I'm pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.0.64, the library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. Homepage: http://libguestfs.org/ Downloads: http://libguestfs.org/download/ Git repo: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git Fedora builds: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 NOTE at present there is a bug in qemu's vmchannel which stops libguestfs from working correctly with the very latest qemu from git. Use a stable 0.10.X version, or apply this patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg01753.html (These release notes include changes since the previous announcement, which was for 1.0.59) * New tool: virt-cat. This tool lets you copy out files from a guest. See this page for some interesting and unexpected uses: http://libguestfs.org/virt-cat.1.html#examples * Added libguestfs-test-tool which is a tool you can use to diagnose qemu / kernel booting problems, and also make bug reports more useful. * [Sys::Guestfs::Lib] split $os->{version} into $os->{major_version} and $os->{minor_version}. Add feature tags. (Matt Booth). * Allow TMPDIR to be used to override the location of temporary files. * Implement the guestfs_read_file call. * New calls guestfs_mkmountpoint and guestfs_rmmountpoint to allow some specialized read-only or nested filesystems to be mounted, particularly for examining live CDs. http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/unpack-the-russian-doll-of-a-f11-liv... * New call guestfs_mountpoints to return a hash of device -> mountpoint. * Many documentation fixes, including an "API Overview" section which will help developers navigate parts of the now very large libguestfs API. http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#api_overview * Add ~ and ~username expansion in guestfish (RHBZ#511372). * Add kernel modules for reading DOS filesystems (Guido Gunther). * Add i18n support for Perl strings. Bugs fixed: * Fix guestfish -i / virt-inspector when working with libvirt domain names, so now 'guestfish -i libvirtdom' really works. * Detect renamed guestfwd support for vmchannel in upstream qemu. * Always pass noapic on kernel command line (workaround for RHBZ#502058) * Workaround for udev timeouts. * Check /usr/libexec for qemu binary, for RHEL 5.4. * Multiple fixes for non-srcdir builds. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top