[Libguestfs] virt-ls windows

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:24:36PM +0300, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote:
> With 175161 files - 54G of storage and an NTFS partition,
> i had zero errors about "Cannot open: File name too long"
> 
> I run guestfish on a running (live) win2003 VM machine.
> although I didnt calculate time, it seemed a bit slower from before (ext4).

... hopefully using --ro.

> I know that i may cross a line here, but is there any way to sync data from
> 
> win2003:/dev/vdb1: ntfs
> 
> to my LVM Partition through libguestfs  ?
> 
> or i have to do it with the traditional way (kpartx, mount map
> partition, rsync etc etc)

Actually rsync is a much-requested feature for libguestfs.  If you add
rsync to the appliance (appliance/packagelist.in) then there's even a
chance that it will work over the built-in network, although I have
not actually tried it.

Rich.

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