libguestfs
nix-config
libguestfs | nix-config | |
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10 | 2 | |
597 | 4 | |
0.8% | - | |
8.2 | 1.5 | |
6 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
C | Nix | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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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
nix-config
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Review: HP's smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up
I bought a Brother HL-L2320D which at the time was the cheapest mono laser with duplexing I could find. On Windows and macOS it's fantastically uneventful, unfortunately on Linux the situation is less great. brlaser [0] does mostly work, but it seems there is a bug as some more complex documents (typically scans) won't print [1]. I ended up patching my version to reduce the size of one of the buffers [2], and haven't seen it fail since, but I doubt I've actually fixed the issue and instead just moved the threshold.
[0] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser
[1] - https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser/issues/79#issuecomment-7...
[2] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-config/blob/main/overlays/brla...
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QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
HVF works with some patches that are on the mailing list; it's possible to get Nix to build it with an overlay. [1] for the base, then apply [2] to SLIRP if you don't want to use HVF's network adapter (which needs root). I'm happily running FreeBSD and Linux VMs on my Mac Mini with this
[1]: https://github.com/benpye/nix-config/tree/main/overlays/qemu
[2]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp/-/commit/72713...
What are some alternatives?
guestfs-tools - Tools for accessing and modifying guest disk images
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
bcc - BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
xqemu - Open-source emulator to play original Xbox games on Windows, macOS, and Linux
terraform-provider-libvirt - Terraform provider to provision infrastructure with Linux's KVM using libvirt
brlaser - Brother laser printer driver
libguestfs-common - Common code shared between libguestfs and tools
xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
k8s-lab-terraform-libvirt - A Kubernetes lab environment using terraform and libvirt