X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=f3e348ff5776ed31f83f95ed6e14332d1d300216;hp=ad04884b8f49a77a76880c7a5949d4f6f4ab6821;hb=646813ec513cb8eae3d9b13c52b846fc36654803;hpb=c0e4b5dc693cefdc81a4ec7cc1073a2cae371803 diff --git a/README b/README index ad04884..f3e348f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ 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, Haskell or C#). You can also use it from shell scripts or the +Java, PHP, 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 @@ -36,10 +37,9 @@ Home page Requirements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- recent QEMU >= 0.10 with vmchannel support - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-02/msg01042.html +- recent QEMU >= 0.12 with virtio-serial support -- febootstrap >= 2.3 +- febootstrap >= 2.9 - fakeroot @@ -47,11 +47,19 @@ Requirements - XDR, rpcgen (on Linux these are provided by glibc) +- pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions C library) + +- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command) + +- libvirt + +- libxml2 + - squashfs-tools (mksquashfs only) - genisoimage / mkisofs -- libxml2 +- (Optional) hivex >= 1.2.1 to build Windows Registry support - (Optional) FUSE to build the FUSE module @@ -62,9 +70,6 @@ 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 @@ -89,6 +94,10 @@ in virt-inspector). - (Optional, but highly recommended) perl-libintl for translating perl code. +- (Optional) po4a for translating manpages and POD files. + +- (Optional) PHP, phpize if you want to build the PHP bindings + Running ./configure will check you have all the requirements installed on your machine. @@ -271,8 +280,8 @@ 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 +326,13 @@ 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