On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:55:28AM -0400, Kenneth Armstrong wrote: > rootdisk=$(guestfish --ro -a $diskimage -i inspect-os) > distribution=$(guestfish --ro -a $diskimage -i inspect-get-distro $rootdisk) > echo $distribution
By the way it's quicker to do: eval $(guestfish --ro -a $diskimage -i --listen) rootdisk="$(guestfish --remote inspect-os)" distro="$(guestfish --remote inspect-get-distro $rootdisk)" guestfish --remote exit This launches libguestfs once (instead of twice). http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#remote_control_guestfish_over_a_socket Also: Running the 'inspect-os' command is fine, but it does redo the inspection process that was already done by the '-i' option[*]. In libguestfs 1.7.3 there is a call 'inspect-get-roots' which returns the root(s) from the previous inspection, thus avoiding this duplicate work. http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d8807ec3bc0b772d65e2ca1196f0980a037504e Rich. [*] To see how different guestfish command line options translate to libguestfs API calls, use the guestfish -x option. -- 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 _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
