New Linux tool helps manage guest virtual machines

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 11, 2009

“Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest vms
and can be used for making batch configuration changes to guests,
viewing and editing files inside guests, getting disk statistics,
migrating between virtualization systems, performing partial guest
backups and clones, cloning guests and changing system information
of Linux and Windows guests among other things.

“Developed by Red Hat emerging technologies software engineer
Richard Jones, libguestfs overcomes the “constant problem” with
virtualization management of how to “see inside” the guest virtual
machine.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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