On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:42:03PM +0200, jlvazquez2@correo.ei.uvigo.es wrote:

I am creating a virtualization project where I would be very libguestfs library aid. With this library can do almost everything I need, less to install packages from the internet in virtualized disks. It would be interesting to have internet access at virt-rescue, eg virt- rescue --nat or virt-rescue --ip 33.22.34.3 --dns 32.32.3.2.

Does this not work? We have used the network for some things, eg. running yum and connecting to RHN. There are some limitations in the stable version, fixed in the development version: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588763 The idea of adding --ip and other options to virt-rescue is a reasonable idea, assuming that the network doesn't work already.

Or a modified version of yum install package that allows virtualized disks, eg: yum --disk disco.img gimp.

Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top