That's unfortunate. Is there any particular reason it was removed? I think having a 'directory' format, or even a 'mount' one where libguestfs handles mounting/unmounting would be nice.
Thanks for the help nevertheless, Daniel On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:11:02PM -0300, Daniel Miranda wrote: > > I'm setting up a system to run LXC containers with ZFS on Linux (Ubuntu > > 14.04). I intend to set up a base image which I'd like to clone to create > > other containers from. virt-sysprep and virt-customize seem ideal for the > > task: I obviously could mount and work with the rootfs from each > container > > directly, but the libguestfs tools have a bunch of pre-existing recipes > > that would surely be much better than what I'd come up with on my own. > > > > Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any way to tell the tools to work > > directly on an already mounted directory (from a ZFS subvolume) instead > of > > a disk image. > > > > Am I missing something or is this currently not possible? > > This was actually a feature of the original virt-sysprep (1.14). > However we removed it in a more recent version (1.16 IIRC). So no, > virt-sysprep etc only work on disk images, not on mounted filesystems. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any > software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ >
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