What's new for libguestfs

The libguestfs team have been busy adding features over the past few weeks. Here is a quick round-up.

• Writing to Windows Registry files. We haven’t quite got this feature working yet, but we intend that you’ll be able to “shell into” a Windows Registry and change things:

   $ hivexsh SOFTWARE
    
    Welcome to hivexsh, the hivex interactive shell for examining
    Windows Registry binary hive files.
    
    Type: 'help' for help summary
          'quit' to quit the shell
    
    SOFTWARE\> ls
    ATI Technologies
    Classes
    Clients
    Intel
    Microsoft
    ODBC
    Policies
    RegisteredApplications
    Sonic
    Wow6432Node
    SOFTWARE\> cd \Microsoft\Windows\TabletPC\TabSetup
    SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\TabletPC\TabSetup> ls
    SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\TabletPC\TabSetup> lsval
    "TabletSetup"=dword:00000000"
    SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\TabletPC\TabSetup> cd ..
    SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\TabletPC> ls
    Snipping Tool
    TabSetup
  

• Rename LVs and VGs. (Guymon’s incredibly convoluted description of how to do this when you don’t have libguestfs inspired me to add lvrename and vgrename commands).
• C# bindings. This doesn’t mean you can use libguestfs on Windows, but it does mean you can use libguestfs from Mono/Linux.
• Indian language support. We received Punjabi, Telegu and Oriya translations all at once from the Fedora L10N project so now you can display guestfish in elegant cursive script. “Run a command from the guest filesystem” is “ਗਿਸਟ ਫਾਇਲ-ਸਿਸਟਮ ਤੋਂ ਕਮਾਂਡ ਚਲਾਓ” in Punjabi – how beautiful. The L10N guys work hard doing a pretty thankless job and don’t seem to get much credit for what they do, so thanks guys (and gals).

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