guestfs-release-notes - libguestfs
リリースノート
These release notes only cover the differences from the previous stable/dev
branch split (1.28.0). For detailed changelogs, please see the git repository,
or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.
New tools
virt-dib(1) is a secure and safe alternative to the OpenStack
"diskimage-builder" tool. It is compatible with diskimage-builder
elements. (Pino Toscano)
virt-get-kernel(1) extracts the kernel and ramdisk from a disk image.
Previously this functionality was part of
virt-builder(1), but the new
tool is more featureful. (Pino Toscano)
New features in existing tools
virt-v2v(1) -i ova mode can now read a wider range of OVA files,
and also unpacked files (directories).
virt-v2v now securely passes options to curl, so passwords, cookies and so on
cannot be seen by users with shell access on the same machine.
virt-v2v has a new
--password-file option to allow you to securely pass
in a password, and to avoid an interactive prompt.
virt-v2v disables Windows autoreboot, making debugging conversion failures on
Windows easier.
virt-v2v now comes with an extensive external test suite. See
virt-v2v-test-harness(1).
virt-v2v allows virtio drivers to come from any location (Roman Kagan), and
drivers can be read directly from the virtio ISO.
virt-v2v supports conversion of Windows ≥ 8. Note this is experimental,
and possibly broken. Use with caution.
virt-v2v can now convert UEFI guests.
virt-p2v(1) adds a network configuration dialog.
virt-p2v now has "p2v.pre", "p2v.post" and
"p2v.fail" triggers, allowing arbitrary scripts for preparing the
host for conversion and tidying up post-conversion.
virt-p2v now uses the more advanced metacity window manager (instead of
matchbox).
virt-sysprep(1) will remove "/var/spool/mail/username" for
non-root accounts (Hu Tao).
virt-customize(1),
virt-builder(1) and virt-sysprep have the
following new options:
- --commands-from-file
- allow long lists of commands to be read from a file instead
of from the command line (Pino Toscano)
- --copy
- copy files inside the guest (Maros Zatko)
- --copy-in
- copy host files recursively into the guest (Pino
Toscano)
- --move
- move files inside the guest (Maros Zatko)
- --ssh-inject
- inject SSH keys into a guest (Pino Toscano)
- --sm-attach
- --sm-credentials
- --sm-register
- --sm-remove
- --sm-unregister
- register and unregister a guest from subscription-manager
(Pino Toscano)
- --touch
- touch a file in the guest (Pino Toscano)
- --truncate
- --truncate-recursive
- truncate files (Maros Zatko)
Improvements to virt-customize firstboot support. In particular, Windows
firstboot should work as well as Linux (Roman Kagan).
virt-df(1) can now use PolicyKit, SASL and other authentication methods
when getting the list of domains from libvirt.
Improvements to guestfish bash completion (Pino Toscano).
Bash completion now completes short options as well as long options (Pino
Toscano).
guestfish(1) now displays a command synopsis if the number of parameters
given to a command is wrong (Hu Tao).
virt-builder now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions back to RHEL 3.
virt-builder supports SUSE guests using zypper (Cédric Bosdonnat).
Language bindings
The Java bindings now include validated Javadoc, and other improvements (Pino
Toscano).
Multiple fixes and improvements to the PHP bindings (Pino Toscano).
Inspection
Inspection can now get icons from RHEL 7 and CentOS 7.
/etc/favicon.png is now allowed to be a symbolic link.
For RPM-based guests, inspection now returns RPM Epoch fields.
Debian packages now have separate Epoch and Version fields (Nikos Skalkotos).
OpenBSD detection added, FreeBSD and NetBSD added as separate
"distros", and other BSD inspection improvements and bug fixes
(Nikos Skalkotos).
CoreOS detection added (Nikos Skalkotos).
The package manager in Fedora ≥ 22 is "dnf".
ReactOS guests can be inspected (Maros Zatko).
Add support for UEFI guests.
Inspection now works when kernel modules are gzip or xz compressed (Pino
Toscano).
Inspection now recognizes ppc64 and ppc64le guests (Maros Zatko).
