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This is something I've been working on: Reworking inspection so it's not a big mess of ad hoc C code, but instead uses a well-defined domain-specific language to describe how we inspect guests. The best introduction to this is the manual page, which I include below (it's also included in patch 2/3). Rich. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME

Previously posted: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-December/msg00038.html Inspection now really succeeds on a small number of simple guests. To test it out: $ ./run guestfish -v -x -a /tmp/centos-6.img ><fs> run ><fs> debug sh "guestfs-inspection --verbose" Rich.

This is a more working version. Inspection (partially) succeeds on a real guest this time :-) You can test it out on a real guest (in this case, a CentOS disk image located at /tmp/centos-6.img) by doing: $ ./run guestfish -v -x -a /tmp/centos-6.img ><fs> run ><fs> debug sh "guestfs-inspection --verbose" which will print lots of debugging, and at the end the

For background on this change, see: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/inspection-now-with-added-prolog/ v2 was previously posted here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-December/msg00038.html To test this patch series on a real guest, you can do: $ ./run guestfish -v -x -a /var/tmp/centos-6.img ><fs> run ><fs> debug sh "guestfs-inspection