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19 (* Please read generator/README first. *)
21 (* Note about long descriptions: When referring to another
22 * action, use the format C<guestfs_other> (ie. the full name of
23 * the C function). This will be replaced as appropriate in other
26 * Apart from that, long descriptions are just perldoc paragraphs.
32 (* These test functions are used in the language binding tests. *)
47 (* except for RErr, which is tested thoroughly elsewhere *)
48 "test0rint", RInt "valout";
49 "test0rint64", RInt64 "valout";
50 "test0rbool", RBool "valout";
51 "test0rconststring", RConstString "valout";
52 "test0rconstoptstring", RConstOptString "valout";
53 "test0rstring", RString "valout";
54 "test0rstringlist", RStringList "valout";
55 "test0rstruct", RStruct ("valout", "lvm_pv");
56 "test0rstructlist", RStructList ("valout", "lvm_pv");
57 "test0rhashtable", RHashtable "valout";
60 let test_functions = [
61 ("test0", (RErr, test_all_args, []), -1, [NotInFish; NotInDocs],
63 "internal test function - do not use",
65 This is an internal test function which is used to test whether
66 the automatically generated bindings can handle every possible
67 parameter type correctly.
69 It echos the contents of each parameter to stdout.
71 You probably don't want to call this function.");
75 [(name, (ret, [String "val"], []), -1, [NotInFish; NotInDocs],
77 "internal test function - do not use",
79 This is an internal test function which is used to test whether
80 the automatically generated bindings can handle every possible
81 return type correctly.
83 It converts string C<val> to the return type.
85 You probably don't want to call this function.");
86 (name ^ "err", (ret, [], []), -1, [NotInFish; NotInDocs],
88 "internal test function - do not use",
90 This is an internal test function which is used to test whether
91 the automatically generated bindings can handle every possible
92 return type correctly.
94 This function always returns an error.
96 You probably don't want to call this function.")]
100 (* non_daemon_functions are any functions which don't get processed
101 * in the daemon, eg. functions for setting and getting local
102 * configuration values.
105 let non_daemon_functions = test_functions @ [
106 ("launch", (RErr, [], []), -1, [FishAlias "run"; Progress],
108 "launch the qemu subprocess",
110 Internally libguestfs is implemented by running a virtual machine
113 You should call this after configuring the handle
114 (eg. adding drives) but before performing any actions.");
116 ("wait_ready", (RErr, [], []), -1, [NotInFish; DeprecatedBy "launch"],
118 "wait until the qemu subprocess launches (no op)",
120 This function is a no op.
122 In versions of the API E<lt> 1.0.71 you had to call this function
123 just after calling C<guestfs_launch> to wait for the launch
124 to complete. However this is no longer necessary because
125 C<guestfs_launch> now does the waiting.
127 If you see any calls to this function in code then you can just
128 remove them, unless you want to retain compatibility with older
129 versions of the API.");
131 ("kill_subprocess", (RErr, [], []), -1, [],
133 "kill the qemu subprocess",
135 This kills the qemu subprocess. You should never need to call this.");
137 ("add_drive", (RErr, [String "filename"], []), -1, [],
139 "add an image to examine or modify",
141 This function is the equivalent of calling C<guestfs_add_drive_opts>
142 with no optional parameters, so the disk is added writable, with
143 the format being detected automatically.
145 Automatic detection of the format opens you up to a potential
146 security hole when dealing with untrusted raw-format images.
147 See CVE-2010-3851 and RHBZ#642934. Specifying the format closes
148 this security hole. Therefore you should think about replacing
149 calls to this function with calls to C<guestfs_add_drive_opts>,
150 and specifying the format.");
152 ("add_cdrom", (RErr, [String "filename"], []), -1, [DeprecatedBy "add_drive_opts"],
154 "add a CD-ROM disk image to examine",
156 This function adds a virtual CD-ROM disk image to the guest.
158 This is equivalent to the qemu parameter I<-cdrom filename>.
166 This call checks for the existence of C<filename>. This
167 stops you from specifying other types of drive which are supported
168 by qemu such as C<nbd:> and C<http:> URLs. To specify those, use
169 the general C<guestfs_config> call instead.
173 If you just want to add an ISO file (often you use this as an
174 efficient way to transfer large files into the guest), then you
175 should probably use C<guestfs_add_drive_ro> instead.
179 ("add_drive_ro", (RErr, [String "filename"], []), -1, [FishAlias "add-ro"],
181 "add a drive in snapshot mode (read-only)",
183 This function is the equivalent of calling C<guestfs_add_drive_opts>
184 with the optional parameter C<GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_READONLY> set to 1,
185 so the disk is added read-only, with the format being detected
188 ("config", (RErr, [String "qemuparam"; OptString "qemuvalue"], []), -1, [],
190 "add qemu parameters",
192 This can be used to add arbitrary qemu command line parameters
193 of the form I<-param value>. Actually it's not quite arbitrary - we
194 prevent you from setting some parameters which would interfere with
195 parameters that we use.
197 The first character of C<param> string must be a C<-> (dash).
199 C<value> can be NULL.");
201 ("set_qemu", (RErr, [OptString "qemu"], []), -1, [FishAlias "qemu"],
203 "set the qemu binary",
205 Set the qemu binary that we will use.
207 The default is chosen when the library was compiled by the
210 You can also override this by setting the C<LIBGUESTFS_QEMU>
211 environment variable.
213 Setting C<qemu> to C<NULL> restores the default qemu binary.
215 Note that you should call this function as early as possible
216 after creating the handle. This is because some pre-launch
217 operations depend on testing qemu features (by running C<qemu -help>).
218 If the qemu binary changes, we don't retest features, and
219 so you might see inconsistent results. Using the environment
220 variable C<LIBGUESTFS_QEMU> is safest of all since that picks
221 the qemu binary at the same time as the handle is created.");
223 ("get_qemu", (RConstString "qemu", [], []), -1, [],
224 [InitNone, Always, TestRun (
226 "get the qemu binary",
228 Return the current qemu binary.
230 This is always non-NULL. If it wasn't set already, then this will
231 return the default qemu binary name.");
233 ("set_path", (RErr, [OptString "searchpath"], []), -1, [FishAlias "path"],
235 "set the search path",
237 Set the path that libguestfs searches for kernel and initrd.img.
239 The default is C<$libdir/guestfs> unless overridden by setting
240 C<LIBGUESTFS_PATH> environment variable.
242 Setting C<path> to C<NULL> restores the default path.");
244 ("get_path", (RConstString "path", [], []), -1, [],
245 [InitNone, Always, TestRun (
247 "get the search path",
249 Return the current search path.
251 This is always non-NULL. If it wasn't set already, then this will
252 return the default path.");
254 ("set_append", (RErr, [OptString "append"], []), -1, [FishAlias "append"],
256 "add options to kernel command line",
258 This function is used to add additional options to the
259 guest kernel command line.
261 The default is C<NULL> unless overridden by setting
262 C<LIBGUESTFS_APPEND> environment variable.
264 Setting C<append> to C<NULL> means I<no> additional options
265 are passed (libguestfs always adds a few of its own).");
267 ("get_append", (RConstOptString "append", [], []), -1, [],
268 (* This cannot be tested with the current framework. The
269 * function can return NULL in normal operations, which the
270 * test framework interprets as an error.
273 "get the additional kernel options",
275 Return the additional kernel options which are added to the
276 guest kernel command line.
278 If C<NULL> then no options are added.");
280 ("set_autosync", (RErr, [Bool "autosync"], []), -1, [FishAlias "autosync"],
284 If C<autosync> is true, this enables autosync. Libguestfs will make a
285 best effort attempt to make filesystems consistent and synchronized
286 when the handle is closed
287 (also if the program exits without closing handles).
289 This is enabled by default (since libguestfs 1.5.24, previously it was
290 disabled by default).");
292 ("get_autosync", (RBool "autosync", [], []), -1, [],
293 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
294 [["get_autosync"]])],
297 Get the autosync flag.");
299 ("set_verbose", (RErr, [Bool "verbose"], []), -1, [FishAlias "verbose"],
303 If C<verbose> is true, this turns on verbose messages.
305 Verbose messages are disabled unless the environment variable
306 C<LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG> is defined and set to C<1>.
308 Verbose messages are normally sent to C<stderr>, unless you
309 register a callback to send them somewhere else (see
310 C<guestfs_set_event_callback>).");
312 ("get_verbose", (RBool "verbose", [], []), -1, [],
316 This returns the verbose messages flag.");
318 ("is_ready", (RBool "ready", [], []), -1, [],
319 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
321 "is ready to accept commands",
323 This returns true iff this handle is ready to accept commands
324 (in the C<READY> state).
326 For more information on states, see L<guestfs(3)>.");
328 ("is_config", (RBool "config", [], []), -1, [],
329 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputFalse (
331 "is in configuration state",
333 This returns true iff this handle is being configured
334 (in the C<CONFIG> state).
336 For more information on states, see L<guestfs(3)>.");
338 ("is_launching", (RBool "launching", [], []), -1, [],
339 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputFalse (
340 [["is_launching"]])],
341 "is launching subprocess",
343 This returns true iff this handle is launching the subprocess
344 (in the C<LAUNCHING> state).
346 For more information on states, see L<guestfs(3)>.");
348 ("is_busy", (RBool "busy", [], []), -1, [],
349 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputFalse (
351 "is busy processing a command",
353 This returns true iff this handle is busy processing a command
354 (in the C<BUSY> state).
356 For more information on states, see L<guestfs(3)>.");
358 ("get_state", (RInt "state", [], []), -1, [],
360 "get the current state",
362 This returns the current state as an opaque integer. This is
363 only useful for printing debug and internal error messages.
365 For more information on states, see L<guestfs(3)>.");
367 ("set_memsize", (RErr, [Int "memsize"], []), -1, [FishAlias "memsize"],
368 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputInt (
369 [["set_memsize"; "500"];
370 ["get_memsize"]], 500)],
371 "set memory allocated to the qemu subprocess",
373 This sets the memory size in megabytes allocated to the
374 qemu subprocess. This only has any effect if called before
377 You can also change this by setting the environment
378 variable C<LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE> before the handle is
381 For more information on the architecture of libguestfs,
382 see L<guestfs(3)>.");
384 ("get_memsize", (RInt "memsize", [], []), -1, [],
385 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputIntOp (
386 [["get_memsize"]], ">=", 256)],
387 "get memory allocated to the qemu subprocess",
389 This gets the memory size in megabytes allocated to the
392 If C<guestfs_set_memsize> was not called
393 on this handle, and if C<LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE> was not set,
394 then this returns the compiled-in default value for memsize.
396 For more information on the architecture of libguestfs,
397 see L<guestfs(3)>.");
399 ("get_pid", (RInt "pid", [], []), -1, [FishAlias "pid"],
400 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputIntOp (
401 [["get_pid"]], ">=", 1)],
402 "get PID of qemu subprocess",
404 Return the process ID of the qemu subprocess. If there is no
405 qemu subprocess, then this will return an error.
407 This is an internal call used for debugging and testing.");
409 ("version", (RStruct ("version", "version"), [], []), -1, [],
410 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputStruct (
411 [["version"]], [CompareWithInt ("major", 1)])],
412 "get the library version number",
414 Return the libguestfs version number that the program is linked
417 Note that because of dynamic linking this is not necessarily
418 the version of libguestfs that you compiled against. You can
419 compile the program, and then at runtime dynamically link
420 against a completely different C<libguestfs.so> library.
422 This call was added in version C<1.0.58>. In previous
423 versions of libguestfs there was no way to get the version
424 number. From C code you can use dynamic linker functions
425 to find out if this symbol exists (if it doesn't, then
426 it's an earlier version).
428 The call returns a structure with four elements. The first
429 three (C<major>, C<minor> and C<release>) are numbers and
430 correspond to the usual version triplet. The fourth element
431 (C<extra>) is a string and is normally empty, but may be
432 used for distro-specific information.
434 To construct the original version string:
435 C<$major.$minor.$release$extra>
437 See also: L<guestfs(3)/LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS>.
439 I<Note:> Don't use this call to test for availability
440 of features. In enterprise distributions we backport
441 features from later versions into earlier versions,
442 making this an unreliable way to test for features.
443 Use C<guestfs_available> instead.");
445 ("set_selinux", (RErr, [Bool "selinux"], []), -1, [FishAlias "selinux"],
446 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
447 [["set_selinux"; "true"];
449 "set SELinux enabled or disabled at appliance boot",
451 This sets the selinux flag that is passed to the appliance
452 at boot time. The default is C<selinux=0> (disabled).
454 Note that if SELinux is enabled, it is always in
455 Permissive mode (C<enforcing=0>).
457 For more information on the architecture of libguestfs,
458 see L<guestfs(3)>.");
460 ("get_selinux", (RBool "selinux", [], []), -1, [],
462 "get SELinux enabled flag",
464 This returns the current setting of the selinux flag which
465 is passed to the appliance at boot time. See C<guestfs_set_selinux>.
467 For more information on the architecture of libguestfs,
468 see L<guestfs(3)>.");
470 ("set_trace", (RErr, [Bool "trace"], []), -1, [FishAlias "trace"],
471 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputFalse (
472 [["set_trace"; "false"];
474 "enable or disable command traces",
476 If the command trace flag is set to 1, then libguestfs
477 calls, parameters and return values are traced.
479 If you want to trace C API calls into libguestfs (and
480 other libraries) then possibly a better way is to use
481 the external ltrace(1) command.
483 Command traces are disabled unless the environment variable
484 C<LIBGUESTFS_TRACE> is defined and set to C<1>.
486 Trace messages are normally sent to C<stderr>, unless you
487 register a callback to send them somewhere else (see
488 C<guestfs_set_event_callback>).");
490 ("get_trace", (RBool "trace", [], []), -1, [],
492 "get command trace enabled flag",
494 Return the command trace flag.");
496 ("set_direct", (RErr, [Bool "direct"], []), -1, [FishAlias "direct"],
497 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputFalse (
498 [["set_direct"; "false"];
500 "enable or disable direct appliance mode",
502 If the direct appliance mode flag is enabled, then stdin and
503 stdout are passed directly through to the appliance once it
506 One consequence of this is that log messages aren't caught
507 by the library and handled by C<guestfs_set_log_message_callback>,
508 but go straight to stdout.
510 You probably don't want to use this unless you know what you
513 The default is disabled.");
515 ("get_direct", (RBool "direct", [], []), -1, [],
517 "get direct appliance mode flag",
519 Return the direct appliance mode flag.");
521 ("set_recovery_proc", (RErr, [Bool "recoveryproc"], []), -1, [FishAlias "recovery-proc"],
522 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputTrue (
523 [["set_recovery_proc"; "true"];
524 ["get_recovery_proc"]])],
525 "enable or disable the recovery process",
527 If this is called with the parameter C<false> then
528 C<guestfs_launch> does not create a recovery process. The
529 purpose of the recovery process is to stop runaway qemu
530 processes in the case where the main program aborts abruptly.
532 This only has any effect if called before C<guestfs_launch>,
533 and the default is true.
535 About the only time when you would want to disable this is
536 if the main process will fork itself into the background
537 (\"daemonize\" itself). In this case the recovery process
538 thinks that the main program has disappeared and so kills
539 qemu, which is not very helpful.");
541 ("get_recovery_proc", (RBool "recoveryproc", [], []), -1, [],
543 "get recovery process enabled flag",
545 Return the recovery process enabled flag.");
547 ("add_drive_with_if", (RErr, [String "filename"; String "iface"], []), -1, [DeprecatedBy "add_drive_opts"],
549 "add a drive specifying the QEMU block emulation to use",
551 This is the same as C<guestfs_add_drive> but it allows you
552 to specify the QEMU interface emulation to use at run time.");
554 ("add_drive_ro_with_if", (RErr, [String "filename"; String "iface"], []), -1, [DeprecatedBy "add_drive_opts"],
556 "add a drive read-only specifying the QEMU block emulation to use",
558 This is the same as C<guestfs_add_drive_ro> but it allows you
559 to specify the QEMU interface emulation to use at run time.");
561 ("file_architecture", (RString "arch", [Pathname "filename"], []), -1, [],
562 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
563 [["file_architecture"; "/bin-i586-dynamic"]], "i386");
564 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
565 [["file_architecture"; "/bin-sparc-dynamic"]], "sparc");
566 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
567 [["file_architecture"; "/bin-win32.exe"]], "i386");
568 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
569 [["file_architecture"; "/bin-win64.exe"]], "x86_64");
570 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
571 [["file_architecture"; "/bin-x86_64-dynamic"]], "x86_64");
572 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
573 [["file_architecture"; "/lib-i586.so"]], "i386");
574 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
575 [["file_architecture"; "/lib-sparc.so"]], "sparc");
576 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
577 [["file_architecture"; "/lib-win32.dll"]], "i386");
578 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
579 [["file_architecture"; "/lib-win64.dll"]], "x86_64");
580 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
581 [["file_architecture"; "/lib-x86_64.so"]], "x86_64");
582 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
583 [["file_architecture"; "/initrd-x86_64.img"]], "x86_64");
584 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
585 [["file_architecture"; "/initrd-x86_64.img.gz"]], "x86_64");],
586 "detect the architecture of a binary file",
588 This detects the architecture of the binary C<filename>,
589 and returns it if known.
591 Currently defined architectures are:
597 This string is returned for all 32 bit i386, i486, i586, i686 binaries
598 irrespective of the precise processor requirements of the binary.
610 64 bit SPARC V9 and above.
626 Libguestfs may return other architecture strings in future.
628 The function works on at least the following types of files:
634 many types of Un*x and Linux binary
638 many types of Un*x and Linux shared library
642 Windows Win32 and Win64 binaries
646 Windows Win32 and Win64 DLLs
648 Win32 binaries and DLLs return C<i386>.
650 Win64 binaries and DLLs return C<x86_64>.
658 Linux new-style initrd images
662 some non-x86 Linux vmlinuz kernels
666 What it can't do currently:
672 static libraries (libfoo.a)
676 Linux old-style initrd as compressed ext2 filesystem (RHEL 3)
680 x86 Linux vmlinuz kernels
682 x86 vmlinuz images (bzImage format) consist of a mix of 16-, 32- and
683 compressed code, and are horribly hard to unpack. If you want to find
684 the architecture of a kernel, use the architecture of the associated
685 initrd or kernel module(s) instead.
689 ("inspect_os", (RStringList "roots", [], []), -1, [],
691 "inspect disk and return list of operating systems found",
693 This function uses other libguestfs functions and certain
694 heuristics to inspect the disk(s) (usually disks belonging to
695 a virtual machine), looking for operating systems.
697 The list returned is empty if no operating systems were found.
699 If one operating system was found, then this returns a list with
700 a single element, which is the name of the root filesystem of
701 this operating system. It is also possible for this function
702 to return a list containing more than one element, indicating
703 a dual-boot or multi-boot virtual machine, with each element being
704 the root filesystem of one of the operating systems.
706 You can pass the root string(s) returned to other
707 C<guestfs_inspect_get_*> functions in order to query further
708 information about each operating system, such as the name
711 This function uses other libguestfs features such as
712 C<guestfs_mount_ro> and C<guestfs_umount_all> in order to mount
713 and unmount filesystems and look at the contents. This should
714 be called with no disks currently mounted. The function may also
715 use Augeas, so any existing Augeas handle will be closed.
717 This function cannot decrypt encrypted disks. The caller
718 must do that first (supplying the necessary keys) if the
721 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
723 See also C<guestfs_list_filesystems>.");
725 ("inspect_get_type", (RString "name", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
727 "get type of inspected operating system",
729 This function should only be called with a root device string
730 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
732 This returns the type of the inspected operating system.
733 Currently defined types are:
739 Any Linux-based operating system.
743 Any Microsoft Windows operating system.
751 The operating system type could not be determined.
755 Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings here.
756 The caller should be prepared to handle any string.
758 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
760 ("inspect_get_arch", (RString "arch", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
762 "get architecture of inspected operating system",
764 This function should only be called with a root device string
765 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
767 This returns the architecture of the inspected operating system.
768 The possible return values are listed under
769 C<guestfs_file_architecture>.
771 If the architecture could not be determined, then the
772 string C<unknown> is returned.
774 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
776 ("inspect_get_distro", (RString "distro", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
778 "get distro of inspected operating system",
780 This function should only be called with a root device string
781 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
783 This returns the distro (distribution) of the inspected operating
786 Currently defined distros are:
826 =item \"redhat-based\"
828 Some Red Hat-derived distro.
832 Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
834 =item \"scientificlinux\"
848 The distro could not be determined.
852 Windows does not have distributions. This string is
853 returned if the OS type is Windows.
857 Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings here.
858 The caller should be prepared to handle any string.
860 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
862 ("inspect_get_major_version", (RInt "major", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
864 "get major version of inspected operating system",
866 This function should only be called with a root device string
867 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
869 This returns the major version number of the inspected operating
872 Windows uses a consistent versioning scheme which is I<not>
873 reflected in the popular public names used by the operating system.
874 Notably the operating system known as \"Windows 7\" is really
875 version 6.1 (ie. major = 6, minor = 1). You can find out the
876 real versions corresponding to releases of Windows by consulting
879 If the version could not be determined, then C<0> is returned.
881 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
883 ("inspect_get_minor_version", (RInt "minor", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
885 "get minor version of inspected operating system",
887 This function should only be called with a root device string
888 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
890 This returns the minor version number of the inspected operating
893 If the version could not be determined, then C<0> is returned.
895 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
896 See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_major_version>.");
898 ("inspect_get_product_name", (RString "product", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
900 "get product name of inspected operating system",
902 This function should only be called with a root device string
903 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
905 This returns the product name of the inspected operating
906 system. The product name is generally some freeform string
907 which can be displayed to the user, but should not be
910 If the product name could not be determined, then the
911 string C<unknown> is returned.
