[Libvir] Release of libvirt-0.1.9

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Nov 29 13:35:47 UTC 2006


  A lot of improvement and bug fixes have accumulated in the last month,
so it was clearly time for a new release:

     ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.1.9.tar.gz

* python bindings: release interpeter lock when calling C (Daniel Berrange)
* don't raise HTTP error when looking informations for a domain
* some refactoring to use the driver for all entry points
* better error reporting (Daniel Berrange)
* fix OS reporting when running as non-root
* provide XML parsing errors
* extension of the test framework (Daniel Berrange)
* fix the reconnect regression test
* python bindings: Domain instances now link to the Connect to avoid garbage
  collection and disconnect
* separate the notion of maximum memory and current use at the XML level
* Fix a memory leak (Daniel Berrange)
* add support for shareable drives
* add support for non-bridge style networking configs for guests(Daniel Berrange)
* python bindings: fix unsigned long marshalling (Daniel Berrange)
* new config APIs virConfNew() and virConfSetValue() to build configs from scratch
* hot plug device support based on Michel Ponceau patch
* added support for inactive domains, new APIs, various associated cleanup (Daniel Berrange)
* special device model for HVM guests (Daniel Berrange)
* add API to dump core of domains (but requires a patched xend)
* pygrub bootloader informations take over <os> informations
* updated the localization strings

 thanks to everybody who helped for this new release, with bug reports or
patches !

Daniel

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