inspect: Generic parsing of MAJOR.MINOR in product names.

[libguestfs.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
 
 Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions,
 LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.).  It can also run commands
-in the context of the guest.  Also you can access filesystems over FTP.
+in the context of the guest.  Also you can access filesystems over
+FUSE.
 
 Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
-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.
+programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby,
+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
 hacked on by lots of other people.  For discussion, development,
@@ -35,10 +37,9 @@ Home page
 Requirements
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-- 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 >= 2.3
+- febootstrap >= 2.10
 
 - fakeroot
 
@@ -46,27 +47,34 @@ Requirements
 
 - XDR, rpcgen (on Linux these are provided by glibc)
 
+- pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions C library)
+
+- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command)
+
+- libvirt
+
+- libxml2
+
+- Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
+
 - squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only)
 
 - genisoimage / mkisofs
 
-- (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
+- hivex >= 1.2.1 (http://libguestfs.org/download)
+
+- (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module
 
 - perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and
   other documentation.
 
 - (Optional) Readline to have nicer command-line editing in guestfish.
 
-- (Optional) 'reged' program from chntpw to decode Windows registry
-  entries (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/)
-
 - (Optional) xmllint to validate virt-inspector RELAX NG schema
 
-- (Optional) OCaml if you want to rebuild the generated files, and
-  also to build the OCaml bindings
-
-- (Optional) OCaml xml-light, only needed if you want to rebuild the
-  virt-inspector bindings from virt-inspector.rng.
+- (Optional) OCaml + OCaml library xml-light if you want to rebuild
+  the generated files, and also to build the OCaml bindings
+  (http://tech.motion-twin.com/xmllight.html)
 
 - (Optional) local Fedora mirror
 
@@ -86,6 +94,10 @@ in virt-inspector).
 
 - (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.
 
@@ -201,10 +213,8 @@ 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.
 
-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.
 
 
 Supermin appliance
@@ -268,8 +278,8 @@ Notes on cross-architecture support
 
 At the moment we basically don't support cross-architecture or
 32-on-64.  This limits what is possible for some guests.  Filesystem
-operations and FTP export will work fine, but running commands in
-guests may not be possible.
+operations and FUSE will work fine, but running commands in guests may
+not be possible.
 
 To enable this requires work for cross-architecture and 32-on-64
 support in febootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot.
@@ -314,13 +324,13 @@ first:
  - python
  - rpm-python    http://www.rpm.org/
  - yum           http://yum.baseurl.org/
- - febootstrap   http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/
+ - febootstrap   http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/
 
 
 Copyright and license information
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Red Hat Inc.
 
 The library is distributed under the LGPLv2+.  The programs are
 distributed under the GPLv2+.  Please see the files COPYING and