Download/vzctl/3.0.10/changes

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Changes

• Directory structure reorganization in order to be FHS-conformant.
• Support for veth device.
• Virtualization for /proc/meminfo.
• Switch to new versioning scheme.
• Other fixes and improvements.

Compatibility

• veth and /proc/meminfo virtualization functionality requires 026test014 or later kernel
• Changed directory structure:
  • /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts → /etc/vz/conf
  • /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/dists → /etc/vz/dists
  • /etc/sysconfig/vz → /etc/vz/vz.conf

Detailed changes

• vzctl:
  • Added virtual ethernet device support (--veth_add, --veth_del)
  • Added /proc/meminfo virtualization support (--meminfo mode:value)
  • Added VE0 UB setup functionality (--reset-ub)
  • Switched to new versioning scheme
  • Added -z option to /sbin/init (OpenVZ Bug #164)
  • Reset standart file desc [0-2] to /dev/null in case they are closed
  • Added possibility to set cpulimit in per cent
  • Added suffixes G, M, K support for --diskspace option
  • Set SIGPIPE handler to SIG_IGN before fist write to stdout/err
  • Added Debian packaging support
  • Better distribution detection in vz initscript
  • Added Ubuntu distribution configuration file as copy of Debian (OpenVZ Bug #119)
  • Increased kmemsize, privmpages, numfiles for x86_64 ve-vps.basic.conf-sample (OpenVZ Bug #69)
  • Changed -p to --preserve=mode,ownership for 'cp' workaround in case /proc is not mounted (OpenVZ Bug #153)
  • Internal modifications:
    • Changed dynamic UB structure to static one
    • Moved VPS configure functionality to vps_configure.c
    • Moved destroy functionality to destroy.c
• vzmigrate:
  • Move config to veid.migrated to allow backward migration (OpenVZ Bug #152)
  • Added copying of action scripts (OpenVZ Bug #157)
  • Fixed --keep-dst option processing. Option behavior was inverted.

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for vzctl-3.0.10.