libguestfs
WikidPad
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10 | 18 | |
598 | 195 | |
0.8% | 1.0% | |
8.2 | 1.9 | |
10 days ago | 11 months ago | |
C | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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libguestfs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
We started off doing this, but you end up with enormous diffs which are themselves confusing. Example, only about 5% of this change is non-generated:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/5186251f8f68...
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Microsoft: Windows 10 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10
And inside the registry. The apparently correct way to distinguish them is using the build ID:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/824c74574893...
- Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
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Is chroot possible through a VM
NDB works great but another option is libguestfs. https://libguestfs.org/
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Is there any way to access the files of a Windows 10 backup from Linux?
Have a look here
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How to extract a virtual disk image without mounting to filesystem.?
Consider using libguestfs.
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QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
There's a lot of useful command-line tooling for KVM and QEMU-based virt. Here's a small selection of useful tools:
• virsh — This[1] is libvirt's shell interface; and gives you access to the rich set of libvirt APIs.
• virt-builder — Use this for rapidly building minimal or customized virtual machines; it's greatly flexible; check out its man page[2]. And here's[3] a quick example that connects both virt-builder and virsh together.
• virt-install — Use this if you don't like the default build of the template images from virt-builder; it lets you create "headless" servers via 'kickstart' and Linux OS trees from the command-line.
• guestfish and libguestfs suite[4] — This rich set of tools help you in a variety of use-cases: repairing your broken disk images, editing, cloning, debugging disk images, and more. It has saved my behind a lot of times.
• qemu-img[5] – This Swiss Army knife lets you powerfully manipulate disk images (QCOW2, raw, et al) offline. Example operations include: create images, backing chains, offline snapshots, disk image merging, and convert disk images from one format to another, and more.
[1] https://libvirt.org/manpages/virsh.html
[2] https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
[3] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about...
[4] http://libguestfs.org/
[5] https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/qemu-img.html
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How to use Python libraries effectively when they aren't in PyPI?
That's a good point. As long as the project has a setup.py or pyproject.toml available, it can usually be installed from the repo. For libguestfs it looks like they do some pre-processing on their setup.py so that wouldn't work, it's lucky that they had this alternative set up already. :)
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Probably the Simplest Way to Install Debian/Ubuntu in QEMU
Nah, this virt-install preseed script is faster, or even just run virt-builder debian-10 and they're both libvirt not hacky qemu scripts
WikidPad
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What WIKI do you recommend
MoinMoin [wikipedia link] uses flat files, so does WikidPad as a personal wiki.
- Is there an app to keep track of all the details when writing a story?
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Good open source Linux based wiki for work organization?
For an individual, I used to use WikidPad and quite like it.
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Private Wiki Creation
There also are "serverless" wikis, like http://tiddlywiki.com/ (can be run as a standalone desktop app - see in the bottom, or Wiki on a Stick, or WikiPad
- Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
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Ask HN: Programming Without a Build System?
Details I didn't include but should have (I wasn't sure I'd have any replies at all... I should have had more faith, sorry)
It's a bit of a ramble, sorry about that.
MSTOICAL[0] is a fork of an old C based Forth variant, it took some help from the HN community[1] to get it to compile in a modern 64 bit environment, for which I am very thankful. However, it uses AutoConf to configure, build, install, etc... and I can't for the life of me figure out how to remove all of that logic. (C isn't my primary language, I'm willing to learn that, but adding AutoConf on top of it was too much)
In order to work on that, I was willing to switch to Linux (Ubuntu)... got everything up and running for the most part, but then I couldn't access WikidPad[2], my local Wiki with my appointments, etc. I missed a doctors appointment because of that, so went back to Windows.
The issue is around wxWindows changing the names of variables in some calls. On Windows, you just download an EXE installer and you're good to go. I couldn't figure it out because the program seems to be unwilling to support newer Python versions. (I could be wrong)
I don't understand why they felt the need to make breaking changes to wxWindows, and the python is a bit too dense for me.
So finally... I'm back in Windows 10, and decided to try to craft together a twitter clone with a bunch of weird ideas that I tossed out at 3:30 am in a twitter thread, and put into a more coherent manifesto.[3]
[0] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273
[2] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad
[3] https://github.com/mikewarot/iceberg/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md
- Free open source alternatives to Notion?
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Online World Organization for Novel
When it comes to organization I would recommend using a wiki tool. The interlinked articles in a wiki is super useful to build a web of information and help you not lose track of important details. Wikidpad is a great free desktop tool.
- Who remembers Wikidpad?
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wikia for writers to work offline
Wikidpad is quite functional. It's not the prettiest but it does its job. I don't know if or how you can implement images. But it's free and maybe worth a try.
What are some alternatives?
guestfs-tools - Tools for accessing and modifying guest disk images
obsidian-auto-link-title - Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
pyenv-win - pyenv for Windows. pyenv is a simple python version management tool. It lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python. It's simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well.
bcc - BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
TiddlyDesktop - A custom desktop browser for TiddlyWiki 5 and TiddlyWiki Classic, based on nw.js
terraform-provider-libvirt - Terraform provider to provision infrastructure with Linux's KVM using libvirt
mu1 - Prototype tree-walking interpreter back when Mu was a high-level statement-oriented language, c. 2018
libguestfs-common - Common code shared between libguestfs and tools
TiddlyWiki - A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.
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