[Libguestfs] Using virt-sysprep and virt-customize with LXC containers: is it possible?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:11:02PM -0300, Daniel Miranda wrote:
> I'm setting up a system to run LXC containers with ZFS on Linux (Ubuntu
> 14.04). I intend to set up a base image which I'd like to clone to create
> other containers from. virt-sysprep and virt-customize seem ideal for the
> task: I obviously could mount and work with the rootfs from each container
> directly, but the libguestfs tools have a bunch of pre-existing recipes
> that would surely be much better than what I'd come up with on my own.
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any way to tell the tools to work
> directly on an already mounted directory (from a ZFS subvolume) instead of
> a disk image.
> 
> Am I missing something or is this currently not possible?

This was actually a feature of the original virt-sysprep (1.14).
However we removed it in a more recent version (1.16 IIRC).  So no,
virt-sysprep etc only work on disk images, not on mounted filesystems.

Rich.

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