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PLEASE LOOK AT THE TOP OF EACH FILE BEFORE EDITING TO SEE WHETHER IT
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IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED OR NOT.
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Adding a new action
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All action functions are generated automatically, so there are only
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two files you need to edit:
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(1) src/generator.ml: Add your new action, parameters, description,
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etc. to the big list called 'functions' at the top of this file.
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(2) Edit/create a C file in daemon/ subdirectory which implements your
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'do_action' function. Take a look at one of the numerous examples
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there.
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Formatting
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Try to use GNU / Emacs default formatting, following the convention
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used elsewhere in the source.
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Please make sure that the code compiles without warnings.
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Please test any changes.
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Directories
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appliance/
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The qemu appliance, build scripts and so on.
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capitests/
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Automated tests of the C API.
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contrib/
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Outside contributions, experimental parts.
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daemon/
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The daemon that runs inside the guest and carries out actions.
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df/
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The virt-df tool.
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examples/
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The examples.
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fish/
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Guestfish (the command-line program / shell)
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haskell/
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Haskell bindings.
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images/
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Some guest images to test against. These are gzipped to save
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space. You have to unzip them before use.
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Also contains some files used by the test suite.
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inspector/
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Virtual machine image inspector (virt-inspector).
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java/
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Java bindings.
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m4/
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M4 macros used by autoconf.
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ocaml/
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OCaml bindings.
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po/
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Translations.
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perl/
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Perl bindings.
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python/
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Python bindings.
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regressions/
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Regression tests.
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ruby/
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Ruby bindings.
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src/
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Source code to the C library.
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Also contains the crucial generator program.
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v2v/
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Xen to KVM (V2V) conversion tool.
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Debugging
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It's a good idea to use guestfish to try out new commands.
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Debugging the daemon is a problem because it runs inside a minimal
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qemu environment. However you can print messages from the daemon, and
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they will show up if you use 'guestfish -v'.
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Patches
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Submit patches to the mailing list:
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http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
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and CC to rjones@redhat.com
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I18N
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We support i18n (gettext anyhow) in the library.
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However many messages come from the daemon, and we don't translate
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those at the moment. One reason is that the appliance generally has
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all locale files removed from it, because they take up a lot of space.
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So we'd have to readd some of those, as well as copying our PO files
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into the appliance.
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Debugging messages are never translated, since they are intended for
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the programmers.
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