Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME guestfs-recipes – libguestfs, guestfish and virt tools recipes DESCRIPTION This page contains recipes for and links to things you can do using libguestfs, guestfish(1) and the virt tools. Access a remote disk image using guestfish If the disk image is on a remote server which is accessible using SSH, HTTP, FTP, NBD, iSCSI, or…
NAME guestfs-performance – engineering libguestfs for greatest performance DESCRIPTION This page documents how to get the greatest performance out of libguestfs, especially when you expect to use libguestfs to manipulate thousands of virtual machines or disk images. Three main areas are covered. Libguestfs runs an appliance (a small Linux distribution) inside qemu/KVM. The first two…
NAME guestfs-internals – architecture and internals of libguestfs DESCRIPTION This manual page is for hackers who want to understand how libguestfs works internally. This is just a description of how libguestfs works now, and it may change at any time in the future. ARCHITECTURE Internally, libguestfs is implemented by running an appliance (a special type…
NAME guestfs-hacking – extending and contributing to libguestfs DESCRIPTION This manual page is for hackers who want to extend libguestfs itself. THE SOURCE CODE Libguestfs source is located in the github repository https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs Large amounts of boilerplate code in libguestfs (RPC, bindings, documentation) are generated. This means that many source files will appear to be…
NAME guestfs-faq – libguestfs Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ABOUT LIBGUESTFS What is libguestfs? libguestfs is a way to create, access and modify disk images. You can look inside disk images, modify the files they contain, create them from scratch, resize them, and much more. It’s especially useful from scripts and programs and from the command…
NAME guestfs-building – How to build libguestfs from source DESCRIPTION This manual page describes how to build libguestfs from source. The main steps are: • Install the requirements. • Build, either from the git repository or from a tarball. • Run the tests. • Run the tools from the source directory, or install. REQUIREMENTS Short…
NAME guestfish – the guest filesystem shell SYNOPSIS guestfish[–options][commands] guestfish guestfish[–ro | –rw] – a disk.img guestfish[–ro | –rw] – a disk.img – m dev[:mountpoint] guestfish – d libvirt – domain guestfish[–ro | –rw] – a disk.img – i guestfish – d libvirt – domain – i WARNING Using "guestfish" in write mode on live…
NAME gucharmap – Unicode character picker and font browser SYNOPSIS gucharmap [OPTION…] DESCRIPTION gucharmap allows you to browse through all the available Unicode characters and categories for the installed fonts, and to examine their detailed properties. OPTIONS –font Font to start with, ex: ‘Serif 27’ –display=DISPLAY X display to use gucharmap also accepts the standard…
NAME guards – select from a list of files guarded by conditions SYNOPSIS guards [–prefix=dir] [–path=dir1:dir2:…] [–default=<0|1>] [–check|–list] [–invert-match] [–with-guards] [–config=<file>] symbol … DESCRIPTION The script reads a configuration file that may contain so-called guards, file names, and comments, and writes those file names that satisfy all guards to standard output. The script…
NAME guake — A drop-down terminal for GNOME environment. SYNOPSIS guake [-h, –help] [-p, –preferences] [-a, –about] [-q, –quit] [-f, –fullscreen] [-t, –toggle-visiblity] [–show] [–hide] [-s, –select-tab] [-g, –selected-tab] [-e, –execute-command] [-t, –tab-index] [–bgcolor] [–fgcolor] [-r, –rename-current-tab] DESCRIPTION Guake is a drop-down terminal for GNOME and any other desktop. It aims to provide a quick-access…
NAME gtypist – manual page for gtypist 2.8.1 SYNOPSIS gtypist [ Options… ] [ script-file ] DESCRIPTION `gtypist’ is a typing tutor with several lessons for different keyboards and languages. New lessons can be written by the user easily. OPTIONS -e % –max-error=% default maximum error percentage (default 3.0); valid values are between 0.0 and…
NAME gtstemplate – generates of a template used to create new object classes. SYNOPSIS gtstemplate [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gtstemplate command. OPTIONS These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options is included below. –no-extra-data –no-extra-method –overload=METHOD AUTHOR gtstemplate…
NAME gtscompare – compare two GTS files. SYNOPSIS gtscompare [OPTIONS] FILE1 FILE2 DELTA DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gtscompare command. DELTA is the sampling length expressed as a fraction of the bounding box diagonal of the second surface. OPTIONS This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with…
NAME gtscheck – checks that a surface defines a closed, orientable non self-intersecting manifold. SYNOPSIS gtscheck [OPTION] < FILE DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gtscheck command. OPTIONS These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options is included below. -v, –verbose Print statistics about…
NAME gts2xyz – samples a GTS file on a regular grid at intervals DX. SYNOPSIS gts2xyz DX< input.gts > output.xyz DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gts2xyz command. AUTHOR gts2xyz was written by Stephane Popinet <popinet [at] users.sourceforge.net>. This manual page was written by Ruben Molina <rmolina [at] udea.edu.co>, for the Debian project (but may be used…
NAME gts2stl – converts a GTS file to STL format SYNOPSIS gts2stl [OPTIONS] < input.gts > output.stl DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gts2stl command. OPTIONS This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options is included below. -r, –revert Revert face normals. -v, –verbose Display surface statistics….
NAME gts2oogl – converts a GTS file to OOGL file format (Geomview). SYNOPSIS gts2oogl [OPTIONS] < input.srf > output.oogl DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gts2oogl command. OPTIONS This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options is included below. -G, –gnuplot Writes isolines in gnuplot format….
NAME gts2dxf – converts a GTS file to DXF format. SYNOPSIS gts2dxf < input.gts > output.dxf DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gts2dxf command. AUTHOR gts2dxf was written by Stephane Popinet <popinet [at] users.sourceforge.net>. This manual page was written by Ruben Molina <rmolina [at] udea.edu.co>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Index
NAME gts-config – defines values for programs using gts. SYNOPSIS gts-config [OPTIONS] [LIBRARIES] DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the gts-config command. OPTIONS These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-‘). A summary of options is included below. –prefix[=DIR] –exec-prefix[=DIR] –version –libs –cflags –check LIBRARIES gts gmodule…
NAME gtrayicon – Generic tray icon for GNOME DESCRIPTION Generic tray icon for GNOME is a small utility which allows to add a icon to the system tray that can be used to trigger customized enable/disable actions. OPTIONS –tooltip=string string to appear as tooltip –activate=cmd activate command –deactivate=cmd deactivate command –activate-icon=icon-path icon to show for…