libguestfs 0.8, now with fewer bugs :-)

I released libguestfs 0.8 yesterday, the library for accessing virtual machines. This version fixes a large number of bugs, because I wrote a test suite which sends several hundred commands through the library and verifies the results. Took a couple of days to fix all the bugs this found …
Here are some interesting [...]

libguestfs perl bindings

You can now use Perl to examine and modify virtual machine disk images through libguestfs, as in this example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Sys::Guestfs;

# Look for LVM LVs, VGs and PVs in a guest image.

die “Usage: lvs.pl guest.img\n” if @ARGV != 1 || ! -f $ARGV[0];

my $h = Sys::Guestfs->new ();
$h->add_drive ($ARGV[0]);

print “Launching, this can take a few [...]

libguestfs: LVM support

libguestfs is the library I’m writing that lets you examine and modify any virtual machine disk image, offline or online.
I spent about 18 hours finding a bug in the LVM parsing code, but that bug has now been squashed and as of version 0.4 on the website you can examine PVs, VGs and LVs, as [...]