (Guido Gunther), fix migrationsave/restore
for QEmu 0.10.0 (Daniel Berrange), avoid crash on VBox init
(Guido Gunther), fix dev and cgroup init in LXC (Ryota Ozaki),
QEmu startup fix (Cole Robinson), block node reboots from LXCs (Ryota
Ozaki), QEmu argv detection fix for recent kvm (Daniel Berrange),
fix watch/timer event deletion (Daniel Berrange), fix XML escaping
bug, various locking bugs (Daniel Berrange), avoid a deadlock in
HAL nodedev driver (Cole Robinson), detection of node device media
insert/eject (Cole Robinson), broken networking with new QEMU/KVM
>= 86 (Daniel Berrange), various fixes in domain and network
startup error report (Cole Robinson), double free on unexpected
client disconnect (Daniel Berrange)
- Improvements: cleanups and doc on virExec (Cole Robinson), error
reporting in QEmu migrations (Cole Robinson), better path and driver
detection in VBox (Pritesh Kothari), avoid caching QEMU driver
capabilities(Cole Robinson), multiple graphics elements definitions
(Pritesh Kothari), LSB init header init.d improvements (Frederik
Himpe), special erro code for invalid operations (Daniel Berrange),
dlopen error logging (Daniel Berrange), fix UUID and name uniqueness
(Daniel Berrange), improvement on VBox initialization (Pritesh
Kothari and Dan Berrange), "Host only" and "Internal" network in VBox
(Pritesh Kothari), add utility virExecDaemonize (Cole Robinson),
enable bridges without IP (Ludwig Nussel), 'make -s' silencing
(Daniel Berrange), test case for exercising the event loop (Daniel
Berrange), virsh commands vol-clone and vol-create-from (Cole
Robinson), new xend don't use [] around cpumaps (Tatsuro Enokura),
add the CIL mutex lock checker (Daniel Berrange), fix some LXC
error code (Amy Griffis), virInterface python bindings (Daniel
Berrange), fix to the example code for event handling (Pritesh
Kothari), always add location informations to logging (Daniel
Berrange), python domain events example and binding (Daniel
Berrange), PPC Qemu Machine Type update (Thomas Baker)
- Cleanups: strings bug in virsh (Daniel Berrange), various cleanups
in storage code (Cole Robinson), rpm spec cleanups, destructors
data cleanups (Laine Stump), some QEmu code refactoring (Daniel
Berrange), avoid dependancy on libcap (Daniel Berrange), python
import cleanup (Cole Robinson), virAsprintf based cleanups in
storage code (Cole Robinson), fix some direct stderr logging,
OpenNebula driver cleanups (Daniel Berrange)
2009-04-24 14:04:54 +00:00
0.6.3: Apr 24 2009:
- New features: VirtualBox driver support (Pritesh Kothari),
virt-xml-validate new command (Daniel Berrange)
- Portability: patch to build on Centos (Joseph Shraibman),
build breakage (Anton Protopopov),
- Documentation: Linux Containers documentation (Serge Hallyn),
improvement and updates of architecture pages, fix
virNodeGetFreeMemory documentation to reflect reality,
man page cleanups (Daniel Berrange), man page typo
(Robert P. J. Day), VirtualBox Documentation (Pritesh Kothari),
- Bug fixes: veth off-by-one error (Dan Smith), vcpupin to inactive
Xen crash (Takahashi Tomohiro), virsh ttyconsole return value,
use format= not fmt= on QEmu commandline (Mark McLoughlin),
use UUID for internal domain lookups (Daniel Berrange), remote
domain ID related bugs (Daniel Berrange), QEmu pidfile handling
bugs (Daniel Berrange), network config handling on old Xen (Daniel
Berrange)
- Improvements: add SCSI storage rescan (David Allan), rootless
LXC containers support improvements (Serge Hallyn), getHostname
support for LXC (Dan Smith), cleanup and logging output of some
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
domain functions (Guido Günther), drop pool lock when allocating
2009-04-24 14:04:54 +00:00
volumes (Cole Robinson), LXC handle kernel without CLONE_NEWUSER
support (Serge Hallyn), cpu pinning on defined Xen domains (Takahashi
Tomohiro), dynamic bridge names support (Soren Hansen), LXC use
of private /dev/pts when available (Daniel Berrange),
virNodeDeviceCreateXML and virNodeDeviceDestroy entry points
(Dave Allan)
- Cleanups: don't hardcode getgrnam_r buffer to 1024 bytes (Guido
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
Günther), qemudBuildCommandLine API cleanup (Daniel Berrange),
2009-04-24 14:04:54 +00:00
2009-04-03 15:25:38 +00:00
0.6.2: Apr 3 2009:
- New features: support SASL auth for VNC server (Daniel Berrange),
memory ballooning in QEMU (Daniel Berrange), SCSI HBA storage pool
support (Dave Allan), PCI passthrough in Xen driver (Daniel
Berrange)
- Portability: be more flexible in QEmu binaries paths (Daniel
Berrange), Mingw portability fixes (Daniel Berrange),
- Documentation: add security attributes in RNG schemas, cleanup
of architecture docs, missing disk bus values in RNG schemas,
- Bug fixes: tap vs vbd type on block detach (Cole Robinson and
Takahashi Tomohiro), bad free on storage volume error (Daniel
Berrange), maplenght computations in remote driver (Daniel Berrange),
event dispatching in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), virDomainSetVcpus
deadlock (Daniel Berrange), save deadlock in test driver (Cole
Robinson), fix timing of security driver init (Cole Robinson),
forbid readonly connections from dumping the XML safe info (Cole
Robinson), file descriptor leak on remote access,
fix labelling of shared/readonly devices (Dan Walsh),
virsh missing auth on shell commands (Matthias Bolte),
avoid zombie on exec pipe errors (Ryota Ozaki),
memory leak in virNodeDeviceGetParent (Daniel Berrange),
URI check in migration (Daniel Berrange), various memory bug fixes
(Daniel Berrange), python bindings generator fix (Daniel Berrange),
NUMA memory fixes (Daniel Berrange), various svirt fixes (Daniel
Berrange), fix sparse volume allocation reporting (Cole Robinson),
test driver domain restore return value (Cole Robinson),
do not lose file format info on volume refresh (Cole Robinson)
- Improvements: get CPU usage info for LXC (Ryota Ozaki), fix domain
RNG to add ac97 and tests (Pritesh Kothari), OpenVZ support for
non-template filesystem root (Florian Vichot), improve arch
capabilities generation (Daniel Berrange), modularization of spec
file (Ryota Ozaki), better error reports in SEXPR generation (Daniel
Berrange), support for vifname parameter in VIF config (Daniel
Berrange), localtime handling for new xen (Daniel Berrange),
error reporting/ verification of security labels (Dan Walsh),
add --console arg for create and start virsh commands (Daniel
Berrange), refresh volume alloc/capacity when dumping XML (Cole
Robinson)
- Cleanups: FILE * leaks removal, unused parameters flagging
(Maximilian Wilhelm), switch to pre-C99 struct initialization
for drivers (Chris Lalancette), symlinks resolving cleanup (Daniel
Berrange)
2009-03-04 13:17:44 +00:00
0.6.1: Mar 3 2009:
- New features: new APIs for Node device detach reattach and reset
(Mark McLoughlin), sVirt mandatory access control support (James
Morris and Dan Walsh)
- Portability: non gcc toolchain (John Levon), gcc-4.4 warnings fixes
(Mark McLoughlin), fix build without LXC and QEmu (Jim Meyering)
- Documentation: man page bugzilla URL (Mark McLoughlin), typo
in domain format (Jesse Farinacci), clock offset fix (Mark
McLoughlin), hostdev description typo (Mark McLoughlin), static
host IP (Charles Duffy), new example program (David Allan)
- Bug fixes: NULL dereference in LXC (Jim Meyering), fix domain
error reporting (John Levon), fix loop of libvirtd --timeout
(Daniel Berrange), limit history to 500 to restrict virsh memory
(Daniel Berrange), wrong lvm volume format check (Cole Robinson),
I/O error in daemon and associated remote acces crash (Daniel
Berrange), fix autostart of session daemon (Daniel Berrange),
restart guest on qemu migration failures (Chris Lalancette),
config parsing leaks (Ryota Ozaki), DBus multithreading activation
to avoid crashes (Daniel Berrange), mark defined network descriptions
as persistent (Cole Robinson), qemu+tls handshake negotiation hang
(Chris Lalancette)
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
- Improvements: don't hardcode ssh port (Guido Günther), new test
2009-03-04 13:17:44 +00:00
cases and testing infrastructure (Jim Meyering), improve the
SExpr parser (John Levon), proper error reporting on xend
shutdown command (John Levon), proper handling of errors when
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
saving QEmu domains state (Guido Günther), revamp of the internal
2009-03-04 13:17:44 +00:00
error memory APIs (John Levon), better virsh error reporting (John
Levon), more daemon options to allow running multiple daemons (Jim
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
Meyering), error handling when creating a QEmu domain (Guido Günther),
fix timeouts in QEmu log reading (Guido Günther), migration with
2009-03-04 13:17:44 +00:00
xend 3.3 fixes (John Levon), virsh XML dump flags cleanup (Cole
Robinson), fix build with loadable drivers (Maximilian Wilhelm),
internal XML APIs to read long long and hexa values (Mark
