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authorPino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>2019-04-17 18:49:52 +0200
committerCole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>2019-04-17 19:11:12 -0400
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Document the optional libguestfs usage.
Reviewed-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
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`gobject-introspection` bindings for some dependencies like `libvirt-glib`
and `libosinfo`. Look for package names that start with `'gir'`, for example
`gir1.2-libosinfo-1.0`.
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+## Optional software
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+`virt-manager` can optionally use [libguestfs](http://libguestfs.org/)
+for inspecting the guests. For this, `python-libguestfs` >= 1.22 is needed.