1 NBD is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and
2 disk-like things) over a Network.
4 'nbdkit' is a toolkit for creating NBD servers.
8 * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance.
10 * Well-documented, simple plugin API with a stable ABI guarantee.
11 Let's you export "unconventional" block devices easily.
13 * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary
14 libraries or included in proprietary code.
16 For documentation, see the docs/ directory.
18 For plugins and examples, see the plugins/ directory.
23 This software is copyright (C) Red Hat Inc. and licensed under a BSD
24 license. See LICENSE for details.
29 By default nbdkit needs nothing except Linux and reasonably recent gcc.
31 To build the man pages, you will need to install:
33 - pod2man (included with perl)
35 There are some *optional* libraries you may want to install for the
46 For the libvirt plugin:
50 For the libguestfs plugin, and to run the test suite:
54 - guestfish (from libguestfs)
58 - VDDK (see plugins/vddk/README.VDDK)
62 - perl development libraries
64 - perl module ExtUtils::Embed
66 For the Python plugin:
68 - python development libraries
70 After installing any dependencies:
72 To build from tarball: To build from git:
73 ---------------------- ------------------
75 ./configure ./configure
79 Optionally run this as root to install everything:
86 You will need to install libguestfs to run the test suite.
88 The test suite ('make check') is fairly comprehensive. It runs the
89 newly built nbdkit + plugin as a captive process, and tests it using
92 If there is a failure, look at the corresponding tests/*.log file for
98 Tarballs are available from:
99 http://libguestfs.org/download/nbdkit
101 Developer information
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104 For development ideas, see the TODO file.
106 The upstream git repository is:
107 https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit
109 Please send patches to the libguestfs mailing list:
110 https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
112 For further information, see:
113 http://libguestfs.org/