McLoughlin), function to parse node device XML descriptions and
associated test (Mark McLoughlin), generate network bridge names if
not provided (Cole Robinson), recognize ejectable media in hostdev
hal driver (Cole Robinson), integration of sVirt (Daniel Berrange)
- Cleanups: printf NULL string checks (John Levon), remove uses of
strerror and use virStrerror (Jim Meyering), remove redundant NULL
assignments (Jim Meyering), QEmu driver logging and exec cleanups
(Jim Meyering), many error handling cleanups (Jim Meyering), XML
module cleanups (Mark McLoughlin), compiler warning (Maximilian
Wilhelm), daemon TCP listen cleanup (Cole Robinson), size_t type
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
cleanup (Guido Günther), parallel make fix (Michael Marineau),
2009-03-04 13:17:44 +00:00
storage error diagnostic fix (Ryota Ozaki), remove redundant monitor
watch variable (Cole Robinson), qemu AttachDevice error report
improvement (Cole Robinson), virsh output cleanup (Jim Meyering),
various tests cleanups and improvements (Jim Meyering), fix the
internal export list with new APIs (Daniel Berrange), cleanups on
new APIs for Node device (Daniel Berrange)
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
0.6.0: Jan 31 2009:
- New features: thread safety of the API and event handling (Daniel
Berrange), allow QEmu domains to survive daemon restart (Guido
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
Günther), extended logging capabilities, support copy-on-write
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
storage volumes (Daniel Berrange), support of storage cache
control options for QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange)
- Portability: fix old DBus API problem, Debian portability fix
(Daniel Berrange), fix distcheck (Jim Meyering), build in
debug mode (Jim Meyering), libnuma API portability (Jim Meyering),
many portability fixes pointed by Solaris (John Levon), non-gcc
portability fixes (John Levon), various include fixes (Jim Meyering),
various Windows and Mingw portability fixes (Daniel Berrange),
solaris Xen fixes (John Levon), RPC portability to Solaris (Daniel
Berrange)
- Documentation: typo fixes (Richard Jones), logging support,
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
vnc keymap attributes (Guido Günther), HACKING file updates
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
(Jim Meyering), new PCI passthrough format, libvirt-qpid and
UML driver documentation (Daniel Berrange), provide RNG schemas
for all XML formats used in libvirt APIs (Daniel Berrange),
- Bug fixes: segfault on virtual network without bridge name (Cole
Robinson), various locking fixes (Cole Robinson), fix serial
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
and parallel devices on tcp/unix/telnet (Guido Günther), leak
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
in daemon (Jim Meyering), storage driver segfault (Miloslav TrmaC),
missing check in read-only connections (Daniel Berrange),
OpenVZ crash and mutex fixes (Anton Protopopov), couple of
daemon bug fixes (John Levon), OpenVZ MAC addresses generation
(Evgeniy Sokolov), poll call initialization fix (Daniel Berrange),
various Xen driver fixes (John Levon), segfault on device
back compat (Cole Robinson), couple Xen bug fixes coming from
RHEL (Markus Armbruster), buffer overflow in libvirt proxy
(rasputin@email.ru), vnc port report (John Levon), repair save
and restore on recent KVM versions (Daniel Berrange), Xen
cpu pinning XML fix (John Levon), various xen driver fixes
(Daniel Berrange), some memory leak fixes (Daniel Berrange)
- Improvements: driver infrastructure and locking (Daniel Berrange),
Test driver infrastructure (Daniel Berrange), parallelism in the
daemon and associated config (Daniel Berrange), virsh help cleanups
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
(Jim Meyering), logrotate daemon logs (Guido Günther), more
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
regression tests (Jim Meyering), QEmu SDL graphics (Itamar Heim),
add --version flag to daemon (Dave Allan), memory consumption
cleanup (Dave Allan), QEmu pid file and XML states for daemon
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
restart (Guido Günther), gnulib updates (Jim Meyering and
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
Dan Berrange), PCI passthrough for KVM (Jason Krieg), generic
internal thread API (Daniel Berrange), RHEL-5 specific Xen
configure option and code (Markus Armbruster), save domain
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
state as string in status file (Guido Günther), add locking
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
to all API entry points (Daniel Berrange), new ref counting APIs
(Daniel Berrange), IP address for Xen bridges (John Levon),
driver format for disk file types (Daniel Berrange), improve
QEmu/KVM tun/tap performances (Mark McLoughlin), enable floppies
for Xen fully virt (John Levon), support VNC password settings
for QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange), qemu driver version reporting
(Daniel Berrange)
- Cleanups: converting linked lists to arrays (Daniel Berrange),
daemon RPC handling refactoring (Daniel Berrange), strings cleanups
(Jim Meyering), gethostby* cleanup and test (Jim Meyering), some
code fixes (Dave Allan), various code cleanup (Jim Meyering),
virsh argument handling cleanup (Jim Meyering), virAsprintf
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
cleanup replacement (Guido Günther), QEmu monitor reads (Cole
Robinson), Makefile cleanups (Guido Günther), Xen code cleanups
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
(John Levon), revamp of ELF export scripts (John Levon), domain
event callback args (John Levon), enforce use of pid_t (John Levon),
virsh pool-*-as XML code merge (Cole Robinson), xgettext warnings
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
(Jim Meyering), add virKillProcess (Guido Günther), add
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
virGetHostname (David Lutterkort), add flags argument to the full
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
XML parsing stack (Guido Günther), various daemon code cleanups
(Guido Günther), handling of daemon missing config file (Jim
2009-01-31 09:14:58 +00:00
Meyering), rpcgen invocation cleanup (Richard Jones), devhelp
builkd makefile cleanups (John Levon), update error handling for
threading (Daniel Berrange), remove all non-rentrant POSIX calls
usage (Daniel Berrange), many small cleanups (Jim Meyering and
Daniel Berrange), examples Makefile generator (John Levon),
mis-use of PF_UNIX as a protocol (John Levon), cleanup OOM
error paths (Jim Meyering), temporary fix fro valgrind on lxc
(Daniel Berrange), QEmu driver init cleanups (Daniel Berrange)
2008-12-04 15:54:26 +00:00
0.5.1: Dec 4 2008:
- Portability: fix missing dep in spec file, fix compilation with new
NUMA libraries (Daniel Berrange), udev compatibility for RHEL (Chris
Lalancette),
- Documentation: documentation copy and paste errors and typo (Cole
Robinson)
- Bug fixes: add a delay in storage backend for disks to show up
(Chris Lalancette), fix parsing for CDRom device with no source
(Daniel Berrange), use xenstore to list domains to avoid some
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
bugs (Guido Günther), remove a leak in xen inotify code (Daniel
2008-12-04 15:54:26 +00:00
Berrange), UML driver freeing of uninitialialized variable (Ron
Yorston), fix UML inotify code (Daniel Berrange), crash when
adding storage without a format (Cole Robinson)
- Improvements: use xend preferably to hypervisor call to set Xen
max memory (Jim Fehlig), allow remote://hostname/ URI for automatic
probe of hypervisors (Daniel Berrange), fix daemon configuration
regression testing (Jim Meyering ), check /usr/bin/kvm for QEmu
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
driver init (Guido Günther), proper active vs. inactive
differentiation (Guido Günther), improve MTU setting on tap
2008-12-04 15:54:26 +00:00
interfaces (Eduardo Habkost), increase timeout for initial QEmu
monitor poll (Cole Robinson)
- Cleanups:fix improper initialisations (Jim Meyering)
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
0.5.0: Nov 25 2008:
- New features: CPU and scheduler support for LXC (Dan Smith), SDL display configuration (Daniel Berrange), domain lifecycle event support for QEmu and Xen with python bindings (Ben Guthro and Daniel Berrange), KVM/QEmu migration support (Rich Jones and Chris Lalancette), User Mode Linux driver (Daniel Berrange), API for node device enumeration using HAL and DeviceKit with python bindings (David Lively),
- Portability: RHEL build fixes, VPATH build (Guido Gunther), many MinGW related cleanups and fixes (Richard Jones), compilation without libvirtd (Richard Jones), Add a Windows icon (Richard Jones), sys/poll.h portability fixes (Daniel Berrange), gnulib and mingw cleanups (Jim Meyering),
