X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=2015-virt-tools%2FNOTES;h=ca45eeb39ed529b158a59885f4941bb8f01be7dc;hb=fee4463214d94b151751befa76e2a96c8bd29102;hp=92238402c7071932f4be14ddbe84526a31e2cfea;hpb=d5ed61baa8deb36d33c7595cc83249991c66fe1f;p=libguestfs-talks.git diff --git a/2015-virt-tools/NOTES b/2015-virt-tools/NOTES index 9223840..ca45eeb 100644 --- a/2015-virt-tools/NOTES +++ b/2015-virt-tools/NOTES @@ -8,6 +8,22 @@ Audience: - Not developers. +0000: Introduction +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Libguestfs is a fairly low-level C library for accessing disk images. +To perform everyday operations we've written "virt tools" over this. + +Virt tools use libguestfs, qemu, qemu-img and many other programs and +perform operations that would hard to do by hand. + +In the case of virt-resize, the tool does calculations (like partition +sizing) that require hard work and experience, so the virt-resize tool +captures a lot of knowledge about how not to break Windows bootloaders +and how to align partitions for performance that would be hard to +teach. + + 1000: Resizing a disk image ----------------------------------------------------------------------