X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c00ebd3c4e80e802fed8497644fd80c15b27c899;hp=644a76ee307afbd6aecf1254fdf50bb78f41ceb7;hb=5ebf3a39340696fea0582a58074d22d11247a6e7;hpb=9d25e82491ddcf495e1d30694327e4bfd3a23445 diff --git a/README b/README index 644a76e..c00ebd3 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, @@ -50,6 +52,10 @@ Requirements - genisoimage / mkisofs +- (Optional) hivex to build Windows Registry support + +- (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module + - (Optional) Augeas (http://augeas.net/) - perldoc (pod2man, pod2text) to generate the manual pages and @@ -57,13 +63,11 @@ 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 + 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 @@ -265,8 +269,8 @@ 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.