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* Require febootstrap >= 3.17.Richard W.M. Jones2012-06-141-1/+1
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* Require febootstrap >= 3.16.Richard W.M. Jones2012-06-131-1/+1
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* appliance: Add support for virtio-scsi.Richard W.M. Jones2012-06-121-1/+2
| | | | This requires febootstrap >= 3.15.
* Require QEMU >= 1.0.Richard W.M. Jones2012-06-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | QEMU 1.0 was released at the end of 2011. Remove all the cruft about detecting broken -machine type which was only required for QEMU 0.15. This also reverts commit 30ecbf3ec2ada68f7e125a180553e31b069033b7. Even on ARM you can pass -machine accel=kvm:tcg and qemu does the right thing, so I'm not sure why we wanted to disable that.
* ppc64: Update README with notes about ppc64 support.Richard W.M. Jones2012-06-081-5/+11
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* arm: Add configure flag '--with-qemu-options'.Richard W.M. Jones2012-05-121-0/+27
| | | | | | | This flag allows extra QEMU options to be passed on the command line. This is useful mainly on arm (see the notes in the updated README file).
* doc: Add a note about compiling under clang.Richard W.M. Jones2012-05-111-0/+14
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* Add gettext support for OCaml tools (virt-resize, virt-sparsify, virt-sysprep).Richard W.M. Jones2012-05-011-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Note that this support is optional: To enable it, install the ocaml-gettext library from http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-gettext . If this library is not installed, then configure detects this and inserts dummy gettext functions that do nothing.
* debian: Suggest 'apt-get build-dep' to install dependencies.Richard W.M. Jones2012-04-041-3/+10
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* Remove debian/ subdirectory.Richard W.M. Jones2012-03-221-3/+5
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* build: Make netpbm and icoutils into proper optional dependencies.Richard W.M. Jones2012-03-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Netpbm and icoutils (wrestool) have always been dependencies. Since they are not always present, make these into optional dependencies (which they were, sort of, before). Also document these dependencies in the README file.
* Tempus fugit.Richard W.M. Jones2012-01-181-1/+1
| | | | Update all copyright dates to 2012.
* Add 'make extra-tests' rule and run extra tests.Richard W.M. Jones2011-11-241-0/+8
| | | | | These tests are optional, and require a special environment and tools to run.
* virt-sysprep: Don't use xmlstarlet.Richard W.M. Jones2011-11-031-3/+1
| | | | Use virt-inspector --xpath option instead.
* resize: Remove requirement for ocaml Pcre library.Richard W.M. Jones2011-11-031-4/+0
| | | | | This library is not available in RHEL 6, and in any case removing the dependency is a simple change.
* virt-sysprep: Switch to using guestmount, add more features.Richard W.M. Jones2011-10-131-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This switches virt-sysprep to use guestmount instead of guestfish. This makes the script a little bit easier to modify for sysadmins. This commit also adds: - dhcp-client-state - dhcp-server-state - logfiles - random-seed - smolt-uuid - yum-uuid SELinux relabelling, and a section on security in the manual page.
* Add systemtap/DTrace probes.Richard W.M. Jones2011-10-101-0/+3
| | | | | Mainly this is a documentation change. However a sample of DTrace-compatible userspace probes are also added.
* Require PCRE library.Richard W.M. Jones2011-07-251-2/+2
| | | | This library is widely available in distros.
* Refresh README file.Richard W.M. Jones2011-07-131-75/+79
| | | | | | | Update and verify the list of requirements, by checking it against both configure.ac and the Fedora specfile. Remove some obsolete sections that covered historical ground.
* virt-win-reg: Add --unsafe-printable-strings option.Richard W.M. Jones2011-05-171-1/+1
| | | | This also requires hivex >= 1.2.7.
* Remove local LIBGUESTFS_PATH detection from guestfish and guestmount.Richard W.M. Jones2011-04-161-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove the hack that let you run ./fish/guestfish or ./fuse/guestmount. You now have to do: ./run ./fish/guestfish or ./run ./fuse/guestmount to run these programs without installing.
