Imported Upstream version 0.8.5

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        http://libvirt.org/news.html
 
 
+0.8.5: Oct 29 2010:
+   -  Features:
+      Enable JSON and netdev features in QEMU > 0.13 (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      framework for auditing integration (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      framework for DTrace/SystemTap integration (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Setting the number of vcpu at boot (Eric Blake),
+      Enable support for nested SVM (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Virtio plan9fs filesystem QEMU (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Memory parameter controls (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      portability to OS-X (Justin Clift)
+
+   -  Documentation:
+      virsh: improve the help description for managedsave and start (Justin Clift),
+      updated the C# bindings page with arnauds latest changes (Justin Clift),
+      update ruby bindings maintainer to chris lalancette (Justin Clift),
+      reworded and reordered the bindings page, plus minor tweaks (Justin Clift),
+      Fix xen API documentation (Philipp Hahn),
+      added a table of contents to the first 11 docs files (Justin Clift),
+      reformated the bindings page html markup to match other pages (Justin Clift),
+      revamp api_extension example, using vcpu patch series (Eric Blake),
+      install the generated html files when make install is run (Justin Clift),
+      Fix documentation for virEventAddTimeout() (Philipp Hahn),
+      esx: Add documentation about certificates and connection problems (Matthias Bolte),
+      added a table of contents to the new c sharp bindings page (Justin Clift),
+      removed old changelog file, as it is no longer relevant (Justin Clift),
+      Update comments for the memory tunables macros (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      added initial page for c# binding, with links to it (Justin Clift),
+      virsh: consolidate memtune docs (Eric Blake),
+      Update docs for memory parameters and memtune command (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      document how to disable memballoon (Eric Blake),
+      Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: update comment about parsing (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: document options in man page (Eric Blake),
+      Fixes for documentation extraction (Daniel Veillard),
+      Add automatic generation of a todo item page (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      nwfilter: Add 2nd example to the html docs (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Extend docs with info about the state attribute (Stefan Berger),
+      vcpu: improve cpuset attribute (Eric Blake),
+      nwfilter: Extend docs with information about comment attr. (Stefan Berger),
+      grammar cleanups on logging examples (Eric Blake),
+      Fix spelling of Xen in comments (Philipp Hahn),
+      reworked the policykit patch submitted by Patrick Dignan (Justin Clift),
+      fix the xml validity errors regarding name and id (Justin Clift),
+      improve wording for the dev guide (Justin Clift),
+      add the app dev guide (Justin Clift)
+
+   - Portability:
+      mingw: Add body for virFork and remove double virDriverLoadModule export (Matthias Bolte),
+      daemon: exclude requirement for probes.h on systems without systemtap (Justin Clift),
+      build: skip xenapi driver when building for RHEL (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix mingw build (Eric Blake),
+      build: require pkg-config for bootstrap (Eric Blake),
+      configure: disable network and storage-fs drivers on mac os x (Justin Clift),
+      build: fix example build on MacOS X (Eric Blake),
+      mpath: disable devmapper-multipath checking on non-linux (Justin Clift),
+      mac os x: use awk selected by build system rather than first in path (Justin Clift),
+      virtualbox: fix a typo in the expected location on mac os x (Justin Clift),
+      nwfilter: Don't compile nwfilter driver on other systems than Linux (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: add a missing define, so libvirtd builds on macos x (Justin Clift),
+      build: avoid non-portable IPv6 struct member, for MacOS X (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: change wexitstatus order to allow compilation on mac osx (Justin Clift),
+      build: use portable sed expressions (Eric Blake)
+
+   -  Bug Fixes:
+      eliminate possibility of a double-closed file descriptor (Stefan Berger),
+      qemu: check for vm after starting a job (Eric Blake),
+      Only attempt removal of the rule allowing tftp if it was added (Laine Stump),
+      qemu: don't use %.3d format for bus/addr of USB devices (Diego Elio Pettenò),
+      virsh: fix range of memtune command (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: work around dash 0.5.5 bug in managed save (Eric Blake),
+      Avoid squashing errors during network startup cleanup path (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      xen: Fix domain dump (Jiri Denemark),
+      dnsmasq: avoid potential crash (Eric Blake),
+      Fix netmask checks for IPv6 in virSocketCheckNetmask (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Don't fail lxc domain start when memory controller support is missing (Guido Günther),
+      root_squash: virFileOperation may fail with EPERM too (Dan Kenigsberg),
+      qemu: let qemu group look below /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/ (Dan Kenigsberg),
+      qemu: Prohibit migration of guests with host devices (Jiri Denemark),
+      cpu: Use vendor in baseline CPU only if all hosts use it (Jiri Denemark),
+      cpu: Fix vendor for recent CPU models (Jiri Denemark),
+      Fix Xen SEXPR generation to properly quote strings containing () (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      nwfilter: resolve deadlock between VM ops and filter update (Stefan Berger),
+      Don't fail on missing D-Bus (Guido Günther),
+      cpu: Remove redundant features (Jiri Denemark),
+      xen: Fix virDomain{At,De}tachDevice (Jiri Denemark),
+      xen: xenXMDomain*DeviceFlags should obey all flags (Jiri Denemark),
+      nwfilter: fix memory leaks (Stefan Berger),
+      phyp: Checking for NULL values when building new guest (Eduardo Otubo),
+      libvirt-guests: start late and stop early (Jiri Denemark),
