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7ba594c0 03/31/2010 06:51 pm Guido Trotter

kvm_flag hypervisor parameter

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

25a8792c 03/17/2010 04:11 pm Iustin Pop

Instance creation: implement --no-install mode

This is a simple patch that adds the no-install mode for instance
creation, allowing import from foreign source of the actual OS (instead
of requiring the preparation of data in a form expected by the import...

96b39bcc 03/17/2010 04:10 pm Iustin Pop

Allow OS changes without reinstallation

This patch modifies LUSetInstanceParms to allow OS name changes, without
reinstallation, in case an OS gets renamed on-disk.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

bbf74a76 03/15/2010 05:45 pm Iustin Pop

Update instance modify documentation

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

17227cd1 03/15/2010 05:17 pm Iustin Pop

Update documentation for disk adoption

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

caf39b8a 03/10/2010 08:08 pm Guido Trotter

Document the security_* hypervisor parameters

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

73a19fcd 03/10/2010 04:12 pm Guido Trotter

Fix man build error on older distributions

Passing <quote> rather than ' avoids having special characters at the
beginning of the line, which man doesn't like.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

ac620f3a 03/10/2010 02:09 pm Guido Trotter

Document boot_order syntax for kvm

The gnt-instance manpage only contained the correct syntax for xen-pvm.
Specify what the kvm syntax is, and also warn about a problem with
virtio+netboot, for older kvm versions.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

7ea7bcf6 02/09/2010 12:04 pm Iustin Pop

Add an early release lock/storage for disk replace

This patch adds an early_release parameter in the OpReplaceDisks and
OpEvacuateNode opcodes, allowing earlier release of storage and more
importantly of internal Ganeti locks.

The behaviour of the early release is that any locks and storage on all...

9b3b6845 02/01/2010 12:44 pm Iustin Pop

Merge branch 'devel-2.0' into devel-2.1

  • devel-2.0:
    Three small typos in man pages

Conflicts:
man/gnt-cluster.sgml (trivial)

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

ba0b05fe 02/01/2010 12:10 pm Iustin Pop

Three small typos in man pages

The credit goes again to Lintian.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

c7c568b4 01/22/2010 03:55 pm René Nussbaumer

Update man page of gnt-instance

This patch updates the man page of gnt-instance to include the newly
added tags filtering.

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>...

1d65264b 12/16/2009 11:54 am Iustin Pop

Doc updates for --no-name-check

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

19572932 12/10/2009 04:45 pm Iustin Pop

Add disk cache control parameter for KVM

This patch adds the 'cache' parameter for KVM; currently this is only
customisable at the hypervisor level, so it's the same for all drives
(except any CDROM image, which gets the default).

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

20b1bd80 11/25/2009 12:33 pm Iustin Pop

A couple of doc updates

Clarify the fact that temporary HV/BE params in instance start override
and do not extend the configured parameters; and change the instance
list headers from HVM_* to * since many of the parameters apply to KVM
too. Also fix a typo in the rapi documention for '/2/nodes'....

8619a3bd 11/16/2009 01:47 pm Guido Trotter

Fix gnt-instance list documentation

(1) Both the man page and the online help report the link and mode
fields, which are in the code called nic_link and nic_mode.
(2) Add missing fields to the online help.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

bfe61b0b 11/06/2009 03:33 pm Iustin Pop

A few more small documentation updates

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

e8a3bf18 11/06/2009 01:42 pm Iustin Pop

Documentation updates for the global hvparams

This patch does multiple documentation updates for the new framework,
all pretty straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

78411c60 11/04/2009 05:34 pm Iustin Pop

Introduce HV_MIGRATION_PORT hypervisor parameter

This parameter will replace the direct use of KVM_MIGRATION_PORT and the
implicit use of the Xen migration port.

