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[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 20:18 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if there was a reason that openstack is not using
> libguestfs more frequently than not.
> Was there a technical reason for that, or a lack of packages in
> distributions (or other reasons?).
> Just wondering since it seems like its aiming to be a library that can
> unify mounting different VM files (similar to libvirt).

Using libguestfs would make perfect sense. Rich (cc-ed, libguestfs
author) and I discussed it a little here:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/734727

Cheers,
Mark.