NAMEguestfs Library for accessing and modifying virtual machine images. SYNOPSIS include lt guestfs. DESCRIPTIONLibguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying disk images and virtual machines. This manual page documents the C API. If you are looking for an introduction to libguestfs, see the web site http libguestfs. Each virt tool has its own man page for a full list, go to SEE ALSO at the end of this file. Zd.jpg' alt='Grub-Install Not Found Or Not A Block Device' title='Grub-Install Not Found Or Not A Block Device' />1. Differences from previous versions. GRUB 2 is a rewrite of GRUB see History, although it shares many characteristics with the previous version, now known as. Din Condensed Bold Font Mac on this page. DISCLAIMER These are my personal notes for experiments with my own laptop. These instructions could cause data loss, damage to your system, or even your system. A collection of UnixLinuxBSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. 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Performance tips and solutions. Help testing libguestfs. How to build libguestfs from source. Contribute code to libguestfs. How libguestfs works. Security information, including CVEs affecting libguestfs. API OVERVIEWThis section provides a gentler overview of the libguestfs API. We also try to group API calls together, where that may not be obvious from reading about the individual calls in the main section of this manual. HANDLESBefore you can use libguestfs calls, you have to create a handle. Then you must add at least one disk image to the handle, followed by launching the handle, then performing whatever operations you want, and finally closing the handle. By convention we use the single letter g for the name of the handle variable, although of course you can use any name you want. The general structure of all libguestfs using programs looks like this guestfsh g guestfscreate. Call guestfsadddrive additional times if there are. Most manipulation calls wont work until youve launched. You have to do this after adding drives. Either examine what partitions, LVs etc are available. Or ask libguestfs to find filesystems for you. Or use inspection see INSPECTION section below. To access a filesystem in the image, you must mount it. Now you can perform filesystem actions on the guest. Synchronize the disk. This is the opposite of guestfslaunch. Close and free the handle g. The code above doesnt include any error checking. In real code you should check return values carefully for errors. In general all functions that return integers return 1 on error, and all functions that return pointers return NULL on error. See section ERROR HANDLING below for how to handle errors, and consult the documentation for each function call below to see precisely how they return error indications. The code above does not free3 the strings and arrays returned from functions. Consult the documentation for each function to find out how to free the return value. See guestfs examples3 for fully worked examples. DISK IMAGESThe image filename guest. Libguestfs lets you do useful things to all of these. The call you should use in modern code for adding drives is guestfsadddriveopts. To add a disk image, allowing writes, and specifying that the format is raw, do guestfsadddriveopts g, filename. GUESTFSADDDRIVEOPTSFORMAT, raw. You can add a disk read only using guestfsadddriveopts g, filename. GUESTFSADDDRIVEOPTSFORMAT, raw. GUESTFSADDDRIVEOPTSREADONLY, 1. If you use the readonly flag, libguestfs wont modify the file. See also DISK IMAGE FORMATS below. Be extremely cautious if the disk image is in use, eg. Adding it read write will almost certainly cause disk corruption, but adding it read only is safe. You should usually add at least one disk image, and you may add multiple disk images. If adding multiple disk images, they usually have to be related, ie. In the API, the disk images are usually referred to as devsda for the first one you added, devsdb for the second one you added, etc. Once guestfslaunch has been called you cannot add any more images. You can call guestfslistdevices to get a list of the device names, in the order that you added them. See also BLOCK DEVICE NAMING below. There are slightly different rules when hotplugging disks in libguestfs 1. See HOTPLUGGING below. MOUNTINGBefore you can read or write files, create directories and so on in a disk image that contains filesystems, you have to mount those filesystems using guestfsmount or guestfsmountro. If you already know that a disk image contains for example one partition with a filesystem on that partition, then you can mount it directly guestfsmount g, devsda. If the disk contains Linux LVM2 logical volumes you could refer to those instead eg. VGLV. Note that these are libguestfs virtual devices, and are nothing to do with host devices. If you are given a disk image and you dont know what it contains then you have to find out. Libguestfs can do that too use guestfslistpartitions and guestfslvs to list possible partitions and LVs, and either try mounting each to see what is mountable, or else examine them with guestfsvfstype or guestfsfile. To list just filesystems, use guestfslistfilesystems. Libguestfs also has a set of APIs for inspection of unknown disk images see INSPECTION below. You might also want to look at higher level programs built on top of libguestfs, in particular virt inspector1. To mount a filesystem read only, use guestfsmountro. There are several other variations of the guestfsmountcall. FILESYSTEM ACCESS AND MODIFICATIONThe majority of the libguestfs API consists of fairly low level calls for accessing and modifying the files, directories, symlinks etc on mounted filesystems. There are over a hundred such calls which you can find listed in detail below in this man page, and we dont even pretend to cover them all in this overview. Specify filenames as full paths, starting with and including the mount point. Dvd Next Copy Next Tech Rar'>Dvd Next Copy Next Tech Rar. For example, if you mounted a filesystem at and you want to read the file called etcpasswd then you could do char ata guestfscat g, etcpasswd This would return data as a newly allocated buffer containing the full content of that file with some conditions see also DOWNLOADING below, or NULL if there was an error. As another example, to create a top level directory on that filesystem called var you would do guestfsmkdir g, var To create a symlink you could do guestfslns g, etcinit. S3. 0portmap Libguestfs will reject attempts to use relative paths and there is no concept of a current working directory. Libguestfs can return errors in many situations for example if the filesystem isnt writable, or if a file or directory that you requested doesnt exist. If you are using the C API documented here you have to check for those error conditions after each call. Other language bindings turn these errors into exceptions. File writes are affected by the per handle umask, set by calling guestfsumask and defaulting to 0. See UMASK. Since libguestfs 1. See MOUNT LOCAL below. PARTITIONINGLibguestfs contains API calls to read, create and modify partition tables on disk images. In the common case where you want to create a single partition covering the whole disk, you should use the guestfspartdisk call const char arttype mbr. TB. parttype gpt. Obviously this effectively wipes anything that was on that disk image before. LVM2. Libguestfs provides access to a large part of the LVM2 API, such as guestfslvcreate and guestfsvgremove. It wont make much sense unless you familiarize yourself with the concepts of physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes.