guestfs-tools-release-notes-1.541

New repository location

The upstream git repository is now: https://github.com/libguestfs/guestfs-tools

virt-customize

New --inject-blnsvr which can be used to inject the Windows memory balloon server into guests.

--inject-virtio-win no longer supports the "osinfo" method (use libosinfo for virtio-win driver information), as it is no longer maintained and had got quite out of date. The default method using virtio-win directory names is more reliable and preferred in all instances (Cole Robinson).

virt-drivers

Handle large output of the rpm(1) command when listing drivers in some SUSE guests.

virt-make-fs

Use the file(1) -S option to disable seccomp protection when we also use the file(1) -z option, as the two options are incompatible and cause crashes on some Linux distros.

virt-resize

Correct the calculation of the target disk. In some cases with the --resize option it was not calculated correctly and partition creation on the target would fail with a confusing error.

We now use stderr consistently for debug messages.

Common changes

Add support for LoongArch (liuxiang from Loongson).

Fix OCaml bytecode builds (Jerry James, Ilya Leoshkevich).

Allow "nbd+unix://" URIs in -a parameters to several tools.

Add a git-publish profile (Kashyap Chamarthy).

Build changes

json-c is now required. This replaces Jansson which was previously used for parsing JSON input files.

OCaml ≥ 4.08 is now required.

OCaml oUnit is no longer used.

We now assume that "__attribute__((cleanup))" always works. This requires gcc or Clang.

Add support for GCC 14 and 15.

Some deprecated autoconf macros are no longer used.

Fix some issues when building on macOS (Mohamed Akram).

Fix compatibility with GNU gettext 0.25.

Internals

The tests were modified to use a set of common functions and remove use of the weird $TEST_FUNCTIONS macro, similar to how we do it in nbdkit.

Some internal OCaml List and String functions that we used have been replaced by ones from the OCaml stdlib, reducing code maintenance.

Bugs fixed

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-32099

Harden grub2-mkconfig to avoid overwriting /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-67560

Improve the error info when virt-customize options are used for incompatible guest OS [rhel-9.7]

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-67565

Improve the error info when virt-customize options are used for incompatible guest OS [rhel-10.1]

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-77989

CentOS 9 Migration from VMWare to Openshift Virt fails [rhel-9.6]

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-80214

virt-drivers fails on opensuse guest if kernel-source is installed

https://github.com/libguestfs/guestfs-tools/issues/16

Issues building on macOS