* No significant change, this is just a very small hotfix release
to solve a packaging problem introduced by a conflict with the
new vng-mcp tool.
* While at it, there're also some small improved hints in the MCP
server, so that AI agents can better understand how to build
the kernel using vng --build.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=68
* The most noticeable change in this release is the new Model Context
Protocol (MCP) server. This feature lets you connect with AI
assistants such as Claude, Cursor, etc., and use natural human
language to automate kernel development tasks.
In this way, AI agents can automatically configure kernels, apply
patches from lore.kernel.org, and run commands within recompiled
kernels. You can even have the AI agent perform bug bisection for
you and run specific commands/scripts inside each recompiled
version to determine whether the kernel is good or bad.
* An additional feature is vCPU pinning (using the --pin CPU_LIST option),
which enables binding virtual CPUs to particular physical host CPUs.
This ensures more consistent performance testing within the vng guest
environment.
* The release also adds support for memoryless NUMA nodes,
enablingusers to specify size=0 with the --numa argument to create
NUMA nodes without memory. This capability can be useful for simulating
heterogeneous architectures, where devices like GPUs are represented
as memoryless NUMA nodes to model their CPU locality relationships.
* Last, but not least, there's a new --shell BINARY option which lets
users choose a different shell to use within the vng session, rather
than using their system's default shell and a new --empty-password
option that creates empty passwords in the vng guest, instead of
blocking login for other users, enabling easier debugging and SSH
access during testing.
* Updated Python versions in CI (dropped EOL 3.8 and 3.9)
* Various bug fixes in virtme-init
* Enhanced documentation and README updates
* Improved error handling and validation
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=66
* Fix the infamous Stale file handle (ESTALE) errors with virtiofsd
* Fix for systemctl daemon-reload when systemd support is enabled
* Fix for a kernel symlink issue affecting openSUSE/SLE
* README/docs improvements
* Various coding style cleanups
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=64
The most interesting feature in this new version is the initial
support for systemd.
Until now, virtme-ng didn’t support systemd because it relied on a custom
init system (virtme-ng-init) to speed up boot time. As a result, tests
requiring systemd couldn't run inside the virtme-ng session. With the new
--systemd option, virtme-ng can now (optionally) boot with systemd in the
virtualized environment, enabling full systemd interaction during testing.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=62
* Restrict the SSH port to localhost (to mitigate potential security
risks when --ssh is used)
* Support for running amd64 vng instances on non-x86 platforms
(e.g., running an x86 vng instance on arm64)
* A number of minor fixes here and there.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=56
* Fix a packaging issue, after an attempt to modernize the build
system we realized that we were not installing the bash
completion file anymore, so we have temporarily reverted the
change to cut this new release.
See gh/arighi/virtme-ng#181
* Initial support to run virtme-ng on macOS
- Update to 1.30:
* Initial support for NVIDIA GPUs passthrough
* Possibility to use pre-compiled -rc kernels from Ubuntu mainline builds
* Possibility to use virtiofs natively on arm64
* Some improvements to run virtme-ng cross-architecture and cross-distro
* Bug fixes
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=52
- Update to 1.29:
* Minor packaging fix, addressing an issue where the requirements.txt
file was missing from the source tarball published on PyPI.
This won't affect anyone, unless you're trying to build virtme-ng
directly from the tarball available on PyPI
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=50
- Update to 1.28:
* setup.py: include dependencies parsing requirements.txt
* virtme-ng: fix typo in command help
* virtme-configkernel: disable nvram support
* configkernel: config comment cosmetics
* configkernel: act more like kernel's make O=outdir
* vng-run: get kdir from O=outdir
* vng: propagate --verbose to configkernel
* vng: alias --custom to --config
* run.py: add a --qemu-opts='...' option bundling hint to help
* init: Always create /run/tmp folder
* Don't require ".git" to be a directory
* Specify "refs/heads/__virtme__" in git push
- Add BuildRequires for python-argparse-manpage and install man
page if we are on TW. Older versions don't have the dep yet
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=46
* Proper integration with Arch
* Inclusion of a vng manpage
* The host's /tmp is now also visible from the guest
* A new --configitem option that allows to quickly change specific
kernel config options (with --build)
* Bug fixes
- Remove 0001-virtme-ng-fix-virtiofsd-search-path-on-openSUSE.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=42
- Update to 1.24:
* The most noticeable changes include the support for the loop
network type and the possibility to specify the --network
command multipe times, both useful for kernel selftests testing
* Moreover, there is a boot-time improvement in environments where
the kvm acceleration is not available, such as container, cloud
environments, etc. (using the q35 arch in qemu).
* Notably, this new version is expected to enhance the performance
of GitHub workflows that use virtme-ng.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1171851
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=36
- Update to 1.23:
* Fix breakage with QEMU 8.2.2
* Change behaviour of --kconfig, that will always override
the .config if present (since there is not reason to use
--kconfig and not update the .config).
* It is now possible to force the legacy cgroup v1 using the
option -a "SYSTEMD_CGROUP_ENABLE_LEGACY_FORCE=1": the vng
init script will mimic systemd behavior and mount cgroup v1,
instead of v2.
- Drop qemu-remove-unnecessary-serial-none-arg.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1163549
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=34
Use tar_scm
- Update to 1.22:
* Fix potential sudo errors (in openSUSE, Fedora, CachyOS)
* Propagate /proc/sys/fs/nr_open from host to guest
* More robust parsing of upstream kernel versions
* Small command help improvements
- Update to 1.21:
* 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)
- Update to 1.20:
* The return code of a command executed in the vng guest is now
transparently channeled to the host: this, together with
stdin/stdout/stderr redirection, gives the complete illusion to
run the command in the guest as if it was executed on the host
and it can help to easily integrate vng with other CI tools/scripts
* NUMA support: it is now possible to create multiple NUMA nodes,
and assign CPUs to them, inside a vng guest,
using the --numa option.
* new --quiet option to override --verbose
* new --disable-kvm option to explicitly disable hardware
virtualization (KVM)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1155086
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtme?expand=0&rev=30
