.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- .\" Automatically generated by Podwrapper::Man 1.52.0 (Pod::Simple 3.43) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .ie n \{\ . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. 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This describes the major changes since 1.50. .PP Guestfs tools 1.52.0 was released on \fB5 January 2024\fR. .SS "virt-dib was removed" .IX Subsection "virt-dib was removed" virt-dib, a tool that built disk images using diskimage-builder descriptions has been removed. It only supported an older version of the diskimage-builder metadata. See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039 .SS virt-builder .IX Subsection "virt-builder" \&\fBvirt\-builder\fR\|(1) now prints better error messages when a specific URL cannot be downloaded. .SS virt-builder-repository .IX Subsection "virt-builder-repository" Fix GPG repository signing (thanks Allard Berends). .SS virt-customize .IX Subsection "virt-customize" New \fBvirt\-customize\fR\|(1) \fI\-\-chown\fR and \fI\-\-tar\-in\fR options. (Also available in virt-builder and virt-sysprep.) .SS virt-diff .IX Subsection "virt-diff" \&\fBvirt\-diff\fR\|(1) no longer considers \f(CW\*(C`st_dev\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`st_ino\*(C'\fR fields, which means that guests where a file has moved across a mountpoint but is otherwise identical (size, path, etc) will not show up as a difference. .SS virt-drivers .IX Subsection "virt-drivers" \&\fBvirt\-drivers\fR\|(1) a tool which looks at the device drivers needed by a guest, can now look up vendor and device names using the PCI and USB IDs databases. .SS "Common changes" .IX Subsection "Common changes" The common \fI\-\-key\fR option now recognizes LVM names like \&\fI/dev/mapper/rhel_bootp\-\-73\-\-75\-\-123\-root\fR (Laszlo Ersek). .PP The \fI\-\-key\fR option also supports a new \fI\-\-key\ all:...\fR selector to try the same key on all devices. .SS "Build changes" .IX Subsection "Build changes" Support for OCaml 5, and OCaml ≥ 4.07 is now the minimum (thanks Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni, Jerry James, Josh Berdine, Jürgen Hötzel, Vincent Laviron). .PP Fix compatibility issues with libxml2 2.12. .SS Internals .IX Subsection "Internals" Fix an off-by-one error which caused very rare crashes in some of the virt tools. .SS "Bugs fixed" .IX Subsection "Bugs fixed" .IP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2175703 4 .IX Item "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2175703" virt\-v2v failed to inspect RHEL9.2 guest due to kernel-core / kernel-modules-core subpackage split .IP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2168506 4 .IX Item "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2168506" RFE: Virt\-v2v should recognize partition names like '/dev/mapper/rhel boot\-\-73\-\-75\-\-123\-root' in related keys option .IP https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039 4 .IX Item "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1910039" virt-dib doesn't work with newer diskimage-builder version on RHEL8 .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" http://libguestfs.org/ .SH AUTHORS .IX Header "AUTHORS" .IP "Jürgen Hötzel" 4 .IX Item "Jürgen Hötzel" .PD 0 .IP "Laszlo Ersek" 4 .IX Item "Laszlo Ersek" .IP "Richard W.M. Jones" 4 .IX Item "Richard W.M. Jones" .PD .SH COPYRIGHT .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright (C) 2009\-2024 Red Hat Inc. .SH LICENSE .IX Header "LICENSE" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. .PP This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. .PP You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110\-1301 USA. .SH BUGS .IX Header "BUGS" To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools .PP To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools .PP When reporting a bug, please supply: .IP \(bu 4 The version of libguestfs. .IP \(bu 4 Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc) .IP \(bu 4 Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it. .IP \(bu 4 Run \fBlibguestfs\-test\-tool\fR\|(1) and paste the \fBcomplete, unedited\fR output into the bug report.