Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine
disk images. http://libguestfs.org
Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of
guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited
to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition
schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
For enhanced features, install:
libguestfs-inspect-icons adds support for inspecting guest icons
libguestfs-rescue enhances virt-rescue shell with more tools
libguestfs-rsync rsync to/from guest filesystems
libguestfs-xfs adds XFS support
For developers:
libguestfs-devel C/C++ header files and library
Language bindings:
libguestfs-gobject-devel GObject bindings and GObject Introspection
lua-guestfs Lua bindings
ocaml-libguestfs-devel OCaml bindings
perl-Sys-Guestfs Perl bindings
php-libguestfs PHP bindings
python3-libguestfs Python 3 bindings
ruby-libguestfs Ruby bindings
* Mon Feb 24 2025 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.54.0-4
- Add new APIs to allow command output > 4MB
resolves: RHEL-80159
* Wed Oct 30 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.54.0-3
- Rebase to libguestfs 1.54.0
resolves: RHEL-56809
- Fix osinfo for Windows Server 2025
resolves: RHEL-62935
- Replace Jansson with json-c
resolves: RHEL-65292
* Tue Jul 09 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.2-1
- Update to libguestfs 1.50.2
resolves: RHEL-46775
* Mon Jul 08 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-12
- inspection: Resolve PARTUUID= and PARTLABEL= in /etc/fstab
resolves: RHEL-40142, RHEL-46596
* Fri Jun 28 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-11
- Fix (rare) undetected truncation of 64 bit int results to 32 bits
resolves: RHEL-45466
* Thu Jun 20 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-10
- Remove bundled ocaml-augeas
resolves: RHEL-32142
* Wed Apr 24 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-9
- Add support for nbd+unix:// URIs
resolves: RHEL-33851
* Thu Dec 14 2023 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-7
- Add --key all:... selector
resolves: RHEL-19367
- Add miscellaneous other upstream fixes since 1.50.1
* Wed Jun 07 2023 Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-6
- enable the ".gdb_index" section in the Perl bindings debug info
resolves: rhbz#2209279
* Tue May 23 2023 Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> - 1:1.50.1-5
- let "guestfish -i" recognize "--key /dev/mapper/VG-LV:key:password"
- reenable quickcheck; we now use "-cpu max" (upstream 30f74f38bd6e)
resolves: rhbz#2209279
