Crate herolib_virt 

herolib-virt

Virtualization and containerization tools for building, managing, and deploying containers, virtual machines, filesystem layers, and Kubernetes clusters.

Features

• Buildah: OCI/Docker image building with builder pattern API
• Nerdctl: Container lifecycle management with containerd
• QCOW2: Disk image management and creation
• Cloud Hypervisor: Virtual machine management
• Virtiofsd: High-performance directory sharing for VMs
• Kubernetes: Cluster management, configuration, and operations
• Cross-Platform: Works across Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Rhai Integration: Full support for Rhai scripting language (optional feature)
• Error Handling: Comprehensive error types and handling

Modules

• buildah: Container image building with Buildah
• nerdctl: Container management with Nerdctl
• qcow2: QCOW2 disk image management
• cloudhv: Cloud Hypervisor virtual machine management
• virtiofsd: High-performance directory sharing for virtual machines
• [kubernetes]: Kubernetes cluster management and operations (requires kubernetes feature)

Example

use herolib_virt::buildah;

// Create a container builder
let mut builder = buildah::Builder::new("mybuilder", "alpine:latest")?;
builder.run("apk add curl")?;
let image = builder.commit("myimage")?;

Re-exports

pub use buildah::BuildahError;

pub use buildah::Builder;

pub use buildah::ContentOperations;

pub use cloudhv::CloudHypervisorError;

pub use nerdctl::Container;

pub use nerdctl::ContainerStatus;

pub use nerdctl::HealthCheck;

pub use nerdctl::NerdctlError;

pub use qcow2::Qcow2Error;

pub use virt_what::VirtInfo;

pub use virt_what::get_virt_what;

pub use virtiofsd::VirtiofsdConfig;

pub use virtiofsd::VirtiofsdDaemon;

pub use virtiofsd::VirtiofsdError;

pub use virtiofsd::get_virtiofsd_version;

pub use virtiofsd::is_virtiofsd_available;

pub use virtiofsd::start_daemon;

pub use virtiofsd::start_daemon_async;

Modules

buildah

Buildah: Container Image Building

cloudhv

Cloud Hypervisor Service Abstraction Layer (SAL)

nerdctl

Nerdctl: Container Lifecycle Management

os

Operating system utilities and abstractions.

process

SAL Process Package

qcow2

QCOW2 Disk Image Management

rhai

Rhai integration for the virt package

virt_what

virtiofsd

Virtiofsd: High-performance directory sharing for virtual machines