Download/vzctl/4.1/changes

Changes

Since 4.0:

New features

• etc/init.d/vz: restore running containers after reboot (#781)
• etc/init.d/vz: faster restart by doing CT suspend instead of stop (#2325)
• vzctl start: try to restore CT first if default dump file exists
• Add OOM adjustments configuration (see /etc/vz/oom-groups.conf)
• If a CT is locked, show pid and cmdline of a locker
• vzctl snapshot: add --skip-config option
• vzctl: add 'suspend' and 'resume' aliases (for 'chkpnt' and 'restore')

Fixes

• vzctl snapshot: fix storing CT config file
• vzctl snapshot-switch: fix restoring CT config file
• vps-create: fix checking needed disk space (#2413)
• vzctl set --mount_opts: fix a segfault (#2385)
• suse-add_ip.sh: only set default route to venet0 if there is no other (#2376)
• set_userpass.sh: fix bashism (#2403)
• etc/init.d/vz*: eliminate "Container(s) not found" msg
• vzctl_resize_image(): initialize ploop_resize_param
• getlockpid(): fix potential buffer overflow
• Do not call xmlCleanupParser() from vzctl
• Fixed compilation with libcgroup-0.37-r2 (#2370)
• Properly return errors in cgroup_init() (#2372)
• Print failures in ct_do_open directly to stderr
• vzeventd: do process -h option

Improvements

• etc/init.d/vz* stop: set cpuunits for all CTs at once
• vzctl snapshot*: improve --id parameter parsing (validate, curly brackets are optional)
• vzctl umount: handle the case when CT have deleted mount points
• vzevent-stop: add workaround for Fedora 17 reboot problem (#2336)
• vzctl restore: do not print "Starting container"
• vzctl restore: print 'restore failed' not 'start failed'
• scripts/vps-download: fix bogus warning from checkbashisms
• vzctl_merge_snapshot(): simplify return code handling
• Simplify ct_chroot() (no need to umount each mount point)

Documentation

• vzctl(8): improved vzctl create --layout/--diskspace description
• vzctl(8): improve --diskspace description
• vzctl(8): disambiguate 'it' in snapshot-switch description

Build

• configure: add ability to alter /vz path (#421)
• src/Makefile.am: fix building with builddir != srcdir (#2375)
• Makefile.am: use AM_CPPFLAGS (not AM_CFLAGS)
• setver.sh: restore original configure.ac and vzctl.spec if building
• setver.sh: clean up dist tarball (if building) and rpms (if installing)
• setver.sh: add -o|--oldpackage option

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):

• Richard H.
• Raphael Geissert
• Ola Lundqvist
• Pavel Odintsov
• Dmitry Kopytov
• Thorsten Schifferdecker
• Maksim Melnikau
• Andrey Vagin
• Glauber Costa
• Paweł Tęcza
• Andres Toomsalu
• Dāvis