In 1.11.1 / git, I have made some changes to the way that you run guestfish, guestmount and the virt tools from the build directory without installing. Firstly you can't just run ./fish/guestfish or ./fuse/guestmount any more and have those programs magically set LIBGUESTFS_PATH. The automagic code was always error-prone and I have removed it. Secondly, all of the run-*-local scripts have gone. This is all replaced by a single 'run' script in the top level source directory. Best explained by this quote from the README file: --<quote>----------------------------------------------------------- You can run guestfish, guestmount and the virt tools without needing to install, using the "run" script in the top directory. This script sets up some environment variables. For example: ./run ./fish/guestfish [usual guestfish args ...] ./run ./inspector/virt-inspector [usual virt-inspector args ...] If you are already in the fish/ subdirectory, then the following command will also work: ../run ./guestfish [...] You can also make a symlink (note: NOT a hard link) from your $PATH to the run script, eg: cd ~/bin ln -s ~/libguestfs/run libguestfs-run cd ~/libguestfs libguestfs-run ./inspector/virt-inspector [...] You can also run the C programs under valgrind like this: ./run valgrind [valgrind opts...] ./cat/virt-cat [virt-cat opts...] This also works with sudo (eg. if you need root access for libvirt or to access a block device): sudo ./run ./cat/virt-cat -d LinuxGuest /etc/passwd --</quote>---------------------------------------------------------- http://libguestfs.org/README.txt Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw