February 2010 - Libguestfs - libguestfs List Archives

[PATCH 0/12] Add support for writing to hive files
by Richard W.M. Jones 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

This patch series adds support for some simple operations on hive files, and I've now tested and verified that those operations work correctly. All except for the last patch (12/12) are ready to be committed. The last patch is WIP. 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/

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[PATCH 01/14] hivexsh: Document some peculiarities of the "cd" command.
by Richard Jones 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

--- hivex/hivexsh.pod | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/hivex/hivexsh.pod b/hivex/hivexsh.pod index 277e3ae..9336798 100644 --- a/hivex/hivexsh.pod +++ b/hivex/hivexsh.pod @@ -100,7 +100,14 @@ or even: Path elements (node names) are matched case insensitively, and characters like space, C<*>, and C<?> have I<no> special significance. -C<..> may be used to go to the parent directory. +C<cd ..> may be used to go to the parent directory. + +C<cd> without any arguments prints the current path. + +Be careful with C<cd \> since the readline library has an undocumented +behaviour where it will think the final backslash is a continuation +(it reads the next line of input and appends it). Put a single space +after the backslash. =item B<close> | B<unload> -- 1.6.5.2

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-Woverlength-strings / assert unhelpful interaction
by Richard W.M. Jones 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

$ gcc -O2 -c -Woverlength-strings stupid.c stupid.c: In function ‘insert_lf_record’: stupid.c:22: warning: string length ‘7394’ is greater than the length ‘509’ ISO C90 compilers are required to support Without -O2 the error message goes away. Even ISO C99 compilers don't help - they raise the limit to a mere 4095 bytes. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw

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[PATCH 0/3] Add support for recursively deleting nodes
by Richard W.M. Jones 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

This set adds support for recursively deleting a node and everything under it (ie. all subkeys, values, SKs etc). I've checked this works, both using my own reverse-engineering tools and using Windows 7 regedit. Example: $ hivexsh -w <<EOF load software cd \Microsoft del commit EOF Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw

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[ESX support] Working ESX conversion for RHEL 5
by Matthew Booth 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

With this patchset I have successfully[1] imported a RHEL 5 guest directly from ESX with the following command line: virt-v2v -ic 'esx://yellow.marston/?no_verify=1' -op transfer RHEL5-64 Login details are stored in ~/.netrc Note that this is the only guest I've tested against. I haven't for example, checked that I haven't broken Xen imports. Matt [1] With the exception of network reconfiguration. After import I manually munged the network config with virsh edit.

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