EPEL ("Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux") is an additional
repository you can use to add packages to RHEL and derivatives.
Modern libguestfs (1.19.xx) is now available in EPEL 5 updates-testing:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=327975
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.19.13-4.el5
It is VERY important that you read the release notes BEFORE trying
this package:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=README.EP...
You can follow or join in upstream development of this package in the
"oldlinux" branch in git:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commits/oldlinux
I suspect this branch may be applicable to other distros (eg. Debian 5
w/o backports) that don't supply new enough qemu or kernel to run the
main branch of libguestfs.
Rich.
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Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
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