X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=ea1da1fb6a365e3e8651bb15212da142cb325646;hp=ad04884b8f49a77a76880c7a5949d4f6f4ab6821;hb=1d1cc4114d48623fb44e3d18e74407902c8f2ae9;hpb=c0e4b5dc693cefdc81a4ec7cc1073a2cae371803 diff --git a/README b/README index ad04884..ea1da1f 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, @@ -39,7 +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 @@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ Requirements - genisoimage / mkisofs -- libxml2 +- (Optional) hivex >= 1.2.1 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. @@ -317,13 +315,13 @@ 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