[Libguestfs] Installing Libguestfs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 07:58:40PM +0530, Priyanka Naik wrote:
> And yes the guest is running. We are creating folder of files and want to
> transfer all files present in that folder. We have host OS as ubuntu and
> want to transfer files in one particular folder to guest VM which also has
> ubuntu as guest OS.

virt-copy-in is *unsafe* to use on running guests, and will certainly
result in permanent unrecoverable disk corruption.  Do not use it this way.

I strongly advise that you look at normal network transfer methods,
such as NFS, rsync and so on.

Rich.

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