X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=c00ebd3c4e80e802fed8497644fd80c15b27c899;hp=ad04884b8f49a77a76880c7a5949d4f6f4ab6821;hb=refs%2Ftags%2F1.0.88;hpb=c0e4b5dc693cefdc81a4ec7cc1073a2cae371803 diff --git a/README b/README index ad04884..c00ebd3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ 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, @@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ Requirements - genisoimage / mkisofs -- libxml2 +- (Optional) hivex to build Windows Registry support - (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module @@ -62,9 +63,6 @@ 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 + OCaml library xml-light if you want to rebuild @@ -271,8 +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.