Currently virt-inspector takes ages to run on RHEL 3 guests. I tracked this down to processing the old-style initrd images in these guests. These initrd images are compressed ext2 filesystems. 'cpio' tries to parse them as cpio files, and takes a very long time to fail (and spews out a lot of errors in the process). These two patches fix the problem: Firstly we introduce a new command 'zfile' for doing the 'file' operation inside compressed files. eg: guestfs_zfile (g, "gzip", "/boot/initrd.img") ==> "Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data" Second patch updates Sys::Guestfs::Lib to ignore such files. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.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/