- Documentation: virsh man page cleanups (Mark McLoughlin), doc for NIC model selection (Richard Jones), monitoring section, link to AMQP bindings, inew APIs, UML driver docs (Daniel Berrange),
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
- Bug fixes: Xen interfaces ordering (Jim Fehlig), startup timeout with multiple pty (Cole Robinson), segfault if QEmu without active virtual network (Cole Robinson), qemu small leak (Eduardo Habkost), index creation for more than 26 disks (Sanjay Rao and Chris Wright), virRealloc handling of 0 (Daniel Berrange), missing pointer initialization (Chris Lalancette), bus device index bug (Guido Günther), avoid crash in some error patch (Chris Lalancette), fix a problem in storage back-end (Chris Lalancette), minimum domain memory size check for Xen (Shigeki Sakamoto), switch off QEmu cache if device is shared (Charles Duffy), logical volume definition before scan bug (Chris Lalancette), a couple of memory leaks on QEmu vnc (Jim Meyering), lvs parsing fixes (Cole Robinson),
- Improvements: LXC resources control and internal cgroup API (Dan Smith), virDomainCreateLinux renamed virDomainDefineXML, network driver modularization (Daniel Berrange), change the way domain and net are reported in errors (Jim Meyering), partition table scan on iSCSI (Chris Lalancette), qemudDiskDeviceName to handle normal disks (Guido Günther), qemudDomainBlockStats improvement (Guido Günther), scsi/virtio hotplug support for KVM (Guido Günther), USB hot addition in QEmu (Guido Günther), logical pool and storage backend XML dump improvement (Chris Lalancette), MAC addresses prefix per driver (Daniel Berrange), OpenVZ getVersion support (Daniel Berrange), hot removal of scsi/virtio disks for KVM (Guido Günther), test storage driver (Cole Robinson), iSCSI and disk storage driver improvement on path handling (Chris Lalancette), UUID and ID support for Xenner (Daniel Berrange), better logging when when executing commands (Cole Robinson), bridged network for OpenVZ (Daniel Berrange), OpenVZ config file params (Evgeniy Sokolov), allow to build drivers as libtool convenience libs (Daniel Berrange), fully versioned linker script for exported ABI (Daniel Berrange), Push URI probing down into drivers open (Daniel Berrange), move all stateful drivers into the daemon binary (Daniel Berrange), improve domain event with a detail field (Daniel Berrange), domain events for QEMU driver (Daniel Berrange), event unregister callback crash (David Lively), plug a few leaks (Daniel Berrange), internal APIs for handling node device XML config (David Lively), tweaks to node device implementation (Daniel Berrange), OpenVZ vCPUs values init (Evgeniy Sokolov)
- Cleanups: C99 initializers (Guido Gunther), test output (Cole Robinson), debug macro centralization (Cole Robinson), various error handling (Guido Günther), safewrite use cleanup (Jim Meyering), centralize error reporting logic (Cole Robinson), avoid printf warnings (Daniel Berrange), use arrays instead of list for internal APIs (Daniel Berrange), remove many format string warnings Jim Meyering), avoid syntax check warnings (Chris Lalancette), improve po-check and list generation (Jim Meyering), .gitignore generation and handling (Jim Meyering), use ARRAY_CARDINALITY (Jim Meyering), gnulib updates and switch to use netdb.h (Jim Meyering), drop usage of socket_errno (Jim Meyering), remove socketcompat.h (Jim Meyering), more tests (Jim Meyering), drop virStringList (Daniel Berrange), reformatting and isolation of the error APIs (Daniel Berrange), cleanup internal.h and move internal APIs in specific headers (Daniel Berrange), move domain events helpers into domain_events.c (Daniel Berrange), cleanup the way optional modules are compiled (Daniel Berrange), add new logging module, optional dlopen of drivers (Daniel Berrange), various new tests (Jim Meyering), cleanups when Xen is not configured in (Daniel Berrange), add some missing functions comments (Jim Meyering),
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
0.4.6: Sep 23 2008:
- Documentation: fix some comments in API (Anton Protopopov),
cleanup and extension of bindings and windows pages (Richard Jones)
- Portability: missing include file (Richard Jones)
- Bug fixes: avoid a segfault if missing qemu emulator (Cole Robinson),
reading vncdisplay from xend domain (Cole Robinson), segfault in
OpenVZ (Evgeniy Sokolov), fix parsing of pool without a source
(Chris Lalancette and Daniel Berrange)
- Improvements: add storage disk volume delete (Cole Robinson),
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
KVM dynamic max CPU detection (Guido Günther), spec file improvement
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
for minimal builds (Ben Guthro), improved error message in XM
configuration module (Richard Jones), network config in OpenVZ
support (Evgeniy Sokolov), enable stopping a pool in logical
storage backend and cleanup deletion of pool (Chris Lalancette)
- Cleanups: deadcode removal (Nguyen Anh Quynh), fix one test
case (Daniel Berrange), various strings and space cleanups (Daniel
Berrange), structure initialization cleanup (Chris Lalancette)
0.4.5: Sep 8 2008:
- New features: NETNS support for Linux containers (Dan Smith),
unified XML domain and network parsing for all drivers (Daniel
Berrange), OpenVZ features improvements (Evgeniy Sokolov),
OpenVZ and Linux containers support now default, USB device
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
passthrough for QEmu/KVM (Guido Günther), storage pool source
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
discovery (David Lively)
- Portability: fixes for MinGW (Atsushi SAKAI and Daniel Berrange),
detection of xen lib improvement (David Lively),
storage backend portability for SLES (David Lively),
fix make distclean and distcheck (Jim Meyering),
fix build failures on RHEL4, lot of MinGW portability fixes (Atsushi
SAKAI and Daniel Berrange), HTML generation fix, -lpthread explicit
linking when needed (Jim Meyering)
- Documentation: various typo fixes (Anton Protopopov, Toth
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
István, Atsushi SAKAI, Nguyen Anh Quynh),
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
Java bindings docs, remove Xen centric
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
comments (Guido Günther), various typo in comments (Chris
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
Lalancette), docs and API comments fixes (Charles Duffy),
how to contribute to open source link (Richard Jones),
memory unit fixups (matthew chan)
- Bug fixes: memory leaks and testing for OOM (Daniel Berrange),
do_open driver bug(Evgeniy Sokolov), don't use polkit auth when
running as non-root (Daniel Berrange), boot of CDRom devices
in QEmu/KVM (Daniel Berrange), fix OpenVZ probe function (Evgeniy
Sokolov), ID related lookup fixes in OpenVZ (Evgeniy Sokolov),
pool cration for netfs (Cole Robinson), check for migrate support
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
with QEmu (Guido Günther), check against double create with QEmu
(Guido Günther), broken open failure detection in QEmu (Guido
Günther), UUID string conversions in QEmu (Guido Günther),
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
various small cleanup and bug fixes (Daniel Berrange), ID
related fixes in the test driver (Daniel Berrange), better error
reporting on XML parsing (Daniel Berrange), empty CD-ROM source
device section (Chris Lalancette), avoid crashes for interface
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
without a name in QEmu (Guido Günther), provide the real
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
vncport (Charles Duffy), fix forward delay (Daniel Berrange),
new VM state is initialized to be SHUTOFF (Daniel Berrange),
virsh attach-disk bug fixes (Chris Lalancette), veth clash
of device names (Dan Smith), connection lookup fixes on
storage creation (Cole Robinson), parted call fix (Cole Robinson),
use "server" option when using serial/telnet with QEmu (Mark
McLoughlin), duplicate virInitialize calls (Nguyen Anh Quynh),
many fixes to virExec and related functions (Daniel Berrange),
size of disk without partitions (Cole Robinson), creating and
cleaning up logical volumes with target path (Cole Robinson),
fix reporting of virConnectOpen problems (Daniel Berrange),
veth cleanup at shutdown (Dan Smith), lookup of Xen VMs after define
(Cole Robinson), fix emulator reported capabilities (Cole Robinson),
avoid segfault on KVM CD eject (Cole Robinson), fix disk ordering
and avoid duplicate in QEmu XML parsing (Cole Robinson), update
domain XML after device hotplug (Cole Robinson), use poweroff instead
of halt when shutting down a Xen domain (John Levon), don't dump core
of Xen domain live by default (John Levon), vgcreate command line
size bug (Jim Fehlig), signed/unsigned issue in probing file
(Cole Robinson), Fix Xen domains without PVFB console (Daniel
Berrange), OpenVZ config read bug fix (Evgeniy Sokolov).
