As some may remember, in the run-up to RHEL 6.3 I made a yum
repository available of libguestfs and other packages. It's time for
the same thing for RHEL 6.4.
These packages should work on RHEL 6.3, CentOS 6.3 and other RHEL 6
derivatives (although I've only tried them on RHEL 6.3). A source RPM
is also supplied in case you want to try rebuilding the package.
To use the repo, run the following command as root:
cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/libguestfs-RHEL-6.4-preview.repo <<EOF
[libguestfs-RHEL-6.4-preview]
name=libguestfs RHEL 6.4 preview - x86_64
baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs-RHEL-6.4-preview/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
Then:
yum install '*guestf*'
Running 'libguestfs-test-tool' after this is a good way to test if
things are generally working or not. If you want to try a more
thorough set of tests, then see:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-testing.1.html
To go back to the supported packages, uninstall libguestfs, remove the
file /etc/yum.repos.d/libguestfs-RHEL-6.4-preview.repo and install
libguestfs from the usual place.
If you find bugs, please let me know, or file them in Bugzilla.
For a list of known bugs in libguestfs on RHEL 6, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=...
Rich.
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