libguestfs

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Project Summary

libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration changes to guests, getting disk used/free statistics (see also: virt-df), migrating between virtualization systems (see also: virt-p2v), performing partial backups, performing partial guest clones, cloning guests and changing registry/UUID/hostname info, and much else besides.

libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.

libguestfs has bindings for C, C++, OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby or Java.

In a Nutshell, libguestfs...

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has had 23,636 commits made by 216 contributors
representing 339,946 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 90 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago

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