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User-Mode Linux was an alternative hypervisor that could run the appliance, instead of using qemu. It had many limitations including lack of network, and UML support in Linux has been semi-broken for a long time. It was also slower than KVM on baremeal in general and had various corner cases which were much slower including the emulated serial port which made bulk uploads and downloads painful. Also of course it lacked qemu-specific features like qcow2 or any network-backed disk, so many disk images could not be opened this way. This was never supported in RHEL. See-also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1144197
Libguestfs is tools and a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. For more information see the home page: http://libguestfs.org/ For discussion, development, patches, etc. please use the mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs To find out how to build libguestfs from source, read: docs/guestfs-building.pod http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html man docs/guestfs-building.1 Copyright (C) 2009-2020 Red Hat Inc. The library is distributed under the LGPLv2+. The programs are distributed under the GPLv2+. Please see the files COPYING and COPYING.LIB for full license information. The examples are under a very liberal license.