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libvirt: re-add ptest support for meson build system

2026-06-12T18:44:00+00:00

libvirt has switched its build system from Makefile to meson, so the original run-ptest which relied on "make -C tests -k check-TESTS" no longer works. Re-add ptest support based on the meson build system: - Rewrite run-ptest to directly execute the compiled test binaries instead of invoking make. - Patch meson.build at configure time to replace absolute build/source paths with the ptest install paths, removing the need for separate path-stripping patches. - Install test binaries and their required data files into the ptest directory. Test results on genericx86-64: All 120 tests passed (0 failures, 0 skips). root@genericx86-64:/usr/lib/libvirt/ptest# ./run-ptest PASS: chxml2xmltest PASS: nssguestlinktest PASS: virbuftest PASS: viracpitest PASS: esxutilstest PASS: ssh PASS: storagepoolxml2xmltest PASS: commandtest ... ... PASS: nwfilterebiptablestest PASS: cputest === Test Summary === PASS: 120 FAIL: 0 SKIP: 0 TOTAL: 120 Signed-off-by: Haitao Liu Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt: enable nftables by default

2026-06-12T02:58:55+00:00

The iptables kernel modules (MASQUERADE, etc.) are increasingly unavailable — the broader container ecosystem has moved to nftables (netavark dropped iptables entirely, incus prefers nft). Without nftables enabled, libvirtd's default network fails to start with "Extension MASQUERADE revision 0 not supported, missing kernel module". Add nftables to the default PACKAGECONFIG. This switches the firewall backend priority to nftables,iptables (prefer nft, fall back to iptables) and changes RDEPENDS from iptables to nftables + iproute2-tc. Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt: disable secrets encryption for embedded environments

2026-06-12T02:58:55+00:00

Libvirt v12 added encrypted secrets storage using systemd-creds. The build-time virt-secret-init-encryption.service generates an encrypted credential via 'systemd-creds encrypt' tied to the build host's TPM or machine key. At runtime in a QEMU VM (or any different machine), the credential cannot be decrypted, causing libvirtd to fail with "Invalid encryption key for the secret" and refuse to start. Set encrypt_data = 0 in secret.conf and remove the stale build-time encrypted key file. Embedded and QEMU-based environments do not have persistent machine credentials needed for this feature. Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt-glib: update to v5.0.0-tip

2026-06-02T13:48:28+00:00

Bumping libvirt-glib to version v5.0.0-27-g7202a4f, which comprises the following commits: 7202a4f Translated using Weblate (Chinese (Simplified) (zh_CN)) 4ab6dbf Translated using Weblate (Chinese (Simplified) (zh_CN)) ed96b8b Update translation files 462ead9 Added translation using Weblate (Chinese (Traditional) (zh_TW)) 3f35172 Translated using Weblate (Spanish) 648c021 ci: refresh with 'lcitool manifest' 3af6511 Added translation using Weblate (Arabic) 39035b5 Translated using Weblate (Portuguese) 305726b Translated using Weblate (Portuguese) 9cec505 Added translation using Weblate (Portuguese) 957b258 Translated using Weblate (Chinese (Traditional Han script)) f0f31e5 ci: refresh with 'lcitool manifest' bd53b1a Translated using Weblate (Finnish) 24b25ce ci: refresh with 'lcitool manifest' 0b5c1b4 ci: refresh with 'lcitool manifest' 7cdfe76 gconfig: Add DomainVsock.set_cid_address method 8badeaa gconfig: Add DomainVsock device configuration 37214e5 ci: refresh with 'lcitool manifest' a281156 rpm: dep manual dep on libvirt-devel dff5164 rpm: add stronger deps from libvirt-gobject 29d5f69 rpm: switch from %setup to %autosetup 2cdbed6 rpm: add missing gcc dep for mingw builds 41e0cba ci: refresh with latest lcitool manifest e9dc4e7 Translated using Weblate (English (United Kingdom)) 0e34a14 ci: refresh with latest lcitool manifest 062f21c meson: relax max stack size limit 5ed4b43 build: Add '-DG_LOG_DOMAIN' to glib/gobject/gconfig cflags Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt: update to v12.4.0-tip

