[Libguestfs] libguestfs compilation

[Pascal]

in fact, it was vhd and not hvd.
if I understand correctly, guestmount uses qemu to allow the host to access
the contents of the virtual machine disk : it makes it live to access its
disk ?
thank you for answering.

2018-06-28 16:30 GMT+02:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>:

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 03:55:32PM +0200, Pascal wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I'd like to have "juste" guestmount in my toolkit to mount hvd/vhdx
> images,
> > so I try to compile libguestfs with a minimum of dependencies : where
> can i
> > get help to get there without polluting github etc ?
>
> You can email libguestfs at redhat.com (no need to subscribe).
>
> The instructions for compiling from source are here:
>
>   http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html
>
> although libguestfs is included in most Linux distros.
>
> Not sure what an "hvd" image is, but qemu (which we use to access disk
> images) supports vhdx, although it may be that writing to vhdx is not
> very reliable because it won't be well tested.  I would keep backups
> of your disk images while trying it out anyhow.
>
> Rich.
>
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