# Example showing how to inspect a virtual machine disk. import sys import guestfs assert (len (sys.argv) == 2) disk = sys.argv[1] g = guestfs.GuestFS () # Attach the disk image read-only to libguestfs. g.add_drive (disk, readonly=1) # Run the libguestfs back-end. g.launch () # Ask libguestfs to inspect for operating systems. roots = g.inspect_os () if len (roots) == 0: raise (Error ("inspect_vm: no operating systems found")) for root in roots: print "Root device: %s" % root # Print basic information about the operating system. print " Product name: %s" % (g.inspect_get_product_name (root)) print " Version: %d.%d" % \ (g.inspect_get_major_version (root), g.inspect_get_minor_version (root)) print " Type: %s" % (g.inspect_get_type (root)) print " Distro: %s" % (g.inspect_get_distro (root)) # Mount up the disks, like guestfish -i. # # Sort keys by length, shortest first, so that we end up # mounting the filesystems in the correct order. mps = g.inspect_get_mountpoints (root) def compare (a, b): if len(a[0]) > len(b[0]): return 1 elif len(a[0]) == len(b[0]): return 0 else: return -1 mps.sort (compare) for mp_dev in mps: try: g.mount_ro (mp_dev[1], mp_dev[0]) except RuntimeError as msg: print "%s (ignored)" % msg # If /etc/issue.net file exists, print up to 3 lines. filename = "/etc/issue.net" if g.is_file (filename): print "--- %s ---" % filename lines = g.head_n (3, filename) for line in lines: print line # Unmount everything. g.umount_all ()