[Libguestfs] Script to read systemd journal of a guest to find its IP address

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:37:12AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:41:03AM +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > g.add_drive (image, format='qcow2')
> 
> You must use:
> 
>   g.add_drive (image, readonly=1)
> 
> otherwise you risk disk corruption if the guest is live (eg. if the
> mount command has to replay the journal).

Ah. I did use 'readonly=1' while testing, but forgot to mention it while
writing this. Thanks for catching.

> > g.launch ()
> > #print g.list_partitions()
> > 
> > # Set trace
> > #g.set_trace (1)
> > 
> > g.mount_options ("ro", root_filesystem, "/")
> 
> What I'd do differently here is to use inspection to detect the root
> (and other) filesystems.  You never know if /var is on a separate
> partition ...
> 
> Here is the example code (see call to "g.inspect_os" and the code with
> the comment "Mount up the disks like guestfish -i").
> 
> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-python.3.html#example-2:-inspect-a-virtual-machine-disk-image
> 
> > g.sync ()
> 
> No need to sync if you've added the drive readonly.

Noted.

Thanks for these useful review comments, I'll test with these changes.

-- 
/kashyap