I uploaded some distro-independent Linux/x86-64 binaries of libguestfs, guestfish, guestmount and the virt-* tools. Be sure to read the README file first.
These are a little experimental and I’d welcome feedback. I got them to work fine on Debian 5.0 after upgrading glibc and Perl, but YMMV.
Update: OpenSUSE 11.3 working.
The version of KVM supplied is too old (doesn’t support virtio-serial) so I had to compile qemu from git and drop the following qemu wrapper in place:
#!/bin/sh - qemudir=/home/rjones/d/qemu exec $qemudir/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L $qemudir/pc-bios "$@"
The next problem which had me confused for a very long time was that qemu kept aborting while allocating memory. After trying things like adding swap, playing with overcommit settings and so on, it turned out that SUSE uses some really silly, and very small default ulimits for virtual memory. You have to do:
ulimit -Hv unlimited ulimit -Sv unlimited ulimit -Hm unlimited ulimit -Sm unlimited
Update: Ubuntu 10.04 working.
As with SUSE, the version of KVM shipped by Ubuntu is too old to support virtio-serial. All I had to do was replace it with qemu from git and the same qemu wrapper above.
After that guestfish works fine.
If you need the Perl tools, then you have to upgrade Perl to 5.12.1, install hivex, and link libpcre.so.0 -> libpcre.so.3.
Richard WM Jones 