Download/vzctl/3.1/changes

Changes

Since 3.0.30.2:

New features

• Preliminary beta support for ploop (aka container-in-a-file) technology:
  • new global config parameter VE_LAYOUT={simfs|ploop}
  • new vzctl create options --layout and --diskspace
  • new vzctl convert command to convert from simfs to ploop (not back!)
  • vzctl mount/umount implemented for ploop case
  • vzctl set --diskspace does ploop image resize
  • second-level (quotaugidlimit) quota on ploop/ext4 support
  • basic snapshot functionality (vzctl snapshot* commands)
• support for CT console (vzctl console command)

Fixes

• gentoo-add_ip.sh: do not set up venet0 if no IPs (#2077)
• vzctl enter: fix garbage output after enter (#2139, #2146)
• vzlist: do not exit with 1 if there are no CTs (#2149)
• vps-download: fix downloaded template GPG check (#2162)
• vps-download: fix to work under dash
• vzctl destroy: remove dump file as well (#2163)
• init.d/vz: fix grep statement
• vzctl restore: fix "container already running" exit code

Improvements

• Make the "Failed to set up upstart" message more verbose (#2140)
• vzctl create: tell "Creating container" at the right time
• vzctl create: show tarball extraction progress using pv (if available)
• init.d/vz: Stricter auto-replacement of CONFIGFILE (#2169)
• init.d/vz: fix for "we are in container" check
• postcreate.sh: add ability to skip crontab time randomization (#2174)
• Improve config parsing and its error reporting
• vzctl create: improve 'sample config not found' error msg
• umount_submounts(): process mounts in reverse order

Documentation

• ploop and console documented in appropriate man pages
• man/vzctl.8: fix --diskspace description for ploop case
• man/vzctl.8: --diskquota, --diskinodes and --quotatime are ignored for ploop
• some macros that are not available on older systems are now embedded
• vzctl man page: simplified SYNOPSYS section
• vz.conf(5), vzctl(8): fix/improve description of CONFIGFILE / --config
• vzctl --help: fix create options
• vz.conf(5), vzctl(8): describe DEF_OSTEMPLATE / --ostemplate
• vzctl(8), vzctl --help: add missing --name option to 'create'
• vzctl(8): add CTID to commands where it was absent

For the complete list of changes in this release, see git changelog for vzctl-3.1.

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):

• Frank Wassmuth
• Marc Perkel
• Michal Grzedzicki
• Ilja Livenson
• Konstantin Khlebnikov
• Pavel Odintsov
• samix_119