X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=15e6581690eae2b08e9c7f095f51278b4b154c8c;hp=41902ea4eae41f48c0707084d23bf4d970a90ff7;hb=1a9aa565b38eafe48621bc2fe42d35ea6a907708;hpb=792c5283009ed6753239a14df9a6e9c71bea35fd diff --git a/README b/README index 41902ea..15e6581 100644 --- 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, 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, @@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ Requirements - recent QEMU >= 0.10 with vmchannel support http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-02/msg01042.html -- febootstrap >= 2.3 +- febootstrap >= 2.7 - fakeroot @@ -46,11 +48,21 @@ 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 + - squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only) - genisoimage / mkisofs -- libxml2 +- (Optional) hivex >= 1.2.1 to build Windows Registry support + +- (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module - (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/) @@ -59,16 +71,11 @@ Requirements - (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 @@ -270,8 +277,8 @@ 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. @@ -316,13 +323,13 @@ 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