Libguestfs - Sep 2009 - [PATCH 0/2] Add a 'virt-rescue' command

Inspired by something Glauber asked me about today, I made a very
simple pair of patches which add a 'virt-rescue' command to
libguestfs.  This uses the appliance as a "rescue appliance", so
people can boot into a disk image and repair it in an unstructured,
interactive way.  (Specifically, Glauber's question was how to run
fsck interactively - with this patch you could do that).

Example session:

  $ virt-rescue --ro /dev/vg_trick/F11x64
  
  Welcome to virt-rescue, the libguestfs rescue shell.
  
  Note: The contents of / are the rescue appliance.
  You have to mount the guest's partitions under /sysroot
  before you will be able to examine them.
  
  bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
  bash: no job control in this shell
  ><rescue> mount /dev/vg_f11x64/lv_root /sysroot 
  EXT4-fs (dm-0): barriers enabled
  kjournald2 starting: pid 269, dev dm-0:8, commit interval 5 seconds
  EXT4-fs (dm-0): internal journal on dm-0:8
  EXT4-fs (dm-0): delayed allocation enabled
  EXT4-fs: file extents enabled
  EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled
  EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
  ><rescue> ls /sysroot/
  bin   dev  home  lib64       media  opt   root  selinux  sys  usr
  boot  etc  lib   lost+found  mnt    proc  sbin  srv	   tmp  var
  ><rescue> exit

I'd really like to know how to get rid of that bash error message.

Rich.

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There are actually going to be 3 patches in this series.

Rich.

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