These are general updates to: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-October/msg00037.html [Libguestfs] [PATCH 4/5] New tool: virt-tar and: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-October/msg00038.html [Libguestfs] [PATCH 5/5] New tool: virt-ls The code uses die "prog: ...\n". The parameters to virt-tar are swapped so they always go in source -> destination order, ie: virt-tar -zx myguest /home home.tar.gz virt-tar -zu myguest uploadstuff.tar.gz /tmp and these parameters are checked for sanity which should make it harder to make mistakes. (The guest name still has to come first because of other limitations). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v