X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=b71eaa8ed037754d2ca51c23b28bdfe153bbfb70;hp=3e4da74dc21e41d5eecba3f29e3a7b11f90fc046;hb=a8d25362435121ada85656c08cd79642f79f9f7b;hpb=1fbc83c9c265e3942e9799289584c66f7d5d6cf5 diff --git a/README b/README index 3e4da74..b71eaa8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ 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. Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management -programs (or management programs written in other languages, if people -contribute the language bindings). You can also use it from shell -scripts or the command line. +programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby or Java). +You can also use it from shell scripts or the command line. Libguestfs was written by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com). For discussion please use the fedora-virt mailing list: @@ -31,17 +30,31 @@ Requirements - recent QEMU with vmchannel support -- febootstrap >= 1.2 +- febootstrap >= 1.5 - XDR, rpcgen -- (Optional) perldoc to generate the manual pages +- Augeas (http://augeas.net/) -- (Optional) OCaml if you want to modify the code or rebuild certain -generated files. +- perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and +other documentation. + +- (Optional) Readline to have nicer command-line editing in guestfish. + +- (Optional) OCaml if you want to rebuild the generated files, and +also to build the OCaml bindings - (Optional) local Fedora mirror +- (Optional) Perl if you want to build the perl bindings + +- (Optional) Python if you want to build the python bindings + +- (Optional) Ruby, rake if you want to build the ruby bindings + +- (Optional) Java, JNI, jpackage-utils if you want to build the java +bindings + Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed on your machine. @@ -68,6 +81,18 @@ these commands as root: make install +Note on using KVM +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +If you are using x86-64, then by default the configure script will +look for qemu-kvm (KVM support). You will need a reasonably recent +processor for this to work. KVM is much faster than using plain QEMU. + +You may also need to enable KVM support for non-root users, by doing: + + chmod o+rw /dev/kvm + + Notes on cross-architecture support ----------------------------------------------------------------------