On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:16:42AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The reason I thought we'd use libguestfs appliance directly is thta > I thought it could be useful to have the guestfs daemon running in > the image, so that the test suite can easily query the state of the > guest OS > > We probably don't actually need ssh, if we just execute commands in > libguestfs for bits where we currently use ssh. This works too. Use the guestfs_set_attach_method call to connect to the daemon once libvirt has booted the appliance (how you boot the appliance via libvirt is of course up to you): http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#attaching_to_running_daemons http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_set_attach_method Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list