- Improvements: improved failure diagnostic for TAP (Jim Meyering),
better exec and error diagnostic for OpenVZ commands (Evgeniy
Sokolov), OpenVZ auto start and stop of domains (Evgeniy Sokolov),
OpenVZ domain cpu time consumption (Evgeniy Sokolov), virsh
shutdown improvements and test (Jim Meyering), better report of
XML well formedness errors (Richard Jones), new XML elements
(Daniel Berrange), virsh "edit" command (Richard Jones), save
UUID of OpenVZ domains (Evgeniy Sokolov), improve xen blocks
statistics (Chris Lalancette), gnulib updates (Jim Meyering),
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
allow to add disk as USB devices (Guido Günther), LXC container
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
process should survive libvirtd restarts (Daniel Berrange), allow
to define static host domain configs, number of CPU used by
OpenVZ domains (Evgeniy Sokolov), private root fs for LXC (Daniel
Berrange), storage source information in storage pools (David Lively),
virsh reports attach and detach success (Cole Robinson), detect
failure in QEmu eject command (Cole Robinson), add support for
eect on floppy and SCSI cdroms for QEmu (Cole Robinson), LXC
hypervisor version extraction (Dan Smith), Augeas config file support
(Daniel Berrange), support for a domain name in network
config (JJ Reynolds).
- Cleanups: Python verbosity cleanup (Ryan Scott),
space and tabs cleanups (Atsushi SAKAI), OpenVZ and LXC drivers
cleanup and unification of XML handling (Daniel Berrange), updates
to Relax-NG XML schemas (John Levon and Daniel Berrange), more
printf format checkings (Jim Meyering), VIR_FREE related cleanups
(Jim Meyering), integer string parsing cleanup (Evgeniy Sokolov),
initial OpenVZ xml refactoring (Evgeniy Sokolov), better error
message on domain redefine (Charles Duffy), check XML files against
the RNG Schemas (Daniel Berrange), const-correctness in virsh
(Richard Jones and Jim Meyering), const-correctness and cleanups
in LXC and OpenVZ drivers (Daniel Berrange), virFileLinkPointsTo
rewrite (Jim Meyering), cleanup of the conditional compilation
of C files (Daniel Berrange), shell quoting fixes (Jim Meyering),
parallel build support (James Morris and Jim Meyering), new
convenenience virFileReadLimFD function (Jim Meyering).
0.4.4: Jun 25 2008:
- Bug fixes: QEmu network serialization (Kaitlin Rupert), internal
memory allocation fixes (Chris Lalancette Jim Meyering), virsh
large file config problem (Jim Meyering), xen list APIs when
max is zero, string escape problems in the xm driver
- Improvements: add autogen to tarballs, improve iSCSI support
(Chris Lalancette), localization updates
- Cleanups: const-ness fixed (Daniel P. Berrange), string helpers
for enumeations (Daniel P. Berrange)
0.4.3: Jun 12 2008:
- New features: Linux Container start and stop (Dave Leskovec),
Network interface model settings (Daniel Berrange),serial and parallel
device support for QEmu and Xen (Daniel Berrange),
Sound support for QEmu and Xen (Cole Robinson), vCPU settings for
QEmu (Cole Robinson), support for NUMA and vCPU pinning in QEmu
(Daniel Berrange), new virDomainBlockPeek API (Richard Jones)
- Documentation: coding guidelines (Jim Meyering and Richard Jones),
small man page missing entries and cleanup,
Web site revamp (Daniel Berrange),
typo fixes (Atsushi SAKAI), more docs on network XML format
(Daniel Berrange), libvirt Wiki (Daniel Berrange),
policykit config docs (Cole Robinson), XML domain docs revamp
(Daniel Berrange), docs for remote listen-tls/tcp fixes (Kenneth
Nagin),
- Bug fixes: save change to config file for Xen (Ryan Scott),
fix /var/run/libvirt/ group ownership (Anton Protopopov),
ancient libparted workaround (Soren Hansen), out of bount
array access (Daniel Berrange), remote check bug (Dave Leskovec),
LXC signal and daemon restart problems (Dave Leskovec), bus selection
logic fix in the daemon config (Daniel Berrange), 2 memory leaks
in the daemon (Jim Meyering), daemon pid file logic bug fix
(Daniel Berrange), python generator fixes (Daniel Berrange),
ivarious leaks and memory problem pointed by valgrind (Daniel
Berrange), iptables forwarding cleanup (Daniel Berrange),
Xen cpuset value checking (Hiroyuki Kaguchi), container process
checks for LXC (Dave Leskovec), let xend check block device syntax
(Hiroyuki Kaguchi), UUIDString for python fixes (Cole Robinson)
- Improvements: fixes for MinGW compilation (Richard Jones),
autostart for running Xen domains (Cole Robinson),
control of listening IP for daemon (Stefan de Konink),
various Xenner related fixes and improvements (Daniel Berrange)
autostart status printed in virsh domainfo (Shigeki Sakamoto),
better error messages for xend driver (Richard Jones)
- Code cleanups: OpenVZ compilation (Richard Jones), conn dom and
net fields deprecation in error structures (Richard Jones),
Xen-ism on UUID (Richard Jones), add missing .pod to dist (Richard
Jones), tab cleanup from sources (Jim Meyering), remove unused field
in virsh control structure (Richard Jones), compilation without
pthread.h (Jim Meyering), cleanup of tests (Daniel Berrange),
syntax-check improvements (Jim Meyering), python cleanup,
remove dependancy on libc is_* character tests (Jim Meyering),
format related cleanups (Jim Meyering), cleanup of the buffer
internal APIs (Daniel Berrange), conversion to the new memory
allocation API (Daniel Berrange), lcov coverage testing
(Daniel Berrange), gnulib updates (Jim Meyering), compatibility
fix with RHEL 5 (Daniel Berrange), SuSE compatibility fix (Jim
Fehlig), const'ification of a number of structures (Jim Meyering),
string comparison macro cleanups (Daniel Berrange), character
range testing cleanups and assorted bug fixes (Jim Meyering),
QEmu test fixes (Daniel Berrange), configure macro cleanup (Daniel
Berrange), refactor QEmu command line building code (Daniel Berrange),
type punning warning in remote code (Richard Jones), refactoring
of internal headers (Richard Jones), generic out of memory
testing and associated bug fixes (Daniel Berrange), don't raise
internal error for unsupported features (Kaitlin Rupert),
missing driver entry points (Daniel Berrange)
0.4.2: Apr 8 2008:
- New features: memory operation for QEmu/KVM driver (Cole Robinson),
new routed networking schemas (Mads Olesen)
- Documentation: storage documentation fixes (Atsushi Sakai), many
typo cleanups (Atsushi Sakai), string fixes (Francesco Tombolini)
- Bug fixes: pointer errors in qemu (Jim Meyering), iSCSI login fix
(Chris Lalancette), well formedness error in test driver capabilities
(Cole Robinson), fixes cleanup code when daemon exits (Daniel Berrange),
CD Rom change on live QEmu/KVM domains (Cole Robinson), setting scheduler
parameter is forbidden for read-only (Saori Fukuta)i, fixes for TAP
devices (Daniel Berrange), assorted storage driver fixes (Daniel
Berrange), Makefile fixes (Jim Meyering), Xen-3.2 hypercall fix,
fix iptables rules to avoid blocking traffic within virtual network