2026-06-02T13:48:28+00:00

Bumping libvirt to version v12.4.0-23-g54ff2058d6, which comprises the following commits: 54ff2058d6 qemu_capabilities: Fix domain capabilities on AMD CPUs 241318232c domaincapstest: Test SUPPORTED_CPU_FEATURES flag 26ffa1d4f0 virsh: Add --supported-cpu-features option for domcapabilities e1efd79e83 Introduce VIR_CONNECT_GET_DOMAIN_CAPABILITIES_SUPPORTED_CPU_FEATURES flag 090183a7dc Fix documentation of VIR_CONNECT_GET_DOMAIN_CAPABILITIES_EXPAND_CPU_FEATURES 6be1be4938 cpu: Introduce virCPUUpdateFeatures a8952076d8 cpu_x86: Introduce virCPUx86DataAddMSR 3184289356 util: Publish and mock virHostCPUGetMSRFromKVM ed3ae648a9 domaincapstest: Test EXPAND_CPU_FEATURES flag 312000a739 qemu_capabilities: Cache expanded CPU 8b4f56447f qemu_capabilities: Split conditions in virQEMUCapsInitHostCPUModel eca4c6672d qemu_capabilities: Use g_autoptr in virQEMUCapsInitHostCPUModel 003b573108 qemu_capabilities: Always sort features in host-model CPU b4d3572198 qemu: Move domain caps flags handling to virQEMUCapsFillDomainCPUHostModel 354ac21cab qemu_capabilities: Split virQEMUCapsFillDomainCPUCaps 0900cc4f2d cpu_conf: Introduce virCPUDefSortFeatures 4984c5bd02 ci: regenerate with 'lcitool manifest' 737ea91e1e examples: Improved shell output of showDomains bbeb6a5494 bhyve: implement the domainGetFSInfo() API e7a4d5e308 hypervisor: qemu_agent: add virDomainFSInfoFormat() 14967793d4 bhyve: support getting interface addresses from agent 8e96ca0b43 bhyve: reorder qemu agent code 7047652806 Post-release version bump to 12.5.0 Drop file://0001-qemu_nbdkit.c-use-llu-to-print-time_t.patch: this GCC format-string fix is now obsolete. Upstream took an equivalent fix between v12.1.0 and v12.4.0 — they switched the offending %lu specifiers to %lld (long long) and added explicit (long long) casts on the time_t arguments, which is the canonical form for time_t-portable printf. The patch's hunks 1 and 2 (in qemuNbdkitCapsFormatCache and virNbdkitCapsSaveFile) no longer apply because the upstream code is already correct; hunk 3 (in qemuNbdkitProcessBuildCommandCurl) was already merged. Update libvirt-python tarball sha256sum: the libvirt-python.inc fetch templates the URL against PV, so the bump from 12.1.0 to 12.4.0 now pulls libvirt_python-12.4.0.tar.gz with a different checksum than the pinned 12.1.0 value. New sha256 is from the upstream-served tarball directly. Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt: fix python3 compatibility in hook_support.py

2026-05-11T20:15:08+00:00

By default Popen expects all the streams to be bytes-like objects but, in the Popen.communicate() function call, the "input" argument is a string, making the call fail with the error: qemu hook error: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' Fix the error by setting text mode to True in the subprocess creation. Also fix the "SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\w'" in the regex used to match script names. Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Minella Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt: remove obsolete depends to avahi

2026-04-28T11:44:13+00:00

libvirt has removed support for avahi in version 5.5.0 in 2019: * Remove Avahi mDNS support This feature was never used outside of virt-manager, which has itself stopped using it a while ago. Signed-off-by: Louis Rannou Signed-off-by: Louis Rannou Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt: Drop the deprecated workaround