Inspection lists the installed applications on Archlinux guests (Nikos
Skalkotos).
Architectures and platforms
PPC64 (POWER7) and PPC64LE (POWER8) architectures are now much better supported,
and should work out of the box.
For aarch64, we use AAVMF (an open source UEFI implementation based on OVMF) if
available to run the appliance.
For armv7, we now use the
-M virt machine type by default.
There is better support for compiling on non-Linux platforms (Pino Toscano,
Margaret Lewicka).
Libguestfs should now work on MIPS 32 bit little endian ("mipsel"). I
have not been able to try 64 bit or big endian.
- CVE-2014-8484
- CVE-2014-8485
- Libguestfs previously ran the strings(1) utility on
untrusted files. Strings could parse BFD headers in an unsafe way, leading
to possible arbitrary code execution. Libguestfs now runs strings with a
flag to ensure it does not try to parse BFD headers. This could have led
to exploitation of the libguestfs appliance, but since libguestfs further
constrains the appliance through virtualization, SELinux and other
techniques, it was unlikely to have caused any privilege escalation on the
host.
- XPath injection in virt-v2v
- One possible XPath injection vulnerability was fixed in
virt-v2v. This might have allowed a malicious guest which was being
converted by virt-v2v to construct an arbitrary XPath expression which
would have been evaluated on the host (by the libxml2 library linked to
the virt-v2v binary). It is not clear what the effects of this might be.
For further information, see upstream commit
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/6c6ce85f94c36803fe2db35a98db436bff0c14b0
- Denial of service problems when using "qemu-img
info"
- When using the American Fuzzy Lop fuzzer
("afl-fuzz") on the "qemu-img info" command, Richard
W.M. Jones found that certain files can cause the "qemu-img"
program to use lots of memory and time (for example 6GB of heap and 14
seconds of CPU time on a fast Intel processor), and in some cases to
crash. Since libguestfs may run "qemu-img info" on disk images
to find out what they contain, this transitively could cause libguestfs to
hang or consume lots of memory.
Libguestfs was modified so that it uses resource limits to limit the space
and time used by "qemu-img info", to avoid this problem. If a
malicious user tries to pass one of these disk images to libguestfs,
"qemu-img" will crash and the crash is reported back to
libguestfs callers as an error message.
New APIs
- "guestfs_add_libvirt_dom"
- This exposes a previously private API that allows you to
pass a "virDomainPtr" object directly from libvirt to
libguestfs.
- "guestfs_blockdev_setra"
- Adjust readahead parameter for devices. See "blockdev
--setra" command.
- "guestfs_btrfs_balance"
- "guestfs_btrfs_balance_cancel"
- "guestfs_btrfs_balance_pause"
- "guestfs_btrfs_balance_resume"
- "guestfs_btrfs_balance_status"
- Balance support for Btrfs filesystems (Hu Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_filesystem_defragment"
- Filesystem defragmentation support for Btrfs filesystems
(Hu Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_image"
- Create an image of a Btrfs filesystem (Chen Hanxiao)
- "guestfs_btrfs_qgroup_assign"
- "guestfs_btrfs_qgroup_create"
- "guestfs_btrfs_qgroup_destroy"
- "guestfs_btrfs_qgroup_limit"
- "guestfs_btrfs_qgroup_remove"
- "guestfs_btrfs_qgroup_show"
- "guestfs_btrfs_quota_enable"
- "guestfs_btrfs_quota_rescan"
- Quote support for Btrfs filesystems (Hu Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_rescue_chunk_recover"
- Scan and recover the chunk tree in Btrfs filesystems (Hu
Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_rescue_super_recover"
- Restore superblocks in Btrfs filesystems (Hu Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_replace"
- Replace a device in a Btrfs filesystem (Cao Jin).
- "guestfs_btrfs_scrub"
- "guestfs_btrfs_scrub_cancel"
- "guestfs_btrfs_scrub_resume"
- "guestfs_btrfs_scrub_status"
- Scrub a Btrfs filesystem (Hu Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_subvolume_get_default"
- Get the default subvolume of a Btrfs filesystem (Hu
Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfs_subvolume_show"
- List detailed information about the subvolume of a Btrfs
filesystem (Hu Tao).