913 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
915 ("inspect_get_mountpoints", (RHashtable "mountpoints", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
917 "get mountpoints of inspected operating system",
919 This function should only be called with a root device string
920 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
922 This returns a hash of where we think the filesystems
923 associated with this operating system should be mounted.
924 Callers should note that this is at best an educated guess
925 made by reading configuration files such as C</etc/fstab>.
926 I<In particular note> that this may return filesystems
927 which are non-existent or not mountable and callers should
928 be prepared to handle or ignore failures if they try to
931 Each element in the returned hashtable has a key which
932 is the path of the mountpoint (eg. C</boot>) and a value
933 which is the filesystem that would be mounted there
936 Non-mounted devices such as swap devices are I<not>
937 returned in this list.
939 For operating systems like Windows which still use drive
940 letters, this call will only return an entry for the first
941 drive \"mounted on\" C</>. For information about the
942 mapping of drive letters to partitions, see
943 C<guestfs_inspect_get_drive_mappings>.
945 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
946 See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_filesystems>.");
948 ("inspect_get_filesystems", (RStringList "filesystems", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
950 "get filesystems associated with inspected operating system",
952 This function should only be called with a root device string
953 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
955 This returns a list of all the filesystems that we think
956 are associated with this operating system. This includes
957 the root filesystem, other ordinary filesystems, and
958 non-mounted devices like swap partitions.
960 In the case of a multi-boot virtual machine, it is possible
961 for a filesystem to be shared between operating systems.
963 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
964 See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_mountpoints>.");
966 ("set_network", (RErr, [Bool "network"], []), -1, [FishAlias "network"],
968 "set enable network flag",
970 If C<network> is true, then the network is enabled in the
971 libguestfs appliance. The default is false.
973 This affects whether commands are able to access the network
974 (see L<guestfs(3)/RUNNING COMMANDS>).
976 You must call this before calling C<guestfs_launch>, otherwise
979 ("get_network", (RBool "network", [], []), -1, [],
981 "get enable network flag",
983 This returns the enable network flag.");
985 ("list_filesystems", (RHashtable "fses", [], []), -1, [],
989 This inspection command looks for filesystems on partitions,
990 block devices and logical volumes, returning a list of devices
991 containing filesystems and their type.
993 The return value is a hash, where the keys are the devices
994 containing filesystems, and the values are the filesystem types.
997 \"/dev/sda1\" => \"ntfs\"
998 \"/dev/sda2\" => \"ext2\"
999 \"/dev/vg_guest/lv_root\" => \"ext4\"
1000 \"/dev/vg_guest/lv_swap\" => \"swap\"
1002 The value can have the special value \"unknown\", meaning the
1003 content of the device is undetermined or empty.
1004 \"swap\" means a Linux swap partition.
1006 This command runs other libguestfs commands, which might include
1007 C<guestfs_mount> and C<guestfs_umount>, and therefore you should
1008 use this soon after launch and only when nothing is mounted.
1010 Not all of the filesystems returned will be mountable. In
1011 particular, swap partitions are returned in the list. Also
1012 this command does not check that each filesystem
1013 found is valid and mountable, and some filesystems might
1014 be mountable but require special options. Filesystems may
1015 not all belong to a single logical operating system
1016 (use C<guestfs_inspect_os> to look for OSes).");
1018 ("add_drive_opts", (RErr, [String "filename"], [Bool "readonly"; String "format"; String "iface"]), -1, [FishAlias "add"],
1020 "add an image to examine or modify",
1022 This function adds a virtual machine disk image C<filename> to
1023 libguestfs. The first time you call this function, the disk
1024 appears as C</dev/sda>, the second time as C</dev/sdb>, and
1027 You don't necessarily need to be root when using libguestfs. However
1028 you obviously do need sufficient permissions to access the filename
1029 for whatever operations you want to perform (ie. read access if you
1030 just want to read the image or write access if you want to modify the
1033 This call checks that C<filename> exists.
1035 The optional arguments are:
1041 If true then the image is treated as read-only. Writes are still
1042 allowed, but they are stored in a temporary snapshot overlay which
1043 is discarded at the end. The disk that you add is not modified.
1047 This forces the image format. If you omit this (or use C<guestfs_add_drive>
1048 or C<guestfs_add_drive_ro>) then the format is automatically detected.
1049 Possible formats include C<raw> and C<qcow2>.
1051 Automatic detection of the format opens you up to a potential
1052 security hole when dealing with untrusted raw-format images.
1053 See CVE-2010-3851 and RHBZ#642934. Specifying the format closes
1058 This rarely-used option lets you emulate the behaviour of the
1059 deprecated C<guestfs_add_drive_with_if> call (q.v.)
1063 ("inspect_get_windows_systemroot", (RString "systemroot", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1065 "get Windows systemroot of inspected operating system",
1067 This function should only be called with a root device string
1068 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1070 This returns the Windows systemroot of the inspected guest.
1071 The systemroot is a directory path such as C</WINDOWS>.
1073 This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the
1074 systemroot could be determined by inspection. If this is not
1075 the case then an error is returned.
1077 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1079 ("inspect_get_roots", (RStringList "roots", [], []), -1, [],
1081 "return list of operating systems found by last inspection",
1083 This function is a convenient way to get the list of root
1084 devices, as returned from a previous call to C<guestfs_inspect_os>,
1085 but without redoing the whole inspection process.
1087 This returns an empty list if either no root devices were
1088 found or the caller has not called C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1090 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1092 ("debug_cmdline", (RStringList "cmdline", [], []), -1, [NotInDocs],
1094 "debug the QEMU command line (internal use only)",
1096 This returns the internal QEMU command line. 'debug' commands are
1097 not part of the formal API and can be removed or changed at any time.");
1099 ("add_domain", (RInt "nrdisks", [String "dom"], [String "libvirturi"; Bool "readonly"; String "iface"; Bool "live"]), -1, [FishAlias "domain"],
1101 "add the disk(s) from a named libvirt domain",
1103 This function adds the disk(s) attached to the named libvirt
1104 domain C<dom>. It works by connecting to libvirt, requesting
1105 the domain and domain XML from libvirt, parsing it for disks,
1106 and calling C<guestfs_add_drive_opts> on each one.
1108 The number of disks added is returned. This operation is atomic:
1109 if an error is returned, then no disks are added.
1111 This function does some minimal checks to make sure the libvirt
1112 domain is not running (unless C<readonly> is true). In a future
1113 version we will try to acquire the libvirt lock on each disk.
1115 Disks must be accessible locally. This often means that adding disks
1116 from a remote libvirt connection (see L<http://libvirt.org/remote.html>)
1117 will fail unless those disks are accessible via the same device path
1120 The optional C<libvirturi> parameter sets the libvirt URI
1121 (see L<http://libvirt.org/uri.html>). If this is not set then
1122 we connect to the default libvirt URI (or one set through an
1123 environment variable, see the libvirt documentation for full
1126 The optional C<live> flag controls whether this call will try
1127 to connect to a running virtual machine C<guestfsd> process if
1128 it sees a suitable E<lt>channelE<gt> element in the libvirt
1129 XML definition. The default (if the flag is omitted) is never
1130 to try. See L<guestfs(3)/ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS> for more
1133 The other optional parameters are passed directly through to
1134 C<guestfs_add_drive_opts>.");
1137 This interface is not quite baked yet. -- RWMJ 2010-11-11
1138 ("add_libvirt_dom", (RInt "nrdisks", [Pointer ("virDomainPtr", "dom")], [Bool "readonly"; String "iface"; Bool "live"]), -1, [NotInFish],
1140 "add the disk(s) from a libvirt domain",
1142 This function adds the disk(s) attached to the libvirt domain C<dom>.
1143 It works by requesting the domain XML from libvirt, parsing it for
1144 disks, and calling C<guestfs_add_drive_opts> on each one.
1146 In the C API we declare C<void *dom>, but really it has type
1147 C<virDomainPtr dom>. This is so we don't need E<lt>libvirt.hE<gt>.
1149 The number of disks added is returned. This operation is atomic:
1150 if an error is returned, then no disks are added.
1152 This function does some minimal checks to make sure the libvirt
1153 domain is not running (unless C<readonly> is true). In a future
1154 version we will try to acquire the libvirt lock on each disk.
1156 Disks must be accessible locally. This often means that adding disks
1157 from a remote libvirt connection (see L<http://libvirt.org/remote.html>)
1158 will fail unless those disks are accessible via the same device path
1161 The optional C<live> flag controls whether this call will try
1162 to connect to a running virtual machine C<guestfsd> process if
1163 it sees a suitable E<lt>channelE<gt> element in the libvirt
1164 XML definition. The default (if the flag is omitted) is never
1165 to try. See L<guestfs(3)/ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS> for more
1168 The other optional parameters are passed directly through to
1169 C<guestfs_add_drive_opts>.");
1172 ("inspect_get_package_format", (RString "packageformat", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1174 "get package format used by the operating system",
1176 This function should only be called with a root device string
1177 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1179 This function and C<guestfs_inspect_get_package_management> return
1180 the package format and package management tool used by the
1181 inspected operating system. For example for Fedora these
1182 functions would return C<rpm> (package format) and
1183 C<yum> (package management).
1185 This returns the string C<unknown> if we could not determine the
1186 package format I<or> if the operating system does not have
1187 a real packaging system (eg. Windows).
1189 Possible strings include: C<rpm>, C<deb>, C<ebuild>, C<pisi>, C<pacman>.
1190 Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings.
1192 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1194 ("inspect_get_package_management", (RString "packagemanagement", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1196 "get package management tool used by the operating system",
1198 This function should only be called with a root device string
1199 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1201 C<guestfs_inspect_get_package_format> and this function return
1202 the package format and package management tool used by the
1203 inspected operating system. For example for Fedora these
1204 functions would return C<rpm> (package format) and
1205 C<yum> (package management).
1207 This returns the string C<unknown> if we could not determine the
1208 package management tool I<or> if the operating system does not have
1209 a real packaging system (eg. Windows).
1211 Possible strings include: C<yum>, C<up2date>,
1212 C<apt> (for all Debian derivatives),
1213 C<portage>, C<pisi>, C<pacman>, C<urpmi>.
1214 Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings.
1216 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1218 ("inspect_list_applications", (RStructList ("applications", "application"), [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1220 "get list of applications installed in the operating system",
1222 This function should only be called with a root device string
1223 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1225 Return the list of applications installed in the operating system.
1227 I<Note:> This call works differently from other parts of the
1228 inspection API. You have to call C<guestfs_inspect_os>, then
1229 C<guestfs_inspect_get_mountpoints>, then mount up the disks,
1230 before calling this. Listing applications is a significantly
1231 more difficult operation which requires access to the full
1232 filesystem. Also note that unlike the other
1233 C<guestfs_inspect_get_*> calls which are just returning
1234 data cached in the libguestfs handle, this call actually reads
1235 parts of the mounted filesystems during the call.
1237 This returns an empty list if the inspection code was not able
1238 to determine the list of applications.
1240 The application structure contains the following fields:
1246 The name of the application. For Red Hat-derived and Debian-derived
1247 Linux guests, this is the package name.
1249 =item C<app_display_name>
1251 The display name of the application, sometimes localized to the
1252 install language of the guest operating system.
1254 If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1255 Callers needing to display something can use C<app_name> instead.
1259 For package managers which use epochs, this contains the epoch of
1260 the package (an integer). If unavailable, this is returned as C<0>.
1262 =item C<app_version>
1264 The version string of the application or package. If unavailable
1265 this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1267 =item C<app_release>
1269 The release string of the application or package, for package
1270 managers that use this. If unavailable this is returned as an
1271 empty string C<\"\">.
1273 =item C<app_install_path>
1275 The installation path of the application (on operating systems
1276 such as Windows which use installation paths). This path is
1277 in the format used by the guest operating system, it is not
1280 If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1282 =item C<app_trans_path>
1284 The install path translated into a libguestfs path.
1285 If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1287 =item C<app_publisher>
1289 The name of the publisher of the application, for package
1290 managers that use this. If unavailable this is returned
1291 as an empty string C<\"\">.
1295 The URL (eg. upstream URL) of the application.
1296 If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1298 =item C<app_source_package>
1300 For packaging systems which support this, the name of the source
1301 package. If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1303 =item C<app_summary>
1305 A short (usually one line) description of the application or package.
1306 If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1308 =item C<app_description>
1310 A longer description of the application or package.
1311 If unavailable this is returned as an empty string C<\"\">.
1315 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1317 ("inspect_get_hostname", (RString "hostname", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1319 "get hostname of the operating system",
1321 This function should only be called with a root device string
1322 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1324 This function returns the hostname of the operating system
1325 as found by inspection of the guest's configuration files.
1327 If the hostname could not be determined, then the
1328 string C<unknown> is returned.
1330 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1332 ("inspect_get_format", (RString "format", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1334 "get format of inspected operating system",
1336 This function should only be called with a root device string
1337 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1339 This returns the format of the inspected operating system. You
1340 can use it to detect install images, live CDs and similar.
1342 Currently defined formats are:
1348 This is an installed operating system.
1352 The disk image being inspected is not an installed operating system,
1353 but a I<bootable> install disk, live CD, or similar.
1357 The format of this disk image is not known.
1361 Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings here.
1362 The caller should be prepared to handle any string.
1364 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1366 ("inspect_is_live", (RBool "live", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1368 "get live flag for install disk",
1370 This function should only be called with a root device string
1371 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1373 If C<guestfs_inspect_get_format> returns C<installer> (this
1374 is an install disk), then this returns true if a live image
1375 was detected on the disk.
1377 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1379 ("inspect_is_netinst", (RBool "netinst", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1381 "get netinst (network installer) flag for install disk",
1383 This function should only be called with a root device string
1384 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1386 If C<guestfs_inspect_get_format> returns C<installer> (this
1387 is an install disk), then this returns true if the disk is
1388 a network installer, ie. not a self-contained install CD but
1389 one which is likely to require network access to complete
1392 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1394 ("inspect_is_multipart", (RBool "multipart", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1396 "get multipart flag for install disk",
1398 This function should only be called with a root device string
1399 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1401 If C<guestfs_inspect_get_format> returns C<installer> (this
1402 is an install disk), then this returns true if the disk is
1405 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1407 ("set_attach_method", (RErr, [String "attachmethod"], []), -1, [FishAlias "attach-method"],
1409 "set the attach method",
1411 Set the method that libguestfs uses to connect to the back end
1412 guestfsd daemon. Possible methods are:
1418 Launch an appliance and connect to it. This is the ordinary method
1421 =item C<unix:I<path>>
1423 Connect to the Unix domain socket I<path>.
1425 This method lets you connect to an existing daemon or (using
1426 virtio-serial) to a live guest. For more information, see
1427 L<guestfs(3)/ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS>.
1431 ("get_attach_method", (RString "attachmethod", [], []), -1, [],
1432 [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
1433 [["get_attach_method"]], "appliance")],
1434 "get the attach method",
1436 Return the current attach method. See C<guestfs_set_attach_method>.");
1438 ("inspect_get_product_variant", (RString "variant", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1440 "get product variant of inspected operating system",
1442 This function should only be called with a root device string
1443 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1445 This returns the product variant of the inspected operating
1448 For Windows guests, this returns the contents of the Registry key
1449 C<HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion>
1450 C<InstallationType> which is usually a string such as
1451 C<Client> or C<Server> (other values are possible). This
1452 can be used to distinguish consumer and enterprise versions
1453 of Windows that have the same version number (for example,
1454 Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server are both version 6.1,
1455 but the former is C<Client> and the latter is C<Server>).
1457 For enterprise Linux guests, in future we intend this to return
1458 the product variant such as C<Desktop>, C<Server> and so on. But
1459 this is not implemented at present.
1461 If the product variant could not be determined, then the
1462 string C<unknown> is returned.
1464 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
1465 See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_product_name>,
1466 C<guestfs_inspect_get_major_version>.");
1468 ("inspect_get_windows_current_control_set", (RString "controlset", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1470 "get Windows CurrentControlSet of inspected operating system",
1472 This function should only be called with a root device string
1473 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1475 This returns the Windows CurrentControlSet of the inspected guest.
1476 The CurrentControlSet is a registry key name such as C<ControlSet001>.
1478 This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the
1479 Registry could be examined by inspection. If this is not
1480 the case then an error is returned.
1482 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.");
1484 ("inspect_get_drive_mappings", (RHashtable "drives", [Device "root"], []), -1, [],
1486 "get drive letter mappings",
1488 This function should only be called with a root device string
1489 as returned by C<guestfs_inspect_os>.
1491 This call is useful for Windows which uses a primitive system
1492 of assigning drive letters (like \"C:\") to partitions.
1493 This inspection API examines the Windows Registry to find out
1494 how disks/partitions are mapped to drive letters, and returns
1495 a hash table as in the example below:
1501 Note that keys are drive letters. For Windows, the key is
1502 case insensitive and just contains the drive letter, without
1503 the customary colon separator character.
1505 In future we may support other operating systems that also used drive
1506 letters, but the keys for those might not be case insensitive
1507 and might be longer than 1 character. For example in OS-9,
1508 hard drives were named C<h0>, C<h1> etc.
1510 For Windows guests, currently only hard drive mappings are
1511 returned. Removable disks (eg. DVD-ROMs) are ignored.
1513 For guests that do not use drive mappings, or if the drive mappings
1514 could not be determined, this returns an empty hash table.
1516 Please read L<guestfs(3)/INSPECTION> for more details.
1517 See also C<guestfs_inspect_get_mountpoints>,
1518 C<guestfs_inspect_get_filesystems>.");
1522 (* daemon_functions are any functions which cause some action
1523 * to take place in the daemon.
1526 let daemon_functions = [
1527 ("mount", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "mountpoint"], []), 1, [],
1528 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
1529 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
1530 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"];
1531 ["mount"; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
1532 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
1533 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
1534 "mount a guest disk at a position in the filesystem",
1536 Mount a guest disk at a position in the filesystem. Block devices
1537 are named C</dev/sda>, C</dev/sdb> and so on, as they were added to
1538 the guest. If those block devices contain partitions, they will have
1539 the usual names (eg. C</dev/sda1>). Also LVM C</dev/VG/LV>-style
1542 The rules are the same as for L<mount(2)>: A filesystem must
1543 first be mounted on C</> before others can be mounted. Other
1544 filesystems can only be mounted on directories which already
1547 The mounted filesystem is writable, if we have sufficient permissions
1548 on the underlying device.
1551 When you use this call, the filesystem options C<sync> and C<noatime>
1552 are set implicitly. This was originally done because we thought it
1553 would improve reliability, but it turns out that I<-o sync> has a
1554 very large negative performance impact and negligible effect on
1555 reliability. Therefore we recommend that you avoid using
1556 C<guestfs_mount> in any code that needs performance, and instead
1557 use C<guestfs_mount_options> (use an empty string for the first
1558 parameter if you don't want any options).");
1560 ("sync", (RErr, [], []), 2, [],
1561 [ InitEmpty, Always, TestRun [["sync"]]],
1562 "sync disks, writes are flushed through to the disk image",
1564 This syncs the disk, so that any writes are flushed through to the
1565 underlying disk image.
1567 You should always call this if you have modified a disk image, before
1568 closing the handle.");
1570 ("touch", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 3, [],
1571 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
1572 [["touch"; "/touch"];
1573 ["exists"; "/touch"]])],
1574 "update file timestamps or create a new file",
1576 Touch acts like the L<touch(1)> command. It can be used to
1577 update the timestamps on a file, or, if the file does not exist,
1578 to create a new zero-length file.
1580 This command only works on regular files, and will fail on other
1581 file types such as directories, symbolic links, block special etc.");
1583 ("cat", (RString "content", [Pathname "path"], []), 4, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
1584 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
1585 [["cat"; "/known-2"]], "abcdef\n")],
1586 "list the contents of a file",
1588 Return the contents of the file named C<path>.
1590 Note that this function cannot correctly handle binary files
1591 (specifically, files containing C<\\0> character which is treated
1592 as end of string). For those you need to use the C<guestfs_read_file>
1593 or C<guestfs_download> functions which have a more complex interface.");
1595 ("ll", (RString "listing", [Pathname "directory"], []), 5, [],
1596 [], (* XXX Tricky to test because it depends on the exact format
1597 * of the 'ls -l' command, which changes between F10 and F11.
1599 "list the files in a directory (long format)",
1601 List the files in C<directory> (relative to the root directory,
1602 there is no cwd) in the format of 'ls -la'.
1604 This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions. It
1605 is I<not> intended that you try to parse the output string.");
1607 ("ls", (RStringList "listing", [Pathname "directory"], []), 6, [],
1608 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
1610 ["touch"; "/ls/new"];
1611 ["touch"; "/ls/newer"];
1612 ["touch"; "/ls/newest"];
1613 ["ls"; "/ls"]], ["new"; "newer"; "newest"])],
1614 "list the files in a directory",
1616 List the files in C<directory> (relative to the root directory,
1617 there is no cwd). The '.' and '..' entries are not returned, but
1618 hidden files are shown.
1620 This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions. Programs
1621 should probably use C<guestfs_readdir> instead.");
1623 ("list_devices", (RStringList "devices", [], []), 7, [],
1624 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
1625 [["list_devices"]], ["/dev/sda"; "/dev/sdb"; "/dev/sdc"; "/dev/sdd"])],
1626 "list the block devices",
1628 List all the block devices.
1630 The full block device names are returned, eg. C</dev/sda>.
1632 See also C<guestfs_list_filesystems>.");
1634 ("list_partitions", (RStringList "partitions", [], []), 8, [],
1635 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
1636 [["list_partitions"]], ["/dev/sda1"; "/dev/sdb1"]);
1637 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
1638 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
1639 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
1640 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
1641 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
1642 ["list_partitions"]], ["/dev/sda1"; "/dev/sda2"; "/dev/sda3"; "/dev/sdb1"])],
1643 "list the partitions",
1645 List all the partitions detected on all block devices.
1647 The full partition device names are returned, eg. C</dev/sda1>
1649 This does not return logical volumes. For that you will need to
1650 call C<guestfs_lvs>.
