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author | Laurent Léonard <laurent@open-minds.org> | 2010-07-05 18:38:41 +0200 |
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committer | Laurent Léonard <laurent@open-minds.org> | 2010-07-05 18:38:41 +0200 |
commit | 02cd3d58b0009f3a3fcd3c5466f4b954eaf84b2b (patch) | |
tree | 1c33e5ded76e709487e70181655c46cc858ec1e1 /NEWS | |
parent | 647cbd63e43bc2ec6942c99c18dede066dc2b368 (diff) |
Imported Upstream version 0.8.2
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@@ -5,6 +5,362 @@ http://libvirt.org/news.html +0.8.2: Jul 5 2010: + - Features: + phyp: adding support for IVM (Eduardo Otubo), + libvirt: introduce domainCreateWithFlags API (Eric Blake), + add 802.1Qbh and 802.1Qbg switches handling (Stefan Berger), + Support for VirtualBox version 3.2 (Jean-Baptiste Rouault), + Init script for handling guests on shutdown/boot (Jiri Denemark), + qemu: live migration with non-shared storage for kvm (Kenneth Nagin) + + - Documentation: + html docs: add link to PHP bindings by Radek Hladik (Justin Clift), + virsh: document attach-disk better (Eric Blake), + bridge_driver.c: fix file description (Alan Pevec), + nwfilter: extensions of docs with (Stefan Berger), + Fix description of virStorageVolGetInfo() (Philipp Hahn), + virsh: improve help text for vol query commands (Justin Clift), + virsh: fixed trivial comment and debug message in vshCommandOptVolBy function (Justin Clift), + virsh: remove xen reference in header comment (Justin Clift), + virsh: add the volume commands to the virsh man page (Justin Clift), + virsh: fix minor virsh man page typos and formatting problems (Justin Clift), + Trivial virsh.pod additions --all for "list" command and similar (Justin Clift), + Add docs on drive <serial> element (Марк Коренберг), + daemon: sysconf: Update comment about VNC audio (Cole Robinson), + nwfilter: documentation (Stefan Berger), + docs: distribute more coding convention documentation (Eric Blake), + note a typo: VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED should be VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELED, (Jim Meyering), + datatypes: fix comment typo (Eric Blake), + Fix a typo in docs (Ersek Laszlo), + docs: hacking: explain why using curly braces well is important (Jim Meyering) + + - Portability: + cgroup: Fix compilation broken on MinGW due to dirent->d_type (Ryota Ozaki), + parthelper: fix compilation without optimization (Eric Blake), + build: fix some mingw issues (Eric Blake), + build: avoid pthreads-win32 on mingw (Eric Blake), + build: fix cygwin build, correctly this time (Eric Blake), + build: fix up some compiler flags (Eric Blake), + build: avoid compile failure on linux kernels older than 2.6.19 (Jim Meyering), + libvirt_proxy: link with -lpthread if needed (Eric Blake), + build: allow older gettext (Eric Blake), + mingw32-libvirt.spec: bring up to date (Eric Blake), + avoid link error in tests using libvirt_util; due to pthread_sigmask (Jim Meyering), + configure.ac: Avoid uname, which breaks cross-compilation (Matthias Bolte), + mingw: Fix two undefined symbols (Matthias Bolte), + build: avoid compiler warning (Eric Blake), + build: prefer WIN32 over __MINGW32__ checks (Eric Blake), + dnsmasqReload: avoid mingw link failure (Eric Blake), + mingw: Fix symbol export (Matthias Bolte) + + - Bug Fixes: + Avoid invoking the qemu monitor destroy callback if the constructor fails (Daniel P. Berrange), + cgroup: Add missing errno == ENOENT check in virCgroupRemoveRecursively (Ryota Ozaki), + Fix crash when detaching devices from qemu domains. (Chris Lalancette), + virFileResolveLink: guarantee an absolute path (Eric Blake), + phyp: don't steal storage management from other drivers (Eric Blake), + Avoid calling virStorageFileIsSharedFS with NULL (Laine Stump), + lxc: Fix virsh console doesn't work after restarting libvirtd (Ryota Ozaki), + lxc: Fix error handlings in lxcContainerRenameAndEnableInterfaces (Ryota Ozaki), + Set proper selinux label on image file during qemu domain restore (Laine Stump), + build: fix regression with libvirt-api.xml generation (Eric Blake), + Fix a reference leak for node devices. (Chris Lalancette), + Don't squash file permissions when migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix migration in text mode and shared storage migration in json mode (Daniel P. Berrange), + Add missing parameter in python Disk IO error callback (Daniel P. Berrange), + Check for presence of qemu -nodefconfig option before using it (Laine Stump), + cgroup: Change virCgroupRemove to remove all descendant groups at first (Ryota Ozaki), + Fix reference handling leak on qemuMonitor (Daniel P. Berrange), + Don't leak open fd to virsh in libvirt-guests init script (Jiri Denemark), + nwfilter: fix loadable module support (Stefan Berger), + Do not free static buffer with UUID (Jiri Denemark), + qemu: Fix crash on failed VM startup (Cole Robinson), + Add several missing vir*Free calls in libvirtd's remote code (Matthias Bolte), + Fix enumeration of partitions in disks with a trailing digit in path (Daniel P. Berrange), + vbox: check getenv("DISPLAY") for NULL in vboxDomainDumpXML (Matthias Bolte), + Check getenv("PATH") for NULL in virFindFileInPath (Matthias Bolte), + Fix cgroup setup code to cope with root squashing NFS (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix leaks in udev device add/remove v3 (David Allan), + Ensure that PCI device is reattached to host if hotadd fails (Daniel P. Berrange), + Don't raise errors in the selinux restore code (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix check for errors in device_add command in QEMU text monitor (Daniel P. Berrange), + Network duplicate UUID/name checking (Daniel P. Berrange), + Storage pool duplicate UUID/name checking (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix auto-adding of virtio serial controllers (Daniel P. Berrange), + Ensure UNIX domain sockets are removed on daemon shutdown (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix AppArmor save/restore.Add stdin_path to qemudStartVMDaemon() args. (Jamie Strandboge), + Adjust block size used by dd to speed QEMU domain save operations. (Laine Stump), + Fix dereference of potentially freed pointer in qemudDomainSaveFlags (Laine Stump), + Update nodedev scsi_host data before use (David Allan), + Fix device destroy return value (David Allan), + storage: Check for invalid storage mode before opening (Cole Robinson), + Improve nodedev parent/child relationships (David Allan), + network: bridge: Don't start network if it collides with host routing (Cole Robinson), + Fix integer overflow in hotplug methods (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix failing virGetHostname. (Chris Lalancette), + storage: Sanitize pool target paths (Cole Robinson), + Fix handling of disk backing stores with cgroups (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix up basic migration. (Chris Lalancette), + qemu: Release bus address on PCI host device remove (Alex Williamson), + qemu: avoid corrupting guest info struct on host device PCI hot add (Alex Williamson), + Query block allocation extent from QEMU monitor (Daniel P. Berrange), + Don't overwrite virDomainAssignDef errors. (Chris Lalancette), + Fix race in finding available vnc port (Jim Fehlig), + qemu driver: fix version check typos (Chris Wright), + daemon: A few initscript corrections (Cole Robinson), + qemu: Properly cleanup in security startup error path (Cole Robinson), + qemudDomainMigrateFinish2: handle a case of virDomainSaveStatus failure (Jim Meyering), + Fix potential NULL dereference in remoteDomainMigratePrepare2 (Jiri Denemark), + qemudDomainRestore: handle a case of virDomainSaveStatus failure (Jim Meyering), + python: don't ignore virInitialize failure in module initialization (Jim Meyering), + tests: do not ignore virInitialize failure (Jim Meyering), + qemuMonitorTextMigrate: avoid leak on OOM-error path (Jim Meyering), + virNWFilterDefParseXML: avoid leak on error paths (Jim Meyering), + virDomainNetDefParseXML: avoid leak upon multiple "filterref" (Jim Meyering), + ebiptablesWriteToTempFile: don't close a negative file descriptor (Jim Meyering), + Protect against NULL pointer flaws in monitor usage (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix multiple potential NULL pointer references in monitor usage (Daniel P. Berrange), + umlAutostartDomain: avoid NULL-deref upon virGetLastError failure (Jim Meyering), + x86ModelHasFeature: avoid NULL-dereference for unmatched CPU "feature" (Jim Meyering), + qemudDomainSetVcpus: avoid NULL-deref (Jim Meyering), + nwfilter: Add missing driver lock in qemu driver (Stefan Berger), + Fix a misuse of virAsprintf in qemudDomainMemoryPeek (Ryota Ozaki), + Don't reset user/group/security label on shared filesystems during migrate (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix handling of disk backing stores with cgroups (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix possible crash in handling IO Error event (Daniel P. Berrange), + Fix monitor ref counting when adding event handle (Jiri Denemark), + Remove watches before calling REMOTE_PROC_CLOSE (Jiri Denemark), + node_device: udev: Fix PCI product/vendor swappage (Cole Robinson), + virsh: schedinfo --set invalid=value would simply ignore the option (Jim Meyering), + Remove unused nwfilter field from struct remote_error (Matthew Booth), + util: fix va_start usage bug (Eric Blake), + Don't wipe generated iface target in active domains (Jiri Denemark), + Various fixes for the spec file (Daniel Veillard), + lxc: Check domain is active/inactive as required by operation (Jiri Denemark), + lxc: Make SetMemory work for active domains only (Jiri Denemark), + cgroup: Fix possible memory leak in virCgroupMakeGroup (Ryota Ozaki), + Fix memory leaks in cmdInterfaceEdit and cmdNWFilterEdit. (Laine Stump), + lxc: Fix failure on starting a domain with multiple interfaces (Ryota Ozaki) + + - Improvements: + vbox: Let configure detect/set the XPCOMC directory (Matthias Bolte), + udev: Parse PCI devices even if libpciaccess fails (Cole Robinson), + qemu: Improve some qemu.conf error reporting (Cole Robinson), + util: virExec: Dispatch all errors raised after fork (Cole Robinson), + virsh: tweak help output for VSH_OT_DATA (Eric Blake), + Check for active PCI devices when doing nodedevice operations. (Chris Lalancette), + virsh: add new --details option to pool-list (Justin Clift), + Selectively ignore domainSetSecurityAllLabel failure in domain restore (Laine Stump), + use virStorageFileIsSharedFS utility function in qemudDomainSaveFlag (Laine Stump), + Enhance virStorageFileIsSharedFS (Laine Stump), + phyp: optimize use of sed (Eric Blake), + phyp: add storage management driver (Eduardo Otubo), + phyp: add rudimentary storage driver (Eduardo Otubo), + maint: add gnulib gettimeofday module (Eric Blake), + Avoid blocking all APIs during incoming migration (Daniel P. Berrange), + Set labelling for character devices in security drivers (Daniel P. Berrange), + Add API for iterating over all character devices (Daniel P. Berrange), + Adding Storage Management driver (style and indentation) (Eduardo Otubo), + esx: Add support for the controller element (Matthias Bolte), + Add optional model attribute to the controller element (Matthias Bolte), + Add wide SCSI bus disk address generation support (Matthias Bolte), + cgroup: Enable memory.use_hierarchy of cgroup for domain (Ryota Ozaki), + network: allow tftp port if tftp is defined (Alan Pevec), + Add '-nodefconfig' command line arg to QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange), + Make checks for inactive QEMU guest more robust (Daniel P. Berrange), + Improve some error messages about unsupported APIs/URIs (Daniel P. Berrange), + Index hashes by UUID instead of name (Jiri Denemark), + Allow one-or-more <boot dev="..."