X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=07915e4ffafd27a0f86b3fa8828c32f7f8569cc9;hp=2b8fdac001f33a49e7754a1835f3194e9572c628;hb=bf3b9e2e236b4dd2216200993ba39545ad5160bb;hpb=d46230f94e9e472938b61753a134371f8f290929 diff --git a/README b/README index 2b8fdac..07915e4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ 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, Haskell or C#). You can also use it from shell scripts or the +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 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Requirements - recent QEMU >= 0.12 with virtio-serial support -- febootstrap >= 2.9 +- febootstrap >= 2.10 - fakeroot @@ -55,16 +55,18 @@ Requirements - libxml2 +- gperf + +- Augeas (http://augeas.net/) + - 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) Augeas (http://augeas.net/) - - perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and other documentation. @@ -94,6 +96,10 @@ 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. @@ -209,10 +215,8 @@ 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