1652 See also C<guestfs_list_filesystems>.");
1654 ("pvs", (RStringList "physvols", [], []), 9, [Optional "lvm2"],
1655 [InitBasicFSonLVM, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
1656 [["pvs"]], ["/dev/sda1"]);
1657 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
1658 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
1659 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
1660 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
1661 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
1662 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
1663 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda2"];
1664 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda3"];
1665 ["pvs"]], ["/dev/sda1"; "/dev/sda2"; "/dev/sda3"])],
1666 "list the LVM physical volumes (PVs)",
1668 List all the physical volumes detected. This is the equivalent
1669 of the L<pvs(8)> command.
1671 This returns a list of just the device names that contain
1672 PVs (eg. C</dev/sda2>).
1674 See also C<guestfs_pvs_full>.");
1676 ("vgs", (RStringList "volgroups", [], []), 10, [Optional "lvm2"],
1677 [InitBasicFSonLVM, Always, TestOutputList (
1679 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
1680 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
1681 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
1682 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
1683 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
1684 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
1685 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda2"];
1686 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda3"];
1687 ["vgcreate"; "VG1"; "/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2"];
1688 ["vgcreate"; "VG2"; "/dev/sda3"];
1689 ["vgs"]], ["VG1"; "VG2"])],
1690 "list the LVM volume groups (VGs)",
1692 List all the volumes groups detected. This is the equivalent
1693 of the L<vgs(8)> command.
1695 This returns a list of just the volume group names that were
1696 detected (eg. C<VolGroup00>).
1698 See also C<guestfs_vgs_full>.");
1700 ("lvs", (RStringList "logvols", [], []), 11, [Optional "lvm2"],
1701 [InitBasicFSonLVM, Always, TestOutputList (
1702 [["lvs"]], ["/dev/VG/LV"]);
1703 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
1704 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
1705 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
1706 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
1707 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
1708 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
1709 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda2"];
1710 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda3"];
1711 ["vgcreate"; "VG1"; "/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2"];
1712 ["vgcreate"; "VG2"; "/dev/sda3"];
1713 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG1"; "50"];
1714 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG1"; "50"];
1715 ["lvcreate"; "LV3"; "VG2"; "50"];
1716 ["lvs"]], ["/dev/VG1/LV1"; "/dev/VG1/LV2"; "/dev/VG2/LV3"])],
1717 "list the LVM logical volumes (LVs)",
1719 List all the logical volumes detected. This is the equivalent
1720 of the L<lvs(8)> command.
1722 This returns a list of the logical volume device names
1723 (eg. C</dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00>).
1725 See also C<guestfs_lvs_full>, C<guestfs_list_filesystems>.");
1727 ("pvs_full", (RStructList ("physvols", "lvm_pv"), [], []), 12, [Optional "lvm2"],
1728 [], (* XXX how to test? *)
1729 "list the LVM physical volumes (PVs)",
1731 List all the physical volumes detected. This is the equivalent
1732 of the L<pvs(8)> command. The \"full\" version includes all fields.");
1734 ("vgs_full", (RStructList ("volgroups", "lvm_vg"), [], []), 13, [Optional "lvm2"],
1735 [], (* XXX how to test? *)
1736 "list the LVM volume groups (VGs)",
1738 List all the volumes groups detected. This is the equivalent
1739 of the L<vgs(8)> command. The \"full\" version includes all fields.");
1741 ("lvs_full", (RStructList ("logvols", "lvm_lv"), [], []), 14, [Optional "lvm2"],
1742 [], (* XXX how to test? *)
1743 "list the LVM logical volumes (LVs)",
1745 List all the logical volumes detected. This is the equivalent
1746 of the L<lvs(8)> command. The \"full\" version includes all fields.");
1748 ("read_lines", (RStringList "lines", [Pathname "path"], []), 15, [],
1749 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
1750 [["read_lines"; "/known-4"]], ["abc"; "def"; "ghi"]);
1751 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
1752 [["read_lines"; "/empty"]], [])],
1753 "read file as lines",
1755 Return the contents of the file named C<path>.
1757 The file contents are returned as a list of lines. Trailing
1758 C<LF> and C<CRLF> character sequences are I<not> returned.
1760 Note that this function cannot correctly handle binary files
1761 (specifically, files containing C<\\0> character which is treated
1762 as end of line). For those you need to use the C<guestfs_read_file>
1763 function which has a more complex interface.");
1765 ("aug_init", (RErr, [Pathname "root"; Int "flags"], []), 16, [Optional "augeas"],
1766 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1767 "create a new Augeas handle",
1769 Create a new Augeas handle for editing configuration files.
1770 If there was any previous Augeas handle associated with this
1771 guestfs session, then it is closed.
1773 You must call this before using any other C<guestfs_aug_*>
1776 C<root> is the filesystem root. C<root> must not be NULL,
1779 The flags are the same as the flags defined in
1780 E<lt>augeas.hE<gt>, the logical I<or> of the following
1785 =item C<AUG_SAVE_BACKUP> = 1
1787 Keep the original file with a C<.augsave> extension.
1789 =item C<AUG_SAVE_NEWFILE> = 2
1791 Save changes into a file with extension C<.augnew>, and
1792 do not overwrite original. Overrides C<AUG_SAVE_BACKUP>.
1794 =item C<AUG_TYPE_CHECK> = 4
1796 Typecheck lenses (can be expensive).
1798 =item C<AUG_NO_STDINC> = 8
1800 Do not use standard load path for modules.
1802 =item C<AUG_SAVE_NOOP> = 16
1804 Make save a no-op, just record what would have been changed.
1806 =item C<AUG_NO_LOAD> = 32
1808 Do not load the tree in C<guestfs_aug_init>.
1812 To close the handle, you can call C<guestfs_aug_close>.
1814 To find out more about Augeas, see L<http://augeas.net/>.");
1816 ("aug_close", (RErr, [], []), 26, [Optional "augeas"],
1817 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1818 "close the current Augeas handle",
1820 Close the current Augeas handle and free up any resources
1821 used by it. After calling this, you have to call
1822 C<guestfs_aug_init> again before you can use any other
1823 Augeas functions.");
1825 ("aug_defvar", (RInt "nrnodes", [String "name"; OptString "expr"], []), 17, [Optional "augeas"],
1826 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1827 "define an Augeas variable",
1829 Defines an Augeas variable C<name> whose value is the result
1830 of evaluating C<expr>. If C<expr> is NULL, then C<name> is
1833 On success this returns the number of nodes in C<expr>, or
1834 C<0> if C<expr> evaluates to something which is not a nodeset.");
1836 ("aug_defnode", (RStruct ("nrnodescreated", "int_bool"), [String "name"; String "expr"; String "val"], []), 18, [Optional "augeas"],
1837 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1838 "define an Augeas node",
1840 Defines a variable C<name> whose value is the result of
1843 If C<expr> evaluates to an empty nodeset, a node is created,
1844 equivalent to calling C<guestfs_aug_set> C<expr>, C<value>.
1845 C<name> will be the nodeset containing that single node.
1847 On success this returns a pair containing the
1848 number of nodes in the nodeset, and a boolean flag
1849 if a node was created.");
1851 ("aug_get", (RString "val", [String "augpath"], []), 19, [Optional "augeas"],
1852 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1853 "look up the value of an Augeas path",
1855 Look up the value associated with C<path>. If C<path>
1856 matches exactly one node, the C<value> is returned.");
1858 ("aug_set", (RErr, [String "augpath"; String "val"], []), 20, [Optional "augeas"],
1859 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1860 "set Augeas path to value",
1862 Set the value associated with C<path> to C<val>.
1864 In the Augeas API, it is possible to clear a node by setting
1865 the value to NULL. Due to an oversight in the libguestfs API
1866 you cannot do that with this call. Instead you must use the
1867 C<guestfs_aug_clear> call.");
1869 ("aug_insert", (RErr, [String "augpath"; String "label"; Bool "before"], []), 21, [Optional "augeas"],
1870 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1871 "insert a sibling Augeas node",
1873 Create a new sibling C<label> for C<path>, inserting it into
1874 the tree before or after C<path> (depending on the boolean
1877 C<path> must match exactly one existing node in the tree, and
1878 C<label> must be a label, ie. not contain C</>, C<*> or end
1879 with a bracketed index C<[N]>.");
1881 ("aug_rm", (RInt "nrnodes", [String "augpath"], []), 22, [Optional "augeas"],
1882 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1883 "remove an Augeas path",
1885 Remove C<path> and all of its children.
1887 On success this returns the number of entries which were removed.");
1889 ("aug_mv", (RErr, [String "src"; String "dest"], []), 23, [Optional "augeas"],
1890 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1893 Move the node C<src> to C<dest>. C<src> must match exactly
1894 one node. C<dest> is overwritten if it exists.");
1896 ("aug_match", (RStringList "matches", [String "augpath"], []), 24, [Optional "augeas"],
1897 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1898 "return Augeas nodes which match augpath",
1900 Returns a list of paths which match the path expression C<path>.
1901 The returned paths are sufficiently qualified so that they match
1902 exactly one node in the current tree.");
1904 ("aug_save", (RErr, [], []), 25, [Optional "augeas"],
1905 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1906 "write all pending Augeas changes to disk",
1908 This writes all pending changes to disk.
1910 The flags which were passed to C<guestfs_aug_init> affect exactly
1911 how files are saved.");
1913 ("aug_load", (RErr, [], []), 27, [Optional "augeas"],
1914 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1915 "load files into the tree",
1917 Load files into the tree.
1919 See C<aug_load> in the Augeas documentation for the full gory
1922 ("aug_ls", (RStringList "matches", [String "augpath"], []), 28, [Optional "augeas"],
1923 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
1924 "list Augeas nodes under augpath",
1926 This is just a shortcut for listing C<guestfs_aug_match>
1927 C<path/*> and sorting the resulting nodes into alphabetical order.");
1929 ("rm", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 29, [],
1930 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun
1932 ["touch"; "/rm/new"];
1934 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
1935 [["rm"; "/nosuchfile"]];
1936 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
1941 Remove the single file C<path>.");
1943 ("rmdir", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 30, [],
1944 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun
1945 [["mkdir"; "/rmdir"];
1946 ["rmdir"; "/rmdir"]];
1947 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
1948 [["rmdir"; "/rmdir2"]];
1949 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
1950 [["mkdir"; "/rmdir3"];
1951 ["touch"; "/rmdir3/new"];
1952 ["rmdir"; "/rmdir3/new"]]],
1953 "remove a directory",
1955 Remove the single directory C<path>.");
1957 ("rm_rf", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 31, [],
1958 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputFalse
1959 [["mkdir"; "/rm_rf"];
1960 ["mkdir"; "/rm_rf/foo"];
1961 ["touch"; "/rm_rf/foo/bar"];
1962 ["rm_rf"; "/rm_rf"];
1963 ["exists"; "/rm_rf"]]],
1964 "remove a file or directory recursively",
1966 Remove the file or directory C<path>, recursively removing the
1967 contents if its a directory. This is like the C<rm -rf> shell
1970 ("mkdir", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 32, [],
1971 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue
1972 [["mkdir"; "/mkdir"];
1973 ["is_dir"; "/mkdir"]];
1974 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
1975 [["mkdir"; "/mkdir2/foo/bar"]]],
1976 "create a directory",
1978 Create a directory named C<path>.");
1980 ("mkdir_p", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 33, [],
1981 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue
1982 [["mkdir_p"; "/mkdir_p/foo/bar"];
1983 ["is_dir"; "/mkdir_p/foo/bar"]];
1984 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue
1985 [["mkdir_p"; "/mkdir_p2/foo/bar"];
1986 ["is_dir"; "/mkdir_p2/foo"]];
1987 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue
1988 [["mkdir_p"; "/mkdir_p3/foo/bar"];
1989 ["is_dir"; "/mkdir_p3"]];
1990 (* Regression tests for RHBZ#503133: *)
1991 InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun
1992 [["mkdir"; "/mkdir_p4"];
1993 ["mkdir_p"; "/mkdir_p4"]];
1994 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
1995 [["touch"; "/mkdir_p5"];
1996 ["mkdir_p"; "/mkdir_p5"]]],
1997 "create a directory and parents",
1999 Create a directory named C<path>, creating any parent directories
2000 as necessary. This is like the C<mkdir -p> shell command.");
2002 ("chmod", (RErr, [Int "mode"; Pathname "path"], []), 34, [],
2003 [], (* XXX Need stat command to test *)
2006 Change the mode (permissions) of C<path> to C<mode>. Only
2007 numeric modes are supported.
2009 I<Note>: When using this command from guestfish, C<mode>
2010 by default would be decimal, unless you prefix it with
2011 C<0> to get octal, ie. use C<0700> not C<700>.
2013 The mode actually set is affected by the umask.");
2015 ("chown", (RErr, [Int "owner"; Int "group"; Pathname "path"], []), 35, [],
2016 [], (* XXX Need stat command to test *)
2017 "change file owner and group",
2019 Change the file owner to C<owner> and group to C<group>.
2021 Only numeric uid and gid are supported. If you want to use
2022 names, you will need to locate and parse the password file
2023 yourself (Augeas support makes this relatively easy).");
2025 ("exists", (RBool "existsflag", [Pathname "path"], []), 36, [],
2026 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2027 [["exists"; "/empty"]]);
2028 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2029 [["exists"; "/directory"]])],
2030 "test if file or directory exists",
2032 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a file, directory
2033 (or anything) with the given C<path> name.
2035 See also C<guestfs_is_file>, C<guestfs_is_dir>, C<guestfs_stat>.");
2037 ("is_file", (RBool "fileflag", [Pathname "path"], []), 37, [],
2038 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2039 [["is_file"; "/known-1"]]);
2040 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
2041 [["is_file"; "/directory"]])],
2042 "test if a regular file",
2044 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a regular file
2045 with the given C<path> name. Note that it returns false for
2046 other objects like directories.
2048 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
2050 ("is_dir", (RBool "dirflag", [Pathname "path"], []), 38, [],
2051 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
2052 [["is_dir"; "/known-3"]]);
2053 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2054 [["is_dir"; "/directory"]])],
2055 "test if a directory",
2057 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a directory
2058 with the given C<path> name. Note that it returns false for
2059 other objects like files.
2061 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
2063 ("pvcreate", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 39, [Optional "lvm2"],
2064 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
2065 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2066 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
2067 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
2068 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
2069 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2070 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda2"];
2071 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda3"];
2072 ["pvs"]], ["/dev/sda1"; "/dev/sda2"; "/dev/sda3"])],
2073 "create an LVM physical volume",
2075 This creates an LVM physical volume on the named C<device>,
2076 where C<device> should usually be a partition name such
2079 ("vgcreate", (RErr, [String "volgroup"; DeviceList "physvols"], []), 40, [Optional "lvm2"],
2080 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2081 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2082 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
2083 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
2084 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
2085 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2086 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda2"];
2087 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda3"];
2088 ["vgcreate"; "VG1"; "/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2"];
2089 ["vgcreate"; "VG2"; "/dev/sda3"];
2090 ["vgs"]], ["VG1"; "VG2"])],
2091 "create an LVM volume group",
2093 This creates an LVM volume group called C<volgroup>
2094 from the non-empty list of physical volumes C<physvols>.");
2096 ("lvcreate", (RErr, [String "logvol"; String "volgroup"; Int "mbytes"], []), 41, [Optional "lvm2"],
2097 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2098 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2099 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
2100 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
2101 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
2102 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2103 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda2"];
2104 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda3"];
2105 ["vgcreate"; "VG1"; "/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2"];
2106 ["vgcreate"; "VG2"; "/dev/sda3"];
2107 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG1"; "50"];
2108 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG1"; "50"];
2109 ["lvcreate"; "LV3"; "VG2"; "50"];
2110 ["lvcreate"; "LV4"; "VG2"; "50"];
2111 ["lvcreate"; "LV5"; "VG2"; "50"];
2113 ["/dev/VG1/LV1"; "/dev/VG1/LV2";
2114 "/dev/VG2/LV3"; "/dev/VG2/LV4"; "/dev/VG2/LV5"])],
2115 "create an LVM logical volume",
2117 This creates an LVM logical volume called C<logvol>
2118 on the volume group C<volgroup>, with C<size> megabytes.");
2120 ("mkfs", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Device "device"], []), 42, [],
2121 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
2122 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2123 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"];
2124 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
2125 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
2126 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
2127 "make a filesystem",
2129 This creates a filesystem on C<device> (usually a partition
2130 or LVM logical volume). The filesystem type is C<fstype>, for
2133 ("sfdisk", (RErr, [Device "device";
2134 Int "cyls"; Int "heads"; Int "sectors";
2135 StringList "lines"], []), 43, [DangerWillRobinson],
2137 "create partitions on a block device",
2139 This is a direct interface to the L<sfdisk(8)> program for creating
2140 partitions on block devices.
2142 C<device> should be a block device, for example C</dev/sda>.
2144 C<cyls>, C<heads> and C<sectors> are the number of cylinders, heads
2145 and sectors on the device, which are passed directly to sfdisk as
2146 the I<-C>, I<-H> and I<-S> parameters. If you pass C<0> for any
2147 of these, then the corresponding parameter is omitted. Usually for
2148 'large' disks, you can just pass C<0> for these, but for small
2149 (floppy-sized) disks, sfdisk (or rather, the kernel) cannot work
2150 out the right geometry and you will need to tell it.
2152 C<lines> is a list of lines that we feed to C<sfdisk>. For more
2153 information refer to the L<sfdisk(8)> manpage.
2155 To create a single partition occupying the whole disk, you would
2156 pass C<lines> as a single element list, when the single element being
2157 the string C<,> (comma).
2159 See also: C<guestfs_sfdisk_l>, C<guestfs_sfdisk_N>,
2160 C<guestfs_part_init>");
2162 ("write_file", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; String "content"; Int "size"], []), 44, [ProtocolLimitWarning; DeprecatedBy "write"],
2163 (* Regression test for RHBZ#597135. *)
2164 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail
2165 [["write_file"; "/write_file"; "abc"; "10000"]]],
2168 This call creates a file called C<path>. The contents of the
2169 file is the string C<content> (which can contain any 8 bit data),
2170 with length C<size>.
2172 As a special case, if C<size> is C<0>
2173 then the length is calculated using C<strlen> (so in this case
2174 the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
2176 I<NB.> Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL
2177 characters does I<not> work, even if the length is specified.");
2179 ("umount", (RErr, [String "pathordevice"], []), 45, [FishAlias "unmount"],
2180 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
2181 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2182 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"];
2183 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
2184 ["mounts"]], ["/dev/sda1"]);
2185 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2186 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2187 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"];
2188 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
2191 "unmount a filesystem",
2193 This unmounts the given filesystem. The filesystem may be
2194 specified either by its mountpoint (path) or the device which
2195 contains the filesystem.");
2197 ("mounts", (RStringList "devices", [], []), 46, [],
2198 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
2199 [["mounts"]], ["/dev/sdb1"])],
2200 "show mounted filesystems",
2202 This returns the list of currently mounted filesystems. It returns
2203 the list of devices (eg. C</dev/sda1>, C</dev/VG/LV>).
2205 Some internal mounts are not shown.
2207 See also: C<guestfs_mountpoints>");
2209 ("umount_all", (RErr, [], []), 47, [FishAlias "unmount-all"],
2210 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2213 (* check that umount_all can unmount nested mounts correctly: *)
2214 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2215 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2216 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
2217 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "409599"];
2218 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "409600"; "-64"];
2219 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"];
2220 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda2"];
2221 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda3"];
2222 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
2224 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda2"; "/mp1"];
2225 ["mkdir"; "/mp1/mp2"];
2226 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda3"; "/mp1/mp2"];
2227 ["mkdir"; "/mp1/mp2/mp3"];
2230 "unmount all filesystems",
2232 This unmounts all mounted filesystems.
2234 Some internal mounts are not unmounted by this call.");
2236 ("lvm_remove_all", (RErr, [], []), 48, [DangerWillRobinson; Optional "lvm2"],
2238 "remove all LVM LVs, VGs and PVs",
2240 This command removes all LVM logical volumes, volume groups
2241 and physical volumes.");
2243 ("file", (RString "description", [Dev_or_Path "path"], []), 49, [],
2244 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2245 [["file"; "/empty"]], "empty");
2246 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2247 [["file"; "/known-1"]], "ASCII text");
2248 InitISOFS, Always, TestLastFail (
2249 [["file"; "/notexists"]]);
2250 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2251 [["file"; "/abssymlink"]], "symbolic link");
2252 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2253 [["file"; "/directory"]], "directory")],
2254 "determine file type",
2256 This call uses the standard L<file(1)> command to determine
2257 the type or contents of the file.
2259 This call will also transparently look inside various types
2262 The exact command which runs is C<file -zb path>. Note in
2263 particular that the filename is not prepended to the output
2266 This command can also be used on C</dev/> devices
2267 (and partitions, LV names). You can for example use this
2268 to determine if a device contains a filesystem, although
2269 it's usually better to use C<guestfs_vfs_type>.
2271 If the C<path> does not begin with C</dev/> then
2272 this command only works for the content of regular files.
