RHEA-2012:0458 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Enhanced libguestfs packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

[Updated 6 Apr 2011]
The text of this advisory has been updated to reflect the fact that these
packages are not new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libguestfs library allows guest disk images to be accessed and modified. It also enables the making of batch configuration changes to guests, manages migrations between virtualization systems (but also see the virt-p2v utility), obtains information about disk usage (see also the virt-df utility), performs partial backups, guest clones and partial guest clones, and is able to carry out configuration changes to the registry, UUI, and hostname, among other duties.

The libguestfs library uses Linux kernel and QEMU code, and can access any type of guest file system that Linux and QEMU are able to, including—but not limited to—ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, qcow, qcow2, vmdk, as well as many different disk partition schemes. The library also provides detailed information on how guest storage is set up, such as on which partitions, logical volumes, which file system is in each logical volume, and more.

The libguestfs library can be linked with C and C++ management programs.

The guestfish package enables shell scripting and command line access to libguestfs.

The libguestfs-mount package allows guest file systems to be mounted on the host using the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) file system.

Included among these new packages are several which enable language bindings:

• for Perl bindings, see the perl-Sys-Guestfs package.
• for OCaml bindings, see the ocaml-libguestfs-devel package.
• for Python bindings, see the python-libguestfs package.
• for Ruby bindings, see the ruby-libguestfs package.
• for Java bindings, see the libguestfs-java-devel package.

This enhancement update moves the python-libguestfs package from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Optional channels to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 base channels. This update does not make any other changes to these packages. (BZ#810251)

All users who require libguestfs should install these enhanced packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.2 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)