- "guestfs_btrfstune_enable_extended_inode_refs"
- "guestfs_btrfstune_enable_skinny_metadata_extent_refs"
- "guestfs_btrfstune_seeding"
- Various tuning parameters for Btrfs filesystems (Chen
Hanxiao).
- "guestfs_c_pointer"
- Return the C pointer to the underlying "guestfs_h
*". This allows interworking of libguestfs bindings with bindings
from other libraries. For further information see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1075164
- "guestfs_copy_in"
- "guestfs_copy_out"
- Flexible APIs for recursively copying directories of files
between the host and guest filesystem. Previously these were available
only as guestfish commands, but now any API users can call them (Pino
Toscano).
- "guestfs_part_get_gpt_guid"
- "guestfs_part_set_gpt_guid"
- Get and set the GPT per-partition GUID.
- "guestfs_part_get_mbr_part_type"
- Get MBR partition type (Chen Hanxiao).
- "guestfs_set_uuid_random"
- Set the UUID of a filesystem to a randomly generated value;
supported filesystems currently are ext2/3/4, XFS, Btrfs, and swap
partitions. (Chen Hanxiao).
Other API changes
"guestfs_disk_create" can now use VMDK files as backing files.
"guestfs_btrfs_subvolume_snapshot" takes extra optional parameters
(all added by Hu Tao):
- "ro"
- for creating a read-only Btrfs snapshot
- "qgroupid"
- for adding the snapshot to a qgroup
"guestfs_btrfs_subvolume_create" can also take the optional
"qgroupid" parameter (Hu Tao).
"guestfs_set_uuid" can set UUID of swap partitions, Btrfs (Hu Tao,
Chen Hanxiao).
"guestfs_copy_device_to_file" and
"guestfs_copy_file_to_file" have a new optional "append"
parameter, allowing you to append to the output file instead of truncating it.
"guestfs_mkfs" has a new optional "label" parameter to set
the initial label of the new filesystem (Pino Toscano).
"guestfs_set_label" and "guestfs_set_uuid" now set
"ENOTSUP" as errno when there is no implemented support for the
filesystem of the specified mountable (Chen Hanxiao).
Environment variables now let you write "LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=true",
"LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=0" and so on.
All "guestfs_sfdisk*" APIs have been deprecated. Because
sfdisk(8) was rewritten, incompatibly, upstream, we don't recommend
using these APIs in future code. Use the "guestfs_part*" APIs as
replacements.
APIs such as "guestfs_download" do not truncate
/dev/stdout or
/dev/stderr when writing to them, meaning that if you redirect stdout
or stderr to a file, the file is no longer truncated.
The daemon no longer uses its own separate copy of gnulib. Instead it shares a
single copy with the library.
OCaml
.annot files are now created, so IDEs and editors like emacs and vi
can browse OCaml types in the source code.
Various fixes to allow different host/appliance architecture builds (Pino
Toscano).
Automake is now used directly to build all the OCaml programs, instead of ad hoc
Makefile rules. One side effect of this is to enable warnings in all the C
code used by OCaml programs.
"-fno-strict-overflow" is used throughout the build to avoid dubious
GCC optimizations.
Multiple cleanups to support GCC 5.
OCaml OUnit2 is needed to run some OCaml tests.
Creating a statically linked
libguestfs.a should work again.
The
src/api-support subdirectory and its scripts are no longer used.
Instead we store in the
generator/actions.ml when the API was added to
libguestfs.
The translation service has changed from Transifex to Zanata.
Many more translations are available now, for both library and tools messages
and documentation.
In all OCaml tools, there are now common "error", "warning",
"info" functions, and common way to set and get the
--quiet,
-x (trace) and
-v (verbose) flags, and colour highlighting used
consistently.
"COMPILE_REGEXP" macros are used to simplify PCRE constructors and
destructors.
In the generator, "Pointer" arguments have finally been implemented.
Internal identifiers no longer use double and triple underscores (eg.
