Cot

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**Fixed**

- Fixed issue `17`_ (``cot edit-hardware`` adding NICs makes an OVA that
vCenter regards as invalid)
- Removed several spurious WARNING messages

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**Added**

- COT can at least be installed and run under CentOS/Python2.6 now, although
the automated unit tests will complain about the different XML output that
2.6 produces.

**Changed**

- Vastly improved installation workflow under Linuxes supporting ``apt-get``
or ``yum`` - included helper script can automatically install all helper
programs except ``ovftool``. Fixes `9`_.

**Fixed**

- Improved ``cot deploy`` handling of config profiles - fixed `5`_ and `15`_

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**Added**

- ``cot edit-hardware`` added ``--nic-names`` option for assigning names to
each NIC
- ``cot info`` now displays NIC names.

**Fixed**

- Improved installation documentation
- Some improvements to IOS XRv OVA support

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**Added**

- Take advantage of QEMU 2.1 finally supporting the ``streamOptimized`` VMDK
sub-format.
- Can now create new hardware items without an existing item of the same type
(issue `4`_)

**Changed**

- Clearer documentation and logging messages (issue `8`_ and others)
- Now uses versioneer_ for automatic version numbering.

**Fixed**

- Fixed several Python 3 compatibility issues (issue `7`_ and others)

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**Fixed**

- Minor bug fixes to ``cot deploy esxi``.

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**Added**

- ``cot deploy esxi`` subcommand by Kevin Keim (kakeim), which uses ``ovftool``
to deploy an OVA to an ESXi vCenter server.

**Changed**

- Removed dependencies on ``md5`` / ``md5sum`` / ``shasum`` / ``sha1sum`` in
favor of Python's ``hashlib`` module.
- Nicer formatting of ``cot info`` output

**Fixed**

- Miscellaneous fixes and code cleanup.