[et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.0.41 released
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jun 4 16:04:02 UTC 2009
[This is the only time I'll send this announcement to qemu-devel]
I'm pleased to announce the release of a new stable version of
libguestfs, the library for accessing and modifying virtual machine
disk images. Based on around qemu and Linux kernel code, this can be
used as a library or from scripts to make batch configuration changes
to guests, view and edit config files inside guests, and much more.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
Source:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/files/libguestfs-1.0.41.tar.gz
Fedora 11+ packages:
(Available soon in F11 updates-testing or directly from Koji:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=104824)
RHEL/CentOS 5 packages:
(Being uploaded to EPEL now, available soon)
Debian packages:
http://www.annexia.org/tmp/debian/
Since the last announcement, many bugs have been fixed and features
added. The main highlights are:
- squashfs and cramfs support
- better support for read-only access to drives
- many problems with string handling in different language bindings
have been fixed
- internationalization support
- ext4 support improved on RHEL 5
- improved support for running commands in the guest
- support for skipping tests
- lvresize and ext2/3 resize support
- pvremove, vgremove, lvremove commands
- sleep command
- IRC channel #libguestfs on FreeNode
Bugs fixed:
501761 - libguestfs requires qemu, not qemu-system-x86 or qemu-system-ppc
501878 - guestfish built-in commands like 'alloc' and 'help' don't autocomplete
501883 - javadoc messed up in libguestfs java documentation
501885 - Doesn't detect missing Java, --with-java-home=no should not be needed
501892 - OptString parameters not handled properly in bindings
502309 - libguestfs build failure - tests occasionally fail with 'ranlib:
'./libmlguestfs.a': No such file'
502533 - Polish translation of libguestfs
503133 - "mkdir-p" should not throw errors on preexisting directories
503135 - cramfs and squashfs modules should be available in libguestfs
appliances
503169 - libguestfs /dev is too sparse for kernel installation/upgrade
Thanks to Charles Duffy for a number of patches and suggestions.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html
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