Libguestfs Alternatives

libguestfs reviews and mentions

• 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

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