-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0149 2009-07-29 22:24:53 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libguestfs Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.0.65 Release : 2.el5 URL : http://libguestfs.org/ Summary : Access and modify virtual machine disk images Description : Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration changes to guests, getting disk used/free statistics (see also: virt-df), migrating between virtualization systems (see also: virt-p2v), performing partial backups, performing partial guest clones, cloning guests and changing registry/UUID/hostname info, and much else besides.
Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition 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.
Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management programs.
See also the 'guestfish' package for shell scripting and command line access.
For Perl bindings, see 'perl-libguestfs'.
For OCaml bindings, see 'ocaml-libguestfs-devel'.
For Python bindings, see 'python-libguestfs'.
For Ruby bindings, see 'ruby-libguestfs'.
For Java bindings, see 'libguestfs-java-devel'.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
New upstream version 1.0.65. Fix missing runtime requires. New upstream version 1.0.64. This should fix run-time dependency problems in 1.0.60-1 package. New upstream version 1.0.60. New upstream release 1.0.58. New upstream version 1.0.57. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #514505 - Extra IDE device /dev/hdc appears in RHEL 5.3/5.4 guests https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514505 [ 2 ] Bug #514309 - virt-df2 blocks update of libguestfs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514309 [ 3 ] Bug #512957 - -net channel has become 'guestfwd' in newest qemu https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512957 [ 4 ] Bug #512905 - add ability to override tmp directory location for guestfish https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512905 [ 5 ] Bug #512709 - virt-inspector gives incorrect '-a' parameter for guests https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512709 [ 6 ] Bug #511372 - guestfish doesn't understand '~' in filenames https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511372 [ 7 ] Bug #509597 - command "find /" causes appliance to die https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509597 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update libguestfs' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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