Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby,
-Java, Haskell or C#). You can also use it from shell scripts or the
+Java, PHP, Haskell or C#). You can also use it from shell scripts or the
command line.
Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com) and
Requirements
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-- recent QEMU >= 0.10 with vmchannel support
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-02/msg01042.html
+- recent QEMU >= 0.12 with virtio-serial support
-- febootstrap >= 2.3
+- febootstrap >= 2.9
- fakeroot
- XDR, rpcgen (on Linux these are provided by glibc)
+- pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions C library)
+
+- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command)
+
+- libvirt
+
+- libxml2
+
- squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only)
- genisoimage / mkisofs
- (Optional, but highly recommended) perl-libintl for translating perl code.
+- (Optional) po4a for translating manpages and POD files.
+
+- (Optional) PHP, phpize if you want to build the PHP bindings
+
Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed
on your machine.
- python
- rpm-python http://www.rpm.org/
- yum http://yum.baseurl.org/
- - febootstrap http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/
+ - febootstrap http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/
Copyright and license information
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-Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Red Hat Inc.
The library is distributed under the LGPLv2+. The programs are
distributed under the GPLv2+. Please see the files COPYING and