Information about the package, libguestfs-winsupport, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libguestfs-winsupport package is designed for, Add support for Windows guests to libguestfs.
Package Name:
libguestfs-winsupport
Summary:
Add support for Windows guests to libguestfs
Description:
This optional package adds support for Windows guests (NTFS) to the base libguestfs Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) package. This is useful for examining Windows virtual machines running on RHEL, and for performing V2V of Windows guests from another hypervisor to RHEL. To enable Windows support, simply install this package. To disable Windows support, uninstall this package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0
Release:
7.el6
Size:
1.5 M
Repository:
extras
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the libguestfs-winsupport package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libguestfs-winsupport
This command will install libguestfs-winsupport on the server.
yum remove libguestfs-winsupport
This command will un-install libguestfs-winsupport on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libguestfs-winsupport, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libguestfs-winsupport
This command will un-install libguestfs-winsupport on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libguestfs-winsupport when using the -y flag.
yum update libguestfs-winsupport
This command will update libguestfs-winsupport to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libguestfs-winsupport, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libguestfs-winsupport
This command will update libguestfs-winsupport to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libguestfs-winsupport when using the -y flag.
yum info libguestfs-winsupport
This command will show you core information about the libguestfs-winsupport package.
yum deplist libguestfs-winsupport
This command will show you the dependencies for libguestfs-winsupport. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libguestfs-winsupport
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libguestfs-winsupport. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.