While it doesn't make sense to change this at instance level, we don't
have any other infrastructure for cluster-wide hypervisor parameters, so...

cc291012 10/13/2009 03:18 pm Iustin Pop

Update documentation for recreate-disks

This also clarifies the UUIDs NEWS entry.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

1e2c9fd3 10/13/2009 01:24 pm Guido Trotter

Update manpages for --shutdown-timeout

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

95a5d0fb 10/09/2009 06:28 pm Guido Trotter

Update gnt-instance(8) for shutdown --timeout

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

edc8fc5f 09/24/2009 02:38 pm Iustin Pop

Man page updates for the uuid field

Also corrects wrong indentation in the gnt-instance.sgml file.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

8063787e 09/24/2009 01:04 pm Guido Trotter

document the nic link meaning in routed mode

Currently this feature is hypervisor specific, but under kvm we use it
by default (aka: if the user hasn't specified another network script
which overrides our auto-generated one) to specify the routing table....

fbf5a861 08/24/2009 03:13 pm Iustin Pop

Add gnt-instance move

This uses the new LUMoveInstance. It supports only single-instance moves.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

90f72445 08/17/2009 05:46 pm Iustin Pop

Add support for querying the ctime/mtime

This patch adds querying of ctime/mtime for the cluster/nodes/instances.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

bd315bfa 08/14/2009 04:00 pm Iustin Pop

Implement instance recreate-disks

This can be used for a 'plain' type instance when the underlying storage
went away, to recreate the storage (and reinstall) instead of removing
the instance and readding it.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

b142ef15 08/13/2009 02:41 pm Iustin Pop

Merge commit 'origin/next' into branch-2.1

  • commit 'origin/next': (28 commits)
    Fix a typo in InitCluster
    Ignore results from drained nodes in iallocator
    Ship the ethers hook
    Ethers hook, compatibility with old lockfile
    Remove a few unused imports from noded/masterd...
05d47e33 08/13/2009 12:54 pm Michael Hanselmann

gnt-instance replace-disks: Add new --auto option

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

8486ffc0 08/07/2009 02:22 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'master' into next

  • master:
    Update NEWS and version for 2.0.3 release
    devel/upload: revert rsync -p
    export: add meaningful exit code
    Fix detecting of errors in export
    Implement gnt-cluster check-disk-sizes
    rpc: add rpc call for getting disk size...
b4ec07f8 08/04/2009 05:35 pm Iustin Pop

Implement --ignore-size in activate-disks

This patch modified OpActivateDisks, LUActivateDisks and gnt-instance
activate-disks to support and pass this option to
_AssembleInstanceDisks.

The patch is quite trivial I think; there should be no issues from it...

3d2ca95d 07/19/2009 02:53 pm Iustin Pop

Convert instance reinstall to multi instance model

This patch converts ‘gnt-instance reinstall’ from single-instance to
multi-instance model; since this is dangerours, it's required to pass
“--force --force-multiple” to skip the confirmation.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

0b063b42 06/18/2009 04:50 pm Guido Trotter

gnt-instance(8) one more batch-create update

Document the new nics list, as an alternative to the one nick which you
can create with the old mac, ip, mode, link/bridge keys.

Also specify that 'bridge' is still accepted as well.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

7d713344 06/17/2009 04:22 pm Guido Trotter

Update manpages for NIC parameters

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

af0413bb 06/16/2009 02:28 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'next' into branch-2.1

  • next: (22 commits)
    Update NEWS and version for 2.0.1 release
    gnt-{instance,backup}(8) --nic is actually --net
    Fix a wrong function name in backend.DrbdAttachNet
    GNT-CLUSTER fix search-tags example
    Enable stripped LVs...
091c2c64 06/16/2009 02:00 pm Guido Trotter

gnt-{instance,backup}(8) --nic is actually --net

Fix a typo in the man pages that used the wrong option name.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

55efe6da 05/22/2009 03:58 pm Iustin Pop

Convert instance reinstall to multi instance model

This patch converts ‘gnt-instance reinstall’ from single-instance to
multi-instance model; since this is dangerours, it's required to pass
“--force --force-multiple” to skip the confirmation.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

c1be3f59 05/20/2009 04:16 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'master' into branch-2.1

f226f085 05/20/2009 04:14 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'master' into next

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>

d04aaa2f 05/19/2009 11:39 am Iustin Pop

Add -H/-B startup parameters to gnt-instance

This patch modifies the start instance script, opcode and logical unit
to support temporary startup parameters.

Different from 1.2, where only the kernel arguments were supporting
changes (and thus xen-pvm specific), this version supports changing all...

5645d16b 05/11/2009 05:18 pm Iustin Pop

Fix QA and documentation about no initrd case

In Ganeti 1.2, “none” was used to signify no initrd. In 2.0 we have
changed to “no_” as a prefix (i.e. “-H no_initrd_path”) and thus we
document in the manpage this.

The QA suite is changed accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

d09ebf6f 04/24/2009 07:13 pm Guido Trotter

Update gnt-instance(8) for info

Add the --all argument, and reword a bit the basic information.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

949bdabe 04/15/2009 02:11 pm Iustin Pop

A bunch of doc and other small fixes

This patch adds a couple of both externally and internally reported
issues:
- missing SGML tags (Issue 54), report and patch by superdupont
- wrong variable used in the init.d script, report and patch by
Karsten Keil <>...

07813a9e 02/24/2009 05:25 pm Iustin Pop

Remove the extra_args parameter in instance start

This patch removes the extra_args parameter and instead switches the
instance to the HV_KERNEL_ARGS hypervisor option.

This is a big change, but it's a needed cleanup, this extra parameter on
all RPC calls is not generic and we also need to have a persistent value...

c0e4a2c3 02/13/2009 05:34 pm Iustin Pop

Implement the backward-compatible ‘-s’ disk option

This patch adds back to the instance creation command (gnt-instace add,
gnt-backup import) the ‘-s’ short form option for specifying a
single-disk instance.

Also a small bug in gnt-backup import is fixed....

d3b4cf9f 02/12/2009 07:05 pm Iustin Pop

Update the command line scripts man pages for 2.0

This patch updates the gnt-* scripts to show the new 2.0 syntax. It's
not guaranteed to be 80% complete.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

7e9366f7 01/09/2009 02:22 pm Iustin Pop

Cleanup replace-disks modes and options

In 1.2, due to the md+drbd7 legacy, we had a complex choice of replace
modes, and the new drbd8 modes where forced into this syntax, with some
complicated rules of transition from one mode to another (if REPLACE_ALL...

6605411d 10/14/2008 07:23 pm Iustin Pop

grow-disk: wait until resync is completed

The patch adds a new ‘--no-wait-for-sync’ parameter to grow-disk similar
to the one in instance add, and changes the default to wait.

This is cleaner as at the moment when the command returns, we either
have a fully synced disk or there is an error....

57821cac 10/14/2008 01:21 pm Iustin Pop

Allow instance info to only query the config file

This patch adds a new '-s' parameter to ‘gnt-instance info’ that makes
it return only 'static' information. This is much faster, especially for
drbd instances.

This is a forward-port of rev 1570 on the ganeti-1.2 branch, resending...

bf2fd71e 10/07/2008 04:16 pm Alexander Schreiber

Change default instance reboot type to hard.

Merged r1777 from branches/ganeti/ganeti-1.2

Reviewed-by: imsnah

38d7239a 09/27/2008 06:58 pm Iustin Pop

Allow listing of the serial_no via gnt-* list

This patch adds listing of the serial_no attribute in gnt-instance and
gnt-node list, and updates to the manpages to reflect the change.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

87765cb0 09/11/2008 12:46 pm Guido Trotter

Fix a typo in gnt-instance.sgml

Reviewed-by: imsnah

16034f1f 09/02/2008 03:12 pm Alexander Schreiber

merge r1547 from branches/ganeti/ganeti-1.2

Document behaviour of gnt-instance console for HVM

Reviewed-by: imsnah

20e23543 09/02/2008 02:46 pm Alexander Schreiber

merge r1542, r1543, r1573 from branches/ganeti/ganeti-1.2

Implement interactive instance OS reinstall.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

02d2adf4 08/29/2008 07:57 pm Alexander Schreiber

Merge r1534 from branches/ganeti/ganeti-1.2

Add HVM device type flag 4/4

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

c6520286 08/29/2008 05:41 pm Alexander Schreiber

Merge r1296 from branches/ganeti/ganeti-1.2

doc fix: Describe default values for HVM instance options & cleanup.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

130a6a6f 06/22/2008 01:57 pm Iustin Pop

Add a ‘tags’ field to instance and node listing

Currently there isn't any easy way to list all nodes or instance and
their tags; you have to query each node in turn, or list all the tags
via something like “gnt-cluster search-tags '.*'”. Of course, this is...

