+ ("inspect_get_format", (RString "format", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get format of inspected operating system",
+ "\
+This returns the format of the inspected operating system. You
+can use it to detect install images, live CDs and similar.
+
+Currently defined formats are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item \"installed\"
+
+This is an installed operating system.
+
+=item \"installer\"
+
+The disk image being inspected is not an installed operating system,
+but a I<bootable> install disk, live CD, or similar.
+
+=item \"unknown\"
+
+The format of this disk image is not known.
+
+=back
+
+Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings here.
+The caller should be prepared to handle any string.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
+
+ ("inspect_is_live", (RBool "live", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get live flag for install disk",
+ "\
+If C<guestfs_inspect_get_format> returns C<installer> (this
+is an install disk), then this returns true if a live image
+was detected on the disk.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
+
+ ("inspect_is_netinst", (RBool "netinst", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get netinst (network installer) flag for install disk",
+ "\
+If C<guestfs_inspect_get_format> returns C<installer> (this
+is an install disk), then this returns true if the disk is
+a network installer, ie. not a self-contained install CD but
+one which is likely to require network access to complete
+the install.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
+
+ ("inspect_is_multipart", (RBool "multipart", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get multipart flag for install disk",
+ "\
+If C<guestfs_inspect_get_format> returns C<installer> (this
+is an install disk), then this returns true if the disk is
+part of a set.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
+
+ ("set_attach_method", (RErr, [String "attachmethod"], []), -1, [FishAlias "attach-method"],
+ [],
+ "set the attach method",
+ "\
+Set the method that libguestfs uses to connect to the back end
+guestfsd daemon. Possible methods are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<appliance>
+
+Launch an appliance and connect to it. This is the ordinary method
+and the default.
+
+=item C<unix:I<path>>
+
+Connect to the Unix domain socket I<path>.
+
+This method lets you connect to an existing daemon or (using
+virtio-serial) to a live guest. For more information, see
+L<guestfs(3)/ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS>.
+
+=back");
+
+ ("get_attach_method", (RString "attachmethod", [], []), -1, [],
+ [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["get_attach_method"]], "appliance")],
+ "get the attach method",
+ "\
+Return the current attach method. See C<guestfs_set_attach_method>.");
+
+ ("inspect_get_product_variant", (RString "variant", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get product variant of inspected operating system",
+ "\
+This returns the product variant of the inspected operating
+system.
+
+For Windows guests, this returns the contents of the Registry key
+C<HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion>
+C<InstallationType> which is usually a string such as
+C<Client> or C<Server> (other values are possible). This
+can be used to distinguish consumer and enterprise versions
+of Windows that have the same version number (for example,
+Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server are both version 6.1,
+but the former is C<Client> and the latter is C<Server>).
+
+For enterprise Linux guests, in future we intend this to return
+the product variant such as C<Desktop>, C<Server> and so on. But
+this is not implemented at present.
+
+If the product variant could not be determined, then the
+string C<unknown> is returned.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
+See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_product_name>,
+C<guestfs_inspect_get_major_version>.");
+
+ ("inspect_get_windows_current_control_set", (RString "controlset", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get Windows CurrentControlSet of inspected operating system",
+ "\
+This returns the Windows CurrentControlSet of the inspected guest.
+The CurrentControlSet is a registry key name such as C<ControlSet001>.
+
+This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the
+Registry could be examined by inspection. If this is not
+the case then an error is returned.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
+
+ ("inspect_get_drive_mappings", (RHashtable "drives", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get drive letter mappings",
+ "\
+This call is useful for Windows which uses a primitive system
+of assigning drive letters (like \"C:\") to partitions.
+This inspection API examines the Windows Registry to find out
+how disks/partitions are mapped to drive letters, and returns
+a hash table as in the example below:
+
+ C => /dev/vda2
+ E => /dev/vdb1
+ F => /dev/vdc1
+
+Note that keys are drive letters. For Windows, the key is
+case insensitive and just contains the drive letter, without
+the customary colon separator character.
+
+In future we may support other operating systems that also used drive
+letters, but the keys for those might not be case insensitive
+and might be longer than 1 character. For example in OS-9,
+hard drives were named C<h0>, C<h1> etc.
+
+For Windows guests, currently only hard drive mappings are
+returned. Removable disks (eg. DVD-ROMs) are ignored.
+
+For guests that do not use drive mappings, or if the drive mappings
+could not be determined, this returns an empty hash table.
+
+Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
+See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_mountpoints>,
+C<guestfs_inspect_get_filesystems>.");
+
+ ("inspect_get_icon", (RBufferOut "icon", [Device "root"], [Bool "favicon"; Bool "highquality"]), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get the icon corresponding to this operating system",
+ "\
+This function returns an icon corresponding to the inspected
+operating system. The icon is returned as a buffer containing a
+PNG image (re-encoded to PNG if necessary).
+
+If it was not possible to get an icon this function returns a
+zero-length (non-NULL) buffer. I<Callers must check for this case>.
+
+Libguestfs will start by looking for a file called
+C</etc/favicon.png> or C<C:\\etc\\favicon.png>
+and if it has the correct format, the contents of this file will
+be returned. You can disable favicons by passing the
+optional C<favicon> boolean as false (default is true).
+
+If finding the favicon fails, then we look in other places in the
+guest for a suitable icon.
+
+If the optional C<highquality> boolean is true then
+only high quality icons are returned, which means only icons of
+high resolution with an alpha channel. The default (false) is
+to return any icon we can, even if it is of substandard quality.
+
+Notes:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Unlike most other inspection API calls, the guest's disks must be
+mounted up before you call this, since it needs to read information
+from the guest filesystem during the call.
+
+=item *
+
+B<Security:> The icon data comes from the untrusted guest,
+and should be treated with caution. PNG files have been
+known to contain exploits. Ensure that libpng (or other relevant
+libraries) are fully up to date before trying to process or
+display the icon.
+
+=item *
+
+The PNG image returned can be any size. It might not be square.
+Libguestfs tries to return the largest, highest quality
+icon available. The application must scale the icon to the
+required size.
+
+=item *
+
+Extracting icons from Windows guests requires the external
+C<wrestool> program from the C<icoutils> package, and
+several programs (C<bmptopnm>, C<pnmtopng>, C<pamcut>)
+from the C<netpbm> package. These must be installed separately.
+
+=item *
+
+Operating system icons are usually trademarks. Seek legal
+advice before using trademarks in applications.
+
+=back");
+
+ ("set_pgroup", (RErr, [Bool "pgroup"], []), -1, [FishAlias "pgroup"],
+ [],
+ "set process group flag",
+ "\
+If C<pgroup> is true, child processes are placed into
+their own process group.
+
+The practical upshot of this is that signals like C<SIGINT> (from
+users pressing C<^C>) won't be received by the child process.
+
+The default for this flag is false, because usually you want
+C<^C> to kill the subprocess.");
+
+ ("get_pgroup", (RBool "pgroup", [], []), -1, [],
+ [],
+ "get process group flag",
+ "\
+This returns the process group flag.");
+
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