Re: [Libguestfs] mounting using guestfish

hi Mr Rich. I`m new to programming on Linux, new to Perl, Python. How long do you think it will take me to finish the script ? Thank you. Comment if you have time :) ________________________________ From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; To: Tho Huynh <feeliwood(a)yahoo.com>; libguestfs(a)redhat.com Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012, 1:23 Subject: Re: mounting using guestfish [Please remember to post all questions on the mailing list] On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 09:41:19PM +0700, Tho Huynh wrote: No, but you don't need to. Guestfish cannot connect to two guests at the same time, so you would need to download the file from one guest and upload it to the other. (I'm still assuming here that you are using libguestfs live).  eg:   guestfish --live -d Source download /some/file /tmp/file   guestfish --live -d Destination upload /tmp/file /some/file If that isn't fast enough or you need to avoid the local copy, it is possible to connect two handles together and copy the file directly between them, but you'd have to write a script against the API (eg. in Perl/Python/etc).     .  .  . In the *non-live* case, there is another method: add the disks of both guests, 'launch', and copy the file between mountpoints (see the 'mkmountpoint' command).  Surprisingly, this is not necessarily going to be faster than downloading and uploading.  This method also has some limitations -- it's not possible to use two guests that have conflicting volume group names; and even security issues -- a malicious guest could interfere with the other guest. 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/