NBD is a protocol for accessing block devices (hard disks and
disk-like things) over the network.

'nbdkit' is a toolkit for creating NBD servers.

The key features are:

* Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance.

* Well-documented, simple plugin API with a stable ABI guarantee.
  Let's you export "unconventional" block devices easily.

* Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary
  libraries or included in proprietary code.

For documentation, see the docs/ directory.

For plugins and examples, see the plugins/ directory.

License
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This software is copyright (C) Red Hat Inc. and licensed under a BSD
license.  See LICENSE for details.

Packager information
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Tarballs are available from:
http://libguestfs.org/download/nbdkit

Developer information
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For development ideas, see the TODO file.

The upstream git repository is:
https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit

Please send patches to the libguestfs mailing list:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs

For further information, see:
http://libguestfs.org/
