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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Cc: buildroot@busybox.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Bai Shuwei <baishuwei@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] diskimage HOWTO
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:38:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090911113808.GO32181@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ab11vhza.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:27:53PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard W M Jones <rjones@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Richard> You may find that libguestfs is better for this sort of thing.  It
>  Richard> doesn't need you to be root for a start.
> 
> Nice - Never heard about libguestfs before, and it isn't in Debian - You
> should get non-redhat dists to include it as well ;)

It's in Debian, although not in the formal repositories yet:

http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#binaries
http://pkg-libvirt.alioth.debian.org/packages/unstable/

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat  http://et.redhat.com/~rjones
virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine.  Supports Linux and Windows.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-24  5:39 [Qemu-devel] diskimage HOWTO Bai Shuwei
2009-08-24  7:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-08-24  8:30   ` Bai Shuwei
2009-08-24 17:04   ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25  3:55     ` Bai Shuwei
2009-08-25  5:03       ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25  7:06     ` Kevin Wolf
2009-08-25  7:32       ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25  7:37         ` Kevin Wolf
2009-08-25  7:41           ` Mulyadi Santosa
2009-08-25  8:48             ` Bai Shuwei
2009-08-25  7:28   ` Laurent Vivier
2009-08-24 18:13 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [Buildroot] " Steve Calfee
2009-09-11  9:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
     [not found]   ` <87ab11vhza.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk>
2009-09-11 11:38     ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]

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