libguestfs vs Mountain Duck
libguestfs
libguestfs.orgMountain Duck
mountainduck.ioSide by side
| Figure | libguestfs | Mountain Duck |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Virtual Drive Software | 8.7 (#3) | 7.5 (#12) |
| Purpose | libguestfs is a library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. | Mountain Duck mounts server and cloud storage as a disk in macOS Finder or Windows File Explorer so remote files can be opened with desktop applications. |
| Support | Users can ask questions on the libguestfs mailing list or IRC channel #guestfs on Libera Chat; Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers are directed to Red Hat Support. | Support is provided exclusively by email on a best-effort basis. |
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In their own words
libguestfs
libguestfs is a free library and toolset for working with virtual machine disk images. It can inspect and edit guest files, script changes, create or resize images, make backups, clone virtual machines and build them. The project says it can access almost any disk image, including those from VMware and Hyper-V, and images created by VMware, KVM, qemu, VirtualBox, Xen and other hypervisors; libvirt is not required. Its command-line tools include guestfish, a scriptable shell, and virt-rescue, an interactive rescue shell. The C library has bindings for many languages, with examples for C/C++, Erlang, Go, Java, Lua, OCaml, Perl, Python and Ruby. Guest filesystems are accessed through a Linux kernel in a qemu virtual machine, usually as a non-root user; sVirt with libvirt and SELinux can also be used. It runs on many Linux distributions and Mac OS X, while some virt tools have been ported to Windows. Non-Linux systems may require compiling from source and porting.
Mountain Duck
Mountain Duck has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.