I'm pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.0.67.
Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine
disk images.
Home page:
http://libguestfs.org/
Source:
http://libguestfs.org/download/
Binaries:
http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#binaries
Fedora builds aren't ready yet because of the current Koji outage.
(These release notes cover all the significant changes since the last
announcement which was for 1.0.64, 3 weeks ago).
New features
- SELinux support, for guests that use it
- inotify support
- Allow swapon/swapoff from a swap file
- New command: fallocate
- New commands to make hard and symbolic links, readlink
- New command: realpath
- New commands to grep files
- New command: file-architecture
- 'file' command can now look in compressed files automatically
Bugs fixed
- Big rewrite of daemon code that uses device and path parameters
(Jim Meyering)
- Do malloc fuzzing during tests (Jim Meyering)
- Fix case where grub /boot is not a separate filesystem
(Matthew Booth)
- Use grub to find kernels (Matthew Booth)
- Can now access disk images which are located on a tmpfs
- Tons of code fixes and cleanups (Jim Meyering)
- Fix segfault in guestfish tab completion
- Fix CD-ROM device recognition (Matthew Booth)
- Uses gnulib (Jim Meyering)
- Improve speed of tests by using squashfs disks for any static
test data
- Improve shell quoting in the daemon using custom formatters
Rich.
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Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages.
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
See what it can do:
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html