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authorRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-04-03 17:23:03 +0100
committerRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2009-04-03 17:23:03 +0100
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Remove NFS support - we will probably use FTP instead.
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@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
Libguestfs provides ways to enumerate guest storage (eg. partitions,
LVs, what filesystem is in each LV, etc.). It can also run commands
-in the context of the guest. Also you can mount guest filesystems on
-the host (requires root privs and NFS).
+in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over FTP.
Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
programs (or management programs written in other languages, if people
@@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ Notes on cross-architecture support
At the moment we basically don't support cross-architecture or
32-on-64. This limits what is possible for some guests. Filesystem
-operations and NFS export will work fine, but running commands in
+operations and FTP export will work fine, but running commands in
guests may not be possible.
To enable this requires work for cross-architecture and 32-on-64
@@ -98,6 +97,13 @@ choose a Fedora mirror which is close to you, set this with
'./configure --with-mirror=[...]', and then proxy the whole lot
through squid by setting http_proxy environment variable).
+You will also need to substantially increase the squid configuration
+limits:
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds#Using_Squid_to_Speed_Up_Mock_package_downloads
+
+IntelligentMirror is another possibility, although I couldn't get it
+to work for me.
+
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