[Qemu-devel] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.22 has been released

[Qemu-devel] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.22 has been released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).

libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
machine disk images.  http://libguestfs.org/

This release represents 5 months of development and has many
significant new features including:

 - access remote disk images over nbd, ssh, http, ftp, iscsi, ceph, and more

 - syslinux and extlinux bootloader support

 - full support for btrfs guests

 - large performance improvements in virt-df and virt-alignment-scan tools

 - new bash completions for tools

 - many bug fixes

 - full release notes: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html

Download source:
http://libguestfs.org/download/1.22-stable/
or: git clone git://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git

Binaries will be available shortly for Fedora 19 in the Fedora repository.

Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04 binary packages will be available shortly here:
http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/

Rich.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.22 has been released

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 05/23/2013 05:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).

Great work!

==========
$ ./autogen.sh && make -j 7 && \
time make -k check LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 \
LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1 |& tee \
/var/tmp/make-check-libugestfs-24-may.log
==========

is stuck at:

[...]
PASS: test-inspect-fstab-md.sh
10 seconds: ./test-list-filesystems.sh
PASS: test-list-filesystems.sh
14 seconds: ./test-list-md-devices.sh
PASS: test-list-md-devices.sh


$ uname -r
3.10.0-0.rc2.git0.3.fc20.x86_64

Now, re-trying w/: export SKIP_TEST_MDADM_SH=1

> 
> libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual
> machine disk images.  http://libguestfs.org/
> 
> This release represents 5 months of development and has many
> significant new features including:
> 
>  - access remote disk images over nbd, ssh, http, ftp, iscsi, ceph, and more
> 
>  - syslinux and extlinux bootloader support
> 
>  - full support for btrfs guests

Side question: /me hasn't been keeping up. Do you have any info on how "use-able" (for
some definitions of it) is 'btrfsck' ? Did you get a chance to try it at all in your
"copious" free time :)

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfsck says "This page may contain outdated,
inaccurate or incomplete information."

> 
>  - large performance improvements in virt-df and virt-alignment-scan tools
> 
>  - new bash completions for tools
> 
>  - many bug fixes
> 
>  - full release notes: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html
> 
> Download source:
> http://libguestfs.org/download/1.22-stable/
> or: git clone git://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git
> 
> Binaries will be available shortly for Fedora 19 in the Fedora repository.
> 
> Ubuntu 12.10 & 13.04 binary packages will be available shortly here:
> http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/
> 
> Rich.
> 


-- 
/kashyap

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Libguestfs] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.22 has been released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:42:37AM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> On 05/23/2013 05:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs (1.22).
> 
> Great work!
> 
> ==========
> $ ./autogen.sh && make -j 7 && \
> time make -k check LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 \
> LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1 |& tee \
> /var/tmp/make-check-libugestfs-24-may.log
> ==========
> 
> is stuck at:
> 
> [...]
> PASS: test-inspect-fstab-md.sh
> 10 seconds: ./test-list-filesystems.sh
> PASS: test-list-filesystems.sh
> 14 seconds: ./test-list-md-devices.sh
> PASS: test-list-md-devices.sh
> 
> $ uname -r
> 3.10.0-0.rc2.git0.3.fc20.x86_64

This is caused by a kernel bug which affects the 'mdadm' command:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962079

> Now, re-trying w/: export SKIP_TEST_MDADM_SH=1
[...]
> >  - full support for btrfs guests
> 
> Side question: /me hasn't been keeping up. Do you have any info on how "use-able" (for
> some definitions of it) is 'btrfsck' ? Did you get a chance to try it at all in your
> "copious" free time :)

You'll probably want to ask Matt about it.

Rich.

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