2273 For other file types (directory, symbolic link etc) it
2274 will just return the string C<directory> etc.");
2276 ("command", (RString "output", [StringList "arguments"], []), 50, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
2277 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2278 [["mkdir"; "/command"];
2279 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command/test-command"];
2280 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command/test-command"];
2281 ["command"; "/command/test-command 1"]], "Result1");
2282 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2283 [["mkdir"; "/command2"];
2284 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command2/test-command"];
2285 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command2/test-command"];
2286 ["command"; "/command2/test-command 2"]], "Result2\n");
2287 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2288 [["mkdir"; "/command3"];
2289 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command3/test-command"];
2290 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command3/test-command"];
2291 ["command"; "/command3/test-command 3"]], "\nResult3");
2292 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2293 [["mkdir"; "/command4"];
2294 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command4/test-command"];
2295 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command4/test-command"];
2296 ["command"; "/command4/test-command 4"]], "\nResult4\n");
2297 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2298 [["mkdir"; "/command5"];
2299 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command5/test-command"];
2300 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command5/test-command"];
2301 ["command"; "/command5/test-command 5"]], "\nResult5\n\n");
2302 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2303 [["mkdir"; "/command6"];
2304 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command6/test-command"];
2305 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command6/test-command"];
2306 ["command"; "/command6/test-command 6"]], "\n\nResult6\n\n");
2307 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2308 [["mkdir"; "/command7"];
2309 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command7/test-command"];
2310 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command7/test-command"];
2311 ["command"; "/command7/test-command 7"]], "");
2312 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2313 [["mkdir"; "/command8"];
2314 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command8/test-command"];
2315 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command8/test-command"];
2316 ["command"; "/command8/test-command 8"]], "\n");
2317 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2318 [["mkdir"; "/command9"];
2319 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command9/test-command"];
2320 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command9/test-command"];
2321 ["command"; "/command9/test-command 9"]], "\n\n");
2322 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2323 [["mkdir"; "/command10"];
2324 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command10/test-command"];
2325 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command10/test-command"];
2326 ["command"; "/command10/test-command 10"]], "Result10-1\nResult10-2\n");
2327 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2328 [["mkdir"; "/command11"];
2329 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command11/test-command"];
2330 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command11/test-command"];
2331 ["command"; "/command11/test-command 11"]], "Result11-1\nResult11-2");
2332 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail (
2333 [["mkdir"; "/command12"];
2334 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command12/test-command"];
2335 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command12/test-command"];
2336 ["command"; "/command12/test-command"]])],
2337 "run a command from the guest filesystem",
2339 This call runs a command from the guest filesystem. The
2340 filesystem must be mounted, and must contain a compatible
2341 operating system (ie. something Linux, with the same
2342 or compatible processor architecture).
2344 The single parameter is an argv-style list of arguments.
2345 The first element is the name of the program to run.
2346 Subsequent elements are parameters. The list must be
2347 non-empty (ie. must contain a program name). Note that
2348 the command runs directly, and is I<not> invoked via
2349 the shell (see C<guestfs_sh>).
2351 The return value is anything printed to I<stdout> by
2354 If the command returns a non-zero exit status, then
2355 this function returns an error message. The error message
2356 string is the content of I<stderr> from the command.
2358 The C<$PATH> environment variable will contain at least
2359 C</usr/bin> and C</bin>. If you require a program from
2360 another location, you should provide the full path in the
2363 Shared libraries and data files required by the program
2364 must be available on filesystems which are mounted in the
2365 correct places. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure
2366 all filesystems that are needed are mounted at the right
2369 ("command_lines", (RStringList "lines", [StringList "arguments"], []), 51, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
2370 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2371 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines"];
2372 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines/test-command"];
2373 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines/test-command"];
2374 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines/test-command 1"]], ["Result1"]);
2375 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2376 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines2"];
2377 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines2/test-command"];
2378 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines2/test-command"];
2379 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines2/test-command 2"]], ["Result2"]);
2380 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2381 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines3"];
2382 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines3/test-command"];
2383 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines3/test-command"];
2384 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines3/test-command 3"]], ["";"Result3"]);
2385 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2386 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines4"];
2387 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines4/test-command"];
2388 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines4/test-command"];
2389 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines4/test-command 4"]], ["";"Result4"]);
2390 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2391 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines5"];
2392 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines5/test-command"];
2393 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines5/test-command"];
2394 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines5/test-command 5"]], ["";"Result5";""]);
2395 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2396 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines6"];
2397 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines6/test-command"];
2398 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines6/test-command"];
2399 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines6/test-command 6"]], ["";"";"Result6";""]);
2400 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2401 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines7"];
2402 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines7/test-command"];
2403 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines7/test-command"];
2404 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines7/test-command 7"]], []);
2405 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2406 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines8"];
2407 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines8/test-command"];
2408 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines8/test-command"];
2409 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines8/test-command 8"]], [""]);
2410 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2411 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines9"];
2412 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines9/test-command"];
2413 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines9/test-command"];
2414 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines9/test-command 9"]], ["";""]);
2415 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2416 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines10"];
2417 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines10/test-command"];
2418 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines10/test-command"];
2419 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines10/test-command 10"]], ["Result10-1";"Result10-2"]);
2420 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
2421 [["mkdir"; "/command_lines11"];
2422 ["upload"; "test-command"; "/command_lines11/test-command"];
2423 ["chmod"; "0o755"; "/command_lines11/test-command"];
2424 ["command_lines"; "/command_lines11/test-command 11"]], ["Result11-1";"Result11-2"])],
2425 "run a command, returning lines",
2427 This is the same as C<guestfs_command>, but splits the
2428 result into a list of lines.
2430 See also: C<guestfs_sh_lines>");
2432 ("stat", (RStruct ("statbuf", "stat"), [Pathname "path"], []), 52, [],
2433 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
2434 [["stat"; "/empty"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 0)])],
2435 "get file information",
2437 Returns file information for the given C<path>.
2439 This is the same as the C<stat(2)> system call.");
2441 ("lstat", (RStruct ("statbuf", "stat"), [Pathname "path"], []), 53, [],
2442 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
2443 [["lstat"; "/empty"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 0)])],
2444 "get file information for a symbolic link",
2446 Returns file information for the given C<path>.
2448 This is the same as C<guestfs_stat> except that if C<path>
2449 is a symbolic link, then the link is stat-ed, not the file it
2452 This is the same as the C<lstat(2)> system call.");
2454 ("statvfs", (RStruct ("statbuf", "statvfs"), [Pathname "path"], []), 54, [],
2455 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
2456 [["statvfs"; "/"]], [CompareWithInt ("namemax", 255)])],
2457 "get file system statistics",
2459 Returns file system statistics for any mounted file system.
2460 C<path> should be a file or directory in the mounted file system
2461 (typically it is the mount point itself, but it doesn't need to be).
2463 This is the same as the C<statvfs(2)> system call.");
2465 ("tune2fs_l", (RHashtable "superblock", [Device "device"], []), 55, [],
2467 "get ext2/ext3/ext4 superblock details",
2469 This returns the contents of the ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem
2470 superblock on C<device>.
2472 It is the same as running C<tune2fs -l device>. See L<tune2fs(8)>
2473 manpage for more details. The list of fields returned isn't
2474 clearly defined, and depends on both the version of C<tune2fs>
2475 that libguestfs was built against, and the filesystem itself.");
2477 ("blockdev_setro", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 56, [],
2478 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2479 [["blockdev_setro"; "/dev/sda"];
2480 ["blockdev_getro"; "/dev/sda"]])],
2481 "set block device to read-only",
2483 Sets the block device named C<device> to read-only.
2485 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2487 ("blockdev_setrw", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 57, [],
2488 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputFalse (
2489 [["blockdev_setrw"; "/dev/sda"];
2490 ["blockdev_getro"; "/dev/sda"]])],
2491 "set block device to read-write",
2493 Sets the block device named C<device> to read-write.
2495 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2497 ("blockdev_getro", (RBool "ro", [Device "device"], []), 58, [],
2498 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2499 [["blockdev_setro"; "/dev/sda"];
2500 ["blockdev_getro"; "/dev/sda"]])],
2501 "is block device set to read-only",
2503 Returns a boolean indicating if the block device is read-only
2504 (true if read-only, false if not).
2506 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2508 ("blockdev_getss", (RInt "sectorsize", [Device "device"], []), 59, [],
2509 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
2510 [["blockdev_getss"; "/dev/sda"]], 512)],
2511 "get sectorsize of block device",
2513 This returns the size of sectors on a block device.
2514 Usually 512, but can be larger for modern devices.
2516 (Note, this is not the size in sectors, use C<guestfs_blockdev_getsz>
2519 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2521 ("blockdev_getbsz", (RInt "blocksize", [Device "device"], []), 60, [],
2522 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
2523 [["blockdev_getbsz"; "/dev/sda"]], 4096)],
2524 "get blocksize of block device",
2526 This returns the block size of a device.
2528 (Note this is different from both I<size in blocks> and
2529 I<filesystem block size>).
2531 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2533 ("blockdev_setbsz", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "blocksize"], []), 61, [],
2535 "set blocksize of block device",
2537 This sets the block size of a device.
2539 (Note this is different from both I<size in blocks> and
2540 I<filesystem block size>).
2542 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2544 ("blockdev_getsz", (RInt64 "sizeinsectors", [Device "device"], []), 62, [],
2545 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
2546 [["blockdev_getsz"; "/dev/sda"]], 1024000)],
2547 "get total size of device in 512-byte sectors",
2549 This returns the size of the device in units of 512-byte sectors
2550 (even if the sectorsize isn't 512 bytes ... weird).
2552 See also C<guestfs_blockdev_getss> for the real sector size of
2553 the device, and C<guestfs_blockdev_getsize64> for the more
2554 useful I<size in bytes>.
2556 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2558 ("blockdev_getsize64", (RInt64 "sizeinbytes", [Device "device"], []), 63, [],
2559 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
2560 [["blockdev_getsize64"; "/dev/sda"]], 524288000)],
2561 "get total size of device in bytes",
2563 This returns the size of the device in bytes.
2565 See also C<guestfs_blockdev_getsz>.
2567 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2569 ("blockdev_flushbufs", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 64, [],
2570 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun
2571 [["blockdev_flushbufs"; "/dev/sda"]]],
2572 "flush device buffers",
2574 This tells the kernel to flush internal buffers associated
2577 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2579 ("blockdev_rereadpt", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 65, [],
2580 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun
2581 [["blockdev_rereadpt"; "/dev/sda"]]],
2582 "reread partition table",
2584 Reread the partition table on C<device>.
2586 This uses the L<blockdev(8)> command.");
2588 ("upload", (RErr, [FileIn "filename"; Dev_or_Path "remotefilename"], []), 66, [Progress],
2589 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2590 (* Pick a file from cwd which isn't likely to change. *)
2591 [["mkdir"; "/upload"];
2592 ["upload"; "../COPYING.LIB"; "/upload/COPYING.LIB"];
2593 ["checksum"; "md5"; "/upload/COPYING.LIB"]],
2594 Digest.to_hex (Digest.file "COPYING.LIB"))],
2595 "upload a file from the local machine",
2597 Upload local file C<filename> to C<remotefilename> on the
2600 C<filename> can also be a named pipe.
2602 See also C<guestfs_download>.");
2604 ("download", (RErr, [Dev_or_Path "remotefilename"; FileOut "filename"], []), 67, [Progress],
2605 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2606 (* Pick a file from cwd which isn't likely to change. *)
2607 [["mkdir"; "/download"];
2608 ["upload"; "../COPYING.LIB"; "/download/COPYING.LIB"];
2609 ["download"; "/download/COPYING.LIB"; "testdownload.tmp"];
2610 ["upload"; "testdownload.tmp"; "/download/upload"];
2611 ["checksum"; "md5"; "/download/upload"]],
2612 Digest.to_hex (Digest.file "COPYING.LIB"))],
2613 "download a file to the local machine",
2615 Download file C<remotefilename> and save it as C<filename>
2616 on the local machine.
2618 C<filename> can also be a named pipe.
2620 See also C<guestfs_upload>, C<guestfs_cat>.");
2622 ("checksum", (RString "checksum", [String "csumtype"; Pathname "path"], []), 68, [],
2623 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2624 [["checksum"; "crc"; "/known-3"]], "2891671662");
2625 InitISOFS, Always, TestLastFail (
2626 [["checksum"; "crc"; "/notexists"]]);
2627 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2628 [["checksum"; "md5"; "/known-3"]], "46d6ca27ee07cdc6fa99c2e138cc522c");
2629 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2630 [["checksum"; "sha1"; "/known-3"]], "b7ebccc3ee418311091c3eda0a45b83c0a770f15");
2631 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2632 [["checksum"; "sha224"; "/known-3"]], "d2cd1774b28f3659c14116be0a6dc2bb5c4b350ce9cd5defac707741");
2633 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2634 [["checksum"; "sha256"; "/known-3"]], "75bb71b90cd20cb13f86d2bea8dad63ac7194e7517c3b52b8d06ff52d3487d30");
2635 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2636 [["checksum"; "sha384"; "/known-3"]], "5fa7883430f357b5d7b7271d3a1d2872b51d73cba72731de6863d3dea55f30646af2799bef44d5ea776a5ec7941ac640");
2637 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2638 [["checksum"; "sha512"; "/known-3"]], "2794062c328c6b216dca90443b7f7134c5f40e56bd0ed7853123275a09982a6f992e6ca682f9d2fba34a4c5e870d8fe077694ff831e3032a004ee077e00603f6");
2639 (* Test for RHBZ#579608, absolute symbolic links. *)
2640 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
2641 [["checksum"; "sha512"; "/abssymlink"]], "5f57d0639bc95081c53afc63a449403883818edc64da48930ad6b1a4fb49be90404686877743fbcd7c99811f3def7df7bc22635c885c6a8cf79c806b43451c1a")],
2642 "compute MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of file",
2644 This call computes the MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of the
2647 The type of checksum to compute is given by the C<csumtype>
2648 parameter which must have one of the following values:
2654 Compute the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) specified by POSIX
2655 for the C<cksum> command.
2659 Compute the MD5 hash (using the C<md5sum> program).
2663 Compute the SHA1 hash (using the C<sha1sum> program).
2667 Compute the SHA224 hash (using the C<sha224sum> program).
2671 Compute the SHA256 hash (using the C<sha256sum> program).
2675 Compute the SHA384 hash (using the C<sha384sum> program).
2679 Compute the SHA512 hash (using the C<sha512sum> program).
2683 The checksum is returned as a printable string.
2685 To get the checksum for a device, use C<guestfs_checksum_device>.
2687 To get the checksums for many files, use C<guestfs_checksums_out>.");
2689 ("tar_in", (RErr, [FileIn "tarfile"; Pathname "directory"], []), 69, [],
2690 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2691 [["mkdir"; "/tar_in"];
2692 ["tar_in"; "../images/helloworld.tar"; "/tar_in"];
2693 ["cat"; "/tar_in/hello"]], "hello\n")],
2694 "unpack tarfile to directory",
2696 This command uploads and unpacks local file C<tarfile> (an
2697 I<uncompressed> tar file) into C<directory>.
2699 To upload a compressed tarball, use C<guestfs_tgz_in>
2700 or C<guestfs_txz_in>.");
2702 ("tar_out", (RErr, [String "directory"; FileOut "tarfile"], []), 70, [],
2704 "pack directory into tarfile",
2706 This command packs the contents of C<directory> and downloads
2707 it to local file C<tarfile>.
2709 To download a compressed tarball, use C<guestfs_tgz_out>
2710 or C<guestfs_txz_out>.");
2712 ("tgz_in", (RErr, [FileIn "tarball"; Pathname "directory"], []), 71, [],
2713 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
2714 [["mkdir"; "/tgz_in"];
2715 ["tgz_in"; "../images/helloworld.tar.gz"; "/tgz_in"];
2716 ["cat"; "/tgz_in/hello"]], "hello\n")],
2717 "unpack compressed tarball to directory",
2719 This command uploads and unpacks local file C<tarball> (a
2720 I<gzip compressed> tar file) into C<directory>.
2722 To upload an uncompressed tarball, use C<guestfs_tar_in>.");
2724 ("tgz_out", (RErr, [Pathname "directory"; FileOut "tarball"], []), 72, [],
2726 "pack directory into compressed tarball",
2728 This command packs the contents of C<directory> and downloads
2729 it to local file C<tarball>.
2731 To download an uncompressed tarball, use C<guestfs_tar_out>.");
2733 ("mount_ro", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "mountpoint"], []), 73, [],
2734 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestLastFail (
2736 ["mount_ro"; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
2737 ["touch"; "/new"]]);
2738 InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
2739 [["write"; "/new"; "data"];
2741 ["mount_ro"; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
2742 ["cat"; "/new"]], "data")],
2743 "mount a guest disk, read-only",
2745 This is the same as the C<guestfs_mount> command, but it
2746 mounts the filesystem with the read-only (I<-o ro>) flag.");
2748 ("mount_options", (RErr, [String "options"; Device "device"; String "mountpoint"], []), 74, [],
2750 "mount a guest disk with mount options",
2752 This is the same as the C<guestfs_mount> command, but it
2753 allows you to set the mount options as for the
2754 L<mount(8)> I<-o> flag.
2756 If the C<options> parameter is an empty string, then
2757 no options are passed (all options default to whatever
2758 the filesystem uses).");
2760 ("mount_vfs", (RErr, [String "options"; String "vfstype"; Device "device"; String "mountpoint"], []), 75, [],
2762 "mount a guest disk with mount options and vfstype",
2764 This is the same as the C<guestfs_mount> command, but it
2765 allows you to set both the mount options and the vfstype
2766 as for the L<mount(8)> I<-o> and I<-t> flags.");
2768 ("debug", (RString "result", [String "subcmd"; StringList "extraargs"], []), 76, [NotInDocs],
2770 "debugging and internals",
2772 The C<guestfs_debug> command exposes some internals of
2773 C<guestfsd> (the guestfs daemon) that runs inside the
2776 There is no comprehensive help for this command. You have
2777 to look at the file C<daemon/debug.c> in the libguestfs source
2778 to find out what you can do.");
2780 ("lvremove", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 77, [Optional "lvm2"],
2781 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2782 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2783 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2784 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2785 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2786 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2787 ["lvremove"; "/dev/VG/LV1"];
2788 ["lvs"]], ["/dev/VG/LV2"]);
2789 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2790 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2791 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2792 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2793 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2794 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2795 ["lvremove"; "/dev/VG"];
2797 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2798 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2799 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2800 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2801 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2802 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2803 ["lvremove"; "/dev/VG"];
2805 "remove an LVM logical volume",
2807 Remove an LVM logical volume C<device>, where C<device> is
2808 the path to the LV, such as C</dev/VG/LV>.
2810 You can also remove all LVs in a volume group by specifying
2811 the VG name, C</dev/VG>.");
2813 ("vgremove", (RErr, [String "vgname"], []), 78, [Optional "lvm2"],
2814 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2815 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2816 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2817 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2818 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2819 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2822 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputList (
2823 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2824 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2825 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2826 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2827 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2830 "remove an LVM volume group",
2832 Remove an LVM volume group C<vgname>, (for example C<VG>).
2834 This also forcibly removes all logical volumes in the volume
2837 ("pvremove", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 79, [Optional "lvm2"],
2838 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
2839 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2840 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2841 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2842 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2843 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2845 ["pvremove"; "/dev/sda1"];
2847 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
2848 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2849 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2850 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2851 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2852 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2854 ["pvremove"; "/dev/sda1"];
2856 InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
2857 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
2858 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
2859 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
2860 ["lvcreate"; "LV1"; "VG"; "50"];
2861 ["lvcreate"; "LV2"; "VG"; "50"];
2863 ["pvremove"; "/dev/sda1"];
2865 "remove an LVM physical volume",
2867 This wipes a physical volume C<device> so that LVM will no longer
2870 The implementation uses the C<pvremove> command which refuses to
2871 wipe physical volumes that contain any volume groups, so you have
2872 to remove those first.");
2874 ("set_e2label", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "label"], []), 80, [],
2875 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
2876 [["set_e2label"; "/dev/sda1"; "testlabel"];
2877 ["get_e2label"; "/dev/sda1"]], "testlabel")],
2878 "set the ext2/3/4 filesystem label",
2880 This sets the ext2/3/4 filesystem label of the filesystem on
2881 C<device> to C<label>. Filesystem labels are limited to
2884 You can use either C<guestfs_tune2fs_l> or C<guestfs_get_e2label>
2885 to return the existing label on a filesystem.");
2887 ("get_e2label", (RString "label", [Device "device"], []), 81, [DeprecatedBy "vfs_label"],
2889 "get the ext2/3/4 filesystem label",
2891 This returns the ext2/3/4 filesystem label of the filesystem on
2894 ("set_e2uuid", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "uuid"], []), 82, [],
2895 (let uuid = uuidgen () in
2896 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
2897 [["set_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"; uuid];
2898 ["get_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"]], uuid);
2899 InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
2900 [["set_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"; "clear"];
2901 ["get_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"]], "");
2902 (* We can't predict what UUIDs will be, so just check the commands run. *)
2903 InitBasicFS, Always, TestRun (
2904 [["set_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"; "random"]]);
2905 InitBasicFS, Always, TestRun (
2906 [["set_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"; "time"]])]),
2907 "set the ext2/3/4 filesystem UUID",
2909 This sets the ext2/3/4 filesystem UUID of the filesystem on
2910 C<device> to C<uuid>. The format of the UUID and alternatives
2911 such as C<clear>, C<random> and C<time> are described in the
2912 L<tune2fs(8)> manpage.
2914 You can use either C<guestfs_tune2fs_l> or C<guestfs_get_e2uuid>
2915 to return the existing UUID of a filesystem.");
2917 ("get_e2uuid", (RString "uuid", [Device "device"], []), 83, [DeprecatedBy "vfs_uuid"],
2918 (* Regression test for RHBZ#597112. *)
2919 (let uuid = uuidgen () in
2920 [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
2921 [["mke2journal"; "1024"; "/dev/sdc"];
2922 ["set_e2uuid"; "/dev/sdc"; uuid];
2923 ["get_e2uuid"; "/dev/sdc"]], uuid)]),
2924 "get the ext2/3/4 filesystem UUID",
2926 This returns the ext2/3/4 filesystem UUID of the filesystem on
2929 ("fsck", (RInt "status", [String "fstype"; Device "device"], []), 84, [FishOutput FishOutputHexadecimal],
2930 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
2931 [["umount"; "/dev/sda1"];
2932 ["fsck"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"]], 0);
2933 InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
2934 [["umount"; "/dev/sda1"];
2935 ["zero"; "/dev/sda1"];
2936 ["fsck"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"]], 8)],
2937 "run the filesystem checker",
2939 This runs the filesystem checker (fsck) on C<device> which
2940 should have filesystem type C<fstype>.
2942 The returned integer is the status. See L<fsck(8)> for the
2943 list of status codes from C<fsck>.
2951 Multiple status codes can be summed together.
2955 A non-zero return code can mean \"success\", for example if
2956 errors have been corrected on the filesystem.
2960 Checking or repairing NTFS volumes is not supported
2965 This command is entirely equivalent to running C<fsck -a -t fstype device>.");
2967 ("zero", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 85, [Progress],
2968 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestRun (
2969 [["umount"; "/dev/sda1"];
2970 ["zero"; "/dev/sda1"]])],
2971 "write zeroes to the device",
2973 This command writes zeroes over the first few blocks of C<device>.
2975 How many blocks are zeroed isn't specified (but it's I<not> enough
2976 to securely wipe the device). It should be sufficient to remove
2977 any partition tables, filesystem superblocks and so on.
2979 See also: C<guestfs_zero_device>, C<guestfs_scrub_device>.");
2981 ("grub_install", (RErr, [Pathname "root"; Device "device"], []), 86, [],
2983 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484986
2984 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479760
2986 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
2987 [["mkdir_p"; "/boot/grub"];
2988 ["write"; "/boot/grub/device.map"; "(hd0) /dev/vda"];
2989 ["grub_install"; "/"; "/dev/vda"];
2990 ["is_dir"; "/boot"]])],
2993 This command installs GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
2994 C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.
2996 Note: If grub-install reports the error
2997 \"No suitable drive was found in the generated device map.\"
2998 it may be that you need to create a C</boot/grub/device.map>
2999 file first that contains the mapping between grub device names
3000 and Linux device names. It is usually sufficient to create
3005 replacing C</dev/vda> with the name of the installation device.");
3007 ("cp", (RErr, [Pathname "src"; Pathname "dest"], []), 87, [],
3008 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
3010 ["write"; "/cp/old"; "file content"];
3011 ["cp"; "/cp/old"; "/cp/new"];
3012 ["cat"; "/cp/new"]], "file content");
3013 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
3015 ["write"; "/cp2/old"; "file content"];
3016 ["cp"; "/cp2/old"; "/cp2/new"];
3017 ["is_file"; "/cp2/old"]]);
3018 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
3020 ["write"; "/cp3/old"; "file content"];
3021 ["mkdir"; "/cp3/dir"];
3022 ["cp"; "/cp3/old"; "/cp3/dir/new"];
3023 ["cat"; "/cp3/dir/new"]], "file content")],
3026 This copies a file from C<src> to C<dest> where C<dest> is
3027 either a destination filename or destination directory.");
3029 ("cp_a", (RErr, [Pathname "src"; Pathname "dest"], []), 88, [],
3030 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
3031 [["mkdir"; "/cp_a1"];
3032 ["mkdir"; "/cp_a2"];
3033 ["write"; "/cp_a1/file"; "file content"];
3034 ["cp_a"; "/cp_a1"; "/cp_a2"];
3035 ["cat"; "/cp_a2/cp_a1/file"]], "file content")],
3036 "copy a file or directory recursively",
3038 This copies a file or directory from C<src> to C<dest>
3039 recursively using the C<cp -a> command.");
3041 ("mv", (RErr, [Pathname "src"; Pathname "dest"], []), 89, [],
3042 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
3044 ["write"; "/mv/old"; "file content"];
3045 ["mv"; "/mv/old"; "/mv/new"];
3046 ["cat"; "/mv/new"]], "file content");
3047 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
3049 ["write"; "/mv2/old"; "file content"];
3050 ["mv"; "/mv2/old"; "/mv2/new"];
3051 ["is_file"; "/mv2/old"]])],
3054 This moves a file from C<src> to C<dest> where C<dest> is
3055 either a destination filename or destination directory.");
3057 ("drop_caches", (RErr, [Int "whattodrop"], []), 90, [],
3058 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
3059 [["drop_caches"; "3"]])],
3060 "drop kernel page cache, dentries and inodes",
3062 This instructs the guest kernel to drop its page cache,
3063 and/or dentries and inode caches. The parameter C<whattodrop>
3064 tells the kernel what precisely to drop, see
3065 L<http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches>
3067 Setting C<whattodrop> to 3 should drop everything.
3069 This automatically calls L<sync(2)> before the operation,
3070 so that the maximum guest memory is freed.");
3072 ("dmesg", (RString "kmsgs", [], []), 91, [],
3073 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
3075 "return kernel messages",
3077 This returns the kernel messages (C<dmesg> output) from
3078 the guest kernel. This is sometimes useful for extended
3079 debugging of problems.
3081 Another way to get the same information is to enable
3082 verbose messages with C<guestfs_set_verbose> or by setting
3083 the environment variable C<LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1> before
3084 running the program.");
3086 ("ping_daemon", (RErr, [], []), 92, [],
3087 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
3088 [["ping_daemon"]])],
3089 "ping the guest daemon",
3091 This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside
3092 the qemu subprocess. Calling this function checks that the
3093 daemon responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon
3094 or attached block device(s) in any other way.");
3096 ("equal", (RBool "equality", [Pathname "file1"; Pathname "file2"], []), 93, [],
3097 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
3098 [["mkdir"; "/equal"];
3099 ["write"; "/equal/file1"; "contents of a file"];
3100 ["cp"; "/equal/file1"; "/equal/file2"];
3101 ["equal"; "/equal/file1"; "/equal/file2"]]);
3102 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
3103 [["mkdir"; "/equal2"];
3104 ["write"; "/equal2/file1"; "contents of a file"];
3105 ["write"; "/equal2/file2"; "contents of another file"];
3106 ["equal"; "/equal2/file1"; "/equal2/file2"]]);
3107 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail (
3108 [["mkdir"; "/equal3"];
3109 ["equal"; "/equal3/file1"; "/equal3/file2"]])],
3110 "test if two files have equal contents",
3112 This compares the two files C<file1> and C<file2> and returns
3113 true if their content is exactly equal, or false otherwise.
3115 The external L<cmp(1)> program is used for the comparison.");
3117 ("strings", (RStringList "stringsout", [Pathname "path"], []), 94, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3118 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3119 [["strings"; "/known-5"]], ["abcdefghi"; "jklmnopqr"]);
3120 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3121 [["strings"; "/empty"]], []);
3122 (* Test for RHBZ#579608, absolute symbolic links. *)
3123 InitISOFS, Always, TestRun (
3124 [["strings"; "/abssymlink"]])],
3125 "print the printable strings in a file",
3127 This runs the L<strings(1)> command on a file and returns
3128 the list of printable strings found.");
3130 ("strings_e", (RStringList "stringsout", [String "encoding"; Pathname "path"], []), 95, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3131 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3132 [["strings_e"; "b"; "/known-5"]], []);
3133 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3134 [["write"; "/strings_e"; "\000h\000e\000l\000l\000o\000\n\000w\000o\000r\000l\000d\000\n"];
3135 ["strings_e"; "b"; "/strings_e"]], ["hello"; "world"])],
3136 "print the printable strings in a file",
3138 This is like the C<guestfs_strings> command, but allows you to
3139 specify the encoding of strings that are looked for in
3140 the source file C<path>.
3142 Allowed encodings are:
3148 Single 7-bit-byte characters like ASCII and the ASCII-compatible
3149 parts of ISO-8859-X (this is what C<guestfs_strings> uses).
3153 Single 8-bit-byte characters.
3157 16-bit big endian strings such as those encoded in
3158 UTF-16BE or UCS-2BE.
3160 =item l (lower case letter L)
3162 16-bit little endian such as UTF-16LE and UCS-2LE.
3163 This is useful for examining binaries in Windows guests.
3167 32-bit big endian such as UCS-4BE.
3171 32-bit little endian such as UCS-4LE.
3175 The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.");
3177 ("hexdump", (RString "dump", [Pathname "path"], []), 96, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3178 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
3179 [["hexdump"; "/known-4"]], "00000000 61 62 63 0a 64 65 66 0a 67 68 69 |abc.def.ghi|\n0000000b\n");
3180 (* Test for RHBZ#501888c2 regression which caused large hexdump
3181 * commands to segfault.
3183 InitISOFS, Always, TestRun (
3184 [["hexdump"; "/100krandom"]]);
3185 (* Test for RHBZ#579608, absolute symbolic links. *)
3186 InitISOFS, Always, TestRun (
3187 [["hexdump"; "/abssymlink"]])],
3188 "dump a file in hexadecimal",
3190 This runs C<hexdump -C> on the given C<path>. The result is
3191 the human-readable, canonical hex dump of the file.");
3193 ("zerofree", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 97, [Optional "zerofree"],
3194 [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
3195 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3196 ["mkfs"; "ext3"; "/dev/sda1"];
3197 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
3198 ["write"; "/new"; "test file"];
3199 ["umount"; "/dev/sda1"];
3200 ["zerofree"; "/dev/sda1"];
3201 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
3202 ["cat"; "/new"]], "test file")],
3203 "zero unused inodes and disk blocks on ext2/3 filesystem",
3205 This runs the I<zerofree> program on C<device>. This program
3206 claims to zero unused inodes and disk blocks on an ext2/3
3207 filesystem, thus making it possible to compress the filesystem
3210 You should B<not> run this program if the filesystem is
3213 It is possible that using this program can damage the filesystem
3214 or data on the filesystem.");
3216 ("pvresize", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 98, [Optional "lvm2"],
3218 "resize an LVM physical volume",
3220 This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM physical
3221 volume to match the new size of the underlying device.");
3223 ("sfdisk_N", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum";
3224 Int "cyls"; Int "heads"; Int "sectors";
3225 String "line"], []), 99, [DangerWillRobinson],
3227 "modify a single partition on a block device",
3229 This runs L<sfdisk(8)> option to modify just the single
3230 partition C<n> (note: C<n> counts from 1).
3232 For other parameters, see C<guestfs_sfdisk>. You should usually
3233 pass C<0> for the cyls/heads/sectors parameters.
3235 See also: C<guestfs_part_add>");
3237 ("sfdisk_l", (RString "partitions", [Device "device"], []), 100, [],
3239 "display the partition table",
3241 This displays the partition table on C<device>, in the
3242 human-readable output of the L<sfdisk(8)> command. It is
3243 not intended to be parsed.
3245 See also: C<guestfs_part_list>");
3247 ("sfdisk_kernel_geometry", (RString "partitions", [Device "device"], []), 101, [],
3249 "display the kernel geometry",
3251 This displays the kernel's idea of the geometry of C<device>.
3253 The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to
3256 ("sfdisk_disk_geometry", (RString "partitions", [Device "device"], []), 102, [],
3258 "display the disk geometry from the partition table",
3260 This displays the disk geometry of C<device> read from the
3261 partition table. Especially in the case where the underlying
3262 block device has been resized, this can be different from the
3263 kernel's idea of the geometry (see C<guestfs_sfdisk_kernel_geometry>).
3265 The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to
3268 ("vg_activate_all", (RErr, [Bool "activate"], []), 103, [Optional "lvm2"],
3270 "activate or deactivate all volume groups",
3272 This command activates or (if C<activate> is false) deactivates
3273 all logical volumes in all volume groups.
3274 If activated, then they are made known to the
3275 kernel, ie. they appear as C</dev/mapper> devices. If deactivated,
3276 then those devices disappear.
3278 This command is the same as running C<vgchange -a y|n>");
3280 ("vg_activate", (RErr, [Bool "activate"; StringList "volgroups"], []), 104, [Optional "lvm2"],
3282 "activate or deactivate some volume groups",
3284 This command activates or (if C<activate> is false) deactivates
3285 all logical volumes in the listed volume groups C<volgroups>.
3286 If activated, then they are made known to the
3287 kernel, ie. they appear as C</dev/mapper> devices. If deactivated,
3288 then those devices disappear.
3290 This command is the same as running C<vgchange -a y|n volgroups...>
3292 Note that if C<volgroups> is an empty list then B<all> volume groups
3293 are activated or deactivated.");
3295 ("lvresize", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "mbytes"], []), 105, [Optional "lvm2"],
3296 [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
3297 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3298 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
3299 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
3300 ["lvcreate"; "LV"; "VG"; "10"];
3301 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
3302 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/"];
3303 ["write"; "/new"; "test content"];
3305 ["lvresize"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "20"];
3306 ["e2fsck_f"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
3307 ["resize2fs"; "/dev/VG/LV"];
3308 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/"];
3309 ["cat"; "/new"]], "test content");
3310 InitNone, Always, TestRun (
3311 (* Make an LV smaller to test RHBZ#587484. *)
3312 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3313 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
3314 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
3315 ["lvcreate"; "LV"; "VG"; "20"];
3316 ["lvresize"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "10"]])],
3317 "resize an LVM logical volume",
3319 This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM logical
3320 volume to C<mbytes>. When reducing, data in the reduced part
3323 ("resize2fs", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 106, [],
3324 [], (* lvresize tests this *)
3325 "resize an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem",
3327 This resizes an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem to match the size of
3328 the underlying device.
3330 I<Note:> It is sometimes required that you run C<guestfs_e2fsck_f>
3331 on the C<device> before calling this command. For unknown reasons
3332 C<resize2fs> sometimes gives an error about this and sometimes not.
3333 In any case, it is always safe to call C<guestfs_e2fsck_f> before
3334 calling this function.");
3336 ("find", (RStringList "names", [Pathname "directory"], []), 107, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3337 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3338 [["find"; "/"]], ["lost+found"]);
3339 InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3343 ["find"; "/"]], ["a"; "b"; "b/c"; "lost+found"]);
3344 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3345 [["mkdir_p"; "/find/b/c"];
3346 ["touch"; "/find/b/c/d"];
3347 ["find"; "/find/b/"]], ["c"; "c/d"])],
3348 "find all files and directories",
3350 This command lists out all files and directories, recursively,
3351 starting at C<directory>. It is essentially equivalent to
3352 running the shell command C<find directory -print> but some
3353 post-processing happens on the output, described below.
3355 This returns a list of strings I<without any prefix>. Thus
3356 if the directory structure was:
3362 then the returned list from C<guestfs_find> C</tmp> would be
3370 If C<directory> is not a directory, then this command returns
3373 The returned list is sorted.
3375 See also C<guestfs_find0>.");
3377 ("e2fsck_f", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 108, [],
3378 [], (* lvresize tests this *)
3379 "check an ext2/ext3 filesystem",
3381 This runs C<e2fsck -p -f device>, ie. runs the ext2/ext3
3382 filesystem checker on C<device>, noninteractively (I<-p>),
3383 even if the filesystem appears to be clean (I<-f>).
3385 This command is only needed because of C<guestfs_resize2fs>
3386 (q.v.). Normally you should use C<guestfs_fsck>.");
3388 ("sleep", (RErr, [Int "secs"], []), 109, [],
3389 [InitNone, Always, TestRun (
3391 "sleep for some seconds",
3393 Sleep for C<secs> seconds.");
3395 ("ntfs_3g_probe", (RInt "status", [Bool "rw"; Device "device"], []), 110, [Optional "ntfs3g"],
3396 [InitNone, Always, TestOutputInt (
3397 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3398 ["mkfs"; "ntfs"; "/dev/sda1"];
3399 ["ntfs_3g_probe"; "true"; "/dev/sda1"]], 0);
3400 InitNone, Always, TestOutputInt (
3401 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3402 ["mkfs"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"];
3403 ["ntfs_3g_probe"; "true"; "/dev/sda1"]], 12)],
3404 "probe NTFS volume",
3406 This command runs the L<ntfs-3g.probe(8)> command which probes
3407 an NTFS C<device> for mountability. (Not all NTFS volumes can
3408 be mounted read-write, and some cannot be mounted at all).
3410 C<rw> is a boolean flag. Set it to true if you want to test
3411 if the volume can be mounted read-write. Set it to false if
3412 you want to test if the volume can be mounted read-only.
3414 The return value is an integer which C<0> if the operation
3415 would succeed, or some non-zero value documented in the
3416 L<ntfs-3g.probe(8)> manual page.");
3418 ("sh", (RString "output", [String "command"], []), 111, [],
3419 [], (* XXX needs tests *)
3420 "run a command via the shell",
3422 This call runs a command from the guest filesystem via the
3425 This is like C<guestfs_command>, but passes the command to:
3427 /bin/sh -c \"command\"
3429 Depending on the guest's shell, this usually results in
3430 wildcards being expanded, shell expressions being interpolated
3433 All the provisos about C<guestfs_command> apply to this call.");
3435 ("sh_lines", (RStringList "lines", [String "command"], []), 112, [],
3436 [], (* XXX needs tests *)
3437 "run a command via the shell returning lines",
3439 This is the same as C<guestfs_sh>, but splits the result
3440 into a list of lines.
3442 See also: C<guestfs_command_lines>");
3444 ("glob_expand", (RStringList "paths", [Pathname "pattern"], []), 113, [],
3445 (* Use Pathname here, and hence ABS_PATH (pattern,... in generated
3446 * code in stubs.c, since all valid glob patterns must start with "/".
3447 * There is no concept of "cwd" in libguestfs, hence no "."-relative names.
3449 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3450 [["mkdir_p"; "/glob_expand/b/c"];
3451 ["touch"; "/glob_expand/b/c/d"];
3452 ["touch"; "/glob_expand/b/c/e"];
3453 ["glob_expand"; "/glob_expand/b/c/*"]], ["/glob_expand/b/c/d"; "/glob_expand/b/c/e"]);
3454 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3455 [["mkdir_p"; "/glob_expand2/b/c"];
3456 ["touch"; "/glob_expand2/b/c/d"];
3457 ["touch"; "/glob_expand2/b/c/e"];
3458 ["glob_expand"; "/glob_expand2/*/c/*"]], ["/glob_expand2/b/c/d"; "/glob_expand2/b/c/e"]);
3459 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3460 [["mkdir_p"; "/glob_expand3/b/c"];
3461 ["touch"; "/glob_expand3/b/c/d"];
3462 ["touch"; "/glob_expand3/b/c/e"];
3463 ["glob_expand"; "/glob_expand3/*/x/*"]], [])],
3464 "expand a wildcard path",
3466 This command searches for all the pathnames matching
3467 C<pattern> according to the wildcard expansion rules
3470 If no paths match, then this returns an empty list
3471 (note: not an error).
3473 It is just a wrapper around the C L<glob(3)> function
3474 with flags C<GLOB_MARK|GLOB_BRACE>.
3475 See that manual page for more details.");
3477 ("scrub_device", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 114, [DangerWillRobinson; Optional "scrub"],
3478 [InitNone, Always, TestRun ( (* use /dev/sdc because it's smaller *)
3479 [["scrub_device"; "/dev/sdc"]])],
3480 "scrub (securely wipe) a device",
3482 This command writes patterns over C<device> to make data retrieval
3485 It is an interface to the L<scrub(1)> program. See that
3486 manual page for more details.");
3488 ("scrub_file", (RErr, [Pathname "file"], []), 115, [Optional "scrub"],
3489 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun (
3490 [["write"; "/scrub_file"; "content"];
3491 ["scrub_file"; "/scrub_file"]])],
3492 "scrub (securely wipe) a file",
3494 This command writes patterns over a file to make data retrieval
3497 The file is I<removed> after scrubbing.
3499 It is an interface to the L<scrub(1)> program. See that
3500 manual page for more details.");
3502 ("scrub_freespace", (RErr, [Pathname "dir"], []), 116, [Optional "scrub"],
3503 [], (* XXX needs testing *)
3504 "scrub (securely wipe) free space",
3506 This command creates the directory C<dir> and then fills it
3507 with files until the filesystem is full, and scrubs the files
3508 as for C<guestfs_scrub_file>, and deletes them.
3509 The intention is to scrub any free space on the partition
3512 It is an interface to the L<scrub(1)> program. See that
3513 manual page for more details.");
3515 ("mkdtemp", (RString "dir", [Pathname "template"], []), 117, [],
3516 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun (
3517 [["mkdir"; "/mkdtemp"];
3518 ["mkdtemp"; "/mkdtemp/tmpXXXXXX"]])],
3519 "create a temporary directory",
3521 This command creates a temporary directory. The
3522 C<template> parameter should be a full pathname for the
3523 temporary directory name with the final six characters being
3526 For example: \"/tmp/myprogXXXXXX\" or \"/Temp/myprogXXXXXX\",
3527 the second one being suitable for Windows filesystems.
3529 The name of the temporary directory that was created
3532 The temporary directory is created with mode 0700
3533 and is owned by root.
3535 The caller is responsible for deleting the temporary
3536 directory and its contents after use.
