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11. By Louis Bouchard on 2015-02-13

Add backing-image-file to the uvt-kvm manpage

10. By Robie Basak on 2014-09-25

With libvirt 1.2.8, the second disk is being reported as type iso,
which confuses libvirt. As a temporary workaround, intercept that and call
it raw. Thanks to Serge Hallyn and Stefan Bader for the patch (LP:
#1372368).

9. By Robie Basak on 2014-04-01

* New upstream snapshot (bugfixes only):
  - Fix manpage to reflect correct "create" default.
  - Correctly handle wait with custom ssh keys (LP: #1287140).

8. By Robie Basak on 2014-03-12

* New upstream snapshot (no new features):
  - Add missing copyright and licence notices.
  - Correctly print missing ssh key path when not found.
  - Add manpages.

7. By Robie Basak on 2014-02-19

* New upstream snapshot:
  - Suppress spurious terminal output from libvirt API (LP: #1228231).
  - Add --packages option, drop avahi-daemon default.
  - Fail wait if the libvirt domain is not running.
  - Remote wait support (LP: #1245733).
  - Skip some tests when backported to Ubuntu Precise.
  - Do not cause backtraces on some standard errors (LP: #1245641).
  - Add standard Intel architecture features (LP: #1256658).
  - Default to an ssh key from an agent if available.
  - Add support for --meta-data passing.
  - Default to 'ubuntu' login name for ssh (LP: #1280588).
  - Add yaml and pyinotify build dependencies.
  - Test for ssh parameter handling.
  - purge: explicitly specify flags for compatibility (LP: #1248389).
  - Drop "uvt-kvm import".
  - Drop experimental CLI warnings.

6. By Robie Basak on 2014-01-23

* New upstream snapshot:
  - Delete the created volume if the stream write fails.
  - Handle new "virsh -q pool-list" format.

5. By Robie Basak on 2013-12-12

* New upstream snapshot:
  - New subcommands: ip, ssh and wait.
  - Warn about unimplemented boot-finished wait.
  - Add required dependency python-yaml (LP: #1242383).
  - New uvt-kvm create options: --run-script-once and --ssh-public-key-file.
  - New dependency on python-pyinotify.
  - Diagnose libvirtd failure on postinst failure.
  - Don't drop model=virtio when specifying bridge.
  - Fix 'TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting'
    error.
  - New uvt-simplestreams-libvirt option: --no-authentication.
  - Do not remove old volumes immediately after sync (LP: #1251296).
  - Add simplestreams sync tests.
  - More human-readable "query" command output.

4. By Robie Basak on 2013-10-08

New upstream snapshot:
  - Add --disk option and default to 8G (LP: #1234830).
  - Use a constant for the volume pool name.
  - Add --backing-image-file option.
  - Add experimental CLI notice.
  - Depend on cloud-image-utils >= 0.27 (LP: #1236724).
  - Add purge subcommand to uvt-simplestreams-libvirt (LP: #1234824).

3. By Robie Basak on 2013-10-02

* New upstream snapshot:
  - Workaround to make sure that libvirtd is running and ready before
    attempting to create the volume pool (LP: #1228210).
    + d/uvtool-libvirt-postinst: wait logic.
    + d/control: add dependency on socat (used by the wait logic).

2. By Robie Basak on 2013-09-20

Initial release (LP: #1218508).