libguestfs.git/fuse, branch stable-1.4

build: Don't add version extra string to the version number.

2010-08-27T21:10:30+00:00

If this string was non-empty, then it broke a lot of things because
autoconf and other parts of the build system were expecting this
string to contain a simple MAJOR.MINOR.RELEASE version number.

This requires changes to guestfish and guestmount so they use the
guestfs_version API to fetch the version from the library.  (The
Perl tools were already doing it this way).  In a way this is more
accurate, because it's no longer hard-coded in the binary, but
fetched from the dynamically linked libguestfs.so.
(cherry picked from commit 4932fdca3ca1e9002164a1c0b73876f32739d34d)

fuse: Implement write syscall (RHBZ#592883).

2010-05-20T09:30:12+00:00

New API: write for creating files with fixed content (RHBZ#501889).

2010-05-20T09:30:12+00:00

The guestfs_write call can be used to create small files with
arbitrary 8 bit content, including \0 bytes.

This replaces and deprecates write-file, which cannot be modified
to use BufferIn because of an unfortunate choice in the ABI: the
size parameter to write-file, if zero, means that the daemon tries
to calculate the length of the buffer using strlen.  However this
fails if we pass a zero-length buffer using BufferIn because then
the daemon tries to do strlen on a (really) zero length buffer, not
even containing a terminating \0 character, thus segfaulting.

Fix build error in fuse/guestmount.c.

2010-04-14T10:13:04+00:00

guestmount.c: In function 'main':
guestmount.c:899: error: implicit declaration of function 'setlocale'
[-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

guestmount.c wasn't including locale.h.

fuse: Fix typo in test.

2010-03-01T14:17:31+00:00

Remove some unused variables.

2010-02-15T15:55:38+00:00

Since we have to compile with -Wno-unused-variables, we don't
spot unused variables in code.  I found these by compiling the
code in Ubuntu.

Use mount-options instead of mount to avoid implicit -o sync.

2010-02-10T10:46:23+00:00

guestfs_mount adds -o sync implicitly.  This causes a very large
performance problem for write-intensive programs (eg. virt-v2v).

Document this as a "gotcha".

Change the tests, guestfish, Sys::Guestfs::Lib, guestmount to use
mount-options instead.

(Note that this gotcha does not affect mount-ro).

The source of the performance problem was first identified by
Matthew Booth.

Set locale in C programs so l10n works (RHBZ#559962).

2010-01-29T15:11:59+00:00

This commit adds the calls to setlocale &c to all of the current
C programs.

It also adds l10n support to hivexget and hivexml which lacked them
previously.

To test this, try:

LANG=pa_IN.UTF-8 guestfish --cmd-help

(You can only do this test after installing the package, or at
least the 'pa.mo' mo-file in the correct place).

New tool: virt-list-filesystems

2009-11-24T16:01:11+00:00

Use this program as a convenient way to list the filesystems
available in a disk image or libvirt guest.

Example:

  $ virt-list-filesystems /dev/vg_trick/Debian5x64
  /dev/debian5x64/home
  /dev/debian5x64/root
  /dev/debian5x64/tmp
  /dev/debian5x64/usr
  /dev/debian5x64/var
  /dev/sda1

This is designed to make it easier for novices to use guestfish
and guestmount.  In particular with guestmount this acts as a way
to get a list of filesystems to use with the '-m' option.  ie:

  $ virt-list-filesystems unknowndisk.img
  /dev/sda1
  /dev/sda2
  $ guestmount -a unknowndisk.img -m /dev/sda1 /mnt

maint: use EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE, not 0 and 1 in "usage", too

2009-11-20T12:14:32+00:00

Convert by running these commands:
perl -pi -e 's/\b(usage ?)\(1\)/$1(EXIT_FAILURE)/' \
  fish/fish.c fuse/guestmount.c
perl -pi -e 's/\b(usage ?)\(0\)/$1(EXIT_SUCCESS)/' \
  fish/fish.c fuse/guestmount.c
* fish/fish.c (main): Replace 0/1 with EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE.
* fuse/guestmount.c (main): Likewise.