Re: [Libguestfs] --rbd volume access--

Shumaila Naeem
Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:54:41 -0000

i will test it out and will update you..

Thankyou so much for your reply

kind regards
Shumaila Naeem
Software Engineer , Ovex Technologies


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0500, Shumaila Naeem wrote:
> >
>
http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/accessing-ceph-rbd-sheepdog-etc-using-libguestfs/#comment-8806
> > I came across this link and  and i was able to retrieve the rbd image.
> >
> > $ guestfish
> > ><fs> set-attach-method appliance
> > ><fs> add-drive /dev/null
> > ><fs> config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:pool/volume
> > ><fs> run
> >  I was able to retrieve file from rbd image using the above method.
> >
> > Would you please let know how to do this in a single command line. I
am
> > getting the following error
> >
> > guestfish add /dev/null : config -set
> > drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/fullclone.img : run :
> list-partitions
> > guestfish: invalid option -- 's'
> > Try `guestfish -help' for more information.
>
> Use 'guestfish --', ie:
>
> guestfish -- add /dev/null [etc]
>
> > anything I m doing wrong here.
> >
> > I am using CentOS 6.4 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64
> > qemu:
> >
> > qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.3ceph.x86_64
> > qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.3ceph.x86_64
> >
> > guestfs:
> >
> > libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64
> > libguestfs-tools-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64
> > libguestfs-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64
> > libguestfs-winsupport-1.0-7.el6.x86_64
>
> However I'd definitely recommend trying newer versions of libguestfs,
> since they support rbd transparently.
>
> Rich.
>
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