Re: [libvirt] ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.26 released
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:10:19AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce libguestfs 1.26, a library and set of tools
> for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. This release
> took more than 6 months of work by a considerable number of people,
> and has many new features (see release notes below).
>
> You can get libguestfs 1.26 here:
>
> Main website: http://libguestfs.org/
>
> Source: http://libguestfs.org/download/1.26-stable/
> You will also need latest supermin from here:
> http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/
>
>
Hello All,
Is there any particular reason that you think this would not run on FreeBSD?
Any Linux-isms that are just not available on FreeBSD?
There are a few. However I'm quite happy to accept patches to make it
work / work better on FreeBSD.
I noticed this announcement [1] awhile ago, that mentioned
febootstrap as a
requirement,
however we don't have this for FreeBSD. However, we do have debootstrap
[2]. Debian is listed
in the announcement [1], so thought that it could work with debootstrap,
but wanted inquire about
any gotchas or experiences before diving in and seeing for myself.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00098.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
Unfortunately debootstrap is not going to help.
The package that libguestfs depends on is 'supermin':
http://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html
Supermin makes certain assumptions about package managers that may or
may not apply to FreeBSD ports/packages. For example:
- that a package manager (similar to rpm/dpkg/etc) exists
- that it packages pre-compiled binaries (not sources)
- that you can list out the files belonging to a package
- that there are dependency relationships between packages
- that all files on the filesystem are part of a package (except
user-generated files)
There are various ways to make libguestfs work without supermin, see
the FAQ here:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-li...
although depending on a Fedora-built appliance may not be very
satisfying.
You could build a fixed FreeBSD-based appliance, but distributing it
wouldn't be very nice, and getting security updates even less so.
Supermin solves these kinds of problems.
Rich.
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