Re: [Libguestfs] Why libguestfs guest exist exceptionally?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 04:00:38PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: Difficult. I think it would be easier to forward-port the 'oldlinux' branch to libguestfs 1.24 or 1.26. However that is still not trivial, as in particular this patch touches a lot of code: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/2d836027a0a273dbcafa4216f... A third alternative would be to use an upstream qemu & kernel on top of RHEL 5: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-li... I think this third approach may be easiest of all, but will still require you to carefully fix any porting problems in libguestfs where we use newer (eg) glibc features than are found in RHEL 5. (Even easier is to move to RHEL 6 or 7) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com 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