[Libguestfs] libguestfs and RHEV

[Davis, Richard]

Thanks Richard
I'll get in touch with oVirt.


Regards and have a great w/e.



Richard Davis
Technical Specialist
PGDS Midrange (UK) - Solaris & Linux
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard W.M. Jones [mailto:rjones at redhat.com] 
Sent: 22 June 2012 14:56
To: Davis, Richard
Cc: mbooth at redhat.com; libguestfs at redhat.com
Subject: Re: libguestfs and RHEV

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:57:40PM +0000, Davis, Richard wrote:
> I see that the libguestfs packages are included in the RHEV Hypervisor 
> product.
>
> Are there any plans to further integrate the libguestfs toolset into 
> the RHEV product ?  In particular, the ability to mount and change raw 
> volume content for a VM via guestfish ?

Yes there are plans to do this, but no public timelines yet that I'm aware of.  You might be better asking this question on one of the oVirt lists, since that is now where development happens:

http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo

> It would be very nice to be able to mount a RHEV template and make an 
> alteration without having to boot a VM and create a fresh template 
> from it.
[...]

*If* you are certain that the VM is not running, and you know its UUID, then it's possible to go into the RHEV storage and modify it directly.  I can't remember the details but it was fairly obvious how VMs are mapped onto logical volumes by UUID.

> BTW  - Are you doing RH Summit again this year ?

Not this year, but perhaps next year.

Rich.

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