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)
- 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