libguestfs

library and tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. PLEASE DO NOT USE GITHUB FOR ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS. See the website for how to file a bug or contact us. (by libguestfs)
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  • From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
    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...

  • Microsoft: Windows 10 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
    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
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2022
  • Is chroot possible through a VM
    1 project | /r/qemu_kvm | 7 Nov 2022
    NDB works great but another option is libguestfs. https://libguestfs.org/
  • Is there any way to access the files of a Windows 10 backup from Linux?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 12 Sep 2022
    Have a look here
  • How to extract a virtual disk image without mounting to filesystem.?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 9 Jun 2022
    Consider using libguestfs.
  • QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2021
    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

  • How to use Python libraries effectively when they aren't in PyPI?
    4 projects | /r/learnpython | 14 Mar 2021
    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. :)
  • Probably the Simplest Way to Install Debian/Ubuntu in QEMU
    1 project | /r/qemu_kvm | 12 Jan 2021
    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
  • A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
    workos.com | 25 Apr 2024
    The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning. Learn more →

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libguestfs/libguestfs is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of libguestfs is C.

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