[Libguestfs] virt-df for KVM

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 06:49:29PM +0800, zxs11289 wrote:
> I face a problem on KVM using virt-df。 I have two computer,they
> have installed tools for KVM. The computer（ip 15）has no virtual
> machine and computer（ip 33）has two virtual machines。on the
> computer(ip33)， i run the command “virt-df” if on the computer(ip15)，
> i run the command “virt-df --connect qemu+ssh://10.0.0.33/system”,
> ERROR：No such file or directory。But i have the file。why？

Unfortunately the --connect parameter doesn't let you access a disk on
a remote machine:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#remote-libvirt-guests-cannot-be-opened

It's not really possible the way you are doing it now.  You will have
to run virt-df on the local machine.  Perhaps use a tool like Ansible
(https://www.ansible.com/)?

Rich.

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