This will not be news to any true qemu guru. But for the rest of us: if you search online for information about how to share files with a qemu guest, you are likely to get pointed to some deep tutorial about setting up a TUN/TAP interface involving multiple configuration files and changes to your system permissions. A simpler approach is the -redir option:

(The -m option refers to the amount of memory to allocate to...

I started a new project recently called csvfs. It is FUSE-based file system which can represent the data from a CSV file in a hierarchy of directories and files. This allows you to use standard unix text and file processing tools without going to the trouble of processing the CSV format yourself. It uses libcsv for parsing, so it should be very liberal about the exacting formatting of the CSV file.

Functionality is rudimentary, and the file system is currently read only. But alpha...

I completed my libcsv RPMs, with 32 bit and 64 bit packages available.

https://frigidcode.com/code/libcsv-packages/

I've produced some unofficial debs for libcsv. libcsv is an pure ANSI C library for reading and writing CSV data. I've made the packages available because I am thinking about using libcsv in an upcoming project. The packages are available here:

https://frigidcode.com/code/libcsv-packages/

I hope to have some RPMs available as well within a few days.

I wanted to mention, for the benefit the community, that I created a patched version of the Tagsistant 0.4 source, which fixes a number of problems with the build system. It is available from my FTP server:

tagsistant-0.4.0-patched.tar.gz

Basically, I wanted to compile tagsistant on my Gentoo system, but the build system was a mess (hardcoded paths, configure script not producing the correct files, and such like). I stripped the build system down to the essential files,...