On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 08:36:48PM +0100, Mathieu Bouillaguet wrote: > What are the drawbacks of using libguestfs with the fixed appliance > instead of supermin with builtin distrib support ?
It's not nice for you or Slackware that you will be relying on a "binary blob" that you cannot rebuild from source (except by installing Fedora or Debian, of course). It's what Gentoo are doing however. Their ebuild downloads the Fedora-based fixed appliance from http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ , unpacks it somewhere and sets the paths as appropriate. Reference: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/libguestfs http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-emulation/libguestfs-appliance 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 _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
