Richard W.M. Jones
2013-Oct-19 10:46 UTC
[Libguestfs] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.24 has been released
libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. http://libguestfs.org/ The 1.24 release represents 5 months of development and has many new features including: - virt-builder: a new tool for building virtual machine images rapidly and securely: http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html - User Mode Linux can be used as an alternative backend (ie. instead of KVM) - virt-resize & virt-sysprep can now use URIs to work on remote disks - many new virt-sysprep operations - bindings for the Go programming language - support for the systemd journal - support for setting the qemu caching mode - ARM (32 bit) and PPC64 are not fully supported Full release notes: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-release-notes.1.html Download source: http://libguestfs.org/download/1.24-stable/ or: git clone git://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git Binaries will be available shortly for Fedora 20 in the Fedora repository, and for Debian in Debian experimental. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/