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authorRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-02-15 22:53:40 +0000
committerRichard Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-02-15 22:53:40 +0000
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Remove references to FTP, replace with FUSE.
We originally intended to implement an FTP server (and before than, an NFS server). But we didn't implement either. We did however implement a FUSE service (guestmount) which takes the place of both.
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@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ 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 access filesystems over FTP.
+in the context of the guest. Also you can access filesystems over
+FUSE.
Libguestfs is a library that can be linked with C and C++ management
programs (or management programs written in OCaml, Perl, Python, Ruby,
@@ -271,8 +272,8 @@ 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 FTP export will work fine, but running commands in
-guests may not be possible.
+operations and FUSE will work fine, but running commands in guests may
+not be possible.
To enable this requires work for cross-architecture and 32-on-64
support in febootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot.