Re: [Libguestfs] [virt-tools-list] libguestfs for Windows guests?
On 05/04/2012 08:22 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
Is libguestfs working for Windows guests?
Ccing libguestfs list.
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On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 09:11:18PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
On 05/04/2012 08:22 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
Is libguestfs working for Windows guests?
Ccing libguestfs list.
Thanks. Yes, it works fine on Windows guests. On RHEL 6 (*only*) you have to install the libguestfs-winsupport package from RHN. On Fedora and other distros, Windows guests are supported out of the box: $ virt-inspector -a /dev/vg_pin/WinXP | head <?xml version="1.0"?> <operatingsystems> <operatingsystem> <root>/dev/sda1</root> <name>windows</name> <arch>i386</arch> <distro>windows</distro> <product_name>Microsoft Windows XP</product_name> <major_version>5</major_version> <minor_version>1</minor_version> Is there any particular problem you're having? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
Is libguestfs working for Windows guests?
Ccing libguestfs list. Thanks.
Yes, it works fine on Windows guests.
On RHEL 6 (*only*) you have to install the libguestfs-winsupport package from RHN.
On Fedora and other distros, Windows guests are supported out of the box:
$ virt-inspector -a /dev/vg_pin/WinXP | head <?xml version="1.0"?> <operatingsystems> <operatingsystem> <root>/dev/sda1</root> <name>windows</name> <arch>i386</arch> <distro>windows</distro> <product_name>Microsoft Windows XP</product_name> <major_version>5</major_version> <minor_version>1</minor_version>
Is there any particular problem you're having?
Rich.
H'm. Well, I'm doing this on Arch Linux, and I don't seem to have a virt-inspector command. I did set up an area for guestfs successfully in virt-manager, but was not able to figure out how to find it in Windows. The guest is Windows 7 64-bit, if that makes a difference. -- Jonathan E. Brickman /Ponderworthy Music/ <http://ponderworthy.com> 805 SW Jewell Ave Topeka KS 66606-1610 jeb@ponderworthy.com <mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com>
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:41:22PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
H'm. Well, I'm doing this on Arch Linux, and I don't seem to have a virt-inspector command.
I'm not very familiar with how libguestfs is packaged for Arch Linux, except that I helped them a bit on extending febootstrap for Arch. It could be that virt-inspector is not packaged at all, or that it's in a different package (in Fedora we split libguestfs over about a dozen packages). You'd have to ask the Arch maintainers -- could be Nikos Skalkotos, who is a subscriber to this list.
I did set up an area for guestfs successfully in virt-manager, but was not able to figure out how to find it in Windows.
Do you mean that you used the inspection feature of virt-manager successfully?
The guest is Windows 7 64-bit, if that makes a difference.
We can inspect any Windows guest since Windows XP, 32 or 64 bit. The only reason we don't support earlier than XP is no one has tried it. 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#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora
Finally what you said percolated through the layers of flint around my mind :-) 'libguestfs' is in the AUR, not in the repos; although its label is "Manages virtual machine images", I'll think it is possibly mislabeled, will try it. J.E.B.
H'm. Well, I'm doing this on Arch Linux, and I don't seem to have a virt-inspector command. I'm not very familiar with how libguestfs is packaged for Arch Linux, except that I helped them a bit on extending febootstrap for Arch. It could be that virt-inspector is not packaged at all, or that it's in a different package (in Fedora we split libguestfs over about a dozen
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:41:22PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: packages). You'd have to ask the Arch maintainers -- could be Nikos Skalkotos, who is a subscriber to this list.
I did set up an area for guestfs successfully in virt-manager, but was not able to figure out how to find it in Windows. Do you mean that you used the inspection feature of virt-manager successfully?
The guest is Windows 7 64-bit, if that makes a difference. We can inspect any Windows guest since Windows XP, 32 or 64 bit. The only reason we don't support earlier than XP is no one has tried it.
Rich.
-- Jonathan E. Brickman /Ponderworthy Music/ <http://ponderworthy.com> 805 SW Jewell Ave Topeka KS 66606-1610 jeb@ponderworthy.com <mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com>
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