2 Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
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5 This is a project designed to allow controlled access to host
6 information from virtual machines. It is proposed as a new feature
7 for Fedora 12, and you can read more about it on this web page:
9 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo
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17 - APR (Apache Portable Runtime) 1.2.7 (1.3 preferred)
21 - pod2man and other perldoc tools
22 * these are usually supplied with Perl
24 - libvirt & development tools
26 - Perl module Sys::Virt
28 - Perl module XML::XPath
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40 There is nothing to build or install in the guest.
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46 You can edit the text configuration files under /etc/hostinfod by
47 hand. Please read the hostinfo(8) manual page.
49 For graphical configuration, use virt-manager.
51 To create new guests with access to host information, use
55 Accessing host information from guests
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58 No special software is required inside the guest. Simply connect to
59 the serial port (usually, but not always, /dev/ttyS1 or COM2) using
60 your favorite serial terminal software and send commands.
62 The protocol is a simple, line-based, text protocol. No special
63 libraries are needed to use it from programs or by hand. The commands
64 that you can send are documented in the hostinfo-protocol(5) manual
67 For troubleshooting, see hostinfo(8) manual page.