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

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Aug 20 07:35:52 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:26:56PM -0300, Daniel Miranda wrote:
> That's unfortunate. Is there any particular reason it was removed?

The specific reason is that using FUSE to access libguestfs was slow
and allows less control over things like permissions.

> I think
> having a 'directory' format, or even a 'mount' one where libguestfs handles
> mounting/unmounting would be nice.

It'd be nice, but someone has to write it and it's not simple to
implement.

Rich.

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