Slackware support for libguestfs (was: Re: ocaml-augeas 0.7 source tarball)
by Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 01:36:38PM +0200, 414N wrote:
> Il 08/07/25 09:41, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
> >Different problem. I can upload a new appliance here, but is there a
> >reason not to just generate the appliance? The binary appliance is
> >only really intended for very specialized uses.
> >
> >Rich.
>
> I have some updates on the matter: I'm almost there with adding
> Slackware support to both supermin and libguestfs.
> During my tests I was finally able to have virt-v2v-inspector
> successfully bring up a custom-built appliance against the .ova file
> that I wanted to convert to a libvirt appliance, but then I
> discovered that virt-v2v currently does not support Alpine Linux
> images (I'm also working on it).
Alpine is going to be a tricky one to support in virt-v2v. Our usual
policy is to avoid converting "appliance"-style Linux distros, on the
basis that the kinds of modifications that virt-v2v makes are neither
necessary nor (sometimes) possible on these types of distros. In
pithy terms, virt-v2v is for pets, not cattle.
Are you sure that your Alpine applications can't simply be recreated
(eg. from Ansible playbooks or however you deploy software) on the
target?
> Where can I post the aforementioned Slackware-support patches when I
> feel confident about them? On the mailing list?
You can either use 'git-email' to email them to
guestfs(a)lists.libguestfs.org (no subscription is required), or you can
post them as pull requests to the relevant upstream project(s) on
https://github.com/libguestfs
Rich.
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