2026-04-21T13:11:11+00:00

The workaround is not needed anymore as the systemd supporting. The libvirtd.service Type has been changed from notify to notify-reload, so the final Type will be 'forking-reload', that's invalid for systemd. Here we delete it to avoid the following output information: >/lib/systemd/system/libvirtd.service:29: Failed to parse Type=forking-reload, ignoring: Invalid argument Signed-off-by: Zhixiong Chi Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt-dbus: update to v1.4.1-tip

2026-04-21T02:25:55+00:00

We drop the inline error supression, since upstream has it in commit c0fffce New upstream version installs /usr/lib/sysusers.d/libvirt-dbus.conf for systemd-sysusers user/group creation. Add the directory to FILES to fix installed-vs-shipped QA error. Bumping libvirt-dbus to version v1.4.1-46-gd1c49c2, which comprises the following commits: d1c49c2 domain: Fix incorrect free of GString variable c0fffce build: Do not use -Winline f1d2f64 ci: refresh with latest 'lcitool manifest' 2105c17 Introduce sysusers config file to create libvirtdbus user 0643cd8 ci: refresh with latest 'lcitool manifest' ded4bc8 ci: refresh with latest 'lcitool manifest' 8f06b76 ci: switch to remote git refs for dependent projects 2fa70fd ci: refresh with lcitool manifest ea96102 spec: use systemd macros to handle services d0a5650 spec: use systemd macro to specify path of user unit directory c281c50 ci: lcitool: Maintain project package deps lists here 193248a rpm: convert license to SPDX format c8bb8ac meson: bump required libvirt version to 3.1.0 08f7541 events: Remove extra white spaces at the end of line d37813b Remove GetBlockInfo method from Domain Interface 4a971c4 ci: add Fedora 37 target 58a9f53 ci: upgrade opensuse leap from 153 to 154 24e43b4 ci: refresh with latest lcitool manifest 697ef0b ci: drop unsupported targets ef9430e HACKING: Use gitlab as main repository 4fbd82e ci: refresh with latest lcitool manifest 8333b9f spec: add systemd-rpm-macros as build dependency 35173fa ci: add Fedora 36 3b070a5 ci: refresh generated files 111fe77 ci: drop unsupported Fedora 34 95ac644 README: update libvirt dbus bindings link 23267d4 ci: Add more target platforms d62b5b1 ci: Build RPMs on CentOS Stream 8 5232cb9 ci: Refresh generated files 6eb24e9 ci: Drop unsupported targets d130ab0 ci: Move Coverity job from CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux 8 2757a47 ci: Add AlmaLinux 8 053d238 ci: Drop Travis CI support 3077aa8 Add .gitattributes file 502c8b5 rpm: Drop conditional needed on RHEL 7 b685a89 Fix meson run_command with check param 87b16e9 Implement GetBlockInfo, SetBlockThreshold methods and BlockThreshold signal for Domain Interface 3d64429 Switch to new GitHub repo-lockdown configuration f4d3863 ci: remove obsolete refresh script and documentation 2b0a513 ci: re-generate containers/gitlab config from manifest fa892e3 ci: define a CI manifest file b1bd1d2 gitlab: skip tests on ubuntu 18.04 c7df361 gitlab: remove centos-7 build target 204d341 meson: Fix systemd services install when --prefix was specified 6ef9bb9 ci: refresh centos-stream container ce6cf93 gitlab: use custom docker:dind image 0c355bb Release of libvirt-dbus 1.4.1 Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield

libvirt-dbus: disable -Werror=inline to fix build error

2026-04-13T13:50:39+00:00

The meson.build from libvirt-dbus enables the flag -Winline. Combined with -Werror from Yocto, this causes a build failure because GCC refuses to inline g_autoptr_cleanup_generic_gfree() from the glib header glib-autocleanups.h, as it considers the call unlikely and estimates code size would grow. Because the function g_autoptr_cleanup_generic_gfree is defined as static inline with good reason, this patch disables -Werror=inline for libvirt-dbus to allow the build to succeed. Signed-off-by: Tanguy Raufflet Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield