Provided by: ruby-guestfs_1.46.2-10ubuntu3_amd64
NAME
guestfs-ruby - How to use libguestfs from Ruby
SYNOPSIS
require 'guestfs' g = Guestfs::Guestfs.new() g.add_drive_opts("disk.img", :readonly => true, :format => "raw") g.launch()
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents how to call libguestfs from the Ruby programming language. This page just documents the differences from the C API and gives some examples. If you are not familiar with using libguestfs, you also need to read guestfs(3). EXCEPTIONS Errors from libguestfs functions are mapped into the "Error" exception. This has a single parameter which is the error message (a string).
EXAMPLE 1: CREATE A DISK IMAGE
# Example showing how to create a disk image. require 'guestfs' output = "disk.img" g = Guestfs::Guestfs.new() # Create a raw-format sparse disk image, 512 MB in size. g.disk_create (output, "raw", 512 * 1024 * 1024) # Set the trace flag so that we can see each libguestfs call. g.set_trace(1) # Attach the disk image to libguestfs. g.add_drive_opts(output, :format => "raw") # Run the libguestfs back-end. g.launch(); # Get the list of devices. Because we only added one drive # above, we expect that this list should contain a single # element. devices = g.list_devices() if devices.length != 1 then raise "error: expected a single device from list-devices" end # Partition the disk as one single MBR partition. g.part_disk(devices[0], "mbr") # Get the list of partitions. We expect a single element, which # is the partition we have just created. partitions = g.list_partitions() if partitions.length != 1 then raise "error: expected a single partition from list-partitions" end # Create a filesystem on the partition. g.mkfs("ext4", partitions[0]) # Now mount the filesystem so that we can add files. g.mount(partitions[0], "/") # Create some files and directories. g.touch("/empty") message = "Hello, world\n" g.write("/hello", message) g.mkdir("/foo") # This one uploads the local file /etc/resolv.conf into # the disk image. g.upload("/etc/resolv.conf", "/foo/resolv.conf") # Because we wrote to the disk and we want to detect write # errors, call g.shutdown. You don't need to do this: # g.close will do it implicitly. g.shutdown() # Note also that handles are automatically closed if they are # reaped by the garbage collector. You only need to call close # if you want to close the handle right away. g.close()
EXAMPLE 2: INSPECT A VIRTUAL MACHINE DISK IMAGE
# Example showing how to inspect a virtual machine disk. require 'guestfs' if ARGV.length == 0 puts "usage: inspect_vm disk.img" exit 1 end disk = ARGV[0] g = Guestfs::Guestfs.new() # Attach the disk image read-only to libguestfs. g.add_drive_opts(disk, :readonly => true) # Run the libguestfs back-end. g.launch() # Ask libguestfs to inspect for operating systems. roots = g.inspect_os() if roots.length == 0 puts "inspect_vm: no operating systems found" exit 1 end for root in roots do printf("Root device: %s\n", root) # Print basic information about the operating system. printf(" Product name: %s\n", g.inspect_get_product_name(root)) printf(" Version: %d.%d\n", g.inspect_get_major_version(root), g.inspect_get_minor_version(root)) printf(" Type: %s\n", g.inspect_get_type(root)) printf(" Distro: %s\n", 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) mps = mps.sort {|a,b| a[0].length <=> b[0].length} for mp in mps do begin g.mount_ro(mp[1], mp[0]) rescue Guestfs::Error => msg printf("%s (ignored)\n", msg) end end # If /etc/issue.net file exists, print up to 3 lines. filename = "/etc/issue.net" if g.is_file filename then printf("--- %s ---\n", filename) lines = g.head_n(3, filename) for line in lines do puts line end end # Unmount everything. g.umount_all() end
SEE ALSO
guestfs(3), guestfs-examples(3), guestfs-erlang(3), guestfs-gobject(3), guestfs-golang(3), guestfs-java(3), guestfs-lua(3), guestfs-ocaml(3), guestfs-perl(3), guestfs-python(3), guestfs-recipes(1), http://libguestfs.org/.
AUTHORS
Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Red Hat Inc.
LICENSE
This manual page contains examples which we hope you will use in your programs. The examples may be freely copied, modified and distributed for any purpose without any restrictions.
BUGS
To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools When reporting a bug, please supply: • The version of libguestfs. • Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc) • Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it. • Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.