67470f58 06/19/2008 04:37 pm Iustin Pop

Small typo in gnt-instance manpage

Reviewed-by: manuel.franceschini

eb65d354 06/17/2008 09:51 am Iustin Pop

Manpage updates for the new grow-disk command

The patch documents the steps needed to complete a user-visible grow
(i.e. not only grow-disk, but also filesystem resize is needed, etc.)

Reviewed-by: imsnah

a53a1b18 06/06/2008 12:30 pm Michael Hanselmann

Forward-port: Update gnt-instance and gnt-backup manpages

- Add --iallocator options
- Small text fixes

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

783583e9 06/06/2008 12:19 pm Michael Hanselmann

Add line-breaks to gnt-instance manpage

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

ca9c49d5 06/01/2008 02:39 am Iustin Pop

Forward-port: patch 4/4 extended HVM features for 1.2

This patch documents the extended HVM features.

Author: schreiberal
Reviewed-by: imsnah

bd028152 05/29/2008 12:59 pm Iustin Pop

Documentation: cleanup of local/remote_raid1

Since we have removed support for local and remote raid1, update the man
pages and guides to reflect the new situation.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

bdb7d4e8 05/15/2008 05:38 pm Michael Hanselmann

Update command line help and manpages with mandatory options

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

872c949f 05/05/2008 01:02 pm Iustin Pop

Minor doc/help update

This shortens the help output in gnt-node so that the output looks
nicer, and improves the manual page for gnt-instance with the new
'status' field.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

48c4dfa8 05/05/2008 01:02 pm Iustin Pop

Improve the gnt-* list field selection

This patch allows the '-o' option to the list subcommands to add more
fields to the default list instead of replacing the default list by
prefixing the fields list with '+'.

The patch also moves the listing (in the help output) of the default...

495beb42 04/29/2008 06:26 pm Manuel Franceschini

Add file-based options to gnt-instance man-page

Reviewed-by: iustinp

51c6e7b5 03/27/2008 04:39 pm Michael Hanselmann

Add --print parameter to “gnt-instance console”

This enables us to run automated tests on “gnt-instance console”, at least
to some degree.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

f9193417 03/25/2008 06:30 pm Iustin Pop

Remove the option to create md/drbd7 instances

This patch removes the options that allow to create local_raid1 or
remote_raid1 instances. It also modifies the documentation and removes
these disk templates from burnin and from qa.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

249069a1 03/25/2008 06:30 pm Iustin Pop

Remove the add/remove mirror operations

These two operations are related to md/drbd7 code (remote_raid1). Remove
them as part of the md/drbd7 removal.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

6536dfa1 03/11/2008 12:33 pm Guido Trotter

Specify better gnt-instance(8) replace-disks

The -s option when changing secondary node on a drbd template is implied, and
thus optional. Specify this in the manpage.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

d8052456 02/14/2008 05:53 pm Iustin Pop

Modify the default output of gnt-instance list

This patch adds a new field available for selection in gnt-instance list
names "status" which represents the combined value of "admin_state" and
"oper_state". Since this is much easier to parse (e.g. gnt-instance list...

d8a4b51d 01/28/2008 04:32 pm Iustin Pop

Improve the documentation of query output fields

The gnt-node and gnt-instance list commands have a customizable list of
output fields, but the list is not up to date (in the man page) and not
easily understandable from the ‘--help’ output.

This patch updates the man pages and adds the available fields and...

25c5878d 01/11/2008 02:13 pm Alexander Schreiber

Support selecting the boot device order for HVM.

This patch adds support for specifying and changing the boot device order for
HVM instances. The boot device order specification is ignored for non HVM
instances.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

00f98619 01/08/2008 01:04 pm Iustin Pop

Update manpages with the kernel/initrd options

This patch modifes the ‘gnt-instance’ instance manpage with the new
‘--kernel’ and ‘--initrd’ options.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

61854511 01/07/2008 06:34 pm Iustin Pop

Fix a typo in the ‘gnt-instance’ manpage

Reviewed-by: schreiberal

f3a55c90 12/28/2007 12:05 pm Alexander Schreiber

Document variable MAC support to gnt-instance.

Document the ability to set and change the MAC address for instances.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

3bd5f059 11/20/2007 04:49 pm Michael Hanselmann

Add description of “gnt-instance startup --force” to manpage.

