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Hello everybody, I am using libguestfs-tools version 1.28.1 in a bunch of bash scripts to make back-ups of the files on a visualisation platform. I been trying to get read access to ntfs volumes with data deduplication working. The ntfs-3g guys developed some support and I have this working when using the commands our back-up servers. However when using the guestmount tool the read suport

Hi, Apparently, guestmount -o allow_other -a "/path/to/raw_file" -m /dev/sda1 "/path/to/mountfolder" is much slower than kpartx -av "/path/to/raw_file" mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /path/to/mountfolder (Doing lots of read/write inside the image.) I thought guestmount "only" scripts the above. Seems I was wrong on that. I am currently using

Hello all, I am having an issue with guestmount in respect to live instances and I was hoping someone might have an idea where I've gone wrong. The following output is from my shell session, if there's any more information needed please let me know and I'll happily provide it. [root at longitude ~]# virt-filesystems -d F16-rawhide/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 [root at longitude ~]#

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 06:52:28PM +0800, lampahome wrote: > if I mount through guestfs library in python or guestfish, the same > condition happenes? > > I mean the insane number of layers and the performance No. The layers are only present because guestmount uses FUSE. libguestfs itself performs very well if you are careful to use it in the correct way. The architecture of

guestmount.c: In function 'main': guestmount.c:899: error: implicit declaration of function 'setlocale' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] guestmount.c wasn't including locale.h. --- fuse/guestmount.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fuse/guestmount.c b/fuse/guestmount.c index b4a917f..27a4cef 100644 --- a/fuse/guestmount.c +++

* PATCH FOR DISCUSSION ONLY - NOT TO BE APPLIED * Colin suggested something which seems eminently sensible: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916780 I've been through a couple of rounds of trying to implement this. I started with adding the option as suggested to the guestmount program, but it tended to make the guestmount program more complex. More importantly, adding the option

Hello, I have a vmdk having an LV with an ext3 FS where some files have extended attributes and acls set. These do not appear set while accessing them when mounted using guestmount. I do not know if it is easy or difficult to implement this, so I'd like to take your opinion. what I did was changed the default mount options in daemon/mount.c from "ro" to

Hi Richard, Is there a way I can access the /var/log/syslog of an running guestmount instance to get the grep ntfs-3g /var/log/syslog information? I managed to get the plug-in to load in my questmount instances by using: echo '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ntfs-3g/ntfs-plugin-*.so' > /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/zz-ntfs-plugins rm -rf /var/tmp/.guestfs-* Kind regards, Jelle de Jong

Not sure if this possible, but I have a KVM guest running Solaris 10 with the OS on ZFS and I am trying to use libguestfs/guestfish/guestmount to get to the VM. I am running Red Hat EL 5.4 with EPEL rpms as required. The VM is on a LV and it boots fine, but I can't seem to get the syntax correct to get libguestfs to deal with it. Guestmount seemed like the best option because it supports FUSE

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: > sorry for bothering you, but if you gimme some pointers > it would be great > > # file /vm/images/archlinux/archlinux.qcow2 > /vm/images/archlinux/archlinux.qcow2: QEMU QCOW Image (v2), 5368709120 bytes > > # ls -la /mnt/ > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 15:31 . > drwxr-xr-x 24 root

[A question about whether it is possible to use guestmount on a guest which does not have /etc/fstab. I've no reproduced this because I'm CC-ing my reply to a public mailing list] It's definitely possible. I would suggest first using $ virt-filesystems -a disk.img --all --long -h to get an idea of what's inside your disk image, then you use a command such as: $ guestmount

Thanks for your response Rich. Please see the output of --trace --verbose below. Regarding your suggestion to convert the vmdk to some other format, I do not want to do it. A security consultant said by modifying certain files in our VM and restarting the VM, one can gain access to encrypted data in our VM. I want to reproduce it. I am able to mount the VM but not able to modify files since it can

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 09:49:00AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 12:20:10PM +0800, lampahome wrote: > > I mount the disk.qcow2 on the /home/test/, and create a 50GB file. > > Mount the disk how? OK, subject says using guestmount. I'm surprised the slowdown isn't more than 95%. It's using FUSE which goes through an insane number of layers,

Hello everybody, I been trying to debug a problem for a month now and can use some insights and advice. This is the setup, I got two linux ha storage node providing iscsi disk, the disks is mounted on two linux kvm host and one backup server. The iscsi disk has lvm on it, the logical volume groups are visible on all servers. On the backup server I have the following running: # guestmount

You need to install po4a (in Fedora) to test this. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -------------- next part -------------- >From 7ca0058ecf24b6963771d0c39fd5e2f36874eb38

lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty guestmount --ro -a agent-disk1.vmdk -i /mnt/vmdk --> Works fine guestmount --rw -a agent-disk1.vmdk -i /mnt/vmdk libguestfs: error: appliance closed the connection unexpectedly. This usually means the libguestfs appliance crashed. See

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Jelle de Jong wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am using libguestfs-tools version 1.28.1 in a bunch of bash > scripts to make back-ups of the files on a visualisation platform. > > I been trying to get read access to ntfs volumes with data > deduplication working. Do you have more information about data deduplication? It's the

We are pleased to announce the next stable release of libguestfs, tools and a library for accessing, creating and modifying the contents of virtual machines and disk images. Home page: http://libguestfs.org/ Binary packages for: Fedora: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 Debian: http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/debian-packages/ Ubuntu:

Hello everyone! I have to implement the functionality of mounting all VM disks/partitions. E.g. if a VM has 2 disks of 2 partitions each (I get it from virt-filesystems), I want to get the following structure on host node after mount: mnt/ ------hdd0/ -------------volume1/ -------------volume2/ ------hdd1/ -------------volume1/ -------------volume2/ I'd like to use guestmount due to

Hi, I'm using SolusVM control panel to create KVM VPS. Suddenly, I can't make any VPS on Host-Node. Their build log says the SolusVM can't read the libguestfs in server. During the debug, I've tried to mount existing VPS using guestmount command and I can't mount the KVM image. Please check here. [root@msv07 /]# guestmount -i -a /dev/msv07data/kvm139_img /mnt libguestfs: