Release ganeti 2.0~alpha1

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+Version 1.2.3
+  - more tweaks to the disk activation code (especially helpful for DRBD)
+  - change the default ‘gnt-instance list’ output format, now there is
+    one combined status field (see the manpage for the exact values this
+    field will have)
+  - some more fixes for the mac export to hooks change
+  - make Ganeti not break with DRBD 8.2.x (which changed the version
+    format in /proc/drbd) (issue 24)
+  - add an upgrade tool from ‘remote_raid1’ disk template to ‘drbd’ disk
+    template, allowing migration from DRBD0.7+MD to DRBD8
+
+Version 1.2.2
+  - fix ‘gnt-instance modify’ breakage introduced in 1.2.1 with the HVM
+    support (issue 23)
+  - add command aliases infrastructure and a few aliases
+  - allow listing of VCPUs in the gnt-instance list and improve the man
+    pages and the --help option of gnt-node/gnt-instance list
+  - fix gnt-backup list with down nodes (issue 21)
+  - change the tools location (move from $pkgdatadir to
+    $pkglibdir/tools)
+  - fix the dist archive and add a check for including svn/git files in
+    the future
+  - some developer-related changes: improve the burnin and the QA
+    suite, add an upload script for testing during development
+
+Version 1.2.1
+  - experimental HVM support, read the install document, section
+    "Initializing the cluster"
+  - allow for the PVM hypervisor per-instance kernel and initrd paths
+  - add a new command ‘gnt-cluster verify-disks’ which uses a new
+    algorithm to improve the reconnection of the DRBD pairs if the
+    device on the secondary node has gone away
+  - make logical volume code auto-activate LVs at disk activation time
+  - slightly improve the speed of activating disks
+  - allow specification of the MAC address at instance creation time,
+    and changing it later via ‘gnt-instance modify’
+  - fix handling of external commands that generate lots of output on
+    stderr
+  - update documentation with regard to minimum version of DRBD8
+    supported
+
+Version 1.2.0
+  - Log the ‘xm create’ output to the node daemon log on failure (to
+    help diagnosing the error)
+  - In debug mode, log all external commands output if failed to the
+    logs
+  - Change parsing of lvm commands to ignore stderr
+
 Version 1.2b3
   - Another round of updates to the DRBD 8 code to deal with more
     failures in the replace secondary node operation