-vmchannel
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-
-Previous versions of libguestfs required something called "vmchannel".
-Vmchannel is a special device given to virtual machines which allows
-them to communicate in some way with the host, often (but not always)
-without using a traditional network device. In reality, there is no
-one thing called "vmchannel". This idea has been reimplemented
-several times under the name vmchannel, and other hypervisors have
-their own incompatible implementation(s) too.
-
-In libguestfs <= 1.0.71, we required a specific vmchannel which is
-properly known as "guestfwd" and has been upstream in qemu since here:
-
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-02/msg01042.html
-
-In libguestfs >= 1.0.71 we don't require any vmchannel implementation,
-as long as qemu has been compiled with support for SLIRP (user mode
-networking, or "-net user"), which is almost always the case.
-
-In libguestfs >= 1.5.4 we switched again to using qemu's virtio-serial
-and removed all the other vmchannels and the SLIRP channel.
-
-
-Supermin appliance
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-
-In libguestfs >= 1.7.19 the supermin appliance is the default and only
-supported form of appliance. For more information see febootstrap
-(http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/).
-
-