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RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.26
       These release notes only cover the differences from the previous stable/dev branch split (1.24.0).  For
       detailed changelogs, please see the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.

   New features
       Tools

       virt-customize(1) is a new tool for customizing virtual machine disk images.  It lets you install
       packages, edit configuration files, run scripts, set passwords and so on.  virt-builder(1) and
       virt-sysprep(1) use virt-customize, and command line options across all these tools are now identical.

       virt-diff(1) is a new tool for showing the differences between the filesystems of two virtual machines.
       It is mainly useful when showing what files have been changed between snapshots.

       virt-builder(1) has been greatly enhanced.  There are many more ways to customize the virtual machine.
       It can pull templates from multiple repositories.  A parallelized internal xzcat implementation speeds up
       template decompression.  Virt-builder uses an optimizing planner to choose the fastest way to build the
       VM.  It is now easier to use virt-builder from other programs.  Internationalization support has been
       added to metadata. More efficient SELinux relabelling of files.  Can build guests for multiple
       architectures.  Error messages have been improved.  (Pino Toscano)

       virt-sparsify(1) has a new --in-place option.  This sparsifies an image in place (without copying it) and
       is also much faster.  (Lots of help provided by Paolo Bonzini)

       virt-sysprep(1) can delete and scrub files under user control.  You can lock user accounts or set random
       passwords on accounts.  Can remove more log files.  Can unsubscribe a guest from Red Hat Subscription
       Manager.  New flexible way to enable and disable operations.  (Wanlong Gao, Pino Toscano)

       virt-win-reg(1) allows you to use URIs to specify remote disk images.

       virt-format(1) can now pass the extra space that it recovers back to the host.

       guestfish(1) has additional environment variables to give fine control over the "><fs>" prompt.
       Guestfish reads its (rarely used) configuration file in a different order now so that local settings
       override global settings.  (Pino Toscano)

       virt-make-fs(1) was rewritten in C, but is unchanged in terms of functionality and command line usage.

       Language bindings

       The OCaml bindings have a new "Guestfs.Errno" module, used to check the error number returned by
       "Guestfs.last_errno".

       PHP tests now work.  (Pino Toscano)

       Inspection

       Inspection can recognize Debian live images.

       Architectures

       ARMv7 (32 bit) now supports KVM acceleration.

       Aarch64 (ARM 64 bit) is supported, but the appliance part does not work yet.

       PPC64 support has been fixed and enhanced.

   Security
       Denial of service when inspecting disk images with corrupt btrfs volumes
           It was possible to crash libguestfs (and programs that use libguestfs as a library) by presenting a
           disk image containing a corrupt btrfs volume.

           This was caused by a NULL pointer dereference causing a denial of service, and is not thought to be
           exploitable any further.

           See commit d70ceb4cbea165c960710576efac5a5716055486 for the fix.  This fix is included in libguestfs
           stable branches ≥ 1.26.0, ≥ 1.24.6 and ≥ 1.22.8, and also in RHEL ≥ 7.0.  Earlier versions of
           libguestfs are not vulnerable.

       Better generation of random root passwords and random seeds
           When generating random root passwords and random seeds, two bugs were fixed which are possibly
           security related.  Firstly we no longer read excessive bytes from /dev/urandom (most of which were
           just thrown away).  Secondly we changed the code to avoid modulo bias.  These issues were not thought
           to be exploitable.  (Both changes suggested by Edwin Török)

   API
       GUID parameters are now validated when they are passed to API calls, whereas previously you could have
       passed any string.  (Pino Toscano)

       New APIs

       "guestfs_add_drive_opts": new "discard" parameter
           The new "discard" parameter allows fine-grained control over discard/trim support for a particular
           disk.  This allows the host file to become more sparse (or thin-provisioned) when you delete files or
           issue the "guestfs_fstrim" API call.

       "guestfs_add_domain": new parameters: "cachemode", "discard"
           These parameters are passed through when adding the domain's disks.

       "guestfs_blkdiscard"
           Discard all blocks on a guestfs device.  Combined with the "discard" parameter above, this makes the
           host file sparse.

       "guestfs_blkdiscardzeroes"
           Test if discarded blocks read back as zeroes.

       "guestfs_compare_*"
       "guestfs_copy_*"
           For each struct returned through the API, libguestfs now generates "guestfs_compare_*" and
           "guestfs_copy_*" functions to allow you to compare and copy structs.

