Hi, I'm pleased to announce the first 'really working' version of virt-inspector. Source is in the libguestfs source repository: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=summary Binaries are in Koji for Fedora 11 / Rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=102697 (minimum version 1.0.27 required) This is a tool based around libguestfs which can inspect a virtual machine disk image and tell you some interesting things about what's inside it. Some of the things it can tell you: - What operating system(s) are installed, and what distros and versions. It currently covers RHEL releases, Fedora releases, Debian releases, and has limited support for Windows. - How disk partitions are expected to be mounted (eg. /dev/sda1 -> /boot) - What applications are installed. - What kernel(s) are installed. - What kernel modules are installed. It can produce output in plain text (as a report) or in XML (to feed into other programs). It uses libvirt (if available) to get details of inactive domains, or you can run it directly on disk images. Usage is simple: virt-inspector --xml domain > info.xml # xml report virt-inspector /path/to/disk.img | less # plain text report You can also use it as a wrapper for guestfish, so it mounts the guest disks in the correct places, eg: $ virt-inspector --fish /dev/Guests/CentOS5.img guestfish -a /dev/Guests/CentOS5.img -m /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00:/ -m /dev/sda1:/boot $ eval `virt-inspector --fish /dev/Guests/CentOS5.img` Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems. Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit the shell ><fs> mounts /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /dev/sda1 ><fs> ll /boot/ total 12151 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 May 11 18:16 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 May 19 05:06 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931546 May 7 11:05 System.map-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931457 Jan 21 11:10 System.map-2.6.18-128.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67942 May 7 11:05 config-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67937 Jan 21 11:10 config-2.6.18-128.el5 [etc] To do: - Lots of testing, particularly with different guests. - Answer higher-level questions, eg. "what network drivers will this guest use?" "does this guest need a Xen hypervisor?" - Generate a libvirt XML config file (partly overlaps the functionality of new 'virsh import|export*' functions: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00401.html ) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
