-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-ff140ad922 2017-10-01 18:17:17.995836 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : libguestfs Product : Fedora 25 Version : 1.36.6 Release : 1.fc25 URL : http://libguestfs.org/ Summary : Access and modify virtual machine disk images Description : Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. http://libguestfs.org
It can be used to make batch configuration changes to guests, get disk used/free statistics (virt-df), migrate between hypervisors (virt-p2v, virt-v2v), perform backups and guest clones, change registry/UUID/hostname info, build guests from scratch (virt-builder) and much more.
Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
Libguestfs for Fedora is split into several subpackages. The basic subpackages are:
libguestfs C library libguestfs-tools virt-* tools, guestfish and guestmount (FUSE) libguestfs-tools-c only the subset of virt tools written in C (for reduced dependencies) virt-dib safe and secure diskimage-builder replacement virt-v2v convert virtual machines to run on KVM (also known as V2V) virt-p2v-maker convert physical machines to run on KVM (also known as P2V)
For enhanced features, install:
libguestfs-forensics adds filesystem forensics support libguestfs-gfs2 adds Global Filesystem (GFS2) support libguestfs-hfsplus adds HFS+ (Mac filesystem) support libguestfs-inspect-icons adds support for inspecting guest icons libguestfs-jfs adds JFS support libguestfs-nilfs adds NILFS v2 support libguestfs-reiserfs adds ReiserFS support libguestfs-rescue enhances virt-rescue shell with more tools libguestfs-rsync rsync to/from guest filesystems libguestfs-xfs adds XFS support libguestfs-zfs adds ZFS support
Language bindings:
erlang-libguestfs Erlang bindings libguestfs-gobject-devel GObject bindings and GObject Introspection golang-guestfs Go language bindings libguestfs-java-devel Java bindings lua-guestfs Lua bindings ocaml-libguestfs-devel OCaml bindings perl-Sys-Guestfs Perl bindings php-libguestfs PHP bindings python2-libguestfs Python 2 bindings python3-libguestfs Python 3 bindings ruby-libguestfs Ruby bindings
For developers:
libguestfs-devel C/C++ header files and library libguestfs-benchmarking Benchmarking utilities
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
New upstream version 1.36.6. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade libguestfs' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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