[Libguestfs] How to make a Google Compute Engine boot image with guestfish?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:45:56PM +1100, Andrew Stuart wrote:
> Thanks Richard.
> 
> I am not able to perform a mount on the machine that I’ll be building this image on.
> 
> Is there a way for me to copy the files into the image without doing a mount - as the perl script appears to do at this point: 
> $g->mount ("/dev/sda1", "/");

That's a mount in the libguestfs library namespace.  It doesn't
require any special permissions on the machine running the script.

Rich.

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