On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 04:09:23PM +0500, Shumaila Naeem wrote: > is there any way i can run both inspect-os and get-distro in one line > > something like this > guestfish -- add /dev/null : config -set > drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/ubuntu-12.04--1.raw.img : run : > inspect-get-distro inspect-os Not like this. This is why I said before this is "awkward in guestfish". TBH you're best off continuing with the Python program. If you absolutely must use guestfish (which I don't recommend for this case) then: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash - guestfish <<'EOF' add /dev/null readonly:true # RHEL 6 hack for adding Ceph drives: config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/ubuntu-12.04--1.raw.img run inspect-os | head -1 > /tmp/root <! echo inspect-get-distro `cat /tmp/root` EOF ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v