[Libguestfs] Need Help

Priyanka Ranjan priyanka3rdfeb at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 07:54:52 UTC 2014


ok , Thanks Richard.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:53:09AM +0530, Priyanka Ranjan wrote:
> > Hello Richard,
> > One more question, you mentioned that "hot plugging" is supported from
> *CentOS
> > 7 *and gave me a link. That link says
> >
> >  "In libguestfs ≥ 1.20, you may add drives and remove after calling
> > "guestfs_launch" <http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_launch>.
> > There are some restrictions, see below. This is called*hotplugging*."
> >
> > When I executed "sudo yum install libguestfs-tools" on CentOS 6.5, it
> > installed libguestfs 1.20.11. So if we fix the current qemu issue  then
> can
> > we use "hotplugging" in CentOS 6.5? Do you see some other issues? Do you
> > recommend CentOS 7 only for the "hotplugging"?
>
> Hotplugging requires libvirt, and that only works in CentOS >= 7.
>
> Rich.
>
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