3538 See also: L<mkdtemp(3)>");
3540 ("wc_l", (RInt "lines", [Pathname "path"], []), 118, [],
3541 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
3542 [["wc_l"; "/10klines"]], 10000);
3543 (* Test for RHBZ#579608, absolute symbolic links. *)
3544 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
3545 [["wc_l"; "/abssymlink"]], 10000)],
3546 "count lines in a file",
3548 This command counts the lines in a file, using the
3549 C<wc -l> external command.");
3551 ("wc_w", (RInt "words", [Pathname "path"], []), 119, [],
3552 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
3553 [["wc_w"; "/10klines"]], 10000)],
3554 "count words in a file",
3556 This command counts the words in a file, using the
3557 C<wc -w> external command.");
3559 ("wc_c", (RInt "chars", [Pathname "path"], []), 120, [],
3560 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
3561 [["wc_c"; "/100kallspaces"]], 102400)],
3562 "count characters in a file",
3564 This command counts the characters in a file, using the
3565 C<wc -c> external command.");
3567 ("head", (RStringList "lines", [Pathname "path"], []), 121, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3568 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3569 [["head"; "/10klines"]], ["0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"2abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"3abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"4abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"5abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"7abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"8abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"]);
3570 (* Test for RHBZ#579608, absolute symbolic links. *)
3571 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3572 [["head"; "/abssymlink"]], ["0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"2abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"3abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"4abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"5abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"6abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"7abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"8abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"])],
3573 "return first 10 lines of a file",
3575 This command returns up to the first 10 lines of a file as
3576 a list of strings.");
3578 ("head_n", (RStringList "lines", [Int "nrlines"; Pathname "path"], []), 122, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3579 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3580 [["head_n"; "3"; "/10klines"]], ["0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"2abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"]);
3581 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3582 [["head_n"; "-9997"; "/10klines"]], ["0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"1abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"2abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"]);
3583 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3584 [["head_n"; "0"; "/10klines"]], [])],
3585 "return first N lines of a file",
3587 If the parameter C<nrlines> is a positive number, this returns the first
3588 C<nrlines> lines of the file C<path>.
3590 If the parameter C<nrlines> is a negative number, this returns lines
3591 from the file C<path>, excluding the last C<nrlines> lines.
3593 If the parameter C<nrlines> is zero, this returns an empty list.");
3595 ("tail", (RStringList "lines", [Pathname "path"], []), 123, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3596 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3597 [["tail"; "/10klines"]], ["9990abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9991abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9992abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9993abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9994abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9995abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9996abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9997abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9998abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9999abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"])],
3598 "return last 10 lines of a file",
3600 This command returns up to the last 10 lines of a file as
3601 a list of strings.");
3603 ("tail_n", (RStringList "lines", [Int "nrlines"; Pathname "path"], []), 124, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
3604 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3605 [["tail_n"; "3"; "/10klines"]], ["9997abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9998abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9999abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"]);
3606 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3607 [["tail_n"; "-9998"; "/10klines"]], ["9997abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9998abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";"9999abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"]);
3608 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3609 [["tail_n"; "0"; "/10klines"]], [])],
3610 "return last N lines of a file",
3612 If the parameter C<nrlines> is a positive number, this returns the last
3613 C<nrlines> lines of the file C<path>.
3615 If the parameter C<nrlines> is a negative number, this returns lines
3616 from the file C<path>, starting with the C<-nrlines>th line.
3618 If the parameter C<nrlines> is zero, this returns an empty list.");
3620 ("df", (RString "output", [], []), 125, [],
3621 [], (* XXX Tricky to test because it depends on the exact format
3622 * of the 'df' command and other imponderables.
3624 "report file system disk space usage",
3626 This command runs the C<df> command to report disk space used.
3628 This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions. It
3629 is I<not> intended that you try to parse the output string.
3630 Use C<guestfs_statvfs> from programs.");
3632 ("df_h", (RString "output", [], []), 126, [],
3633 [], (* XXX Tricky to test because it depends on the exact format
3634 * of the 'df' command and other imponderables.
3636 "report file system disk space usage (human readable)",
3638 This command runs the C<df -h> command to report disk space used
3639 in human-readable format.
3641 This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions. It
3642 is I<not> intended that you try to parse the output string.
3643 Use C<guestfs_statvfs> from programs.");
3645 ("du", (RInt64 "sizekb", [Pathname "path"], []), 127, [Progress],
3646 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
3647 [["du"; "/directory"]], 2 (* ISO fs blocksize is 2K *))],
3648 "estimate file space usage",
3650 This command runs the C<du -s> command to estimate file space
3653 C<path> can be a file or a directory. If C<path> is a directory
3654 then the estimate includes the contents of the directory and all
3655 subdirectories (recursively).
3657 The result is the estimated size in I<kilobytes>
3658 (ie. units of 1024 bytes).");
3660 ("initrd_list", (RStringList "filenames", [Pathname "path"], []), 128, [],
3661 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
3662 [["initrd_list"; "/initrd"]], ["empty";"known-1";"known-2";"known-3";"known-4"; "known-5"])],
3663 "list files in an initrd",
3665 This command lists out files contained in an initrd.
3667 The files are listed without any initial C</> character. The
3668 files are listed in the order they appear (not necessarily
3669 alphabetical). Directory names are listed as separate items.
3671 Old Linux kernels (2.4 and earlier) used a compressed ext2
3672 filesystem as initrd. We I<only> support the newer initramfs
3673 format (compressed cpio files).");
3675 ("mount_loop", (RErr, [Pathname "file"; Pathname "mountpoint"], []), 129, [],
3677 "mount a file using the loop device",
3679 This command lets you mount C<file> (a filesystem image
3680 in a file) on a mount point. It is entirely equivalent to
3681 the command C<mount -o loop file mountpoint>.");
3683 ("mkswap", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 130, [],
3684 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
3685 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3686 ["mkswap"; "/dev/sda1"]])],
3687 "create a swap partition",
3689 Create a swap partition on C<device>.");
3691 ("mkswap_L", (RErr, [String "label"; Device "device"], []), 131, [],
3692 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
3693 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3694 ["mkswap_L"; "hello"; "/dev/sda1"]])],
3695 "create a swap partition with a label",
3697 Create a swap partition on C<device> with label C<label>.
3699 Note that you cannot attach a swap label to a block device
3700 (eg. C</dev/sda>), just to a partition. This appears to be
3701 a limitation of the kernel or swap tools.");
3703 ("mkswap_U", (RErr, [String "uuid"; Device "device"], []), 132, [Optional "linuxfsuuid"],
3704 (let uuid = uuidgen () in
3705 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
3706 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
3707 ["mkswap_U"; uuid; "/dev/sda1"]])]),
3708 "create a swap partition with an explicit UUID",
3710 Create a swap partition on C<device> with UUID C<uuid>.");
3712 ("mknod", (RErr, [Int "mode"; Int "devmajor"; Int "devminor"; Pathname "path"], []), 133, [Optional "mknod"],
3713 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
3714 [["mknod"; "0o10777"; "0"; "0"; "/mknod"];
3715 (* NB: default umask 022 means 0777 -> 0755 in these tests *)
3716 ["stat"; "/mknod"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o10755)]);
3717 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
3718 [["mknod"; "0o60777"; "66"; "99"; "/mknod2"];
3719 ["stat"; "/mknod2"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o60755)])],
3720 "make block, character or FIFO devices",
3722 This call creates block or character special devices, or
3723 named pipes (FIFOs).
3725 The C<mode> parameter should be the mode, using the standard
3726 constants. C<devmajor> and C<devminor> are the
3727 device major and minor numbers, only used when creating block
3728 and character special devices.
3730 Note that, just like L<mknod(2)>, the mode must be bitwise
3731 OR'd with S_IFBLK, S_IFCHR, S_IFIFO or S_IFSOCK (otherwise this call
3732 just creates a regular file). These constants are
3733 available in the standard Linux header files, or you can use
3734 C<guestfs_mknod_b>, C<guestfs_mknod_c> or C<guestfs_mkfifo>
3735 which are wrappers around this command which bitwise OR
3736 in the appropriate constant for you.
3738 The mode actually set is affected by the umask.");
3740 ("mkfifo", (RErr, [Int "mode"; Pathname "path"], []), 134, [Optional "mknod"],
3741 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
3742 [["mkfifo"; "0o777"; "/mkfifo"];
3743 ["stat"; "/mkfifo"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o10755)])],
3744 "make FIFO (named pipe)",
3746 This call creates a FIFO (named pipe) called C<path> with
3747 mode C<mode>. It is just a convenient wrapper around
3750 The mode actually set is affected by the umask.");
3752 ("mknod_b", (RErr, [Int "mode"; Int "devmajor"; Int "devminor"; Pathname "path"], []), 135, [Optional "mknod"],
3753 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
3754 [["mknod_b"; "0o777"; "99"; "66"; "/mknod_b"];
3755 ["stat"; "/mknod_b"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o60755)])],
3756 "make block device node",
3758 This call creates a block device node called C<path> with
3759 mode C<mode> and device major/minor C<devmajor> and C<devminor>.
3760 It is just a convenient wrapper around C<guestfs_mknod>.
3762 The mode actually set is affected by the umask.");
3764 ("mknod_c", (RErr, [Int "mode"; Int "devmajor"; Int "devminor"; Pathname "path"], []), 136, [Optional "mknod"],
3765 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
3766 [["mknod_c"; "0o777"; "99"; "66"; "/mknod_c"];
3767 ["stat"; "/mknod_c"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o20755)])],
3768 "make char device node",
3770 This call creates a char device node called C<path> with
3771 mode C<mode> and device major/minor C<devmajor> and C<devminor>.
3772 It is just a convenient wrapper around C<guestfs_mknod>.
3774 The mode actually set is affected by the umask.");
3776 ("umask", (RInt "oldmask", [Int "mask"], []), 137, [FishOutput FishOutputOctal],
3777 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
3778 [["umask"; "0o22"]], 0o22)],
3779 "set file mode creation mask (umask)",
3781 This function sets the mask used for creating new files and
3782 device nodes to C<mask & 0777>.
3784 Typical umask values would be C<022> which creates new files
3785 with permissions like \"-rw-r--r--\" or \"-rwxr-xr-x\", and
3786 C<002> which creates new files with permissions like
3787 \"-rw-rw-r--\" or \"-rwxrwxr-x\".
3789 The default umask is C<022>. This is important because it
3790 means that directories and device nodes will be created with
3791 C<0644> or C<0755> mode even if you specify C<0777>.
3793 See also C<guestfs_get_umask>,
3794 L<umask(2)>, C<guestfs_mknod>, C<guestfs_mkdir>.
3796 This call returns the previous umask.");
3798 ("readdir", (RStructList ("entries", "dirent"), [Pathname "dir"], []), 138, [],
3800 "read directories entries",
3802 This returns the list of directory entries in directory C<dir>.
3804 All entries in the directory are returned, including C<.> and
3805 C<..>. The entries are I<not> sorted, but returned in the same
3806 order as the underlying filesystem.
3808 Also this call returns basic file type information about each
3809 file. The C<ftyp> field will contain one of the following characters:
3847 The L<readdir(3)> call returned a C<d_type> field with an
3852 This function is primarily intended for use by programs. To
3853 get a simple list of names, use C<guestfs_ls>. To get a printable
3854 directory for human consumption, use C<guestfs_ll>.");
3856 ("sfdiskM", (RErr, [Device "device"; StringList "lines"], []), 139, [DangerWillRobinson],
3858 "create partitions on a block device",
3860 This is a simplified interface to the C<guestfs_sfdisk>
3861 command, where partition sizes are specified in megabytes
3862 only (rounded to the nearest cylinder) and you don't need
3863 to specify the cyls, heads and sectors parameters which
3864 were rarely if ever used anyway.
3866 See also: C<guestfs_sfdisk>, the L<sfdisk(8)> manpage
3867 and C<guestfs_part_disk>");
3869 ("zfile", (RString "description", [String "meth"; Pathname "path"], []), 140, [DeprecatedBy "file"],
3871 "determine file type inside a compressed file",
3873 This command runs C<file> after first decompressing C<path>
3876 C<method> must be one of C<gzip>, C<compress> or C<bzip2>.
3878 Since 1.0.63, use C<guestfs_file> instead which can now
3879 process compressed files.");
3881 ("getxattrs", (RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"], []), 141, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
3883 "list extended attributes of a file or directory",
3885 This call lists the extended attributes of the file or directory
3888 At the system call level, this is a combination of the
3889 L<listxattr(2)> and L<getxattr(2)> calls.
3891 See also: C<guestfs_lgetxattrs>, L<attr(5)>.");
3893 ("lgetxattrs", (RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"], []), 142, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
3895 "list extended attributes of a file or directory",
3897 This is the same as C<guestfs_getxattrs>, but if C<path>
3898 is a symbolic link, then it returns the extended attributes
3899 of the link itself.");
3901 ("setxattr", (RErr, [String "xattr";
3902 String "val"; Int "vallen"; (* will be BufferIn *)
3903 Pathname "path"], []), 143, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
3905 "set extended attribute of a file or directory",
3907 This call sets the extended attribute named C<xattr>
3908 of the file C<path> to the value C<val> (of length C<vallen>).
3909 The value is arbitrary 8 bit data.
3911 See also: C<guestfs_lsetxattr>, L<attr(5)>.");
3913 ("lsetxattr", (RErr, [String "xattr";
3914 String "val"; Int "vallen"; (* will be BufferIn *)
3915 Pathname "path"], []), 144, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
3917 "set extended attribute of a file or directory",
3919 This is the same as C<guestfs_setxattr>, but if C<path>
3920 is a symbolic link, then it sets an extended attribute
3921 of the link itself.");
3923 ("removexattr", (RErr, [String "xattr"; Pathname "path"], []), 145, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
3925 "remove extended attribute of a file or directory",
3927 This call removes the extended attribute named C<xattr>
3928 of the file C<path>.
3930 See also: C<guestfs_lremovexattr>, L<attr(5)>.");
3932 ("lremovexattr", (RErr, [String "xattr"; Pathname "path"], []), 146, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
3934 "remove extended attribute of a file or directory",
3936 This is the same as C<guestfs_removexattr>, but if C<path>
3937 is a symbolic link, then it removes an extended attribute
3938 of the link itself.");
3940 ("mountpoints", (RHashtable "mps", [], []), 147, [],
3944 This call is similar to C<guestfs_mounts>. That call returns
3945 a list of devices. This one returns a hash table (map) of
3946 device name to directory where the device is mounted.");
3948 ("mkmountpoint", (RErr, [String "exemptpath"], []), 148, [],
3949 (* This is a special case: while you would expect a parameter
3950 * of type "Pathname", that doesn't work, because it implies
3951 * NEED_ROOT in the generated calling code in stubs.c, and
3952 * this function cannot use NEED_ROOT.
3955 "create a mountpoint",
3957 C<guestfs_mkmountpoint> and C<guestfs_rmmountpoint> are
3958 specialized calls that can be used to create extra mountpoints
3959 before mounting the first filesystem.
3961 These calls are I<only> necessary in some very limited circumstances,
3962 mainly the case where you want to mount a mix of unrelated and/or
3963 read-only filesystems together.
3965 For example, live CDs often contain a \"Russian doll\" nest of
3966 filesystems, an ISO outer layer, with a squashfs image inside, with
3967 an ext2/3 image inside that. You can unpack this as follows
3970 add-ro Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso
3974 mkmountpoint /ext3fs
3976 mount-loop /cd/LiveOS/squashfs.img /sqsh
3977 mount-loop /sqsh/LiveOS/ext3fs.img /ext3fs
3979 The inner filesystem is now unpacked under the /ext3fs mountpoint.
3981 C<guestfs_mkmountpoint> is not compatible with C<guestfs_umount_all>.
3982 You may get unexpected errors if you try to mix these calls. It is
3983 safest to manually unmount filesystems and remove mountpoints after use.
3985 C<guestfs_umount_all> unmounts filesystems by sorting the paths
3986 longest first, so for this to work for manual mountpoints, you
3987 must ensure that the innermost mountpoints have the longest
3988 pathnames, as in the example code above.
3990 For more details see L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503>
3992 Autosync [see C<guestfs_set_autosync>, this is set by default on
3993 handles] can cause C<guestfs_umount_all> to be called when the handle
3994 is closed which can also trigger these issues.");
3996 ("rmmountpoint", (RErr, [String "exemptpath"], []), 149, [],
3998 "remove a mountpoint",
4000 This calls removes a mountpoint that was previously created
4001 with C<guestfs_mkmountpoint>. See C<guestfs_mkmountpoint>
4002 for full details.");
4004 ("read_file", (RBufferOut "content", [Pathname "path"], []), 150, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4005 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
4006 [["read_file"; "/known-4"]], "abc\ndef\nghi");
4007 (* Test various near large, large and too large files (RHBZ#589039). *)
4008 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail (
4009 [["touch"; "/read_file"];
4010 ["truncate_size"; "/read_file"; "4194303"]; (* GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX - 1 *)
4011 ["read_file"; "/read_file"]]);
4012 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail (
4013 [["touch"; "/read_file2"];
4014 ["truncate_size"; "/read_file2"; "4194304"]; (* GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX *)
4015 ["read_file"; "/read_file2"]]);
4016 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail (
4017 [["touch"; "/read_file3"];
4018 ["truncate_size"; "/read_file3"; "41943040"]; (* GUESTFS_MESSAGE_MAX * 10 *)
4019 ["read_file"; "/read_file3"]])],
4022 This calls returns the contents of the file C<path> as a
4025 Unlike C<guestfs_cat>, this function can correctly
4026 handle files that contain embedded ASCII NUL characters.
4027 However unlike C<guestfs_download>, this function is limited
4028 in the total size of file that can be handled.");
4030 ("grep", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 151, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4031 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4032 [["grep"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt"]], ["abc"; "abc123"]);
4033 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4034 [["grep"; "nomatch"; "/test-grep.txt"]], []);
4035 (* Test for RHBZ#579608, absolute symbolic links. *)
4036 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4037 [["grep"; "nomatch"; "/abssymlink"]], [])],
4038 "return lines matching a pattern",
4040 This calls the external C<grep> program and returns the
4043 ("egrep", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 152, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4044 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4045 [["egrep"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt"]], ["abc"; "abc123"])],
4046 "return lines matching a pattern",
4048 This calls the external C<egrep> program and returns the
4051 ("fgrep", (RStringList "lines", [String "pattern"; Pathname "path"], []), 153, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4052 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4053 [["fgrep"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt"]], ["abc"; "abc123"])],
4054 "return lines matching a pattern",
4056 This calls the external C<fgrep> program and returns the
4059 ("grepi", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 154, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4060 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4061 [["grepi"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt"]], ["abc"; "abc123"; "ABC"])],
4062 "return lines matching a pattern",
4064 This calls the external C<grep -i> program and returns the
4067 ("egrepi", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 155, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4068 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4069 [["egrepi"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt"]], ["abc"; "abc123"; "ABC"])],
4070 "return lines matching a pattern",
4072 This calls the external C<egrep -i> program and returns the
4075 ("fgrepi", (RStringList "lines", [String "pattern"; Pathname "path"], []), 156, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4076 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4077 [["fgrepi"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt"]], ["abc"; "abc123"; "ABC"])],
4078 "return lines matching a pattern",
4080 This calls the external C<fgrep -i> program and returns the
4083 ("zgrep", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 157, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4084 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4085 [["zgrep"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt.gz"]], ["abc"; "abc123"])],
4086 "return lines matching a pattern",
4088 This calls the external C<zgrep> program and returns the
4091 ("zegrep", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 158, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4092 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4093 [["zegrep"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt.gz"]], ["abc"; "abc123"])],
4094 "return lines matching a pattern",
4096 This calls the external C<zegrep> program and returns the
4099 ("zfgrep", (RStringList "lines", [String "pattern"; Pathname "path"], []), 159, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4100 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4101 [["zfgrep"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt.gz"]], ["abc"; "abc123"])],
4102 "return lines matching a pattern",
4104 This calls the external C<zfgrep> program and returns the
4107 ("zgrepi", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 160, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4108 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4109 [["zgrepi"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt.gz"]], ["abc"; "abc123"; "ABC"])],
4110 "return lines matching a pattern",
4112 This calls the external C<zgrep -i> program and returns the
4115 ("zegrepi", (RStringList "lines", [String "regex"; Pathname "path"], []), 161, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4116 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4117 [["zegrepi"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt.gz"]], ["abc"; "abc123"; "ABC"])],
4118 "return lines matching a pattern",
4120 This calls the external C<zegrep -i> program and returns the
4123 ("zfgrepi", (RStringList "lines", [String "pattern"; Pathname "path"], []), 162, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4124 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4125 [["zfgrepi"; "abc"; "/test-grep.txt.gz"]], ["abc"; "abc123"; "ABC"])],
4126 "return lines matching a pattern",
4128 This calls the external C<zfgrep -i> program and returns the
4131 ("realpath", (RString "rpath", [Pathname "path"], []), 163, [Optional "realpath"],
4132 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
4133 [["realpath"; "/../directory"]], "/directory")],
4134 "canonicalized absolute pathname",
4136 Return the canonicalized absolute pathname of C<path>. The
4137 returned path has no C<.>, C<..> or symbolic link path elements.");
4139 ("ln", (RErr, [String "target"; Pathname "linkname"], []), 164, [],
4140 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4143 ["ln"; "/ln/a"; "/ln/b"];
4144 ["stat"; "/ln/b"]], [CompareWithInt ("nlink", 2)])],
4145 "create a hard link",
4147 This command creates a hard link using the C<ln> command.");
4149 ("ln_f", (RErr, [String "target"; Pathname "linkname"], []), 165, [],
4150 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4151 [["mkdir"; "/ln_f"];
4152 ["touch"; "/ln_f/a"];
4153 ["touch"; "/ln_f/b"];
4154 ["ln_f"; "/ln_f/a"; "/ln_f/b"];
4155 ["stat"; "/ln_f/b"]], [CompareWithInt ("nlink", 2)])],
4156 "create a hard link",
4158 This command creates a hard link using the C<ln -f> command.
4159 The I<-f> option removes the link (C<linkname>) if it exists already.");
4161 ("ln_s", (RErr, [String "target"; Pathname "linkname"], []), 166, [],
4162 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4163 [["mkdir"; "/ln_s"];
4164 ["touch"; "/ln_s/a"];
4165 ["ln_s"; "a"; "/ln_s/b"];
4166 ["lstat"; "/ln_s/b"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o120777)])],
4167 "create a symbolic link",
4169 This command creates a symbolic link using the C<ln -s> command.");
4171 ("ln_sf", (RErr, [String "target"; Pathname "linkname"], []), 167, [],
4172 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
4173 [["mkdir_p"; "/ln_sf/b"];
4174 ["touch"; "/ln_sf/b/c"];
4175 ["ln_sf"; "../d"; "/ln_sf/b/c"];
4176 ["readlink"; "/ln_sf/b/c"]], "../d")],
4177 "create a symbolic link",
4179 This command creates a symbolic link using the C<ln -sf> command,
4180 The I<-f> option removes the link (C<linkname>) if it exists already.");
4182 ("readlink", (RString "link", [Pathname "path"], []), 168, [],
4183 [] (* XXX tested above *),
4184 "read the target of a symbolic link",
4186 This command reads the target of a symbolic link.");
4188 ("fallocate", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int "len"], []), 169, [DeprecatedBy "fallocate64"],
4189 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4190 [["fallocate"; "/fallocate"; "1000000"];
4191 ["stat"; "/fallocate"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1_000_000)])],
4192 "preallocate a file in the guest filesystem",
4194 This command preallocates a file (containing zero bytes) named
4195 C<path> of size C<len> bytes. If the file exists already, it
4198 Do not confuse this with the guestfish-specific
4199 C<alloc> command which allocates a file in the host and
4200 attaches it as a device.");
4202 ("swapon_device", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 170, [],
4203 [InitPartition, Always, TestRun (
4204 [["mkswap"; "/dev/sda1"];
4205 ["swapon_device"; "/dev/sda1"];
4206 ["swapoff_device"; "/dev/sda1"]])],
4207 "enable swap on device",
4209 This command enables the libguestfs appliance to use the
4210 swap device or partition named C<device>. The increased
4211 memory is made available for all commands, for example
4212 those run using C<guestfs_command> or C<guestfs_sh>.
