From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mm4Sm-000336-95 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:38:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mm4Sh-0002v9-CG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:38:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40824 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mm4Sh-0002ui-3b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:38:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47000) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mm4Sg-0001NV-Gf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:38:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:38:08 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] diskimage HOWTO Message-ID: <20090911113808.GO32181@amd.home.annexia.org> References: <20090911093217.GA2342@amd.home.annexia.org> <87ab11vhza.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ab11vhza.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Korsgaard Cc: buildroot@busybox.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Bai Shuwei On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:27:53PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard W M Jones 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/