BSD Portswip/libguestfs-appliance 1.38.0 NetBSD
Fixed appliance binaries for libguestfs
- System
- NetBSD
- Repository
- pkgsrc-wip
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- License
- gnu-gpl-v2 AND gnu-gpl-v3 AND gnu-lgpl-v2.1
- Categories
- wip, emulators, filesystems
Description
This is the "fixed appliance", a pre-built binary appliance for libguestfs.
Internally, libguestfs is implemented by running an appliance (a special type of small virtual machine) using qemu(1). Qemu runs as a child process of the main program.
Inside the appliance is a Linux kernel and a complete stack of userspace tools (such as LVM and ext2 programs) and a small controlling daemon called "guestfsd". The library talks to "guestfsd" using remote procedure calls (RPC). There is a mostly one-to-one correspondence between libguestfs API calls and RPC calls to the daemon. Lastly the disk image(s) are attached to the qemu process which translates device access by the appliance's Linux kernel into accesses to the image.
Install
From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):
cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/libguestfs-appliance && make install cleanDependency graph
Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right (to build, as it needs nothing to run); at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.
Dependencies
Build dependencies 1
No port depends on this one.