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Yes it's safe to install it. It may or may not work inside a VM if nested KVM is broken. If it fails, try setting: export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg and if that doesn't work run `libguestfs-test-tool`.

Debian Lenny (5) is far too old. You need to use Debian 7. Debian 6 is possible, but you need to install a whole bunch of backports to make it work. See: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#binaries

libguestfs does NOT depend on libvirt, if compiled from source. For the original poster: Problem #1 is that you need qemu-kvm that has virtio-serial (which is true for any qemu for the last 2-3 years). You also need kernel >= 2.6.34 for the same reason. Problem #2: You need to install...

I'm fairly certain (without actually trying it) that libguestfs would work. We certainly run libguestfs on Debian. There are x86-64 mostly-static binaries on the download page that should work. libvirt is required, although it is only used for things like resolving guest names to disk images...