4214 Note that you should not swap to existing guest swap
4215 partitions unless you know what you are doing. They may
4216 contain hibernation information, or other information that
4217 the guest doesn't want you to trash. You also risk leaking
4218 information about the host to the guest this way. Instead,
4219 attach a new host device to the guest and swap on that.");
4221 ("swapoff_device", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 171, [],
4222 [], (* XXX tested by swapon_device *)
4223 "disable swap on device",
4225 This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap
4226 device or partition named C<device>.
4227 See C<guestfs_swapon_device>.");
4229 ("swapon_file", (RErr, [Pathname "file"], []), 172, [],
4230 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun (
4231 [["fallocate"; "/swapon_file"; "8388608"];
4232 ["mkswap_file"; "/swapon_file"];
4233 ["swapon_file"; "/swapon_file"];
4234 ["swapoff_file"; "/swapon_file"];
4235 ["rm"; "/swapon_file"]])],
4236 "enable swap on file",
4238 This command enables swap to a file.
4239 See C<guestfs_swapon_device> for other notes.");
4241 ("swapoff_file", (RErr, [Pathname "file"], []), 173, [],
4242 [], (* XXX tested by swapon_file *)
4243 "disable swap on file",
4245 This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap on file.");
4247 ("swapon_label", (RErr, [String "label"], []), 174, [],
4248 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4249 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4250 ["mkswap_L"; "swapit"; "/dev/sda1"];
4251 ["swapon_label"; "swapit"];
4252 ["swapoff_label"; "swapit"];
4253 ["zero"; "/dev/sda"];
4254 ["blockdev_rereadpt"; "/dev/sda"]])],
4255 "enable swap on labeled swap partition",
4257 This command enables swap to a labeled swap partition.
4258 See C<guestfs_swapon_device> for other notes.");
4260 ("swapoff_label", (RErr, [String "label"], []), 175, [],
4261 [], (* XXX tested by swapon_label *)
4262 "disable swap on labeled swap partition",
4264 This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap on
4265 labeled swap partition.");
4267 ("swapon_uuid", (RErr, [String "uuid"], []), 176, [Optional "linuxfsuuid"],
4268 (let uuid = uuidgen () in
4269 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4270 [["mkswap_U"; uuid; "/dev/sdc"];
4271 ["swapon_uuid"; uuid];
4272 ["swapoff_uuid"; uuid]])]),
4273 "enable swap on swap partition by UUID",
4275 This command enables swap to a swap partition with the given UUID.
4276 See C<guestfs_swapon_device> for other notes.");
4278 ("swapoff_uuid", (RErr, [String "uuid"], []), 177, [Optional "linuxfsuuid"],
4279 [], (* XXX tested by swapon_uuid *)
4280 "disable swap on swap partition by UUID",
4282 This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap partition
4283 with the given UUID.");
4285 ("mkswap_file", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 178, [],
4286 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestRun (
4287 [["fallocate"; "/mkswap_file"; "8388608"];
4288 ["mkswap_file"; "/mkswap_file"];
4289 ["rm"; "/mkswap_file"]])],
4290 "create a swap file",
4294 This command just writes a swap file signature to an existing
4295 file. To create the file itself, use something like C<guestfs_fallocate>.");
4297 ("inotify_init", (RErr, [Int "maxevents"], []), 179, [Optional "inotify"],
4298 [InitISOFS, Always, TestRun (
4299 [["inotify_init"; "0"]])],
4300 "create an inotify handle",
4302 This command creates a new inotify handle.
4303 The inotify subsystem can be used to notify events which happen to
4304 objects in the guest filesystem.
4306 C<maxevents> is the maximum number of events which will be
4307 queued up between calls to C<guestfs_inotify_read> or
4308 C<guestfs_inotify_files>.
4309 If this is passed as C<0>, then the kernel (or previously set)
4310 default is used. For Linux 2.6.29 the default was 16384 events.
4311 Beyond this limit, the kernel throws away events, but records
4312 the fact that it threw them away by setting a flag
4313 C<IN_Q_OVERFLOW> in the returned structure list (see
4314 C<guestfs_inotify_read>).
4316 Before any events are generated, you have to add some
4317 watches to the internal watch list. See:
4318 C<guestfs_inotify_add_watch>,
4319 C<guestfs_inotify_rm_watch> and
4320 C<guestfs_inotify_watch_all>.
4322 Queued up events should be read periodically by calling
4323 C<guestfs_inotify_read>
4324 (or C<guestfs_inotify_files> which is just a helpful
4325 wrapper around C<guestfs_inotify_read>). If you don't
4326 read the events out often enough then you risk the internal
4329 The handle should be closed after use by calling
4330 C<guestfs_inotify_close>. This also removes any
4331 watches automatically.
4333 See also L<inotify(7)> for an overview of the inotify interface
4334 as exposed by the Linux kernel, which is roughly what we expose
4335 via libguestfs. Note that there is one global inotify handle
4336 per libguestfs instance.");
4338 ("inotify_add_watch", (RInt64 "wd", [Pathname "path"; Int "mask"], []), 180, [Optional "inotify"],
4339 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputList (
4340 [["mkdir"; "/inotify_add_watch"];
4341 ["inotify_init"; "0"];
4342 ["inotify_add_watch"; "/inotify_add_watch"; "1073741823"];
4343 ["touch"; "/inotify_add_watch/a"];
4344 ["touch"; "/inotify_add_watch/b"];
4345 ["inotify_files"]], ["a"; "b"])],
4346 "add an inotify watch",
4348 Watch C<path> for the events listed in C<mask>.
4350 Note that if C<path> is a directory then events within that
4351 directory are watched, but this does I<not> happen recursively
4352 (in subdirectories).
4354 Note for non-C or non-Linux callers: the inotify events are
4355 defined by the Linux kernel ABI and are listed in
4356 C</usr/include/sys/inotify.h>.");
4358 ("inotify_rm_watch", (RErr, [Int(*XXX64*) "wd"], []), 181, [Optional "inotify"],
4360 "remove an inotify watch",
4362 Remove a previously defined inotify watch.
4363 See C<guestfs_inotify_add_watch>.");
4365 ("inotify_read", (RStructList ("events", "inotify_event"), [], []), 182, [Optional "inotify"],
4367 "return list of inotify events",
4369 Return the complete queue of events that have happened
4370 since the previous read call.
4372 If no events have happened, this returns an empty list.
4374 I<Note>: In order to make sure that all events have been
4375 read, you must call this function repeatedly until it
4376 returns an empty list. The reason is that the call will
4377 read events up to the maximum appliance-to-host message
4378 size and leave remaining events in the queue.");
4380 ("inotify_files", (RStringList "paths", [], []), 183, [Optional "inotify"],
4382 "return list of watched files that had events",
4384 This function is a helpful wrapper around C<guestfs_inotify_read>
4385 which just returns a list of pathnames of objects that were
4386 touched. The returned pathnames are sorted and deduplicated.");
4388 ("inotify_close", (RErr, [], []), 184, [Optional "inotify"],
4390 "close the inotify handle",
4392 This closes the inotify handle which was previously
4393 opened by inotify_init. It removes all watches, throws
4394 away any pending events, and deallocates all resources.");
4396 ("setcon", (RErr, [String "context"], []), 185, [Optional "selinux"],
4398 "set SELinux security context",
4400 This sets the SELinux security context of the daemon
4401 to the string C<context>.
4403 See the documentation about SELINUX in L<guestfs(3)>.");
4405 ("getcon", (RString "context", [], []), 186, [Optional "selinux"],
4407 "get SELinux security context",
4409 This gets the SELinux security context of the daemon.
4411 See the documentation about SELINUX in L<guestfs(3)>,
4412 and C<guestfs_setcon>");
4414 ("mkfs_b", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"], []), 187, [DeprecatedBy "mkfs_opts"],
4415 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
4416 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4417 ["mkfs_b"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda1"];
4418 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
4419 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
4420 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents");
4421 InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4422 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4423 ["mkfs_b"; "vfat"; "32768"; "/dev/sda1"]]);
4424 InitEmpty, Always, TestLastFail (
4425 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4426 ["mkfs_b"; "vfat"; "32769"; "/dev/sda1"]]);
4427 InitEmpty, Always, TestLastFail (
4428 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4429 ["mkfs_b"; "vfat"; "33280"; "/dev/sda1"]]);
4430 InitEmpty, IfAvailable "ntfsprogs", TestRun (
4431 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4432 ["mkfs_b"; "ntfs"; "32768"; "/dev/sda1"]])],
4433 "make a filesystem with block size",
4435 This call is similar to C<guestfs_mkfs>, but it allows you to
4436 control the block size of the resulting filesystem. Supported
4437 block sizes depend on the filesystem type, but typically they
4438 are C<1024>, C<2048> or C<4096> only.
4440 For VFAT and NTFS the C<blocksize> parameter is treated as
4441 the requested cluster size.");
4443 ("mke2journal", (RErr, [Int "blocksize"; Device "device"], []), 188, [],
4444 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
4445 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4446 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
4447 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "-64"];
4448 ["mke2journal"; "4096"; "/dev/sda1"];
4449 ["mke2fs_J"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda2"; "/dev/sda1"];
4450 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda2"; "/"];
4451 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
4452 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
4453 "make ext2/3/4 external journal",
4455 This creates an ext2 external journal on C<device>. It is equivalent
4458 mke2fs -O journal_dev -b blocksize device");
4460 ("mke2journal_L", (RErr, [Int "blocksize"; String "label"; Device "device"], []), 189, [],
4461 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
4462 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4463 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
4464 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "-64"];
4465 ["mke2journal_L"; "4096"; "JOURNAL"; "/dev/sda1"];
4466 ["mke2fs_JL"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda2"; "JOURNAL"];
4467 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda2"; "/"];
4468 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
4469 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
4470 "make ext2/3/4 external journal with label",
4472 This creates an ext2 external journal on C<device> with label C<label>.");
4474 ("mke2journal_U", (RErr, [Int "blocksize"; String "uuid"; Device "device"], []), 190, [Optional "linuxfsuuid"],
4475 (let uuid = uuidgen () in
4476 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
4477 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4478 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "64"; "204799"];
4479 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "p"; "204800"; "-64"];
4480 ["mke2journal_U"; "4096"; uuid; "/dev/sda1"];
4481 ["mke2fs_JU"; "ext2"; "4096"; "/dev/sda2"; uuid];
4482 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda2"; "/"];
4483 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
4484 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")]),
4485 "make ext2/3/4 external journal with UUID",
4487 This creates an ext2 external journal on C<device> with UUID C<uuid>.");
4489 ("mke2fs_J", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"; Device "journal"], []), 191, [],
4491 "make ext2/3/4 filesystem with external journal",
4493 This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on C<device> with
4494 an external journal on C<journal>. It is equivalent
4497 mke2fs -t fstype -b blocksize -J device=<journal> <device>
4499 See also C<guestfs_mke2journal>.");
4501 ("mke2fs_JL", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"; String "label"], []), 192, [],
4503 "make ext2/3/4 filesystem with external journal",
4505 This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on C<device> with
4506 an external journal on the journal labeled C<label>.
4508 See also C<guestfs_mke2journal_L>.");
4510 ("mke2fs_JU", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Int "blocksize"; Device "device"; String "uuid"], []), 193, [Optional "linuxfsuuid"],
4512 "make ext2/3/4 filesystem with external journal",
4514 This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on C<device> with
4515 an external journal on the journal with UUID C<uuid>.
4517 See also C<guestfs_mke2journal_U>.");
4519 ("modprobe", (RErr, [String "modulename"], []), 194, [Optional "linuxmodules"],
4520 [InitNone, Always, TestRun [["modprobe"; "fat"]]],
4521 "load a kernel module",
4523 This loads a kernel module in the appliance.
4525 The kernel module must have been whitelisted when libguestfs
4526 was built (see C<appliance/kmod.whitelist.in> in the source).");
4528 ("echo_daemon", (RString "output", [StringList "words"], []), 195, [],
4529 [InitNone, Always, TestOutput (
4530 [["echo_daemon"; "This is a test"]], "This is a test"
4532 "echo arguments back to the client",
4534 This command concatenates the list of C<words> passed with single spaces
4535 between them and returns the resulting string.
4537 You can use this command to test the connection through to the daemon.
4539 See also C<guestfs_ping_daemon>.");
4541 ("find0", (RErr, [Pathname "directory"; FileOut "files"], []), 196, [],
4542 [], (* There is a regression test for this. *)
4543 "find all files and directories, returning NUL-separated list",
4545 This command lists out all files and directories, recursively,
4546 starting at C<directory>, placing the resulting list in the
4547 external file called C<files>.
4549 This command works the same way as C<guestfs_find> with the
4550 following exceptions:
4556 The resulting list is written to an external file.
4560 Items (filenames) in the result are separated
4561 by C<\\0> characters. See L<find(1)> option I<-print0>.
4565 This command is not limited in the number of names that it
4570 The result list is not sorted.
4574 ("case_sensitive_path", (RString "rpath", [Pathname "path"], []), 197, [],
4575 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
4576 [["case_sensitive_path"; "/DIRECTORY"]], "/directory");
4577 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
4578 [["case_sensitive_path"; "/DIRECTORY/"]], "/directory");
4579 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutput (
4580 [["case_sensitive_path"; "/Known-1"]], "/known-1");
4581 InitISOFS, Always, TestLastFail (
4582 [["case_sensitive_path"; "/Known-1/"]]);
4583 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
4584 [["mkdir"; "/case_sensitive_path"];
4585 ["mkdir"; "/case_sensitive_path/bbb"];
4586 ["touch"; "/case_sensitive_path/bbb/c"];
4587 ["case_sensitive_path"; "/CASE_SENSITIVE_path/bbB/C"]], "/case_sensitive_path/bbb/c");
4588 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
4589 [["mkdir"; "/case_sensitive_path2"];
4590 ["mkdir"; "/case_sensitive_path2/bbb"];
4591 ["touch"; "/case_sensitive_path2/bbb/c"];
4592 ["case_sensitive_path"; "/case_sensitive_PATH2////bbB/C"]], "/case_sensitive_path2/bbb/c");
4593 InitScratchFS, Always, TestLastFail (
4594 [["mkdir"; "/case_sensitive_path3"];
4595 ["mkdir"; "/case_sensitive_path3/bbb"];
4596 ["touch"; "/case_sensitive_path3/bbb/c"];
4597 ["case_sensitive_path"; "/case_SENSITIVE_path3/bbb/../bbb/C"]])],
4598 "return true path on case-insensitive filesystem",
4600 This can be used to resolve case insensitive paths on
4601 a filesystem which is case sensitive. The use case is
4602 to resolve paths which you have read from Windows configuration
4603 files or the Windows Registry, to the true path.
4605 The command handles a peculiarity of the Linux ntfs-3g
4606 filesystem driver (and probably others), which is that although
4607 the underlying filesystem is case-insensitive, the driver
4608 exports the filesystem to Linux as case-sensitive.
4610 One consequence of this is that special directories such
4611 as C<c:\\windows> may appear as C</WINDOWS> or C</windows>
4612 (or other things) depending on the precise details of how
4613 they were created. In Windows itself this would not be
4616 Bug or feature? You decide:
4617 L<http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#posixfilenames1>
4619 This function resolves the true case of each element in the
4620 path and returns the case-sensitive path.
4622 Thus C<guestfs_case_sensitive_path> (\"/Windows/System32\")
4623 might return C<\"/WINDOWS/system32\"> (the exact return value
4624 would depend on details of how the directories were originally
4625 created under Windows).
4628 This function does not handle drive names, backslashes etc.
4630 See also C<guestfs_realpath>.");
4632 ("vfs_type", (RString "fstype", [Device "device"], []), 198, [],
4633 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
4634 [["vfs_type"; "/dev/sdb1"]], "ext2")],
4635 "get the Linux VFS type corresponding to a mounted device",
4637 This command gets the filesystem type corresponding to
4638 the filesystem on C<device>.
4640 For most filesystems, the result is the name of the Linux
4641 VFS module which would be used to mount this filesystem
4642 if you mounted it without specifying the filesystem type.
4643 For example a string such as C<ext3> or C<ntfs>.");
4645 ("truncate", (RErr, [Pathname "path"], []), 199, [],
4646 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4647 [["write"; "/truncate"; "some stuff so size is not zero"];
4648 ["truncate"; "/truncate"];
4649 ["stat"; "/truncate"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 0)])],
4650 "truncate a file to zero size",
4652 This command truncates C<path> to a zero-length file. The
4653 file must exist already.");
4655 ("truncate_size", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "size"], []), 200, [],
4656 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4657 [["touch"; "/truncate_size"];
4658 ["truncate_size"; "/truncate_size"; "1000"];
4659 ["stat"; "/truncate_size"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1000)])],
4660 "truncate a file to a particular size",
4662 This command truncates C<path> to size C<size> bytes. The file
4665 If the current file size is less than C<size> then
4666 the file is extended to the required size with zero bytes.
4667 This creates a sparse file (ie. disk blocks are not allocated
4668 for the file until you write to it). To create a non-sparse
4669 file of zeroes, use C<guestfs_fallocate64> instead.");
4671 ("utimens", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "atsecs"; Int64 "atnsecs"; Int64 "mtsecs"; Int64 "mtnsecs"], []), 201, [],
4672 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4673 [["touch"; "/utimens"];
4674 ["utimens"; "/utimens"; "12345"; "67890"; "9876"; "5432"];
4675 ["stat"; "/utimens"]], [CompareWithInt ("mtime", 9876)])],
4676 "set timestamp of a file with nanosecond precision",
4678 This command sets the timestamps of a file with nanosecond
4681 C<atsecs, atnsecs> are the last access time (atime) in secs and
4682 nanoseconds from the epoch.
4684 C<mtsecs, mtnsecs> are the last modification time (mtime) in
4685 secs and nanoseconds from the epoch.
4687 If the C<*nsecs> field contains the special value C<-1> then
4688 the corresponding timestamp is set to the current time. (The
4689 C<*secs> field is ignored in this case).
4691 If the C<*nsecs> field contains the special value C<-2> then
4692 the corresponding timestamp is left unchanged. (The
4693 C<*secs> field is ignored in this case).");
4695 ("mkdir_mode", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int "mode"], []), 202, [],
4696 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
4697 [["mkdir_mode"; "/mkdir_mode"; "0o111"];
4698 ["stat"; "/mkdir_mode"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o40111)])],
4699 "create a directory with a particular mode",
4701 This command creates a directory, setting the initial permissions
4702 of the directory to C<mode>.
4704 For common Linux filesystems, the actual mode which is set will
4705 be C<mode & ~umask & 01777>. Non-native-Linux filesystems may
4706 interpret the mode in other ways.
4708 See also C<guestfs_mkdir>, C<guestfs_umask>");
4710 ("lchown", (RErr, [Int "owner"; Int "group"; Pathname "path"], []), 203, [],
4712 "change file owner and group",
4714 Change the file owner to C<owner> and group to C<group>.
4715 This is like C<guestfs_chown> but if C<path> is a symlink then
4716 the link itself is changed, not the target.
4718 Only numeric uid and gid are supported. If you want to use
4719 names, you will need to locate and parse the password file
4720 yourself (Augeas support makes this relatively easy).");
4722 ("lstatlist", (RStructList ("statbufs", "stat"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], []), 204, [],
4724 "lstat on multiple files",
4726 This call allows you to perform the C<guestfs_lstat> operation
4727 on multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
4728 C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
4730 On return you get a list of stat structs, with a one-to-one
4731 correspondence to the C<names> list. If any name did not exist
4732 or could not be lstat'd, then the C<ino> field of that structure
4735 This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
4736 list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
4737 See also C<guestfs_lxattrlist> for a similarly efficient call
4738 for getting extended attributes. Very long directory listings
4739 might cause the protocol message size to be exceeded, causing
4740 this call to fail. The caller must split up such requests
4741 into smaller groups of names.");
4743 ("lxattrlist", (RStructList ("xattrs", "xattr"), [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], []), 205, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
4745 "lgetxattr on multiple files",
4747 This call allows you to get the extended attributes
4748 of multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
4749 C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
4751 On return you get a flat list of xattr structs which must be
4752 interpreted sequentially. The first xattr struct always has a zero-length
4753 C<attrname>. C<attrval> in this struct is zero-length
4754 to indicate there was an error doing C<lgetxattr> for this
4755 file, I<or> is a C string which is a decimal number
4756 (the number of following attributes for this file, which could
4757 be C<\"0\">). Then after the first xattr struct are the
4758 zero or more attributes for the first named file.