(Daniel Berrange), XML output fix for directory pools (Daniel Berrange),
remove dandling domain/net/conn pointers from error data, do not
ask polkit auth when root (Daniel Berrange), handling of fork and
pipe errors when starting the daemon (Richard Jones)
- Improvements: better validation of MAC addresses (Jim Meyering and
Hiroyuki Kaguchi),
virsh vcpupin error report (Shigeki Sakamoto), keep boot tag on
HVM domains (Cole Robinson), virsh non-root should not be limited to read
only anymore (Daniel Berrange), switch to polkit-auth from polkit-grant
(Daniel Berrange), better handling of missing SElinux data (Daniel
Berrange and Jim Meyering), cleanup of the connection opening logic
(Daniel Berrange), first bits of Linux Containers support (Dave Leskovec),
scheduler API support via xend (Saori Fukuta), improvement of the
testing framework and first tests (Jim Meyering), missing error
messages from virsh parameters validation (Shigeki Sakamoto),
improve support of older iscsiadm command (Chris Lalancette),
move linux container support in the daemon (Dan Berrange), older
awk implementation support (Mike Gerdts), NUMA support in test
driver (Cole Robinson), xen and hvm added to test driver capabilities
(Cole Robinson)
- Code cleanup: remove unused getopt header (Jim Meyering), mark more
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
strings as translatable (Guido Günther and Jim Meyering), convert
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
error strings to something meaningful and translatable (Jim Meyering),
2009-07-29 07:40:17 +00:00
Linux Containers code cleanup, last error initializer (Guido Günther)
2008-11-25 15:48:11 +00:00
0.4.1: Mar 3 2008:
- New features: build on MacOSX (Richard Jones), storage management
(Daniel Berrange), Xenner - Xen on KVM - support (Daniel Berrange)
- Documentation: Fix of various typos (Atsushi SAKAI), memory and
vcpu settings details (Richard Jones), ethernet bridging typo
(Maxwell Bottiger), add storage APIs documentation (Daniel Berrange)
- Bug fixes: OpenVZ code compilation (Mikhail Pokidko), crash in
policykit auth handling (Daniel Berrange), large config files
(Daniel Berrange), cpumap hypercall size (Saori Fukuta), crash
in remote auth (Daniel Berrange), ssh args error (Daniel Berrange),
preserve vif order from config files (Hiroyuki Kaguchi), invalid
pointer access (Jim Meyering), virDomainGetXMLDesc flag handling,
device name conversion on stats (Daniel Berrange), double mutex lock
(Daniel Berrange), config file reading crashes (Guido Guenther),
xenUnifiedDomainSuspend bug (Marcus Meissner), do not crash if
/sys/hypervisor/capabilities is missing (Mark McLoughlin),
virHashRemoveSet bug (Hiroyuki Kaguchi), close-on-exec flag for
qemud signal pipe (Daniel Berrange), double free in OpenVZ
(Anton Protopopov), handle mac without addresses (Shigeki Sakamoto),
MAC addresses checks (Shigeki Sakamoto and Richard Jones),
allow to read non-seekable files (Jim Meyering)
- Improvements: Windows build (Richard Jones), KVM/QEmu shutdown
(Guido Guenther), catch virExec output on debug (Mark McLoughlin),
integration of iptables and lokkit (Mark McLoughlin), keymap
parameter for VNC servers (Daniel Hokka Zakrisson), enable debug
by default using VIR_DEBUG (Daniel Berrange), xen 3.2 fixes
(Daniel Berrange), Python bindings for VCPU and scheduling
(Daniel Berrange), framework for automatic code syntax checks
(Jim Meyering), allow kernel+initrd setup in Xen PV (Daniel Berrange),
allow change of Disk/NIC of an inactive domains (Shigeki Sakamoto),
virsh commands to manipulate and create storage(Daniel Berrange),
update use of PolicyKit APIs, better detection of fedault hypervisor,
block device statistics for QEmu/KVM (Richard Jones), various improvements
for Xenner (Daniel Berrange)
- Code cleanups: avoid warnings (Daniel Berrange), virRun helper
function (Dan Berrange), iptable code fixes (Mark McLoughlin),
static and const cleanups (Jim Meyering), malloc and python cleanups
(Jim Meyering), xstrtol_ull and xstrtol_ll functions (Daniel Berrange),
remove no-op networking from OpenVZ (Daniel Berrange), python generator
cleanups (Daniel Berrange), cleanup ref counting (Daniel Berrange),
remove uninitialized warnings (Jim Meyering), cleanup configure
for RHEL4 (Daniel Berrange), CR/LF cleanups (Richard Jones),
various automatic code check and associated cleanups (Jim Meyering),
various memory leaks (Jim Meyering), fix compilation when building
without Xen (Guido Guenther), mark translatables strings (Jim Meyering),
use virBufferAddLit for constant strings (Jim Meyering), fix
make distcheck (Jim Meyering), return values for python bindings (Cole
Robinson), trailing blanks fixes (Jim Meyering), gcc-4.3.0 fixes
(Mark McLoughlin), use safe read and write routines (Jim Meyering),
refactoring of code dealing with hypervisor capabilities (Daniel
Berrange), qemudReportError to use virErrorMsg (Cole Robinson),
intemediate library and Makefiles for compiling static and coverage
rule support (Jim Meyering), cleanup of various leaks (Jim Meyering)
0.4.0: Dec 18 2007:
- New features: Compilation on Windows cygwin/mingw (Richard Jones),
Ruby bindings (David Lutterkort), SASL based authentication for
libvirt remote support (Daniel Berrange), PolicyKit authentication
(Daniel Berrange)
- Documentation: example files for QEMU and libvirtd configuations
(Daniel Berrange), english cleanups (Jim Paris), CIM and OpenVZ
references, document <shareable/>, daemon startup when using
QEMU/KVM, document HV support for new NUMA calls (Richard Jones),
various english fixes (Bruce Montague), OCaml docs links (Richard Jones),
describe the various bindings add Ruby link, Windows support page
(Richard Jones), authentication documentation updates (Daniel Berrange)
- Bug fixes: NUMA topology error handling (Beth Kon), NUMA topology
cells without CPU (Beth Kon), XML to/from XM bridge config (Daniel
Berrange), XM processing of vnc parameters (Daniel Berrange), Reset
migration source after failure (Jim Paris), negative integer in config
(Tatsuro Enokura), zero terminating string buffer, detect integer
overflow (Jim Meyering), QEmu command line ending fixes (Daniel Berrange),
recursion problem in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), HVM domain with CDRom
(Masayuki Sunou), off by one error in NUMA cpu count (Beth Kon),
avoid xend errors when adding disks (Masayuki Sunou), compile error
(Chris Lalancette), transposed fwrite args (Jim Meyering), compile
without xen and on solaris (Jim Paris), parsing of interface names
(Richard Jones), overflow for starts on 32bits (Daniel Berrange),
fix problems in error reporting (Saori Fukuta), wrong call to
brSetForwardDelay changed to brSetEnableSTP (Richard Jones),
allow shareable disk in old Xen, fix wrong certificate file (Jim
Meyering), avoid some startup error when non-root, off-by-1 buffer
NULL termination (Daniel Berrange), various string allocation fixes
