programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java
or Haskell). You can also use it from shell scripts or the command line.
-Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com).
-For discussion please use the fedora-virt mailing list:
+Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com) and
+hacked on by lots of other people. For discussion, development,
+patches, etc. please use the mailing list:
- https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt
+ http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
Home page
- squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only)
+- genisoimage / mkisofs
+
- (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
- perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and
- (Optional) GHC if you want to build the Haskell bindings
+- (Optional) Perl XML::XPath, Sys::Virt modules (for libvirt support
+in virt-inspector).
+
+- (Optional, but highly recommended) perl-libintl for translating perl code.
+
Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed
on your machine.
Debian
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-libguestfs should build and run on Debian.
+libguestfs is now built as a package in Debian by Guido Gunther and
+the other Debian libvirt maintainers. See:
+
+http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianLibvirtTeam#Packages
-febootstrap, yum, rpm, fakeroot, fakechroot are all packaged in
-Debian.
+You can build for Debian in two different ways, either building a
+Fedora-based appliance using febootstrap, yum, rpm, fakeroot,
+fakechroot (all packaged in Debian). However the recommended way is
+to build a Debian-based appliance using debootstrap and debirf.
-Please see the fedora-virt mailing list for the status of libguestfs
-in Debian.
+Both ways are supported by the configure script.
qemu