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Also remove "draft" logo since these are close to being finalized
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=head1 RELEASE NOTES FOR LIBGUESTFS 1.34

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from loading at boot. (Roman Kagan and Pavel Butsykin)

virt-v2v I<--in-place> mode has been enhanced to allow the caller to
choose whether or not to install certain virtio drivers in the guest.
choose whether or not to install certain virtio drivers in the guest
(Roman Kagan).

virt-v2v conversion of Windows guests was substantially rewritten and
simplified (Roman Kagan).
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virt-sysprep C<fs-uuids> operation no longer fails on btrfs guests
(Maxim Perevedentsev).

virt-dib can output Docker images (Pino Toscano).

virt-dib has a new I<--drive-format> option to allow the user to
specify the format of the helper drive (Pino Toscano).

All OCaml virt tools now have a I<--colors>/I<--colours> option which
enables coloured output (using ANSI escape sequences) even if the
output is not a tty. The default is to check if the output is a tty
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callbacks should not throw exceptions, but it aids debugging.

All OCaml libraries and programs are now compiled with
I<-safe-string>, where supported by the OCaml compiler.
I<-safe-string>, if supported by the OCaml compiler.

=head3 Inspection

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We can now get an icon for Windows 7 64 bit guests.

Libosinfo integration was rewritten to deal with the new database
format used by osinfo (Pino Toscano).

=head3 Documentation

New manual page L<guestfs-building(1)> describes how to build
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a description section.

The L<guestfs-testing(1)> man page has been refreshed and based on a
slightly new libguestfs.
newer libguestfs.

=head3 Architectures and platforms

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C</dev/VG/LV> device node and so code which read the list of LVs and
then probed the devices themselves would immediately fail. You can
use C<guestfs_lvs_full> if you want to read all LVs.
(Pino Toscano).

C<guestfs_list_disk_labels> now no longer fails if no disks with
labels were added. Instead it now returns an empty list (Pino
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A safe "getumask" function has been added. For recent Linux kernels
this uses the newly added C<Umask> field in F</proc/self/status>. For
older Linux and other Unix, this uses a thread-safe technique
involving L<fork(2)>.
involving L<fork(2)> (thanks: Josh Stone, Jiri Jaburek, Eric Blake).

Safe L<posix_fadvise(2)> wrappers have been added, and more hints have
been added to the code which may make a minor difference to
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libvirt, versions of guest operating systems) are unified in a single
file F<src/version.c> (Pino Toscano).

virt-customize will use the vendor-neutral Windows path
On Windows guests, virt-customize will use the vendor-neutral path
S<C<C:\Program Files\Guestfs\Firstboot>> to store firstboot scripts.
Previously it used S<C<C:\Program Files\Red Hat\Firstboot>>. This
change should be invisible to the scripts themselves. (Cédric
Bosdonnat)
change should be invisible to the scripts themselves.
(Cédric Bosdonnat)

On Linux guests, the firstboot services generated by virt-builder
I<--firstboot> etc have been renamed to C<guestfs-firstboot>
(Pino Toscano).

There is now a common C<debug> function used by all OCaml tools,
replacing previous code which did S<C<if verbose () then printf ...>>.
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single C<customize.cma> or C<customize.cmxa> library. This simplifies
the build of the OCaml tools.

L<lvmetad(8)> is now used in the appliance when available (Pino Toscano).

"Silent rules" are used for OCaml, Java, Erlang and POD. Use
C<make V=1> to see the full command lines again (Pino Toscano).

=head2 Bugs fixed

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=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1364347>

virt-sparsify --in-place failed with UEFI system

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1362357>

run_command runs exit handlers when execve fails (e.g. due to missing executable)

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1362354>

virt-dib failed to create image using DIB_YUM_REPO_CONF

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1359652>

Fail to inspect Windows ISO file

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1358142>

Some info will show when convert guest to libvirt by virt-v2v with parameter --quiet

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1354335>

overlay of disk images does not specify the format of the backing file

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1352761>

Virt-manager can't show OS icons of win7/win8/ubuntu guest.
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P2V invalid password prints unexpected end of file waiting for command prompt.

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1224795>

On Ubuntu, virt-builder --install and --update cannot use the network

=item L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1213324>

virt-v2v: warning: unknown guest operating system: windows windows 6.3 when converting win8,win8.1,win2012,win2012R2,win10 to rhev
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