X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=8ad0d65e7eca31fcd646af3df9777c9d4d7fba41;hp=8e8be5968065c014d423a50c2ea51c415b22c324;hb=a8c3723e3818b5a7a31520043c6831115ab9d0e0;hpb=2e2eb15df010bbcc605c86b0714ad1ca796fc96d diff --git a/README b/README index 8e8be59..8ad0d65 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, @@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ Requirements - genisoimage / mkisofs -- libxml2 +- (Optional) hivex to build Windows Registry support - (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module @@ -270,8 +272,8 @@ 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.