Download/vzctl/4.0/changes

Changes

Since 3.3:

New features

• Ability to work with non-openvz kernel (experimental, see vzctl for upstream kernel)
• vzlist: add JSON output format (--json flag)
• vzctl compact: implement (to compact ploop image)
• vzctl snapshot: store/restore CT config on snapshot create/switch
• vzctl set: add --mount_opts to set mount options for ploop
• Implement dynamic loading of ploop library
• Implement ability to build w/o ploop headers (./configure --without-ploop)
• Split into vzctl-core and vzctl packages, removed vzctl-lib
• Scripts moved from /usr/lib[64]/vzctl/scripts to /usr/libexec/vzctl
• Added dists/scripts support for Alpine Linux

Fixes

• postcreate.sh: create /etc/resolv.conf with correct owner and perms (#2290)
• vzctl --help: add snapshot* and compact commands
• vzctl set --capability: improve cap setting code, eliminate kernel warning
• vzctl set --quotaugidlimit: fix working for ploop after restart
• vzctl start|enter|exec: eliminate race condition when checking CT's /sbin/init
• vzlist, vzctl set --save: avoid extra delimiter in features list
• vzlist: return default to always print CTID (use -n for names) (#2308)
• vzmigrate: fix for offline migration of ploop CT (#2316)
• vzctl.spec: add wget requirement (for vps-download)
• osrelease.conf: add ubuntu-12.04 (#2343)
• init.d/vz-redhat: fix errorneous lockfile removal (#2342)
• suse-add_ip.sh: do not set default route on venet0 when no IPs (#1941)
• arch-{add,del}_ip.sh: updated to deal with (#2280)
• configure.ac: on an x86_64, install libraries to lib64
• Build system: fix massively parallel build (e.g. make -j88)

Improvements

• init.d/vz*: stop CTs in the in the reverse order of start (#2330)
• init.d/vz-redhat: add /vz to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf
• bash-completion: add remote completion for --ostemplate
• bash_completion: complete ploop commands only if supported by the kernel
• vzctl: call set_personality32() for 32-bit CTs on all architectures
• vzctl console: speed up by using buffering
• vzctl chkpnt: fsync dump file
• vzctl set --diskinodes: warn it's ignored on ploop
• vzctl set --hostname: put ::1 below 127.0.0.1 in CT's /etc/hosts (#2290)
• vzctl set: remove --noatime (obsolete now when relatime is used)
• vzctl snapshot: added check for snapshot guid dup
• vzctl snapshot-delete: fix error code
• vzctl start/stop: print error for non-applicable options
• vzctl stop: various minor improvements
• vzlist: add the following new fields: nameserver, searchdomain, vswap, disabled, origin_sample, mount_opts
• vzlist, vzctl status: speed up querying mounted status
• vzlist: faster ploop diskspace info for unmounted case
• vzmigrate: rename --online to --live
• vzmigrate: do not use pv unless -v is specified
• vzmigrate: do not lose ACLs and XATTRS (#2056)
• vzmigrate: dump/restore first-level quota
• switch to new ploop_read_disk_descr()
• is_ploop_supported(): reimplement using /proc/vz/ploop_minor
• Code refactoring, moving vz- and upstream-specific stuff to hooks_{vz,ct}.c
• Various code cleanups and other minor fixes

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for vzctl-4.0.

Thanks

OpenVZ project would like to thank the following people who contributed patches and/or provided bug reports for this vzctl release (in no particular order):

• Glauber Costa
• solar
• Egor Vyscrebentsov
• Roman Kagan
• Daniel Robbins
• mailinator
• Pavel Odintsov
• Paparaciz
• jon
• Vasily Kulikov
• William Pitcock