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 <[email protected]>: > 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 [email protected] (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. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~ > rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and > build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW >
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