libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. http://libguestfs.org/
The 1.24 release represents 5 months of development and has many new features including:
- virt-builder: a new tool for building virtual machine images rapidly and securely: http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
- User Mode Linux can be used as an alternative backend (ie. instead of KVM)
- virt-resize & virt-sysprep can now use URIs to work on remote disks
- many new virt-sysprep operations
- bindings for the Go programming language
- support for the systemd journal
- support for setting the qemu caching mode
- ARM (32 bit) and PPC64 are not fully supported
Full release notes: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html
Download source: http://libguestfs.org/download/1.24-stable/ or: git clone git://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git
Binaries will be available shortly for Fedora 20 in the Fedora repository, and for Debian in Debian experimental.
Rich.