* Remove ad-hoc run*locally scripts, replace with './run'Richard W.M. Jones2011-04-161-0/+28
| | | | | Remove all the run*locally scripts and replace with a single top level ./run shell script.
* README: virtio-serial is required.Richard W.M. Jones2011-04-121-2/+2
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* Rewrite virt-resize in OCaml.Richard W.M. Jones2011-04-091-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a fairly straightforward translation of Perl virt-resize into OCaml. It is bug-for-bug and feature-for-feature identical to the Perl version, except as noted below. The motivation is to have a more solid, high-level, statically safe compiled language to go forwards with fixing some of the harder bugs in virt-resize. In particular contracts between different parts of the program are now handled by statically typed structures checked at compile time, instead of the very ad-hoc unchecked hash tables used by the Perl version. OCaml and the ocaml-pcre library (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions bindings for OCaml) are required. Extra features in this version: - 32 bit hosts are now supported. - We try hard to handle the case where the target disk is not "clean" (ie. all zeroes). It usually works for this case, whereas the previous version would usually fail. However it is still recommended that the system administrator creates a fresh blank disk for the target before running the program. - User messages are a bit more verbose and helpful. You can turn these off with the -q (--quiet) option. There is one lost feature: - Ability to specify >= T (terabytes) sizes in command line size expressions has been removed. This probably didn't work in the Perl version. Other differences: - The first partition on the target is no longer aligned; instead we place it at the same sector as on the source. I suspect that aligning it was causing the bootloader failures. - Because it's easier, we do more sanity checking on the source disk. This might lead to more failures, but they'd be failures you'd want to know about. - The order in which operations are performed has been changed to make it more logical. The user should not notice any functional difference, but debug messages will be quite a bit different. - virt-resize is a compiled binary, not a script.
* mkisofs is obsolete. Require genisoimage everywhere instead.Nikita A Menkovich2011-04-021-1/+1
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* Add /etc/libguestfs-tools.conf configuration file.Richard W.M. Jones2011-03-311-0/+2
| | | | | This allows the default for --ro or --rw to be controlled for the three tools guestfish, guestmount and virt-rescue.
* README: Note that getfacl, getfattr are optional dependencies.Richard W.M. Jones2011-03-281-0/+2
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* README: Note that po4a is mandatory if compiling from git.Richard W.M. Jones2011-01-151-1/+3
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* docs: Refresh README file.Richard W.M. Jones2010-12-191-40/+12
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* README: Advise using febootstrap >= 3.3.Richard W.M. Jones2010-12-121-1/+1
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* appliance: Change to using febootstrap 3.x supermin appliance.Richard W.M. Jones2010-12-051-114/+9
| | | | | | | | | This removes all support for building the ordinary / old style appliance using febootstrap 2.x, debootstrap, debirf, fakeroot and fakechroot. Instead this uses febootstrap 3.x to build the supermin appliance in a simpler cross-distro manner.
* build: Centralize all POD manipulation in 'podwrapper.sh' script.Richard W.M. Jones2010-11-241-2/+2
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* build: virt-make-fs requires String::ShellQuote, add to configure.Richard W.M. Jones2010-11-241-0/+2
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* inspect: Detect if db_dump and db_load programs are available.Richard W.M. Jones2010-11-241-0/+3
| | | | | | If db_dump is not available then disable RPM application detection. Note these utilities have odd names on Debian.
* Update README to reflect Perl modules that are really still required.Richard W.M. Jones2010-11-231-2/+7
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* build: xml-light is no longer required (thanks Maxim Koltsov).Richard W.M. Jones2010-11-111-3/+2
| | | | | | At some point we removed the last thing that required xml-light, but were still testing for it at various places in the build. This removes all traces.
