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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-12028
2011-09-06 17:58:16
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Name : libguestfs
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 1.12.6
Release : 1.fc16
URL :
http://libguestfs.org/
Summary : Access and modify virtual machine disk images
Description :
Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images.
Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration
changes to guests, getting disk used/free statistics (see also:
virt-df), migrating between virtualization systems (see also:
virt-p2v), performing partial backups, performing partial guest
clones, cloning guests and changing registry/UUID/hostname info, and
much else besides.
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 provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions,
LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands
in the context of the guest.
Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
programs.
See also the 'guestfish' package for shell scripting and command line
access, and 'libguestfs-mount' for mounting guest filesystems on the
host using FUSE.
For Perl bindings, see 'perl-Sys-Guestfs'.
For OCaml bindings, see 'ocaml-libguestfs-devel'.
For Python bindings, see 'python-libguestfs'.
For Ruby bindings, see 'ruby-libguestfs'.
For Java bindings, see 'libguestfs-java-devel'.
For PHP bindings, see 'php-libguestfs'.
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Update Information:
New upstream stable branch version 1.12.6.
Remove dependency on MAKEDEV.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #727247 - should not depend on MAKEDEV
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727247
[ 2 ] Bug #733297 - ruby event handlers fail with "exception in callback: wrong
argument type Proc (expected Data)"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733297
[ 3 ] Bug #731744 - libguestfs should escape special/non-printing characters in debug
output
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731744
[ 4 ] Bug #729887 - appliance crashes running aug_init with flags=4
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729887
[ 5 ] Bug #678231 - virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678231
[ 6 ] Bug #666578 - libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666578
[ 7 ] Bug #729075 - libguestfs confuses Hp_recovery partition with Windows root
filesystem
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729075
[ 8 ] Bug #726739 - libguestfs: error: aug_get: no matching node, trying to find
hostname
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726739
[ 9 ] Bug #671082 - libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671082
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update libguestfs' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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