(Daniel Berrange), avoid problems with vnetXXX interfaces in domain dumps
(Daniel Berrange), build fixes for RHEL (Daniel Berrange), virsh prompt
should not depend on uid (Richard Jones), fix scaping of '<' (Richard
Jones), fix detach-disk on Xen tap devices (Saori Fukuta), CPU
parameter setting in XM config (Saori Fukuta), credential handling
fixes (Daniel Berrange), fix compatibility with Xen 3.2.0 (Daniel
Berrange)
- Improvements: /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf configuration for QEMU driver
(Daniel Berrange), NUMA cpu pinning in config files (DV and Saori Fukuta),
CDRom media change in KVM/QEMU (Daniel Berrange), tests for
<shareable/> in configs, pinning inactive domains for Xen 3.0.3
(Saori Fukuta), use gnulib for portability enhancement (Jim Meyering),
--without-libvirtd config option (Richard Jones), Python bindings for
NUMA, add extra utility functions to buffer (Richard Jones),
separate qparams module for handling query parameters (Richard Jones)
- Code cleanups: remove virDomainRestart from API as it was never used
(Richard Jones), constify params for attach/detach APIs (Daniel Berrange),
gcc printf attribute checkings (Jim Meyering), refactoring of device
parsing code and shell escaping (Daniel Berrange), virsh schedinfo
parameters validation (Masayuki Sunou), Avoid risk of format string abuse
(Jim Meyering), integer parsing cleanups (Jim Meyering), build out
of the source tree (Jim Meyering), URI parsing refactoring (Richard
Jones), failed strdup/malloc handling (Jim Meyering), Make "make
distcheck" work (Jim Meyering), improve xen internall error reports
(Richard Jones), cleanup of the daemon remote code (Daniel Berrange),
rename error VIR_FROM_LINUX to VIR_FROM_STATS_LINUX (Richard Jones),
don't compile the proxy if without Xen (Richard Jones), fix paths when
configuring for /usr prefix, improve error reporting code (Jim Meyering),
detect heap allocation failure (Jim Meyering), disable xen sexpr parsing
code if Xen is disabled (Daniel Berrange), cleanup of the GetType
entry point for Xen drivers, move some QEmu path handling to generic
module (Daniel Berrange), many code cleanups related to the Windows
port (Richard Jones), disable the proxy if using PolicyKit, readline
availability detection, test libvirtd's config-processing code (Jim
Meyering), use a variable name as sizeof argument (Jim Meyering)
0.3.3: Sep 30 2007:
- New features: Avahi mDNS daemon export (Daniel Berrange),
NUMA support (Beth Kan)
- Documentation: cleanups (Toth Istvan), typos (Eduardo Pereira),
- Bug fixes: memory corruption on large dumps (Masayuki Sunou), fix
virsh vncdisplay command exit (Masayuki Sunou), Fix network stats
TX/RX result (Richard Jones), warning on Xen 3.0.3 (Richard Jones),
missing buffer check in virDomainXMLDevID (Hugh Brock), avoid zombies
when using remote (Daniel Berrange), xend connection error message
(Richard Jones), avoid ssh tty prompt (Daniel Berrange), username
handling for remote URIs (Fabian Deutsch), fix potential crash
on multiple input XML tags (Daniel Berrange), Solaris Xen hypercalls
fixup (Mark Johnson)
- Improvements: OpenVZ support (Shuveb Hussain and Anoop Cyriac),
CD-Rom reload on XEn (Hugh Brock), PXE boot got QEmu/KVM (Daniel
Berrange), QEmu socket permissions customization (Daniel Berrange),
more QEmu support (Richard Jones), better path detection for qemu and
dnsmasq (Richard Jones), QEmu flags are per-Domain (Daniel Berrange),
virsh freecell command, Solaris portability fixes (Mark Johnson),
default bootloader support (Daniel Berrange), new virNodeGetFreeMemory
API, vncpasswd extraction in configuration files if secure (Mark
Johnson and Daniel Berrange), Python bindings for block and interface
statistics
- Code cleanups: virDrvOpenRemoteFlags definition (Richard Jones),
configure tests and output (Daniel Berrange)
0.3.2: Aug 21 2007:
- New features: KVM migration and save/restore (Jim Paris),
added API for migration (Richard Jones), added APIs for block device and
interface statistic (Richard Jones).
- Documentation: examples for XML network APIs,
fix typo and schedinfo synopsis in man page (Atsushi SAKAI),
hypervisor support page update (Richard Jones).
- Bug fixes: remove a couple of leaks in QEmu/KVM backend(Daniel berrange),
fix GnuTLS 1.0 compatibility (Richard Jones), --config/-f option
mistake for libvirtd (Richard Jones), remove leak in QEmu backend
(Jim Paris), fix some QEmu communication bugs (Jim Paris), UUID
lookup though proxy fix, setvcpus checking bugs (with Atsushi SAKAI),
int checking in virsh parameters (with Masayuki Sunou), deny devices
attach/detach for < Xen 3.0.4 (Masayuki Sunou), XenStore query
memory leak (Masayuki Sunou), virsh schedinfo cleanup (Saori Fukuta).
- Improvement: virsh new ttyconsole command, networking API implementation
for test driver (Daniel berrange), qemu/kvm feature reporting of
ACPI/APIC (David Lutterkort), checking of QEmu architectures (Daniel
berrange), improve devices XML errors reporting (Masayuki Sunou),
speedup of domain queries on Xen (Daniel berrange), augment XML dumps
with interface devices names (Richard Jones), internal API to query
drivers for features (Richard Jones).
- Cleanups: Improve virNodeGetInfo implentation (Daniel berrange),
general UUID code cleanup (Daniel berrange), fix API generator
file selection.
0.3.1: Jul 24 2007:
- Documentation: index to remote page, script to test certificates,
IPv6 remote support docs (Daniel Berrange), document
VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI in virsh man page (David Lutterkort),
Relax-NG early grammar for the network XML (David Lutterkort)
- Bug fixes: leaks in disk XML parsing (Masayuki Sunou), hypervisor
alignment call problems on PPC64 (Christian Ehrhardt), dead client
registration in daemon event loop (Daniel Berrange), double free
in error handling (Daniel Berrange), close on exec for log file
descriptors in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), avoid caching problem
in remote daemon (Daniel Berrange), avoid crash after QEmu domain
failure (Daniel Berrange)
- Improvements: checks of x509 certificates and keys (Daniel Berrange),
error reports in the daemon (Daniel Berrange), checking of Ethernet MAC
addresses in XML configs (Masayuki Sunou), support for a new
clock switch between UTC and localtime (Daniel Berrange), early
version of OpenVZ support (Shuveb Hussain), support for input devices
on PS/2 and USB buses (Daniel Berrange), more tests especially
the QEmu support (Daniel Berrange), range check in credit scheduler
(with Saori Fukuta and Atsushi Sakai), add support for listen VNC
parameter un QEmu and fix command line arg (Daniel Berrange)
- Cleanups: debug tracing (Richard Jones), removal of --with-qemud-pid-file
(Richard Jones), remove unused virDeviceMode, new util module for
code shared between drivers (Shuveb Hussain), xen header location
detection (Richard Jones)
0.3.0: Jul 9 2007:
- Secure Remote support (Richard Jones).
