Re: [libvirt] libvirt API to write sectors on a device

[Francesco Latino <francesco.latino@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great !
Thanks a lot !

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/

Daniel

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