Re: [Libguestfs] Need Help

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:53:09AM +0530, Priyanka Ranjan wrote: > Hello Richard, > One more question, you mentioned that "hot plugging" is supported from *CentOS > 7 *and gave me a link. That link says > > "In libguestfs ≥ 1.20, you may add drives and remove after calling > "guestfs_launch" <http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_launch>;. > There are some restrictions, see below. This is called*hotplugging*." > > When I executed "sudo yum install libguestfs-tools" on CentOS 6.5, it > installed libguestfs 1.20.11. So if we fix the current qemu issue then can > we use "hotplugging" in CentOS 6.5? Do you see some other issues? Do you > recommend CentOS 7 only for the "hotplugging"? Hotplugging requires libvirt, and that only works in CentOS >= 7. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org