<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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 <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>> > 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: <a href="http://libguestfs.org/" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/</a> > > > > Source: <a href="http://libguestfs.org/download/1.26-stable/" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/download/1.26-stable/</a> > > You will also need latest supermin from here: > > <a href="http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/</a> > > > > > 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] <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00098.html" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-March/msg00098.html</a> > [2] <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap</a> Unfortunately debootstrap is not going to help. The package that libguestfs depends on is 'supermin': <a href="http://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html</a> 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: <a href="http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-libguestfs-without-supermin" target="_blank">http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-libguestfs-without-supermin</a> 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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones</a> Read my programming and virtualization blog: <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://rwmj.wordpress.com</a> Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW</a> </blockquote></div> </div><div class="gmail_extra">Is there a way to get it to support 'pkg' the packaging utility for FreeBSD? It supports everything you noted above, will full API support. <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/">https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/</a> </div><div class="gmail_extra">I'll look at the link you provided. Thanks! </div><div class="gmail_extra">-jgh </div><div class="gmail_extra"> -- <div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ejgh" target="_blank">http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh</a> | The Power to Serve </div></div> </div></div>