NEWS file for libvirt
Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
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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
bugs (Guido Günther), remove a leak in xen inotify code (Daniel
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
driver init (Guido Günther), proper active vs. inactive
differentiation (Guido Günther), improve MTU setting on tap
interfaces (Eduardo Habkost), increase timeout for initial QEmu
monitor poll (Cole Robinson)
- Cleanups:fix improper initialisations (Jim Meyering)
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),
- 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),
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),
KVM dynamic max CPU detection (Guido Günther), spec file improvement
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
passthrough for QEmu/KVM (Guido Günther), storage pool source
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
István, Atsushi SAKAI, Nguyen Anh Quynh),
Java bindings docs, remove Xen centric
comments (Guido Günther), various typo in comments (Chris
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
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),
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
without a name in QEmu (Guido Günther), provide the real
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),
allow to add disk as USB devices (Guido Günther), LXC container
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
strings as translatable (Guido Günther and Jim Meyering), convert
error strings to something meaningful and translatable (Jim Meyering),
Linux Containers code cleanup, last error initializer (Guido Günther)
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