Thanks for the tip. It's sort of annoying that this new API is not in Python < 2.7, necessitating a bunch of #ifdef's in the code. This is the patch I came up with: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-August/msg00053.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel