We worried about getenv's safety (lack of) for quite a while when we
were writing libguestfs, which uses a lot more environment variables
in many more places. But we decided there was simply nothing we could
do about it, and it was easier not to worry :-)
Rich.
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virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v