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New in libguestfs: Rewriting bits of the daemon in OCaml

libguestfs is a C library for creating and editing disk images. In the most common (but not the only) configuration, it uses KVM to sandbox access to disk images. The C library talks to a separate …

04 Jun 2017

Richard Jones

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libguestfs now works on 64 bit ARM

Pictured above is my 64 bit ARM server. It’s under NDA so I cannot tell you who supplied it or even show you a proper photo. However it runs Fedora 21 & Rawhide: Linux arm64.home.annexia.…

23 Jul 2014

Richard Jones

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Why is virt-builder written in OCaml?

Docker is written in Go. virt-builder is written in OCaml. Why? (Or as someone at work asked me — apparently seriously — why did you write it in a language which only you can use?) Virt…

11 Nov 2013

Richard Jones

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