libguestfs.git/rescue, branch master

remove the useless "h" option

2012-09-26T09:26:01+00:00

"h" option is not enabled in virt-cat, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao

rescue: Add an expect-driven test for the virt-rescue command.

2012-09-04T13:43:26+00:00

This command was not tested at all.  As a result we didn't notice that
it was broken for a long time (RHBZ#853159).

This adds a test that drives the command through a pty.  It uses the
perl 'Expect' module, although this is not required.

rescue: If attach-method is 'libvirt', force it to be 'appliance'.

2012-09-04T11:04:31+00:00

The libvirt backend currently doesn't support direct mode.  We should
make that work in future.  As a workaround, force the attach-method to
be 'appliance' in this case.

rescue: If -v / debugging enabled, don't mask error messages.

2012-09-04T10:56:20+00:00

We set the error handler to NULL in order to mask "normal" error
messages that we expect to see because of the unusual way that
virt-rescue runs the appliance.  However if the user selected -v /
enabled debugging, then it is reasonable to expect they want to see
every message, so do not mask anything.

podwrapper: Add --license parameter, which is required.

2012-08-21T19:33:21+00:00

This adds standard LICENSE and BUGS sections to all of the man pages
that are processed by podwrapper.

Modify all the calls to $(PODWRAPPER) to add the right --license
parameter according to the content.  Note that this relaxes the
license on some code example pages, making them effectively BSD-style
licensed.

man pages: Ensure consistent copyright/author sections, remove license

2012-08-21T19:16:29+00:00

section.

Ensure each man page contains consistent COPYRIGHT and AUTHOR
sections.

Remove the LICENSE section.  We will add that back in podwrapper in a
later commit.

fish: Rename fish/virt.c to fish/domain.c

2012-07-19T15:11:26+00:00

This file handles the -d option for guestfish and other C command line
utilities.  Renaming this file makes it less confusing.

build: Change calls to podwrapper.sh to use $(PODWRAPPER).

2012-07-16T17:56:57+00:00

This will allow us to easily change the location of this
script in future.

New API: guestfs_shutdown: Cleanly shutdown the backend.

2012-07-03T20:27:29+00:00

The new API splits orderly close into a two-step process:

  if (guestfs_shutdown (g) == -1) {
    /* handle the error, eg. qemu error */
  }
  guestfs_close (g);

Note that the explicit shutdown step is only necessary in the case
where you have made changes to the disk image and want to handle write
errors.  Read the documentation for further information.

This change also:

 - deprecates guestfs_kill_subprocess

 - turns guestfs_kill_subprocess into the same as guestfs_shutdown

 - changes guestfish and other tools to call shutdown + close
   where necessary (not for read-only tools)

 - updates documentation

 - updates examples

rescue: Add --scratch option.

2012-04-26T11:56:34+00:00

This lets you create temporary scratch disks.