"guestfs___program_name"). These identifiers are invalid for C99 and
C++ programs, although compilers would accept them.
The daemon no longer parses "guestfs_*" options from
/proc/cmdline. Instead it only takes ordinary command line options. The
appliance init script turns
/proc/cmdline into daemon command line
options.
The tests can now run the daemon as a "captive process", allowing it
to be run directly on the host. The main advantage of this is we can run
valgrind directly on the daemon during testing.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1239053
- virt-v2v error reporting when grub.conf cannot be parsed by
Augeas
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1238053
- v2v:Duplicate disk target set when convert guest with cdrom
attached
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1237869
- Virtio drivers are not installed for windows 2008 guests by
virt-v2v
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1234351
- virt-v2v Support for Fedora virtio-win drivers
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1232192
- Virt-v2v gives an error on a blank disk: part_get_parttype:
unknown signature, of the output: BYT;
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1229385
- virt-p2v in kernel command line mode should power off the
machine after conversion
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1229340
- virt-p2v no GUI mode appends \n to the final command line
parameter
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1229305
- virt-sysprep at cleanup deletes /var/spool/at/.SEQ which
results in failing at
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1226794
- "Doing conversion……" still shows
after cancel the conversion from virt-p2v client
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1215042
- Memory leak in virNetSocketNewConnectUNIX
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1213324
- virt-v2v: warning: unknown guest operating system: windows
windows 6.3 when converting win8,win8.1,win2012,win2012R2 to rhev
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1213247
- virt tools should print the same format of version
string
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1212808
- RFE: virt-builder --touch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1212807
- virt-builder --selinux-relabel flag fails on
cross-architecture builds
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1212680
- RFE: virt-inspector xpath query should output a neat format
of the query element
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1212152
- virt-builder firstboot-command fails: File name too
long
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1211996
- virt-inspector gives incorrect arch (ppc64) for ppc64le
guest
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1203817
- RFE: virt-customize --move and --copy
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1201526
- index-parser can't parse systemd mount files properly
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1196101
- virt-builder --upload option doesn't work to a FAT
partition
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1196100
- virt-builder -x option on its own does not enable
tracing
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1195204
- `virt-builder` should create $HOME/.cache directory if it
already doesn't exist
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1193237
- Virt-builder fingerprint is required even when no check
desired
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1189284
- virt-resize should preserve GPT partition UUIDs, else EFI
guests become unbootable
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1188866
- Performance regression in virt-builder when uncompressing
image
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1186800
- virt-v2v should support gzip format ova as input
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1185561
- virt-sparsify should ignore read-only LVs
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1182463
- "mknod-b", "mknod-c", and
"mkfifo" do not strip non-permissions bits from
"mode"
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1176493
- virt-v2v ignores sound device when convert xen guest to
local kvm
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1175676
- Typo error in 'help ping-daemon'
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1175196
- "parse-environment" and
"parse-environment-list" fail to parse "LIBGUESTFS_TRACE =
0"
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1175035
- "is-blockdev"/"is-blockdev-opts" fail
to detect "/dev/sda"
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1174280
- RFE: Allow v2v conversion of Oracle Linux 5.8 VMware
VM
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1174200
- New virt-v2v failure: CURL: Error opening file: NSS: client
certificate not found (nickname not specified): Invalid argument
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1174123
- Graphics password disappear after conversion of
virt-v2v
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1174073
- The listen address for vnc is changed after conversion by
virt-v2v
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1171666
- inspection thinks EFI partition is a separate operating
system
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1171130
- virt-v2v conversion of RHEL 3 guest fails with: All of your
loopback devices are in use
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1170685
- Conversion of RHEL 4 guest fails: rpm -ql
1:kernel-utils-2.4-23.el4: virt-v2v: error: libguestfs error:
command_lines:
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1170073
- virt-v2v picks debug kernels over non-debug kernels when
versions are equal
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1169045
- virt-sparsify: libguestfs error: qemu-img info:
'virtual-size' is not representable as a 64 bit integer
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1169015
- virt-resize --expand fails on ubuntu-14.04.img image
(regression)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1168144
- warning: fstrim: fstrim: /sysroot/: FITRIM ioctl failed:
Operation not supported (ignored) when convert win2003 guest from xen
server
