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 >= 2.7
+- febootstrap >= 2.10
- fakeroot
- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command)
+- libvirt
+
+- libxml2
+
+- gperf
+
+- Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
+
- squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only)
- genisoimage / mkisofs
-- (Optional) hivex >= 1.2.1 to build Windows Registry support
+- hivex >= 1.2.1 (http://libguestfs.org/download)
- (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module
-- (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
-
- perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and
other documentation.
- (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.
as long as qemu has been compiled with support for SLIRP (user mode
networking, or "-net user"), which is almost always the case.
-However we still offer the ability to use vmchannel, and in future we
-may add support for other types of qemu, which is useful in a few
-cases, specifically where qemu packagers decide to compile out support
-for SLIRP (qemu packagers: please don't do this).
+In libguestfs >= 1.5.4 we switched again to using qemu's virtio-serial
+and removed all the other vmchannels and the SLIRP channel.
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