See the remote page
of the documentation
- Documentation: remote support (Richard Jones), description of
the URI connection strings (Richard Jones), update of virsh man
page, matrix of libvirt API/hypervisor support with version
information (Richard Jones)
- Bug fixes: examples Makefile.am generation (Richard Jones),
SetMem fix (Mark Johnson), URI handling and ordering of
drivers (Daniel Berrange), fix virsh help without hypervisor (Richard
Jones), id marshalling fix (Daniel Berrange), fix virConnectGetMaxVcpus
on remote (Richard Jones), avoid a realloc leak (Jim Meyering), scheduler
parameters handling for Xen (Richard Jones), various early remote
bug fixes (Richard Jones), remove virsh leaks of domains references
(Masayuki Sunou), configCache refill bug (Richard Jones), fix
XML serialization bugs
- Improvements: QEmu switch to XDR-based protocol (Dan Berrange),
device attach/detach commands (Masayuki Sunou), OCaml bindings
(Richard Jones), new entry points virDomainGetConnect and
virNetworkGetConnect useful for bindings (Richard Jones),
reunitifaction of remote and qemu daemon under a single libvirtd
with a config file (Daniel Berrange)
- Cleanups: parsing of connection URIs (Richard Jones), messages
from virsh (Saori Fukuta), Coverage files (Daniel Berrange),
Solaris fixes (Mark Johnson), avoid [r]index calls (Richard Jones),
release information in Xen backend, virsh cpupin command cleanups
(Masayuki Sunou), xen:/// suppport as standard Xen URI (Richard Jones and
Daniel Berrange), improve driver selection/decline mechanism (Richard
Jones), error reporting on XML dump (Richard Jones), Remove unused
virDomainKernel structure (Richard Jones), daemon event loop event
handling (Daniel Berrange), various unifications cleanup in the daemon
merging (Daniel Berrange), internal file and timer monitoring API
(Daniel Berrange), remove libsysfs dependancy, call brctl program
directly (Daniel Berrange), virBuffer functions cleanups (Richard Jones),
make init script LSB compliant, error handling on lookup functions
(Richard Jones), remove internal virGetDomainByID (Richard Jones),
revamp of xen subdrivers interfaces (Richard Jones)
- Localization updates
0.2.3: Jun 8 2007:
- Documentation: documentation for upcoming remote access (Richard Jones),
virConnectNumOfDefinedDomains doc (Jan Michael), virsh help messages
for dumpxml and net-dumpxml (Chris Wright),
- Bug fixes: RelaxNG schemas regexp fix (Robin Green), RelaxNG arch bug
(Mark McLoughlin), large buffers bug fixes (Shigeki Sakamoto), error
on out of memory condition (Shigeki Sakamoto), virshStrdup fix, non-root
driver when using Xen bug (Richard Jones), use --strict-order when
running dnsmasq (Daniel Berrange), virbr0 weirdness on restart (Mark
McLoughlin), keep connection error messages (Richard Jones), increase
QEmu read buffer on help (Daniel Berrange), rpm dependance on
dnsmasq (Daniel Berrange), fix XML boot device syntax (Daniel Berrange),
QEmu memory bug (Daniel Berrange), memory leak fix (Masayuki Sunou),
fix compiler flags (Richard Jones), remove type ioemu on recent Xen
HVM for paravirt drivers (Saori Fukuta), uninitialized string bug
(Masayuki Sunou), allow init even if the daemon is not running,
XML to config fix (Daniel Berrange)
- Improvements: add a special error class for the test module (Richard
Jones), virConnectGetCapabilities on proxy (Richard Jones), allow
network driver to decline usage (Richard Jones), extend error messages
for upcoming remote access (Richard Jones), on_reboot support for QEmu
(Daniel Berrange), save daemon output in a log file (Daniel Berrange),
xenXMDomainDefineXML can override guest config (Hugh Brock),
add attach-device and detach-device commands to virsh (Masayuki Sunou
and Mark McLoughlin and Richard Jones), make virGetVersion case
insensitive and Python bindings (Richard Jones), new scheduler API
(Atsushi SAKAI), localizations updates, add logging option for virsh
(Nobuhiro Itou), allow arguments to be passed to bootloader (Hugh Brock),
increase the test suite (Daniel Berrange and Hugh Brock)
- Cleanups: Remove VIR_DRV_OPEN_QUIET (Richard Jones), disable xm_internal.c
for Xen > 3.0.3 (Daniel Berrange), unused fields in _virDomain (Richard
Jones), export __virGetDomain and __virGetNetwork for libvirtd only
(Richard Jones), ignore old VNC config for HVM on recent Xen (Daniel
Berrange), various code cleanups, -Werror cleanup (Hugh Brock)
0.2.2: Apr 17 2007:
- Documentation: fix errors due to Amaya (with Simon Hernandez),
virsh uses kB not bytes (Atsushi SAKAI), add command line help to
qemud (Richard Jones), xenUnifiedRegister docs (Atsushi SAKAI),
strings typos (Nikolay Sivov), ilocalization probalem raised by
Thomas Canniot
- Bug fixes: virsh memory values test (Masayuki Sunou), operations without
libvirt_qemud (Atsushi SAKAI), fix spec file (Florian La Roche, Jeremy
Katz, Michael Schwendt),
direct hypervisor call (Atsushi SAKAI), buffer overflow on qemu
networking command (Daniel Berrange), buffer overflow in quemud (Daniel
Berrange), virsh vcpupin bug (Masayuki Sunou), host PAE detections
and strcuctures size (Richard Jones), Xen PAE flag handling (Daniel
Berrange), bridged config configuration (Daniel Berrange), erroneous
XEN_V2_OP_SETMAXMEM value (Masayuki Sunou), memory free error (Mark
McLoughlin), set VIR_CONNECT_RO on read-only connections (S.Sakamoto),
avoid memory explosion bug (Daniel Berrange), integer overflow
for qemu CPU time (Daniel Berrange), QEMU binary path check (Daniel
Berrange)
- Cleanups: remove some global variables (Jim Meyering), printf-style
functions checks (Jim Meyering), better virsh error messages, increase
compiler checkings and security (Daniel Berrange), virBufferGrow usage
and docs, use calloc instead of malloc/memset, replace all sprintf by
snprintf, avoid configure clobbering user's CTAGS (Jim Meyering),
signal handler error cleanup (Richard Jones), iptables internal code
claenup (Mark McLoughlin), unified Xen driver (Richard Jones),
cleanup XPath libxml2 calls, IPTables rules tightening (Daniel
Berrange),
- Improvements: more regression tests on XML (Daniel Berrange), Python
bindings now generate exception in error cases (Richard Jones),
Python bindings for vir*GetAutoStart (Daniel Berrange),
handling of CD-Rom device without device name (Nobuhiro Itou),
fix hypervisor call to work with Xen 3.0.5 (Daniel Berrange),
DomainGetOSType for inactive domains (Daniel Berrange), multiple boot
devices for HVM (Daniel Berrange),
0.2.1: Mar 16 2007:
- Various internal cleanups (Richard Jones,Daniel Berrange,Mark McLoughlin)
- Bug fixes: libvirt_qemud daemon path (Daniel Berrange), libvirt
config directory (Daniel Berrange and Mark McLoughlin), memory leak
in qemud (Mark), various fixes on network support (Mark), avoid Xen
domain zombies on device hotplug errors (Daniel Berrange), various
fixes on qemud (Mark), args parsing (Richard Jones), virsh -t argument
(Saori Fukuta), avoid virsh crash on TAB key (Daniel Berrange), detect
xend operation failures (Kazuki Mizushima), don't listen on null socket
(Rich Jones), read-only socket cleanup (Rich Jones), use of vnc port 5900
(Nobuhiro Itou), assorted networking fixes (Daniel Berrange), shutoff and
shutdown mismatches (Kazuki Mizushima), unlimited memory handling
(Atsushi SAKAI), python binding fixes (Tatsuro Enokura)
- Build and portability fixes: IA64 fixes (Atsushi SAKAI), dependancies
and build (Daniel Berrange), fix xend port detection (Daniel
Berrange), icompile time warnings (Mark), avoid const related
compiler warnings (Daniel Berrange), automated builds (Daniel
Berrange), pointer/int mismatch (Richard Jones), configure time
selection of drivers, libvirt spec hacking (Daniel Berrange)
- Add support for network autostart and init scripts (Mark McLoughlin)
- New API virConnectGetCapabilities() to detect the virtualization
capabilities of a host (Richard Jones)
- Minor improvements: qemud signal handling (Mark), don't shutdown or reboot
domain0 (Kazuki Mizushima), QEmu version autodetection (Daniel Berrange),
network UUIDs (Mark), speed up UUID domain lookups (Tatsuro Enokura and
Daniel Berrange), support for paused QEmu CPU (Daniel Berrange), keymap
VNC attribute support (Takahashi Tomohiro and Daniel Berrange), maximum
number of virtual CPU (Masayuki Sunou), virtsh --readonly option (Rich
Jones), python bindings for new functions (Daniel Berrange)
- Documentation updates especially on the XML formats
0.2.0: Feb 14 2007:
- Various internal cleanups (Mark McLoughlin, Richard Jones,
Daniel Berrange, Karel Zak)
- Bug fixes: avoid a crash in connect (Daniel Berrange), virsh args
parsing (Richard Jones)
- Add support for QEmu and KVM virtualization (Daniel Berrange)
- Add support for network configuration (Mark McLoughlin)
- Minor improvements: regression testing (Daniel Berrange),
localization string updates
0.1.11: Jan 22 2007:
- Finish XML <-> XM config files support
- Remove memory leak when freeing virConf objects
- Finishing inactive domain support (Daniel Berrange)
- Added a Relax-NG schemas to check XML instances
0.1.10: Dec 20 2006:
- more localizations
- bug fixes: VCPU info breakages on xen 3.0.3, xenDaemonListDomains buffer overflow (Daniel Berrange), reference count bug when creating Xen domains (Daniel Berrange).
- improvements: support graphic framebuffer for Xen paravirt (Daniel Berrange), VNC listen IP range support (Daniel Berrange), support for default Xen config files and inactive domains of 3.0.4 (Daniel Berrange).
0.1.9: Nov 29 2006:
- python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel Berrange)
- don't raise HTTP error when looking information for a domain
- some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points
- better error reporting (Daniel Berrange)
- fix OS reporting when running as non-root
- provide XML parsing errors
- extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange)
- fix the reconnect regression test
- python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid garbage collection and disconnect
- separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML level
- Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange)
- add support for shareable drives
- add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests(Daniel Berrange)
- python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange)
- new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs from scratch
- hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch
- added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated cleanup (Daniel Berrange)
- special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange)
- add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend)
- pygrub bootloader information take over <os> information
- updated the localization strings
0.1.8: Oct 16 2006:
- Bug for system with page size != 4k
- vcpu number initialization (Philippe Berthault)
- don't label crashed domains as shut off (Peter Vetere)
- fix virsh man page (Noriko Mizumoto)
- blktapdd support for alternate drivers like blktap (Daniel Berrange)
- memory leak fixes (xend interface and XML parsing) (Daniel Berrange)
- compile fix
- mlock/munlock size fixes (Daniel Berrange)
- improve error reporting
0.1.7: Sep 29 2006:
- fix a memory bug on getting vcpu information from xend (Daniel Berrange)
- fix another problem in the hypercalls change in Xen changeset
86d26e6ec89b when getting domain information (Daniel Berrange)
0.1.6: Sep 22 2006:
- Support for localization of strings using gettext (Daniel Berrange)
- Support for new Xen-3.0.3 cdrom and disk configuration (Daniel Berrange)
- Support for setting VNC port when creating domains with new
xend config files (Daniel Berrange)
- Fix bug when running against xen-3.0.2 hypercalls (Jim Fehlig)
- Fix reconnection problem when talking directly to http xend
0.1.5: Sep 5 2006:
- Support for new hypercalls change in Xen changeset 86d26e6ec89b
- bug fixes: virParseUUID() was wrong, netwoking for paravirt guestsi
(Daniel Berrange), virsh on non-existent domains (Daniel Berrange),
string cast bug when handling error in python (Pete Vetere), HTTP
500 xend error code handling (Pete Vetere and Daniel Berrange)
- improvements: test suite for SEXPR <-> XML format conversions (Daniel
Berrange), virsh output regression suite (Daniel Berrange), new environ
variable VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI for the default URI when connecting
(Daniel Berrange), graphical console support for paravirt guests
(Jeremy Katz), parsing of simple Xen config files (with Daniel Berrange),
early work on defined (not running) domains (Daniel Berrange),
virsh output improvement (Daniel Berrange
0.1.4: Aug 16 2006:
- bug fixes: spec file fix (Mark McLoughlin), error report problem (with
Hugh Brock), long integer in Python bindings (with Daniel Berrange), XML
generation bug for CDRom (Daniel Berrange), bug whem using number() XPath
function (Mark McLoughlin), fix python detection code, remove duplicate
initialization errors (Daniel Berrange)
- improvements: UUID in XML description (Peter Vetere), proxy code
cleanup, virtual CPU and affinity support + virsh support (Michel
Ponceau, Philippe Berthault, Daniel Berrange), port and tty information
for console in XML (Daniel Berrange), added XML dump to driver and proxy
support (Daniel Berrange), extention of boot options with support for
floppy and cdrom (Daniel Berrange), features block in XML to report/ask
PAE, ACPI, APIC for HVM domains (Daniel Berrange), fail saide-effect
operations when using read-only connection, large improvements to test
driver (Daniel Berrange)
- documentation: spelling (Daniel Berrange), test driver examples.
0.1.3: Jul 11 2006:
- bugfixes: build as non-root, fix xend access when root, handling of
empty XML elements (Mark McLoughlin), XML serialization and parsing fixes
(Mark McLoughlin), allow to create domains without disk (Mark
McLoughlin),
- improvement: xenDaemonLookupByID from O(n^2) to O(n) (Daniel Berrange),
support for fully virtualized guest (Jim Fehlig, DV, Mark McLoughlin)
- documentation: augmented to cover hvm domains
0.1.2: Jul 3 2006:
- headers include paths fixup
- proxy mechanism for unprivileged read-only access by httpu
0.1.1: Jun 21 2006:
- building fixes: ncurses fallback (Jim Fehlig), VPATH builds (Daniel P.
Berrange)
- driver cleanups: new entry points, cleanup of libvirt.c (with Daniel P.
Berrange)
- Cope with API change introduced in Xen changeset 10277
- new test driver for regression checks (Daniel P. Berrange)
- improvements: added UUID to XML serialization, buffer usage (Karel
Zak), --connect argument to virsh (Daniel P. Berrange),
- bug fixes: uninitialized memory access in error reporting, S-Expr
parsing (Jim Fehlig, Jeremy Katz), virConnectOpen bug, remove a TODO in
xs_internal.c
- documentation: Python examples (David Lutterkort), new Perl binding
URL, man page update (Karel Zak)
0.1.0: Apr 10 2006:
- building fixes: --with-xen-distdir option (Ronald Aigner), out of tree
build and pkginfo cflag fix (Daniel Berrange)
- enhancement and fixes of the XML description format (David Lutterkort
and Jim Fehlig)
- new APIs: for Node information and Reboot
- internal code cleanup: refactoring internals into a driver model, more
error handling, structure sharing, thread safety and ref counting
- bug fixes: error message (Jim Meyering), error allocation in virsh (Jim
Meyering), virDomainLookupByID (Jim Fehlig),
- documentation: updates on architecture, and format, typo fix (Jim
Meyering)
- bindings: exception handling in examples (Jim Meyering), perl ones out
of tree (Daniel Berrange)
- virsh: more options, create, nodeinfo (Karel Zak), renaming of some
options (Karel Zak), use stderr only for errors (Karel Zak), man page
(Andrew Puch)
0.0.6: Feb 28 2006:
- add UUID lookup and extract API
- add error handling APIs both synchronous and asynchronous
- added minimal hook for error handling at the python level, improved the
python bindings
- augment the documentation and tests to cover error handling
0.0.5: Feb 23 2006:
- Added XML description parsing, dependance to libxml2, implemented the
creation API virDomainCreateLinux()
- new APIs to lookup and name domain by UUID
- fixed the XML dump when using the Xend access
- Fixed a few more problem related to the name change
- Adding regression tests in python and examples in C
- web site improvement, extended the documentation to cover the XML
format and Python API
- Added devhelp help for Gnome/Gtk programmers
0.0.4: Feb 10 2006:
- Fix various bugs introduced in the name change
0.0.3: Feb 9 2006:
- Switch name from from 'libvir' to libvirt
- Starting infrastructure to add code examples
- Update of python bindings for completeness
0.0.2: Jan 29 2006:
- Update of the documentation, web site redesign (Diana Fong)
- integration of HTTP xend RPC based on libxend by Anthony Liquori for
most operations
- Adding Save and Restore APIs
- extended the virsh command line tool (Karel Zak)
- remove xenstore transactions (Anthony Liguori)
- fix the Python bindings bug when domain and connections where freed
0.0.1: Dec 19 2005:
- First release
- Basic management of existing Xen domains
- Minimal autogenerated Python bindings
