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The following tools are provided by <code>libguestfs</code>: | The following tools are provided by <code>libguestfs</code>: | ||
* <code>guestfish</code> - Provides an interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems and executing commands in the context of the guest. | * <code>guestfish</code> - Provides an interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems and executing commands in the context of the guest. | ||
* <code>virt-inspector</code> - Displays OS version, kernel, drivers, mount points, applications, etc. in a virtual machine. | * <code>virt-inspector</code> - Displays OS version, kernel, drivers, mount points, applications, etc. in a virtual machine. | ||
* Bindings for OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Java programming languages. | * Bindings for OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Java programming languages. | ||
For further details refer to: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ | For further details refer to: | ||
* http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ -- Project page | |||
* http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- Examples of <code>guestfish</code> usage |
Latest revision as of 14:19, 20 May 2009
Offline Manipulation of Virtual Machines
libguestfs
is a new library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. Using Linux kernel
and QEMU
code, libguestfs
can access any type of guest filesystem that Linux and QEMU
can
The following tools are provided by libguestfs
:
guestfish
- Provides an interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems and executing commands in the context of the guest.virt-inspector
- Displays OS version, kernel, drivers, mount points, applications, etc. in a virtual machine.- Bindings for OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Java programming languages.
For further details refer to:
- http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ -- Project page
- http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- Examples of
guestfish
usage