Spin off hivex as a separate upstream project. This commit makes the semi-independent hivex library into a separate upstream project. The git repo for hivex is now: http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=summary Downloads of hivex are available here: http://libguestfs.org/download/ All questions, patches, bugs etc should be sent to the libguestfs mailing list and bug tracker.
hivex: Complete the implementation of adding child nodes.
hivex: Implement deleting child nodes.
hivex: Begin implementation of writing to hives. This implements hivex_node_set_values which is used to delete the (key, value) pairs at a node and optionally replace them with a new set. This also implements hivex_commit which is used to commit changes to hives back to disk.
hivex: Add HIVEX_OPEN_WRITE flag to allow hive to be opened for writing. If this flag is omitted (as in the case for all existing callers) then the hive is still opened read-only. We add a 'writable' flag to the hive handle, and we change the way that the hive file (data) is stored. The data is still mmapped if the file is opened read-only, since that is more efficient and allows us to handle larger hives. However if we need to write to the file then we have to read it all into memory, since if we had to extend the file we need to realloc that data. Note the manpage section L</WRITING TO HIVE FILES> comes in a later commit.
hivex: Add value_any callback to the visitor. The visitor currently contains lots of value_* callbacks, such as value_string which is called back when the value has type string. This is fine but it makes it complicated to deal with the case where you just want to see 'a value', and don't care about its type. The value_any callback allows visitors to see values generically.
hivex: Documentation: Add environment variables section.
hivex: Small updates to the documentation.
Support for Windows Registry. In hivex/: This mini-library allows us to extract Windows Registry binary files ("hives"). There are also two tools: hivexml converts a hive to a self-describing XML format. hivexget can be used to extract single subkeys from a hive. New tool: virt-win-reg. This is a wrapper around the library functionality allowing you to pull out data from the registries of Windows guests.