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[[RichardJones|Richard Jones]] | |||
announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00220.html</ref> release 1.0.10 of {{package|libguestfs}}<ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/</ref> | |||
Born only a couple of weeks ago(FWN#171<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue171#Guest_Configuration_with_augeas_and_libguestfs</ref>), <code>libguestfs</code> has progressed very far very fast. | |||
"<code>libguestfs</code> 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: {{package|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." | |||
'''Features in 1.0.10 include:''' | |||
* bindings for: C, C++, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby, Java and shell scripting | |||
* KVM support | |||
* QEMU binary is completely configurable at compile & runtime | |||
* ext4 support | |||
* support for uploading and downloading arbitrary-sized files | |||
* support for uploading and downloading tar and tar.gz content | |||
* support for querying size of block devices, setting r/o | |||
* support for reading ext2/3 superblocks | |||
* stat, lstat, statvfs commands | |||
* commands to mount filesystems read-only | |||
* run arbitrary commands from the guest | |||
* file(1) command | |||
* readline in guestfish with history and tab completion | |||
* guestfish 'edit' command | |||
* big documentation improvements, including more on the internals | |||
* pkgconfig file | |||
Richard posted some example uses<ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html</ref> | |||
of the <code>libguestfs</code> command line tool called <code>guestfish</code>. | |||
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Revision as of 15:35, 25 April 2009
Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list of Fedora virtualization technologies.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Enterprise Management Tools List
This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
New Release libguestfs 1.0.10
Richard Jones
announced[1] release 1.0.10 of 
libguestfslibguestfs has progressed very far very fast.
"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:
Features in 1.0.10 include:
- bindings for: C, C++, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby, Java and shell scripting
- KVM support
- QEMU binary is completely configurable at compile & runtime
- ext4 support
- support for uploading and downloading arbitrary-sized files
- support for uploading and downloading tar and tar.gz content
- support for querying size of block devices, setting r/o
- support for reading ext2/3 superblocks
- stat, lstat, statvfs commands
- commands to mount filesystems read-only
- run arbitrary commands from the guest
- file(1) command
- readline in guestfish with history and tab completion
- guestfish 'edit' command
- big documentation improvements, including more on the internals
- pkgconfig file
Richard posted some example uses[4]
of the libguestfs command line tool called guestfish.
Fedora Xen List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.
Dom0 Kernel Not Before 2.6.31
The upstream Xen dom0 work done by Jeremy Fitzhardinge has been cleaned up and reorganized[1] into
- xen-tip/master - Known-working branch, with only tested changes
- xen-tip/next - Current bleeding edge; should at least compile
Michael Young built[2] a new experimental dom0 kernel "version (2.6.30-0.1.2.21.rc3.xendom0.fc12) is based on the Fedora devel kernel branch and xen-tip/next branch from the pvops kernel repository." This kernel may be found in Michael's yum repo[3].
Michael added that "very few xen patches made it into 2.6.30, just bugfixes and tidy ups, so we are waiting at least until 2.6.31[4] for mainline dom0 support."
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.