[Libguestfs] Can I use virt-filesystem on a running VM?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Jan 8 19:12:00 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 06:12:52PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> Well, if I've run from kvm hypervisor this command with a live guest:          
>                                              
>                                                                                
>                    
> virt-filesystems --long -h --all -a /home/storage-plus/myvm.qcow2              

Yes and no!

https://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#can-i-monitor-the-live-disk-activity-of-a-virtual-machine-using-libguestfs

Rich.

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