       "guestfs_copy_attributes"
           Copy attributes (like permissions, xattrs, ownership) from one file to another.  (Pino Toscano)

       "guestfs_disk_create"
           A flexible API for creating empty disk images from scratch.  This avoids the need to call out to
           external programs like qemu-img(1).

       "guestfs_get_backend_settings"
       "guestfs_set_backend_settings"
           Per-backend settings (can also be set via the environment variable "LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS").
           The main use for this is forcing TCG mode in the qemu-based backends, for example:

            export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct
            export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg

       "guestfs_part_get_name"
           Get the label or name of a partition (for GPT disk images).

   Build changes
       The following extra packages are required to build libguestfs 1.26:

       supermin ≥ 5
           Supermin version 5 is required to build this version of libguestfs.

       flex, bison
           Virt-builder now uses a real parser to parse its metadata file, so these tools are required.

       xz  This is now a required build dependency, where previously it was (in theory) optional.

   内部
       PO message extraction rewritten to be more robust.  (Pino Toscano)

       "podwrapper" gives an error if the --insert or --verbatim argument pattern is not found.

       Libguestfs now passes the qemu -enable-fips option to enable FIPS, if qemu supports it.

       "./configure --without-qemu" can be used if you don't want to specify a default hypervisor.

       Copy-on-write [COW] overlays, used for example for read-only drives, are now created through an internal
       backend API (".create_cow_overlay").

       Libvirt backend uses some funky C macros to generate XML.  These are simpler and safer.

       The ChangeLog file format has changed.  It is now just the same as "git log", instead of using a custom
       format.

       Appliance start-up has changed:

       •   The libguestfs appliance now initializes LVM the same way as it is done on physical machines.

       •   The libguestfs appliance does not write an empty string to /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug when starting up.

           Note that you must configure your kernel to have "CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH=""" otherwise you will
           get strange LVM errors (this applies as much to any Linux machine, not just libguestfs).  (Peter
           Rajnoha)

       Libguestfs can now be built on arches that have ocamlc(1) but not ocamlopt(1).  (Hilko Bengen, Olaf
       Hering)

       You cannot use "./configure --disable-daemon --enable-appliance".  It made no sense anyway.  Now it is
       expressly forbidden by the configure script.

       The packagelist file uses "m4" for macro expansion instead of "cpp".

   バグ修正
       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1073906
           java bindings inspect_list_applications2 throws java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException:

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1063374
           [RFE] enable subscription manager clean or unregister operation to sysprep

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1060404
           virt-resize does not preserve GPT partition names

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1057504
           mount-local should give a clearer error if root is not mounted

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1056290
           virt-sparsify overwrites block devices if used as output files

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1055452
           libguestfs: error: invalid backend: appliance

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1054761
           guestfs_pvs prints "unknown device" if a physical volume is missing

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1053847
           Recommended default clock/timer settings

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1046509
           ruby-libguestfs throws "expecting 0 or 1 arguments" on Guestfs::Guestfs.new

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1045450
           Cannot inspect cirros 0.3.1 disk image fully

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1045033
           LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI=qemu:///system breaks libguestfs

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1044585
           virt-builder network (eg. --install) doesn't work if resolv.conf sets nameserver 127.0.0.1

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1044014
           When SSSD is installed, libvirt configuration requires authentication, but not clear to user

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1039995
           virt-make-fs fails making fat/vfat whole disk: Device partition expected, not making filesystem on
           entire device '/dev/sda' (use -I to override)

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1039540
           virt-sysprep to delete more logfiles

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1033207
           RFE: libguestfs inspection does not recognize Free4NAS live CD

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1028660
           RFE: virt-sysprep/virt-builder should have an option to lock a user account

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1026688
           libguestfs fails examining libvirt guest with ceph drives: rbd: image name must begin with a '/'

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1022431
           virt-builder fails if $HOME/.cache doesn't exist

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1022184
           libguestfs: do not use versioned jar file

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1020806
           All libguestfs LVM operations fail on Debian/Ubuntu

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1008417
           Need update helpout of part-set-gpt-type

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/953907
           virt-sysprep does not correctly set the hostname on Debian/Ubuntu

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/923355
           guestfish prints literal "\n" in error messages

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/660687
           guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/593511
           [RFE] function to get partition name

       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/563450
           list-devices returns devices of different types out of order


関連項目
       guestfs-examples(1), guestfs-faq(1), guestfs-performance(1), guestfs-recipes(1), guestfs-testing(1),
       guestfs(3), guestfish(1), http://libguestfs.org/


著者
       Richard W.M. Jones


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       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

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       •   The version of libguestfs.

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       •   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.