Re: [Libguestfs] Standalone guestfs
>> Hope that gives you some ideas. If you have a specific use
scenario
>> you are interested in, then please let us know.
>
> I was thinking of running some operations on the root filesystem
> by kexec-rebooting into an appliance to get exclusive access.
I promise to look at this in more detail when I'm back at work next
week, but a quick question: where would the 'client' end of the
connection (ie. libguestfs) be running in this scenario?
In kexec, everything would be local (LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct or unix:).
If blocks is reworked to integrate with guestfs, there might be several
options depending if python is client-side or daemon side, but it doesn't
make much difference for the kexec case.
> I would like to do something like that for my blocks tool
> (which does conversions to LVM and bcache).
>
> https://github.com/g2p/blocks#readme