Changes
Since 4.8:
New functionality and important changes
- vzmigrate: check CPU caps for suspended CT
- suse-{add,del}_ip.sh: support for IP mask
- vz.conf: allow list of interfaces in NEIGHBOUR_DEVS (#1289, #3192)
- Introduce funtoo-set_hostname (#3097)
- vz-postinstall: add way to disable distro kernels
- vzctl set --devnodes|--devices: made cumulative, fix
- vzctl set --devnodes: remove devices from CT
- vzctl start/resume: load kernel modules needed for CT (nfs, nfsd, ppp, veth, bridge)
- vzctl create: disallow VE_PRIVATE be a mount point (#3166)
- vzevent: try to run a script for all known events
- vzctl restore|resume: add --skip-fsck
Fixes
- redhat-add_ip.sh: support for Fedora 21 and RHEL/CentOS 7.1 (#3169)
- vzctl snapshot-delete: ignore ploop 'no guid found'
- suse-add_ip.sh: fix for venet routing in SUSE 13.2
- osrelease.conf: add suse 13.2
- vzctl chkpnt: workaround for ENOSPC
- ct_enter(): enter mnt namespace last (#3038)
- vzmigrate: fix for vzfsync if VE_PRIVATE differs (#3170)
- init.d/vz-gentoo: fix a typo
- vzctl.spec: fix iptables checking for RHEL5 (#2755)
- vzmigrate: use DUMPDIR for CT dump (#3054)
- vzmigrate: don't hardcode /vz/lock, use LOCKDIR (#2976)
- vzmigrate: use C locale (#3049)
- vzlist: fix cpuunits rounding (#3120)
- snapshot-switch --must-restore: fix restoring config
- fs_create: lock private
- vps_create: minor fixes to cleanup logic
- make_dir_mode(): ignore EEXIST from mkdir()
- vzlist -j: output valid JSON for no CTs
- init.d/vz-redhat: fix exit codes according to LSB (#3195)
Improvements
- vzmigrate: random ports for ploop copy (#3052)
- vzctl start: close extra fds later (to show errors from exec_container_init()) (#3091)
- vzctl start: mkdir /proc in CT if needed (#3091)
- vzctl create: fix an error message
- vzctl.spec: require recent RHEL6 kernel (#3094)
- init.d/vz*: load pio_kaio
- suse-add_ip.sh: fix a warning
- suse-del_ip.sh: remove venet routes
- init.d/vz-redhat: fix a bashism (#3148)
- vzctl delete: do rm config/dump even if failed to rm VE_PRIVATE
- dists/scripts/{funtoo,gentoo}*: remove env var doc
- debian-add_ip.sh: silent an error
- vzeventd: ignore non-existent event scripts
Documentation
- vzeventd(8): document new behavior
- vzcptcheck(8): describe caps check w/o CTID
- vz.conf(5): describe new NEIGHBOUR_DEV syntax
For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for vzctl-4.9.
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):
- Sergey Ya Korshunoff
- Avi Brender
- Pavel Odintsov
- Denis Ognewsky
- Pete Foster
- Alexander Tsoy
- Kevin Holly
- Scott Dowdle
- Raphael Geissert
- Ola Lundqvist
- Daniel Robbins
- nethubonline
- Per Johansson
- Alexander Prinsier
- Dmitry V. Levin
- Devon
- toumin