Re: [Libguestfs] want to access the page file of VM from host on Xen platform using libguestfs

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:17:22PM -0800, Irfan Ahmed wrote: Yes; this can be done by reading the file through libguestfs, which is what 'virt-cat' (a C program) does. I would suggest you start with these two examples: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-examples.3.html https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/6ca8a2db6d6f1028a35ece616af... If you need to locate the page file (ie. it's not in a default location) then you will have to read that from the registry, which libguestfs can also do. If the guest is live you won't simply be able to keep a handle open and re-read the file. You might need to map the file to disk blocks and read them directly. (This is a bit more experimental) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top