This was reported by Henning Sprang in issue #14. Also add a missing word
in the description of “gnt-instance reboot”.

Reviewed-by: iustinp

0b0dea6a 11/10/2007 08:05 pm Iustin Pop

Fix gnt-instance man page for replace-disks

This patch documents the new syntax for disk changes with the drbd disk
template.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

f69dab6d 11/10/2007 07:54 pm Iustin Pop

Improve the man pages

This patch does some small fixes to the man pages and adds descriptions
for a few missing options.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

4677a909 11/07/2007 02:39 pm Michael Hanselmann

Update docs for the removed --secondary-node option.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

80de0e3f 10/31/2007 10:12 pm Iustin Pop

Revert "Implement multi-failover options"

This reverts commit 289, as the node failover functionality was already
implemented in gnt-node (as opposed to gnt-instance). My mistake.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter

bcee9cb4 10/31/2007 04:57 pm Iustin Pop

Small improvements to multi-instance selections

This patch fixes the documentation in a few cases and adds handling of
the situation where no instance is selected due to too restrictive
options given.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

36c87212 10/31/2007 04:56 pm Iustin Pop

Implement multi-failover options

This patch adds the same style of multi-instance selection as in
shutdown/startup to the failover subcommand, with the exception that we
cannot failover with --node or --all (it doesn't make sense).

Reviewed-by: imsnah

24a40d57 10/31/2007 04:56 pm Iustin Pop

More sane handling of errors during failover

Currently we ignore errors on instance shutdown (on the source node)
during instance failover. We should do this only if the user gave a
command line options allowing this, as it's a dangerous thing to do.

This patch fixes this by using the same "--ignore-consistency" option...

579d4337 10/18/2007 01:26 pm Alexander Schreiber

Patch series for reboot feature, part 3

This patch series implements the reboot command for gnt-instance. It
supports three types of reboot: soft (hypervisor reboot), hard (instance
config rebuild and reboot) and full (full instance shutdown and startup
again)....

86b8c6ae 10/16/2007 05:45 pm Alexander Schreiber

tiny typing fixup

Reviewed-by: imsnah

1d67656e 10/16/2007 04:51 pm Iustin Pop

Allow force removal of instances

This patch adds a new option to the instance removal command
"--ignore-failures" that forces the removal of the instance from the
configuration even if the removal process encounters errors.

In order to be able to do this when the remote node(s) is(are) down, we...

810c50b7 10/08/2007 06:12 pm Iustin Pop

Add source file option for {add,remove}-tags

This patch adds a '--from' option to the {add,remove}-tags commands that
allows the command to read from a file or from stdin (when passing a
dash for the filename).

Reviewed-by: imsnah

cc425644 10/08/2007 06:11 pm Iustin Pop

Update man pages for the tags operations

This adds documentation on the {list,add,remove}-tags commands to the
gnt-{cluster,node,instance} man pages.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

decd5f45 09/17/2007 02:52 pm Iustin Pop

Implement instance rename operation

This patch adds support for instance rename operation at all remaining
layers: RPC, OpCode/LU and CLI.

Reviewed-by: imsnah

312ac745 09/17/2007 12:12 pm Iustin Pop

Allow start/stop of multiple instances at once

This is an initial version of the multi-instance start/stop, which
allows the gnt-instance startup and shutdown subcommands to work on
multiple instances at once.

The available selections are:
- "gnt-instance startup --instance name..." which is the default, and...

b9ac33e9 08/30/2007 01:29 pm Iustin Pop

Fix the manpage gnt-instance w.r.t. units

The manpage wrongly states that the default unit for disk sizes is
gibibytes, whereas currently it's mebibytes. Fix that and also update
the '--help' output to display the default unit.

Reviewed-by: roman.marxer

d0834de3 07/27/2007 12:05 pm Michael Hanselmann

- Implement “gnt-instance reinstall --os-type=…”
- Add the command to gnt-instance.sgml

Reviewed-by: iustinp

7e84d392 07/23/2007 10:43 am Michael Hanselmann

- Describe b option for "gnt-cluster init"
Fix typo

a8083063 07/16/2007 04:39 pm Iustin Pop

Initial commit.