Re: [Libguestfs] --rbd volume access--

Use 'guestfish --', ie:

guestfish -- add /dev/null [etc]

i will test it out and will update you.. Thankyou so much for your reply kind regards Shumaila Naeem Software Engineer , Ovex Technologies On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt;wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0500, Shumaila Naeem wrote: > > > http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/accessing-ceph-rbd-sheepdog-etc-usin... > > I came across this link and and i was able to retrieve the rbd image. > > > > $ guestfish > > ><fs> set-attach-method appliance > > ><fs> add-drive /dev/null > > ><fs> config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:pool/volume > > ><fs> run > > I was able to retrieve file from rbd image using the above method. > > > > Would you please let know how to do this in a single command line. I am > > getting the following error > > > > guestfish add /dev/null : config -set > > drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/fullclone.img : run : > list-partitions > > guestfish: invalid option -- 's' > > Try `guestfish -help' for more information. > > Use 'guestfish --', ie: > > guestfish -- add /dev/null [etc] > > > anything I m doing wrong here. > > > > I am using CentOS 6.4 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64 > > qemu: > > > > qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.3ceph.x86_64 > > qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.3ceph.x86_64 > > > > guestfs: > > > > libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64 > > libguestfs-tools-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64 > > libguestfs-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64 > > libguestfs-winsupport-1.0-7.el6.x86_64 > > However I'd definitely recommend trying newer versions of libguestfs, > since they support rbd transparently. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) >