Re: [Qemu-devel] diskimage HOWTO

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:27:53PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard W M Jones <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Richard> You may find that libguestfs is better for this sort of thing.  It
>  Richard> doesn't need you to be root for a start.
> 
> Nice - Never heard about libguestfs before, and it isn't in Debian - You
> should get non-redhat dists to include it as well ;)

It's in Debian, although not in the formal repositories yet:

http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#binaries
http://pkg-libvirt.alioth.debian.org/packages/unstable/

Rich.

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