libguestfs e guestfish
Sommario
Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images.
guestfish is an interactive shell tool for editing virtual machine disk images (examples here).
Progettista
- Nome: Richard Jones
Stato attuale
- Rilascio: Fedora 12
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Detailed Description
libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration changes to guests, viewing and editing files inside guests, getting disk used/free statistics (see also: virt-df), migrating between virtualization systems (see also: virt-p2v), performing partial backups, performing partial guest clones, cloning guests and changing registry/UUID/hostname info, and much else besides.
libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
Typical usage, to edit the password file in a virtual machine called 'F11' ('F11' is the libvirt name):
$ guestfish -i F11 ><fs> vi /etc/passwd
Lots more examples here.
Benefit to Fedora
The previous methods for doing this in Fedora were cumbersome and error-prone, usually involving creating loopback mounts as root, using kpartx, reconfiguring LVM.
libguestfs gets rid of all that and makes it easy to access and edit disk images. You don't even need to be root to do it.
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