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@arighi arighi released this 16 Feb 15:03
· 61 commits to main since this release
v1.21
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This new version of virtme-ng includes some new enhancements focused at improving its integration in CI/CD environments, alongside with the usual set of miscellaneous fixes.

Most noticeable changes in this release:

  • When running in script mode do not hang in case of kernel panic, but return the special error code 255 (this allows to automate catching kernel panics)
  • Redirect kernel log to stderr on the host when running in interactive mode: this allows to easily save the kernel log to a file (or pipe it to another tool), simply by runing a vng -vr 2>/tmp/kernel.log
  • vng --dump can now generate a memory dump compatible with drgn
  • It is now possible to use virtiofsd with a btrfs root filesystem on the host (e.g., default openSUSE setup)
  • It is not possible to to use the microvm architecture with kernels that don't have built-in virtio-pci / virtio-mmio (e.g., stock openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel)
== virtme-ng ChangeLog ==

Andrea Righi (21):
      virtme-ng: redirect kernel log to stderr in interactive mode
      Merge pull request #66 from arighi/kernel-log-stderr
      virtme-ng: generate drgn compatible memory dumps
      Merge pull request #67 from arighi/drgn-support
      doc: replace the screenshot with a video in README.md
      Merge pull request #68 from arighi/video-demo
      virtme-init: always override sudoers
      virtme-ng: deprecate --skip-config
      Merge pull request #69 from arighi/fix-sudo
      virtme-ng: fix sending kernel log to stderr in script mode
      virtme-ng: return 255 on panic in script mode instead of hanging
      Merge pull request #70 from arighi/detect-kernel-panic
      doc: add "Additional resources" section to README.md
      Merge pull request #71 from arighi/readme-additional-resources
      virtme: properly detect rootfs when /lib is symlinked to /usr/lib
      virtme: use --no-announce-submounts with virtiofsd
      setup.py: always add site-packages to PYTHONPATH
      virtme: always add modules required by microvm to the initramfs
      Merge pull request #72 from arighi/tumbleweed-fixes
      setup.py: automatically initialize virtme-ng-init submodule
      virtme-ng v1.21

== virtme-ng-init ChangeLog ==

Andrea Righi (2):
      virtme-ng-init: allow virtme-ng to specify a console device
      virtme-ng-init: always override sudoers
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