libguestfs could really use structured output from more of the command line tools. Particularly: - all the ext4 tools - all the xfs tools - all the btrfs tools - parted and more. See also: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/daemon A dbus service would not be useful. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html