<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>Use 'guestfish --', ie:<br> <br> >guestfish -- add /dev/null [etc]</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">i tried this method this worked for me in case of listing partitions</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[root@EQkvm0101 ~]# guestfish -- add /dev/null : config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/fullclone.img : run : list-partitions</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">/dev/sda1</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">/dev/sda2</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[root@EQkvm0101 ~]#</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">thankyou so much for the reply </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Also i can't use the newest version of libguestfs as im on a production system and i could not use the newest version due to some limitations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Also the new version is not available in repo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br> </span></p><div>Im getting antother problem :</div><div><br></div><div>while running these commands im getting error :</div><div><div>guestfish -- add /dev/null : config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/ubuntu-12.04--1.raw.img : run : inspect-os</div> <div>/dev/ubuntu-1204-vg/root</div><div>[root@EQkvm0101 ~]# guestfish -- add /dev/null : config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/ubuntu-12.04--1.raw.img : inspect-get-distro /dev/ubuntu-1204-vg/root</div><div> libguestfs: error: no inspection data: call guestfs_inspect_os first</div></div><div><br></div><div>can you please help me.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards </div><div>Shumaila Naeem</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Shumaila Naeem <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shum.naeem@gmail.com" target="_blank">shum.naeem@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">i will test it out and will update you..<div><br></div><div>Thankyou so much for your reply </div><div><br></div><div>kind regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Shumaila Naeem</div><div> Software Engineer , Ovex Technologies </div> </font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0500, Shumaila Naeem wrote:<br> > <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/accessing-ceph-rbd-sheepdog-etc-using-libguestfs/#comment-8806" target="_blank">http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/accessing-ceph-rbd-sheepdog-etc-using-libguestfs/#comment-8806</a><br> > I came across this link and and i was able to retrieve the rbd image.<br> ><br> > $ guestfish<br> > ><fs> set-attach-method appliance<br> > ><fs> add-drive /dev/null<br> > ><fs> config -set drive.hd0.file=rbd:pool/volume<br> > ><fs> run<br> > I was able to retrieve file from rbd image using the above method.<br> ><br> > Would you please let know how to do this in a single command line. I am<br> > getting the following error<br> ><br> > guestfish add /dev/null : config -set<br> > drive.hd0.file=rbd:ssd-clonetest-rule5/fullclone.img : run : list-partitions<br> </div>> guestfish: invalid option -- 's'<br> > Try `guestfish -help' for more information.<br> <br> Use 'guestfish --', ie:<br> <br> guestfish -- add /dev/null [etc]<br> <div><br> > anything I m doing wrong here.<br> ><br> > I am using CentOS 6.4 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.x86_64<br> > qemu:<br> ><br> > qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.3ceph.x86_64<br> > qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6.3ceph.x86_64<br> ><br> > guestfs:<br> ><br> > libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64<br> > libguestfs-tools-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64<br> > libguestfs-1.20.11-2.el6.x86_64<br> > libguestfs-winsupport-1.0-7.el6.x86_64<br> <br> </div>However I'd definitely recommend trying newer versions of libguestfs,<br> since they support rbd transparently.<br> <br> Rich.<br> <span><font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones</a><br> Read my programming blog: <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://rwmj.wordpress.com</a><br> Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)<br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>