/> entries (Philipp Hahn), + virsh: add --uuid option to vol-pool (Justin Clift), + nwfilter: add XML attribute to control iptables state match (Stefan Berger), + virsh: ensure persistence and autostart are shown for dominfo and pool-info (Justin Clift), + nwfilter: use match target on incoming traffic (Stefan Berger), + macvtap: work-around for 2.6.32 and older kernels (Stefan Berger), + virsh: add pool support to vol-key command (Justin Clift), + esx: Update case insensitive .vmx tests (Matthias Bolte), + esx: Accept 'disk' as harddisk device type in .vmx files (Matthias Bolte), + virsh: mark autostart answers for translation (Justin Clift), + virsh: add start --paused support (Eric Blake), + qemu: support starting persistent domain paused (Eric Blake), + drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists (Eric Blake), + remote: protocol implementation for virDomainCreateWithFlags (Eric Blake), + uml: sanity check external data before using it (Eric Blake), + Improve error message for disabled client-side drivers (Matthias Bolte), + virsh: add snapshot backing store support to vol-create-as (Justin Clift), + esx: Add proxy query parameter (Matthias Bolte), + esx: Refactor esxUtil_ParseQuery's parameter handling (Matthias Bolte), + virsh: add new vol-pool command (Justin Clift), + virsh: add --paused option to create (Eric Blake), + qemu: allow creation of a paused domain (Eric Blake), + virDomainCreateXML: support new flag (Eric Blake), + Add multiIQN tests (David Allan), + Add multiiqn XML dump (David Allan), + Fix test breakage from virtio serial changes (Daniel P. Berrange), + Enable probing of VPC disk format type (Daniel P. Berrange), + Prefer UDEV to HAL drivers if both a compiled (Daniel P. Berrange), + Add support for setting socket MLS level in SELinux driver (Daniel J Walsh), + Fix error codes for missing storage pools (Daniel P. Berrange), + Include port number with virtio serial devices (Daniel P. Berrange), + Disable use of 'reason' field in block IO event in QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange), + Add stdin_path to qemudStartVMDaemon() args. (Jamie Strandboge), + Allocate buffer to hold xend response (Jim Fehlig), + phyp: Strict check when listing domains (Eduardo Otubo), + hostusb: Properly handle 'usbX' sysfs files (Cole Robinson), + Add --source-format argument to virsh pool-define-as and pool-create-as (Justin Clift), + Add --source-format argument to virsh pool-define-as and pool-create-as (Justin Clift), + build: fix VPATH 'make syntax-check' (Eric Blake), + qemu: Add a qemu.conf option for clearing capabilities (Cole Robinson), + macvtap: cannot support target device name (Stefan Berger), + Fix libvirt-guests init script (Jiri Denemark), + maint: new syntax-check rule to ensure that AUTHORS stays in sync (Jim Meyering), + maint: update AUTHORS with recent contributors (Eric Blake), + xen: Fix chardev listen sexpr formatting (Cole Robinson), + v2 of Cole's wlan support (David Allan), + Install, distribute and package domainsnapshot.rng (Matthias Bolte), + build: support 'make check' in pristine tree (Eric Blake), + esx: Expose host UUID in the capabilities XML (Matthias Bolte), + Pass pre-opened PCI device sysfs config file to QEMU (Alex Williamson), + xen-proxy build broken (Matthias Bolte), + esx: Add read-only storage pool access (Matthias Bolte), + libvirtd: diagnose invalid host UUID (Jim Meyering), + vepa: parsing for 802.1Qb{g|h} XML (Stefan Berger), + vepa+vsi: Introduce dependency on libnl (Stefan Berger), + Expose a host UUID in the capabilities XML (Daniel P. Berrange), + qemu: Allow using regular audio backends with VNC (Cole Robinson), + lxcSetSchedulerParameters: reverse order of tests; diagnose a failure (Jim Meyering), + libvirtd: start each diagnostic with "argv0: " (Jim Meyering), + libvirtd: mark strings for translation, including --help output (Jim Meyering), + build: force init scripts to rebuild on changed --prefix (Eric Blake), + build: Distribute the whole tests/qemuhelpdata directory (Matthias Bolte), + Add defines for QEMU_VNC_PORT_{MIN,MAX} and use them (Jim Fehlig), + Add simple bitmap operations to utils (Jim Fehlig), + daemon: Export SDL audio environment variables (Cole Robinson), + Autostart domains using virDomainObjStart (Jiri Denemark), + maint: update po/POTFILES.in (Jim Meyering), + maint: enforce policy wrt VIR_DEBUG and VIR_DEBUG0 (Jim Meyering), + maint: enforce policy wrt VIR_ERROR and VIR_ERROR0 (Jim Meyering), + maint: change empty string in err message to localized 'unknown error' (Jim Meyering), + qemu: Use ShutdownVMDaemon for all startup cleanup paths (Cole Robinson), + Domain snapshot RNG and tests. (Chris Lalancette), + Fix up the python bindings for snapshotting. (Chris Lalancette), + qemu_conf.c: also recognize new first line of qemu -help output (Jim Meyering), + lxc_controller.c: don't ignore failed "accept" (Jim Meyering), + qemu: Don't deny ShutdownVMDaemon for non-running VMs (Cole Robinson), + libvirtd: don't ignore virInitialize failure (Jim Meyering), + maint: prohibit newline at end of diagnostic (Jim Meyering), + maint: remove unwanted newline at end of diagnostic (Jim Meyering), + build: distribute missing file (Eric Blake), + esx: Make esxVI_*_CastFromAnyType dynamically dispatched (Matthias Bolte), + esx: Allow esxVI_X_DynamicCast to be called successfully on X objects (Matthias Bolte), + tests: the remote_protocol check also accommodates older pdwtags (Jim Meyering), + maint: enforce no-markup policy wrt VIR_WARN-like macros (Jim Meyering), + Add support for SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 CPU features (Jiri Denemark), + maint: add more free-like functions to the list and deal with fallout (Jim Meyering), + maint: add virCgroupFree to the list of free-like functions (Jim Meyering), + qemudDomainSetVcpus: avoid NULL-deref on failed uuid look-up (Jim Meyering), + Add CIFS to the list of network file systems (Matthias Bolte), + Add VIR_STORAGE_POOL_INACCESSIBLE to denote inaccessible storage pools (Matthias Bolte), + qemu_conf: fix flag value (Eric Blake), + qemu: Clarify a couple error messages (Cole Robinson), + virFileResolveLink: fix return value (Eric Blake), + tests: Skip daemon-conf test if dir exceeds UNIX_PATH_MAX (Cole Robinson), + pci: Give an explicit error if device not found (Cole Robinson), + qemu: Report cmdline output if VM dies early (Cole Robinson), + qemu_driver: avoid NULL dereference (Jim Meyering), + Make domain save work when dynamic_ownership=0 (Daniel P. Berrange), + Add support for NIC hotplug using netdev_add in QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange), + build: update gnulib (Eric Blake), + tests: correct PATH in new test, for when running manually (Jim Meyering), + Add env variable for debugging gnutls usage (Daniel P. Berrange), + maint: allow VPATH use of remote_protocol-structs (Eric Blake), + help avoid accidental remote_protocol.x changes (Jim Meyering), + build: use LIBADD, not LDFLAGS, for adding libraries (Eric Blake), + Implement SCSI disk unplugging (Wolfgang Mauerer), + qemu: use better types (Eric Blake), + Refactor disk unplugging (Wolfgang Mauerer), + build: simplify checks for sched.h (Eric Blake), + build: use gnulib's sys/wait.h (Eric Blake), + build: use gnulib's uname (Eric Blake), + build: rely on gnulib's pthread module (Eric Blake), + rpmbuild: add ebtables & ip(6)tables dependency for rpm (Stefan Berger), + lxc: Use virDomainFindByUUID for domain lookup (Jiri Denemark), + nwfilter: skip some interfaces on filter update (Stefan Berger), + pass info where request stems from to have rules applied (Stefan Berger), + dnsmasq.c: Fix OOM error reporting (Matthias Bolte), + autobuild.sh: provide default prefix (Eric Blake) + + - Cleanups: + lxc: Change VIR_ERROR to VIR_DEBUG for just a debugging message (Ryota Ozaki), + phyp: reduce scope of driver functions (Eric Blake), + Fix test