+      nwfilter bug appearing on big endian machines (Stefan Berger),
+      Rebuild network filter for UML guests on updates (Soren Hansen)
+
+   -  Improvements:
+      vbox: Stop hardcoding a single path for VBoxXPCOMC.so (Matthias Bolte),
+      Add disk/net resource auditing to QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add auditing of security label in QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add auditing of start/stop events to the QEMU driver (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add printf format attribute annotation to virAuditSend method (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add audit helper for escaping log message strings (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: use - not _ in memtune option names (Eric Blake),
+      build: fix shell detection bug (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: improve help text where integers are expected (Eric Blake),
+      docs: make the location of the xml catalog file a configure option (Justin Clift),
+      Fix build for SystemTap 1.0 (Matthias Bolte),
+      Fix formatting of network address in iptables helpers (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: Add option 'model' for attach-interface (Osier Yang),
+      qemu: Fix detection of drive readonly option (Jiri Denemark),
+      vbox: Fix compile errors due to the virSocketAddr series (Matthias Bolte),
+      Don't try to parse a NULL ip address for boot server (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Convert virNetwork to use virSocketAddr everywhere (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Include socket address in client probe data (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add dtrace static probes in libvirtd (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Add test suite for virSocket APIs (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Ban use of all inet_* functions (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix error reporting for virSocketParse (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Expand virSocketFormat to be more flexible (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix passing of address family to virSocketParseAddr (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Include length with virSocketAddr data (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      audit: simplify declaration (Eric Blake),
+      qemu: Exit on first error in qemuDomainGetMemoryParameters (Matthias Bolte),
+      virsh: Don't read nparams when virDomainGetMemoryParameters fails (Matthias Bolte),
+      Fix formatting of the memtune XML element (Matthias Bolte),
+      Add process= support for 'qemu-kvm -name' (John Morrissey),
+      nwfilter: avoid dir. enforcement for certain types of rules (Stefan Berger),
+      Audit SELinux label assignment. (Miloslav Trmač),
+      Audit VM start/stop/suspend/resume (Miloslav Trmač),
+      vcpu: remove dead xen code (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: improve support for setting xen vcpu counts (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: improve support for getting xen vcpu counts (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: improve vcpu support in xen command line (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: complete vcpu support in qemu driver (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: improve vcpu support in qemu command line (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: support all flags in test driver (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: add virsh support (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: support maxvcpu in domain_conf (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: make old API trivially wrap to new API (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: implement the remote protocol (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: implement the public APIs (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: define internal driver API (Eric Blake),
+      vcpu: add new public API (Eric Blake),
+      nwfilter: changes to rules in VM->host table (Stefan Berger),
+      esx: Handle non-UTF-8 encoded VMX files (Matthias Bolte),
+      Run initgroups() in qemudOpenAsUID() (Dan Kenigsberg),
+      memtune: Add min_guarantee to the virsh memtune command (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      esx: Fix check in esxDomainGetInfo's perf metric handling (Matthias Bolte),
+      virsh: add tests for recent cli improvements (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: new echo command (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: add support for accepting arbitrary argv (Eric Blake),
+      esx: Explictly declare VMX file content as UTF-8 (Matthias Bolte),
+      esx: Handle name escaping properly (Matthias Bolte),
+      nwfilter: prevent filters with different name but same UUID (Stefan Berger),
+      new attribute accessmode to filesystem element (Harsh Prateek Bora),
+      nwfilter: cut off connections after changing filters (Stefan Berger),
+      build: provide URL in 'configure --help' (Eric Blake),
+      tests: Honor LIBVIRT_{DEBUG,LOG_*} variables (Jiri Denemark),
+      tests: Do not override LIBVIRT_DEBUG variable (Jiri Denemark),
+      Improve error reporting in test suites (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      virsh: move code into topological order (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: simplify top-level option parsing (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: add -- support (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: support single quote (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: add escaper \ for command string parsing (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: rework command parsing (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: add vshCommandParser abstraction (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: better handling the boolean option (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: allow zero length arguments (Lai Jiangshan),
+      virsh: better support double quote (Lai Jiangshan),
+      Add todo.pl and config example to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix several minor problems introduced by the memtune series (Matthias Bolte),
