Libguestfs - Aug 2020 - Re: Virt Customize features from python

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:32:35AM -0400, Donny Davis
wrote:
> Hey Richard,
> 
> I have been playing around with guestfs-python.3 and I am curious if there
> is a method to call virt-customize like functions from python. Specifically
> I need to install a package into the guest image.
There isn't directly, you'd have to either run virt-customize as an
external command, or emulate what virt-customize does using guestfs
python calls:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/fce82fe55a2b64a1a7e494858aa272d608e5e54e/customize/customize_run.ml#L70
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/fce82fe55a2b64a1a7e494858aa272d608e5e54e/customize/customize_run.ml#L272

Rich.

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Richard,

Thank you for the lightning fast reply! I will check out both methods.

Donny Davis
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 8:36 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:32:35AM -0400, Donny Davis wrote:
> > Hey Richard,
> >
> > I have been playing around with guestfs-python.3 and I am curious if
> there
> > is a method to call virt-customize like functions from python.
> Specifically
> > I need to install a package into the guest image.
>
> There isn't directly, you'd have to either run virt-customize as an
> external command, or emulate what virt-customize does using guestfs
> python calls:
>
>
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/fce82fe55a2b64a1a7e494858aa272d608e5e54e/customize/customize_run.ml#L70
>
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/fce82fe55a2b64a1a7e494858aa272d608e5e54e/customize/customize_run.ml#L272
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
> virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch
> http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
>
>