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167921
- p2v: No Network Connection dialog
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167774
- virt-p2v fails with
error:"nbd.c:nbd_receive_negotiate():L501: read
failed"
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167623
- Remove "If reporting bugs, run virt-v2v with debugging
enabled .." message when running virt-p2v
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167601
- "Conversion was successful" pop out even virt-p2v
fails
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167302
- virt-v2v: warning: ova hard disk has no parent controller
when convert from a ova file
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1166618
- virt-resize should give out the detail warning info to let
customers know what's going wrong
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1165975
- File "/boot/grub2/device.map" showing is not
right after converting a rhel7 guest from esx server
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1165785
- mount-loop command fails: mount failed: Unknown error
-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1165569
- Disable "cancel conversion" button after virt-p2v
conversion finished
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1165564
- Provide Reboot/Shutdown button after virt-p2v
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1164853
- Booting in qemu found no volume groups and failed checking
the filesystems
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1164732
- The description of 'help append' is not accurately, it add
the kernel options to libguestfs appliance not the guest kernel
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1164697
- typo errors in man pages
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1164619
- Inspect-get-icon failed on RHEL7 guest
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1162966
- xfs should also give a warning out to let customer know the
limitation
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1161575
- Failed to import guest with "rtl8139" nic to
openstack server after converted by v2v
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1159651
- virt-sysprep firstboot script is not deleted if it reboot a
RHEL 7 guest
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1159258
- esx win2008 32 bit guest fail to load after conversion
because the firmware isn't ACPI compatible
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1159016
- libvirt backend does not set RBD password
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1158526
- Use password file instead of process interaction
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1157679
- virt-p2v-make-disk should add firmwares
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1156449
- libguestfs FTBFS on f21 ppc64le
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1156301
- virt-inspector support adding a remote disk, but in its man
page -a URI / --add URI is missing
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1155121
- Virt-v2v will fail when using relative path for -i ova
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1153844
- Redundancy whitespace at the end of directory name when use
<TAB> to complete the directory name in guestfish with a xfs
filesystem in guest
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1153589
- virt-v2v will hang when converting esx guest before disk
copy phase
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1152998
- virt-v2v / qemu-img fails on ova image
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1151910
- virt-ls should remove '/' in the output when specify the
directory name as /etc/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1151900
- Should also add a field for directory files when run
virt-ls with --csv option
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1151033
- virt-v2v conversions from VMware vCenter server run
slowly
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1146832
- virt-v2v fail to convert guest with disk type volume
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1146007
- Input/output error during conversion of esx guest.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1135585
- [RFE] virt-builder should support copying in a
directory/list of files
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1089566
- [abrt] livecd-tools: kickstart.py:276:apply:IOError: [Errno
2] No such file or directory:
'/run/media/jones/2tp001data/createlive/temp/imgcreate-_dX8Us/install_root/etc/rpm/macros.imgcreate'
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1079625
- virt-sparsify fails if a btrfs filesystem contains readonly
snapshots
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1075164
- RFE: allow passing in a pre-opened libvirt connection from
python
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/912499
- Security context on image file gets reset
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/889082
- [RFE] virt-v2v should check whether guest with same name
exist on target first then transfer the disk
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/855059
- RFE: virt-p2v: display more information about network
devices such as topology, bonding, etc.
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/823758
- p2v client should have largest number restrictions for CPU
and Memory settings
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/709327
- hivex cannot read registry hives from ReactOS
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/709326
- virt-inspector cannot detect ReactOS
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/119673
- installation via NFS doesn't seem to work
guestfs-examples(1),
guestfs-faq(1),
guestfs-performance(1),
guestfs-recipes(1),
guestfs-testing(1),
guestfs(3),
guestfish(1),
http://libguestfs.org/
Richard W.M. Jones
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
When reporting a bug, please supply:
- •
- The version of libguestfs.
- •
- Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled
from source, etc)
- •
- Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce
it.
- •
- Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the
complete, unedited output into the bug report.