Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine
disk images. https://libguestfs.org/

Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of
guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited
to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition
schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.

For enhanced features, install:

libguestfs-forensics adds filesystem forensics support
libguestfs-gfs2 adds Global Filesystem (GFS2) support
libguestfs-hfsplus adds HFS+ (Mac filesystem) support
libguestfs-inspect-icons adds support for inspecting guest icons
libguestfs-rescue enhances virt-rescue shell with more tools
libguestfs-rsync rsync to/from guest filesystems
libguestfs-ufs adds UFS (BSD) support
libguestfs-xfs adds XFS support
libguestfs-zfs adds ZFS support

For developers:

libguestfs-devel C/C++ header files and library

Language bindings:

libguestfs-gobject-devel GObject bindings and GObject Introspection



lua-guestfs Lua bindings
ocaml-libguestfs-devel OCaml bindings
perl-Sys-Guestfs Perl bindings
php-libguestfs PHP bindings
python3-libguestfs Python 3 bindings
ruby-libguestfs Ruby bindings
libguestfs-vala Vala language bindings