[libvirt] libvirt API to write sectors on a device

[Francesco Latino]

Great !
Thanks a lot !

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:39:04PM +0200, Francesco Latino wrote:
> > Hello,***I am able to compile libvirt samples on my KVM hypervisor. (I
> > edited and recompiled info.c code)
> > *I am creating a sample code to read/write disk devices.
> > With method *virDomainBlockPeek I can** read sectors from a given device
> > attached to a KVM virtual guest.**I am not able to* find an API to write
> > sectors on a disk: am I missing something ?Is there such method to write
> > sectors from a given virtual disk ?
>
>   Hum, right, there is only read-only support since that's what was
> needed at the time. I'm not sure we should add unstructured write
> support like this, I don't know what you're trying to achieve but
> maybe libguestfs would be a better fit, have a look !
>
>    http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/<http://et.redhat.com/%7Erjones/libguestfs/>
>
> Daniel
>
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