New tool: virt-sparsify to make disk images sparse.

[libguestfs.git] / src / guestfs.pod

diff --git a/src/guestfs.pod b/src/guestfs.pod
index 06c3530..db0ab36 100644 (file)
--- a/src/guestfs.pod
+++ b/src/guestfs.pod
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ 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, PHP, Haskell or C#).  You can also use it from shell scripts or the
-command line.
+Java, PHP, Erlang, Haskell or C#).  You can also use it from shell
+scripts or the command line.
 
 You don't need to be root to use libguestfs, although obviously you do
 need enough permissions to access the disk images.
@@ -719,6 +719,10 @@ used.
 The C# bindings are highly experimental.  Please read the warnings
 at the top of C<csharp/Libguestfs.cs>.
 
+=item B<Erlang>
+
+See L<guestfs-erlang(3)>.
+
 =item B<Haskell>
 
 This is the only language binding that is working but incomplete.
@@ -798,6 +802,9 @@ can make this very puzzling if you are trying to debug a problem.
 
 =item Mount option C<-o sync> should not be the default.
 
+I<Update:> L</guestfs_mount> no longer adds any options starting
+from libguestfs 1.13.16.  This section only applies to older versions.
+
 If you use L</guestfs_mount>, then C<-o sync,noatime> are added
 implicitly.  However C<-o sync> does not add any reliability benefit,
 but does have a very large performance impact.
@@ -948,6 +955,29 @@ For example:
 Note that libguestfs also calls qemu with the -help and -version
 options in order to determine features.
 
+Wrappers can also be used to edit the options passed to qemu.  In the
+following example, the C<-machine ...> option (C<-machine> and the
+following argument) are removed from the command line and replaced
+with C<-machine pc,accel=tcg>.  The while loop iterates over the
+options until it finds the right one to remove, putting the remaining
+options into the C<args> array.
+
+ #!/bin/bash -
+ 
+ i=0
+ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+     case "$1" in
+     -machine)
+         shift 2;;
+     *)
+         args[i]="$1"
+         (( i++ ))
+         shift ;;
+     esac
+ done
+ 
+ exec qemu-kvm -machine pc,accel=tcg "${args[@]}"
+
 =head2 ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS
 
 I<Note (1):> This is B<highly experimental> and has a tendency to eat
@@ -2889,7 +2919,7 @@ Source code to the C library.
 
 =item C<tools>
 
-Command line tools written in Perl (L<virt-resize(1)> and many others).
+Command line tools written in Perl (L<virt-win-reg(1)> and many others).
 
 =item C<test-tool>
 
@@ -2898,6 +2928,8 @@ will work with libguestfs.
 
 =item C<csharp>
 
+=item C<erlang>
+
 =item C<haskell>
 
 =item C<java>
@@ -3135,6 +3167,7 @@ enough.
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<guestfs-examples(3)>,
+L<guestfs-erlang(3)>,
 L<guestfs-java(3)>,
 L<guestfs-ocaml(3)>,
 L<guestfs-perl(3)>,
@@ -3154,6 +3187,8 @@ L<virt-list-partitions(1)>,
 L<virt-ls(1)>,
 L<virt-make-fs(1)>,
 L<virt-rescue(1)>,
+L<virt-resize(1)>,
+L<virt-sparsify(1)>,
 L<virt-tar(1)>,
 L<virt-tar-in(1)>,
 L<virt-tar-out(1)>,