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...ange. For example even if we do this (error checking removed): while (1) { guestfs_mount_options(g, "sync", "/dev/sda2", "/"); printf("%s\n", guestfs_cat(g, "/HostShared/temp.txt")); guestfs_umount(g, "/"); guestfs_fsync(g); usleep(1000*1000); } temp.txt from the Win7 guest is copied correctly the first time, but afterwards any change we make to it (e.g. using Win7 Notepad) is never seen. That's the issue. Is there any way at all to accomplish this using libguestfs, without re-launching the image,...

...ing removed): > > while (1) { > > guestfs_mount_options(g, "sync", "/dev/sda2", "/"); > > printf("%s\n", guestfs_cat(g, "/HostShared/temp.txt")); > > guestfs_umount(g, "/"); > > guestfs_fsync(g); > > usleep(1000*1000); > } > > temp.txt from the Win7 guest is copied correctly the first time, but > afterwards any change we make to it (e.g. using Win7 Notepad) is > never seen. That's the issue. This is completely expected. Have a look at the architectu...

Richard- >>> Per this page >>> >>> https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/using-rsync-with-libguestfs/ >>> >>> We are trying to get the libguestfs API guestfs_rsync_out to work. We’ve tried combinations similar to: >>> >>> guestfs_rsync_out(g, “/HostShared”, “rsync://root@10.0.1.90:2999/backup/ -av”, -1) >>> >>>

...while (1) { >> >> guestfs_mount_options(g, "sync", "/dev/sda2", "/"); >> >> printf("%s\n", guestfs_cat(g, "/HostShared/temp.txt")); >> >> guestfs_umount(g, "/"); >> >> guestfs_fsync(g); >> >> usleep(1000*1000); >> } >> >> temp.txt from the Win7 guest is copied correctly the first time, but >> afterwards any change we make to it (e.g. using Win7 Notepad) is >> never seen. That's the issue. > > This is completely expe...