+      Remote protocol implementation of virDomainSet/GetMemoryParameters (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Adding memtune command to virsh tool (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Implement domainGetMemoryParamters for LXC (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Implement domainSetMemoryParamters for LXC (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Adding memtunables to libvirt-lxc command (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Adding memtunables to qemuSetupCgroup (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Implement domainGetMemoryParamters for QEmu (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Implement domainSetMemoryParamters for QEmu (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Implement cgroup memory controller tunables (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      XML parsing for memory tunables (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Adds xml entries for memory tunables in domain schema (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Adding structure and defines for virDomainSet/GetMemoryParameters (Nikunj A. Dadhania),
+      Set sensible defaults for cpu match and feature policy (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      xen: Fix logic bug in xenDaemon*DeviceFlags (Jiri Denemark),
+      xen: Make xenDaemon*DeviceFlags errors less confusing (Jiri Denemark),
+      Return a suitable error message if we can't find a matching emulator (Guido Günther),
+      Pass -n to ip(6)tables (Guido Günther),
+      nwfilter: Extend schema to accept state attribute (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Add test case for testing the state attribute (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Instantiate state match in ip(6)tables rules (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Extend XML parser and gen. to support state attr. (Stefan Berger),
+      xen: Fix bogus error when attaching a device (Jiri Denemark),
+      esx: Add support for virtual serial device network backing (Matthias Bolte),
+      phyp: Verify that domain XML contains at least one disk element (Matthias Bolte),
+      implement usb and pci hot attach in AppArmor driver (Jamie Strandboge),
+      nwfilter: Add a test case for testing the comment attribute (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Extend nwfilter schema to accept comment attrib. (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Instantiate comments in ip(6)tables rules (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: Extend XML parser and generator w/ comment attribute (Stefan Berger),
+      configure: tweak logic flow of virtport check (Justin Clift),
+      Rework configure logic for virtualport support (Stefan Berger),
+      nwfilter: report if ip(6)tables rules would not be active (Stefan Berger),
+      app-armor: add 'rw' for appropriate devices (Jamie Strandboge),
+      add extra tests to virt-aa-helper-test for new '-p' option (Jamie Strandboge),
+      esx: Allow '-' in VMX entry names (Matthias Bolte),
+      Make SASL work over UNIX domain sockets (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Refactor some daemon code to facilitate introduction of static probes (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      nodeinfo: work when hot-plugging is disabled (Eric Blake),
+      libvirtd: improve the error message displayed on tls client auth failure (Justin Clift),
+      virsh: Use virBuffer for generating XML (Jiri Denemark)
+
+   -  Cleanups:
+      audit: printf warning fix (KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki),
+      build: use shorter file names for 'make dist' (Eric Blake),
+      maint: fix syntax-check failure of previous patch (Eric Blake),
+      maint: ignore new test executable (Eric Blake),
+      tests: Silence qemuxml2argv test (Jiri Denemark),
+      Remove all use of inet_pton and inet_ntop (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove both addrToString methods (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove pointless nwIPAddress struct & void *casts (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Remove useless code in error path of getnameinfo() (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      maint: sort private sym lists (Eric Blake),
+      Rename VIR_DOMAIN_SWAP_HARD_LIMIT to VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_SWAP_HARD_LIMIT (Matthias Bolte),
+      Fix make check on RHEL-5 (Jiri Denemark),
+      Don't let daemon-conf test fail when auditing is disabled (Matthias Bolte),
+      Fix compile errors in remote.c and newly added audit code (Matthias Bolte),
+      Fix symbol exports & remove duplicated libvirt_util.la linkage (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      Fix statstest when driver modules are enabled (Daniel P. Berrange),
+      build: avoid false positive syntax-check failure (Eric Blake),
+      proxy: Fix undefined reference to virClose (Matthias Bolte),
+      Introduce VIR_CLOSE to be used rather than close() (Stefan Berger),
+      Fix warning about a non-literal format string in qemu_driver.c (Laine Stump),
+      test: silence nwfilter test (Stefan Berger),
+      tests: fix spurious test failure (Eric Blake),
+      memory: fix remote protocol compilation (Eric Blake),
+      virsh: poison raw allocation routines (Eric Blake),
+      Avoid checking against strncpy in virsh.c (Daniel Veillard),
+      Cleanup some tabs issues (Daniel Veillard),
+      util: add missing export (Eric Blake),
+      virt-aa-helper-test cleanups (Jamie Strandboge),
+      python: drop unnecessary conn assignment (Dan Kenigsberg),
+      pciFindStubDriver should return NULL on error (Chris Wright),
+      tests: silence qemuargv2xmltest noise (Eric Blake),
+      tests: clean up qemuargv2xmltest (Eric Blake),
+      maint: silence warning from libtool (Eric Blake),
+      tests: Fix preprocessor indentation (Jiri Denemark)
+
+
+
 0.8.4: Sep 10 2010:
    -  Features:
       various improvements to UML driver (Soren Hansen)
 
-
    -  Documentation:
       docs: fix lxc examples (Serge Hallyn),
       docs: mention domain clock improvements (Eric Blake),
@@ -17,7 +264,7 @@
       docs: significant expansion of custom hook script information (Justin Clift)
 
 
-   -  Portability
+   -  Portability:
       cygwin: build fix (Stefan Berger),
       build: allow mingw VPATH build (Eric Blake),
       Generate libvirt_qemu.def from libvirt_qemu.syms for MinGW builds (Matthias Bolte),