Re: [Libguestfs] Installing Libguestfs
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 07:58:40PM +0530, Priyanka Naik wrote:
And yes the guest is running. We are creating folder of files and
want to
transfer all files present in that folder. We have host OS as ubuntu and
want to transfer files in one particular folder to guest VM which also has
ubuntu as guest OS.
virt-copy-in is *unsafe* to use on running guests, and will certainly
result in permanent unrecoverable disk corruption. Do not use it this way.
I strongly advise that you look at normal network transfer methods,
such as NFS, rsync and so on.
Rich.
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