Information about the package, libguestfs-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libguestfs-tools package is designed for, System administration tools for virtual machines.
Package Name:
libguestfs-tools
Summary:
System administration tools for virtual machines
Description:
This package contains miscellaneous system administrator command line tools for virtual machines. Guestfish is the Filesystem Interactive SHell, for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images from the command line and shell scripts. The guestmount command lets you mount guest filesystems on the host using FUSE and libguestfs. Virt-alignment-scan scans virtual machines looking for partition alignment problems. Virt-cat is a command line tool to display the contents of a file in a virtual machine. Virt-copy-in and virt-copy-out are command line tools for uploading and downloading files and directories to and from virtual machines. Virt-df is a command line tool to display free space on virtual machine filesystems. Unlike other tools, it doesn’t just display the amount of space allocated to a virtual machine, but can look inside the virtual machine to see how much space is really being used. It is like the df(1) command, but for virtual machines, except that it also works for Windows virtual machines. Virt-edit is a command line tool to edit the contents of a file in a virtual machine. Virt-filesystems is a command line tool to display the filesystems, partitions, block devices, LVs, VGs and PVs found in a disk image or virtual machine. It replaces the deprecated programs virt-list-filesystems and virt-list-partitions with a much more capable tool. Virt-format is a command line tool to erase and make blank disks. Virt-inspector examines a virtual machine and tries to determine the version of the OS, the kernel version, what drivers are installed, whether the virtual machine is fully virtualized (FV) or para-virtualized (PV), what applications are installed and more. Virt-ls is a command line tool to list out files in a virtual machine. Virt-make-fs is a command line tool to build a filesystem out of a collection of files or a tarball. Virt-rescue provides a rescue shell for making interactive, unstructured fixes to virtual machines. Virt-resize can resize existing virtual machine disk images. Virt-sparsify makes virtual machine disk images sparse (thin-provisioned). Virt-sysprep lets you reset or unconfigure virtual machines in preparation for cloning them. Virt-tar-in and virt-tar-out are archive, backup and upload tools for virtual machines. These replace the deprecated program virt-tar. Virt-win-reg lets you look at and modify the Windows Registry of Windows virtual machines.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.20.11
Release:
20.el6
Size:
93 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the libguestfs-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libguestfs-tools
This command will install libguestfs-tools on the server.
yum remove libguestfs-tools
This command will un-install libguestfs-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libguestfs-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libguestfs-tools
This command will un-install libguestfs-tools 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-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update libguestfs-tools
This command will update libguestfs-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libguestfs-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libguestfs-tools
This command will update libguestfs-tools 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-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info libguestfs-tools
This command will show you core information about the libguestfs-tools package.
yum deplist libguestfs-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for libguestfs-tools. 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-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libguestfs-tools. 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.