case failure due to missing -nodefconfig (Daniel P. Berrange), + esx: Use bool instead of int where appropriated (Matthias Bolte), + Cleanup some LIBADD and CFLAGS (Matthias Bolte), + virsh: remove a doubled up include for errno.h (Justin Clift), + Misc cleanups (Jiri Denemark), + Remove unnecessary check for non-NULL uuid (Jiri Denemark), + qemu: reduce file padding requirements (Eric Blake), + virsh: change printf() calls to vshPrint() (Justin Clift), + phyp: sed cleanups (Eric Blake), + maint: simplify some ignore files (Eric Blake), + avoid syntax-check failure (Jim Meyering), + autobuild.sh: avoid bashism (Eric Blake), + bitmap: reject zero-size bitmap (Eric Blake), + build: depend on correct file (Eric Blake), + build: make cpp indentation conform (Jim Meyering), + hooks: fix typo (Paolo Smiraglia), + build: silence cppi warning, clarify vbox headers (Eric Blake), + xen: Remove unused function (Cole Robinson), + esx: Simplify goto usage (Matthias Bolte), + Use printf instead of echo -e in libvirt.spec.in (Matthias Bolte), + build: fix HTML errors in nwfilter docs (Eric Blake), + build: fix compilation without macvtap (Eric Blake), + tests: avoid new failure of the daemon-conf test (Jim Meyering), + storage: mpath: Fix incorrect VIR_ERROR use (Cole Robinson), + Allow nwfilter functions to be compiled with C++ (Chris Lalancette), + storage: Combine some duplicate code (Cole Robinson), + storage: mpath: Clean up some error handling (Cole Robinson), + Remove dead code after refactoring qemudDomainStart (Jiri Denemark), + build: fix cppi warnings (Eric Blake), + Remove isValidIfname. (Chris Lalancette), + Refactor qemudDomainStart (Jiri Denemark), + Factor out def assignment to existing domain from virDomainAssignDef (Jiri Denemark), + Refactor qemudDomainRestore (Jiri Denemark), + maint: don't mark VIR_DEBUG or VIR_DEBUG0 diagnostics for translation (Jim Meyering), + maint: more of same, but manual: convert VIR_ERROR("%s" to VIR_ERROR0( (Jim Meyering), + maint: VIR_ERROR/VIR_ERROR0: mark up the remaining ones manually (Jim Meyering), + maint: mark translatable string args of VIR_ERROR (Jim Meyering), + maint: mark translatable string args of VIR_ERROR0 (Jim Meyering), + maint: use VIR_ERROR0 rather than VIR_ERROR with a bare "%s" (Jim Meyering), + qemu: Remove explicit VNC XML cleanup (Cole Robinson), + Rename qemuBuildCommandLine tapfds -> vmfds. (Alex Williamson), + initialize "meta" in virStorageFileGetMetadata, not in each caller (Jim Meyering), + (qemu*DiskCgroup): avoid dead code (Jim Meyering), + maint: more VIR_WARN corrections: now manually (Jim Meyering), + maint: use VIR_WARN0("...") rather than VIR_WARN("%s", "...") (Jim Meyering), + maint: remove _(...) from VIR_WARN arg manually (Jim Meyering), + maint: don't mark VIR_WARN or VIR_WARN0 diagnostics for translation (Jim Meyering), + do not ignore qemuMonitorAddDrive failure; make uses identical (Jim Meyering), + ebtablesAddRemoveRule, iptablesAddRemoveRule: don't skip va_end (Jim Meyering), + linuxNodeInfoCPUPopulate: avoid used-uninitialized via a test (Jim Meyering), + lxcFreezeContainer: avoid test-after-deref of never-NULL pointer (Jim Meyering), + Remove debugging fprintf() calls (Daniel P. Berrange), + tests: use GPLv2+, not GPLv3 (Jim Meyering), + tests: adjust copyrights on scripts: s/FSF/Red Hat/ (Jim Meyering), + virsh: fix a typo in a diagnostic (Jim Meyering), + delMacvtap: typo fix (Eric Blake), + docs/Makefile.am: remove unnecessary subshells (Eric Blake), + maint: avoid spurious output if program not present (Eric Blake), + storage_encryption: silence clang warning (Eric Blake), + maint: whitespace cleanups (Eric Blake), + qemu: Fix warning about a non-literal format string (Matthias Bolte), + build: drop more redundant configure checks (Eric Blake), + build: silence a clang false positive (Eric Blake) + + - + + + 0.8.1: Apr 30 2010: - Features: Add virDomainGetBlockInfo API to query disk sizing (Daniel P. Berrange), |