* fish: Use core add-domain API to implement '-d' option.Richard Jones2010-11-111-2/+2
| | | | | | This also makes libxml2 and libvirt into optional dependencies. If they are missing then the core API will print an error, as will the '-d' option to guestfish.
* lib: Make pcre, libmagic and hivex libraries optional.Richard Jones2010-11-101-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change makes these libraries optional. If they are not available at compile time then certain core API features will be disabled (see below). This also changes PCRE detection to use pkg-config instead of the ad hoc autoconf checks. The large inspect.c file has been split out into separate function-specific files. file-architecture: requires pcre & libmagic inspection: requires pcre & hivex
* lib: Augeas (client side) is not needed by the library.Richard Jones2010-11-101-2/+2
| | | | However it is used by the daemon.
* lib: Expose errno through new API guestfs_last_errno.Richard W.M. Jones2010-11-031-0/+2
| | | | | | | If either the daemon sends back an errno, or a system call fails in the library, save the errno in the handle and then make it available to callers through the guestfs_last_errno function.
* Call febootstrap-supermin-helper using the new -u and -g optionsMatthew Booth2010-10-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use febootstrap-supermin-helper's new -u and -g command line options to setuid, rather than doing it in libguestfs. This resolves an issue with the generation of the cached appliance checksum. The checksum was being generated by a call to febootstrap-supermin-helper through popen(). Unfortunately, a bash misfeature meant that euid would be reset to uid, and the checksum was generated for uid, not euid. When virt-v2v is writing to a RHEV target, uid == 0 and euid == 36, which resulted in a cached appliance being created for root with permissions for uid 36. Note this requires febootstrap 2.10.
* build: hivex is required.Richard Jones2010-09-111-1/+1
| | | | | hivex library has been required since we moved the inspection code to C. Check for this in configure.ac.
* build: require Augeas for library.Richard Jones2010-09-111-2/+2
| | | | | | Augeas has been required since we moved the inspection code to C, however we were not correctly enforcing this in configure.ac, nor correctly linking to the library until now.
* README: Document virtio-serial is now the only vmchannel.Richard Jones2010-09-101-4/+2
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* PHP bindings.Richard Jones2010-09-041-1/+3
| | | | | | Note that these are not complete on 32 bit architectures. PHP doesn't offer any convenient 64 bit type (on 32 bit). Therefore you should always use these PHP bindings on 64 bit.
* Allow manual pages and POD files to be translated.Richard Jones2010-09-021-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This uses the optional po4a package to split these files into PO files for translation, and reassemble afterwards. Note this creates an extra pot file (po-docs/libguestfs-docs.pot). We don't (yet) combine this with the main po/libguestfs.pot file. The 'libguestfs-docs.pot' file included in this commit is not the real thing, just a short cut down snippet for testing. The real thing is created if you update one of the dependent files and rebuild. Note also the dummy ja.po, for testing the principles.
* Requires febootstrap >= 2.9.Richard Jones2010-08-271-1/+1
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* Use virtio-serial, remove other vmchannel methods.Richard Jones2010-08-241-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for virtio-serial, and removes all other vmchannel methods. Virtio-serial is faster than other methods, and is now widely available. I tested this by using the guestfs_upload API on an 83 MB file: before: 6.12 seconds (14.1 MB/sec) after: 4.20 seconds (20.6 MB/sec) (note this is with the current 8K chunk size)
* Change to using ext2-based, cached supermin appliance.Richard Jones2010-08-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | This changes the method used to build the supermin appliance to use the new ext2-based appliance supported by latest febootstrap. The appliance can also be cached, so we avoid rebuilding it each time it is used. Mailing list discussion goes into the rationale and details: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-August/msg00028.html Requires febootstrap >= 2.8.
* fish: Add -c/--connect and -d/--domain options.Richard Jones2010-08-171-0/+4
| | | | | | | | The -d option lets you specify libvirt domains. The disks from these domains are found and added, as if you'd named them with -a. The -c option lets you specify a libvirt URI, which is needed when we consult libvirt to implement the above.
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