[Libguestfs] New tool proposal

[Wanlong Gao]

On 05/15/2012 04:33 PM, Matthew Booth wrote:

> On 15/05/12 09:13, Wanlong Gao wrote:
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>> We just talked about a new tool virt-diff which can diff files
>> between two guest, suggested by Kamezawa Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> things like below,
>> # virt-diff -Nru --guest=Guest0 --guest=Guest1 /etc/hosts
>>
>> Any thought about this?
> 
> Sounds like a useful tool.
> 
>> Another question, what do you think about implement iptables,
>> firewall, yum, rpm, etc into libguestfs?
> 
> Can you be more specific? How exactly would libguestfs use them? Can you provide examples?


I think the examples are like setting iptables for the Guest, showing rpm package
info, setting the startup services use chkconfig, and so on.

Any thought?

Thanks,
Wanlong Gao

> 
> Matt
>