Re: [Libguestfs] virt-sysprep future
Hi Rich,
What's the plan for virt-sysprep?
It's an interesting proof-of-concept.
People love it!
But it has several shortcomings. As I said before, I think it should
be spun off into a separate project, and possibly be rewritten
(/bin/bash is a terrible language for writing complicated things). It
really needs to support at least some Windows guests to some degree.
Any thoughts on this?
Yes, I also think it should be spun off into a separate project, and be
rewritten. But I want you doing the splitting work if you have time, and
then I can try to rewrite it and do further works.
And I considered trying to use NBD though it. NBD has already used in qemu
named qemu-nbd, support all the virtual disk image, and the most important
thing is that it's much more faster than guestmount, because it doesn't need
to start a guest. But NBD client must be used under root, because it uses
/dev/nbdX, and need to install the kernel nbd module.
What do you think Rich?
Thanks,
Wanlong Gao
Rich.