build: virt-make-fs requires String::ShellQuote, add to configure.

[libguestfs.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index f3e348f..c2a75b1 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Requirements
 
 - recent QEMU >= 0.12 with virtio-serial support
 
-- febootstrap >= 2.9
+- febootstrap >= 2.10
 
 - fakeroot
 
@@ -47,23 +47,28 @@ Requirements
 
 - XDR, rpcgen (on Linux these are provided by glibc)
 
-- pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions C library)
+- pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions C library) (optional)
 
-- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command)
+- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command) (optional)
 
-- libvirt
+- libvirt (optional)
 
-- libxml2
+- libxml2 (optional)
+
+- Augeas (http://augeas.net/) (optional)
+
+- gperf
 
 - 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) Berkeley DB 'db_dump' and 'db_load' utilities
+  (db4-utils or db4.X-util or similar)
 
-- (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/)
+- (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module
 
 - perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and
   other documentation.
@@ -72,9 +77,8 @@ Requirements
 
 - (Optional) xmllint to validate virt-inspector RELAX NG schema
 
-- (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) OCaml if you want to rebuild the generated files, and
+  also to build the OCaml bindings
 
 - (Optional) local Fedora mirror
 
@@ -89,8 +93,15 @@ bindings
 
 - (Optional) GHC if you want to build the Haskell bindings
 
-- (Optional) Perl XML::XPath, Sys::Virt modules (for libvirt support
-in virt-inspector).
+- (Optional) Perl Sys::Virt module.
+
+- (Optional) Perl Win::Hivex module.
+
+- (Optional) Perl Pod::Usage module.
+
+- (Optional) Perl Test::More module (from perl Test::Simple).
+
+- (Optional) Perl String::ShellQuote module.
 
 - (Optional, but highly recommended) perl-libintl for translating perl code.
 
@@ -213,10 +224,8 @@ 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.
 
 
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