4759 This repeats for the second and subsequent files.
4761 This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
4762 list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
4763 See also C<guestfs_lstatlist> for a similarly efficient call
4764 for getting standard stats. Very long directory listings
4765 might cause the protocol message size to be exceeded, causing
4766 this call to fail. The caller must split up such requests
4767 into smaller groups of names.");
4769 ("readlinklist", (RStringList "links", [Pathname "path"; StringList "names"], []), 206, [],
4771 "readlink on multiple files",
4773 This call allows you to do a C<readlink> operation
4774 on multiple files, where all files are in the directory C<path>.
4775 C<names> is the list of files from this directory.
4777 On return you get a list of strings, with a one-to-one
4778 correspondence to the C<names> list. Each string is the
4779 value of the symbolic link.
4781 If the C<readlink(2)> operation fails on any name, then
4782 the corresponding result string is the empty string C<\"\">.
4783 However the whole operation is completed even if there
4784 were C<readlink(2)> errors, and so you can call this
4785 function with names where you don't know if they are
4786 symbolic links already (albeit slightly less efficient).
4788 This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently
4789 list a directory contents without making many round-trips.
4790 Very long directory listings might cause the protocol
4791 message size to be exceeded, causing
4792 this call to fail. The caller must split up such requests
4793 into smaller groups of names.");
4795 ("pread", (RBufferOut "content", [Pathname "path"; Int "count"; Int64 "offset"], []), 207, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
4796 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
4797 [["pread"; "/known-4"; "1"; "3"]], "\n");
4798 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
4799 [["pread"; "/empty"; "0"; "100"]], "")],
4800 "read part of a file",
4802 This command lets you read part of a file. It reads C<count>
4803 bytes of the file, starting at C<offset>, from file C<path>.
4805 This may read fewer bytes than requested. For further details
4806 see the L<pread(2)> system call.
4808 See also C<guestfs_pwrite>, C<guestfs_pread_device>.");
4810 ("part_init", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "parttype"], []), 208, [],
4811 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4812 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"]])],
4813 "create an empty partition table",
4815 This creates an empty partition table on C<device> of one of the
4816 partition types listed below. Usually C<parttype> should be
4817 either C<msdos> or C<gpt> (for large disks).
4819 Initially there are no partitions. Following this, you should
4820 call C<guestfs_part_add> for each partition required.
4822 Possible values for C<parttype> are:
4826 =item B<efi> | B<gpt>
4828 Intel EFI / GPT partition table.
4830 This is recommended for >= 2 TB partitions that will be accessed
4831 from Linux and Intel-based Mac OS X. It also has limited backwards
4832 compatibility with the C<mbr> format.
4834 =item B<mbr> | B<msdos>
4836 The standard PC \"Master Boot Record\" (MBR) format used
4837 by MS-DOS and Windows. This partition type will B<only> work
4838 for device sizes up to 2 TB. For large disks we recommend
4843 Other partition table types that may work but are not
4852 =item B<amiga> | B<rdb>
4854 Amiga \"Rigid Disk Block\" format.
4862 DASD, used on IBM mainframes.
4870 Old Mac partition format. Modern Macs use C<gpt>.
4874 NEC PC-98 format, common in Japan apparently.
4882 ("part_add", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "prlogex"; Int64 "startsect"; Int64 "endsect"], []), 209, [],
4883 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4884 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4885 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "1"; "-1"]]);
4886 InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4887 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"];
4888 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "34"; "127"];
4889 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "128"; "-34"]]);
4890 InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4891 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4892 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "32"; "127"];
4893 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "128"; "255"];
4894 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "256"; "511"];
4895 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "512"; "-1"]])],
4896 "add a partition to the device",
4898 This command adds a partition to C<device>. If there is no partition
4899 table on the device, call C<guestfs_part_init> first.
4901 The C<prlogex> parameter is the type of partition. Normally you
4902 should pass C<p> or C<primary> here, but MBR partition tables also
4903 support C<l> (or C<logical>) and C<e> (or C<extended>) partition
4906 C<startsect> and C<endsect> are the start and end of the partition
4907 in I<sectors>. C<endsect> may be negative, which means it counts
4908 backwards from the end of the disk (C<-1> is the last sector).
4910 Creating a partition which covers the whole disk is not so easy.
4911 Use C<guestfs_part_disk> to do that.");
4913 ("part_disk", (RErr, [Device "device"; String "parttype"], []), 210, [DangerWillRobinson],
4914 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4915 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"]]);
4916 InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4917 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"]])],
4918 "partition whole disk with a single primary partition",
4920 This command is simply a combination of C<guestfs_part_init>
4921 followed by C<guestfs_part_add> to create a single primary partition
4922 covering the whole disk.
4924 C<parttype> is the partition table type, usually C<mbr> or C<gpt>,
4925 but other possible values are described in C<guestfs_part_init>.");
4927 ("part_set_bootable", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum"; Bool "bootable"], []), 211, [],
4928 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4929 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
4930 ["part_set_bootable"; "/dev/sda"; "1"; "true"]])],
4931 "make a partition bootable",
4933 This sets the bootable flag on partition numbered C<partnum> on
4934 device C<device>. Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
4936 The bootable flag is used by some operating systems (notably
4937 Windows) to determine which partition to boot from. It is by
4938 no means universally recognized.");
4940 ("part_set_name", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum"; String "name"], []), 212, [],
4941 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
4942 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"];
4943 ["part_set_name"; "/dev/sda"; "1"; "thepartname"]])],
4944 "set partition name",
4946 This sets the partition name on partition numbered C<partnum> on
4947 device C<device>. Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
4949 The partition name can only be set on certain types of partition
4950 table. This works on C<gpt> but not on C<mbr> partitions.");
4952 ("part_list", (RStructList ("partitions", "partition"), [Device "device"], []), 213, [],
4953 [], (* XXX Add a regression test for this. *)
4954 "list partitions on a device",
4956 This command parses the partition table on C<device> and
4957 returns the list of partitions found.
4959 The fields in the returned structure are:
4965 Partition number, counting from 1.
4969 Start of the partition I<in bytes>. To get sectors you have to
4970 divide by the device's sector size, see C<guestfs_blockdev_getss>.
4974 End of the partition in bytes.
4978 Size of the partition in bytes.
4982 ("part_get_parttype", (RString "parttype", [Device "device"], []), 214, [],
4983 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
4984 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "gpt"];
4985 ["part_get_parttype"; "/dev/sda"]], "gpt")],
4986 "get the partition table type",
4988 This command examines the partition table on C<device> and
4989 returns the partition table type (format) being used.
4991 Common return values include: C<msdos> (a DOS/Windows style MBR
4992 partition table), C<gpt> (a GPT/EFI-style partition table). Other
4993 values are possible, although unusual. See C<guestfs_part_init>
4996 ("fill", (RErr, [Int "c"; Int "len"; Pathname "path"], []), 215, [Progress],
4997 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
4998 [["fill"; "0x63"; "10"; "/fill"];
4999 ["read_file"; "/fill"]], "cccccccccc")],
5000 "fill a file with octets",
5002 This command creates a new file called C<path>. The initial
5003 content of the file is C<len> octets of C<c>, where C<c>
5004 must be a number in the range C<[0..255]>.
5006 To fill a file with zero bytes (sparsely), it is
5007 much more efficient to use C<guestfs_truncate_size>.
5008 To create a file with a pattern of repeating bytes
5009 use C<guestfs_fill_pattern>.");
5011 ("available", (RErr, [StringList "groups"], []), 216, [],
5012 [InitNone, Always, TestRun [["available"; ""]]],
5013 "test availability of some parts of the API",
5015 This command is used to check the availability of some
5016 groups of functionality in the appliance, which not all builds of
5017 the libguestfs appliance will be able to provide.
5019 The libguestfs groups, and the functions that those
5020 groups correspond to, are listed in L<guestfs(3)/AVAILABILITY>.
5021 You can also fetch this list at runtime by calling
5022 C<guestfs_available_all_groups>.
5024 The argument C<groups> is a list of group names, eg:
5025 C<[\"inotify\", \"augeas\"]> would check for the availability of
5026 the Linux inotify functions and Augeas (configuration file
5029 The command returns no error if I<all> requested groups are available.
5031 It fails with an error if one or more of the requested
5032 groups is unavailable in the appliance.
5034 If an unknown group name is included in the
5035 list of groups then an error is always returned.
5043 You must call C<guestfs_launch> before calling this function.
5045 The reason is because we don't know what groups are
5046 supported by the appliance/daemon until it is running and can
5051 If a group of functions is available, this does not necessarily
5052 mean that they will work. You still have to check for errors
5053 when calling individual API functions even if they are
5058 It is usually the job of distro packagers to build
5059 complete functionality into the libguestfs appliance.
5060 Upstream libguestfs, if built from source with all
5061 requirements satisfied, will support everything.
5065 This call was added in version C<1.0.80>. In previous
5066 versions of libguestfs all you could do would be to speculatively
5067 execute a command to find out if the daemon implemented it.
5068 See also C<guestfs_version>.
5072 ("dd", (RErr, [Dev_or_Path "src"; Dev_or_Path "dest"], []), 217, [],
5073 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
5075 ["write"; "/dd/src"; "hello, world"];
5076 ["dd"; "/dd/src"; "/dd/dest"];
5077 ["read_file"; "/dd/dest"]], "hello, world")],
5078 "copy from source to destination using dd",
5080 This command copies from one source device or file C<src>
5081 to another destination device or file C<dest>. Normally you
5082 would use this to copy to or from a device or partition, for
5083 example to duplicate a filesystem.
5085 If the destination is a device, it must be as large or larger
5086 than the source file or device, otherwise the copy will fail.
5087 This command cannot do partial copies (see C<guestfs_copy_size>).");
5089 ("filesize", (RInt64 "size", [Pathname "file"], []), 218, [],
5090 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputInt (
5091 [["write"; "/filesize"; "hello, world"];
5092 ["filesize"; "/filesize"]], 12)],
5093 "return the size of the file in bytes",
5095 This command returns the size of C<file> in bytes.
5097 To get other stats about a file, use C<guestfs_stat>, C<guestfs_lstat>,
5098 C<guestfs_is_dir>, C<guestfs_is_file> etc.
5099 To get the size of block devices, use C<guestfs_blockdev_getsize64>.");
5101 ("lvrename", (RErr, [String "logvol"; String "newlogvol"], []), 219, [],
5102 [InitBasicFSonLVM, Always, TestOutputList (
5103 [["lvrename"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "/dev/VG/LV2"];
5104 ["lvs"]], ["/dev/VG/LV2"])],
5105 "rename an LVM logical volume",
5107 Rename a logical volume C<logvol> with the new name C<newlogvol>.");
5109 ("vgrename", (RErr, [String "volgroup"; String "newvolgroup"], []), 220, [],
5110 [InitBasicFSonLVM, Always, TestOutputList (
5112 ["vg_activate"; "false"; "VG"];
5113 ["vgrename"; "VG"; "VG2"];
5114 ["vg_activate"; "true"; "VG2"];
5115 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/VG2/LV"; "/"];
5116 ["vgs"]], ["VG2"])],
5117 "rename an LVM volume group",
5119 Rename a volume group C<volgroup> with the new name C<newvolgroup>.");
5121 ("initrd_cat", (RBufferOut "content", [Pathname "initrdpath"; String "filename"], []), 221, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
5122 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
5123 [["initrd_cat"; "/initrd"; "known-4"]], "abc\ndef\nghi")],
5124 "list the contents of a single file in an initrd",
5126 This command unpacks the file C<filename> from the initrd file
5127 called C<initrdpath>. The filename must be given I<without> the
5128 initial C</> character.
5130 For example, in guestfish you could use the following command
5131 to examine the boot script (usually called C</init>)
5132 contained in a Linux initrd or initramfs image:
5134 initrd-cat /boot/initrd-<version>.img init
5136 See also C<guestfs_initrd_list>.");
5138 ("pvuuid", (RString "uuid", [Device "device"], []), 222, [],
5140 "get the UUID of a physical volume",
5142 This command returns the UUID of the LVM PV C<device>.");
5144 ("vguuid", (RString "uuid", [String "vgname"], []), 223, [],
5146 "get the UUID of a volume group",
5148 This command returns the UUID of the LVM VG named C<vgname>.");
5150 ("lvuuid", (RString "uuid", [Device "device"], []), 224, [],
5152 "get the UUID of a logical volume",
5154 This command returns the UUID of the LVM LV C<device>.");
5156 ("vgpvuuids", (RStringList "uuids", [String "vgname"], []), 225, [],
5158 "get the PV UUIDs containing the volume group",
5160 Given a VG called C<vgname>, this returns the UUIDs of all
5161 the physical volumes that this volume group resides on.
5163 You can use this along with C<guestfs_pvs> and C<guestfs_pvuuid>
5164 calls to associate physical volumes and volume groups.
5166 See also C<guestfs_vglvuuids>.");
5168 ("vglvuuids", (RStringList "uuids", [String "vgname"], []), 226, [],
5170 "get the LV UUIDs of all LVs in the volume group",
5172 Given a VG called C<vgname>, this returns the UUIDs of all
5173 the logical volumes created in this volume group.
5175 You can use this along with C<guestfs_lvs> and C<guestfs_lvuuid>
5176 calls to associate logical volumes and volume groups.
5178 See also C<guestfs_vgpvuuids>.");
5180 ("copy_size", (RErr, [Dev_or_Path "src"; Dev_or_Path "dest"; Int64 "size"], []), 227, [Progress],
5181 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
5182 [["mkdir"; "/copy_size"];
5183 ["write"; "/copy_size/src"; "hello, world"];
5184 ["copy_size"; "/copy_size/src"; "/copy_size/dest"; "5"];
5185 ["read_file"; "/copy_size/dest"]], "hello")],
5186 "copy size bytes from source to destination using dd",
5188 This command copies exactly C<size> bytes from one source device
5189 or file C<src> to another destination device or file C<dest>.
5191 Note this will fail if the source is too short or if the destination
5192 is not large enough.");
5194 ("zero_device", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 228, [DangerWillRobinson; Progress],
5195 [InitBasicFSonLVM, Always, TestRun (
5196 [["zero_device"; "/dev/VG/LV"]])],
5197 "write zeroes to an entire device",
5199 This command writes zeroes over the entire C<device>. Compare
5200 with C<guestfs_zero> which just zeroes the first few blocks of
5203 ("txz_in", (RErr, [FileIn "tarball"; Pathname "directory"], []), 229, [Optional "xz"],
5204 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5205 [["mkdir"; "/txz_in"];
5206 ["txz_in"; "../images/helloworld.tar.xz"; "/txz_in"];
5207 ["cat"; "/txz_in/hello"]], "hello\n")],
5208 "unpack compressed tarball to directory",
5210 This command uploads and unpacks local file C<tarball> (an
5211 I<xz compressed> tar file) into C<directory>.");
5213 ("txz_out", (RErr, [Pathname "directory"; FileOut "tarball"], []), 230, [Optional "xz"],
5215 "pack directory into compressed tarball",
5217 This command packs the contents of C<directory> and downloads
5218 it to local file C<tarball> (as an xz compressed tar archive).");
5220 ("ntfsresize", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 231, [Optional "ntfsprogs"],
5222 "resize an NTFS filesystem",
5224 This command resizes an NTFS filesystem, expanding or
5225 shrinking it to the size of the underlying device.
5226 See also L<ntfsresize(8)>.");
5228 ("vgscan", (RErr, [], []), 232, [],
5229 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
5231 "rescan for LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes",
5233 This rescans all block devices and rebuilds the list of LVM
5234 physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes.");
5236 ("part_del", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum"], []), 233, [],
5237 [InitEmpty, Always, TestRun (
5238 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
5239 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "1"; "-1"];
5240 ["part_del"; "/dev/sda"; "1"]])],
5241 "delete a partition",
5243 This command deletes the partition numbered C<partnum> on C<device>.
5245 Note that in the case of MBR partitioning, deleting an
5246 extended partition also deletes any logical partitions
5249 ("part_get_bootable", (RBool "bootable", [Device "device"; Int "partnum"], []), 234, [],
5250 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputTrue (
5251 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
5252 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "1"; "-1"];
5253 ["part_set_bootable"; "/dev/sda"; "1"; "true"];
5254 ["part_get_bootable"; "/dev/sda"; "1"]])],
5255 "return true if a partition is bootable",
5257 This command returns true if the partition C<partnum> on
5258 C<device> has the bootable flag set.
5260 See also C<guestfs_part_set_bootable>.");
5262 ("part_get_mbr_id", (RInt "idbyte", [Device "device"; Int "partnum"], []), 235, [FishOutput FishOutputHexadecimal],
5263 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
5264 [["part_init"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
5265 ["part_add"; "/dev/sda"; "primary"; "1"; "-1"];
5266 ["part_set_mbr_id"; "/dev/sda"; "1"; "0x7f"];
5267 ["part_get_mbr_id"; "/dev/sda"; "1"]], 0x7f)],
5268 "get the MBR type byte (ID byte) from a partition",
5270 Returns the MBR type byte (also known as the ID byte) from
5271 the numbered partition C<partnum>.
5273 Note that only MBR (old DOS-style) partitions have type bytes.
5274 You will get undefined results for other partition table
5275 types (see C<guestfs_part_get_parttype>).");
5277 ("part_set_mbr_id", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int "partnum"; Int "idbyte"], []), 236, [],
5278 [], (* tested by part_get_mbr_id *)
5279 "set the MBR type byte (ID byte) of a partition",
5281 Sets the MBR type byte (also known as the ID byte) of
5282 the numbered partition C<partnum> to C<idbyte>. Note
5283 that the type bytes quoted in most documentation are
5284 in fact hexadecimal numbers, but usually documented
5285 without any leading \"0x\" which might be confusing.
5287 Note that only MBR (old DOS-style) partitions have type bytes.
5288 You will get undefined results for other partition table
5289 types (see C<guestfs_part_get_parttype>).");
5291 ("checksum_device", (RString "checksum", [String "csumtype"; Device "device"], []), 237, [],
5292 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFileMD5 (
5293 [["checksum_device"; "md5"; "/dev/sdd"]],
5294 "../images/test.iso")],
5295 "compute MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of the contents of a device",
5297 This call computes the MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of the
5298 contents of the device named C<device>. For the types of
5299 checksums supported see the C<guestfs_checksum> command.");
5301 ("lvresize_free", (RErr, [Device "lv"; Int "percent"], []), 238, [Optional "lvm2"],
5302 [InitNone, Always, TestRun (
5303 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
5304 ["pvcreate"; "/dev/sda1"];
5305 ["vgcreate"; "VG"; "/dev/sda1"];
5306 ["lvcreate"; "LV"; "VG"; "10"];
5307 ["lvresize_free"; "/dev/VG/LV"; "100"]])],
5308 "expand an LV to fill free space",
5310 This expands an existing logical volume C<lv> so that it fills
5311 C<pc>% of the remaining free space in the volume group. Commonly
5312 you would call this with pc = 100 which expands the logical volume
5313 as much as possible, using all remaining free space in the volume
5316 ("aug_clear", (RErr, [String "augpath"], []), 239, [Optional "augeas"],
5317 [], (* XXX Augeas code needs tests. *)
5318 "clear Augeas path",
5320 Set the value associated with C<path> to C<NULL>. This
5321 is the same as the L<augtool(1)> C<clear> command.");
5323 ("get_umask", (RInt "mask", [], []), 240, [FishOutput FishOutputOctal],
5324 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputInt (
5325 [["get_umask"]], 0o22)],
5326 "get the current umask",
5328 Return the current umask. By default the umask is C<022>
5329 unless it has been set by calling C<guestfs_umask>.");
5331 ("debug_upload", (RErr, [FileIn "filename"; String "tmpname"; Int "mode"], []), 241, [NotInDocs],
5333 "upload a file to the appliance (internal use only)",
5335 The C<guestfs_debug_upload> command uploads a file to
5336 the libguestfs appliance.
5338 There is no comprehensive help for this command. You have
5339 to look at the file C<daemon/debug.c> in the libguestfs source
5340 to find out what it is for.");
5342 ("base64_in", (RErr, [FileIn "base64file"; Pathname "filename"], []), 242, [],
5343 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5344 [["base64_in"; "../images/hello.b64"; "/base64_in"];
5345 ["cat"; "/base64_in"]], "hello\n")],
5346 "upload base64-encoded data to file",
5348 This command uploads base64-encoded data from C<base64file>
5351 ("base64_out", (RErr, [Pathname "filename"; FileOut "base64file"], []), 243, [],
5353 "download file and encode as base64",
5355 This command downloads the contents of C<filename>, writing
5356 it out to local file C<base64file> encoded as base64.");
5358 ("checksums_out", (RErr, [String "csumtype"; Pathname "directory"; FileOut "sumsfile"], []), 244, [],
5360 "compute MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of files in a directory",
5362 This command computes the checksums of all regular files in
5363 C<directory> and then emits a list of those checksums to
5364 the local output file C<sumsfile>.
5366 This can be used for verifying the integrity of a virtual
5367 machine. However to be properly secure you should pay
5368 attention to the output of the checksum command (it uses
5369 the ones from GNU coreutils). In particular when the
5370 filename is not printable, coreutils uses a special
5371 backslash syntax. For more information, see the GNU
5372 coreutils info file.");
5374 ("fill_pattern", (RErr, [String "pattern"; Int "len"; Pathname "path"], []), 245, [Progress],
5375 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
5376 [["fill_pattern"; "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; "28"; "/fill_pattern"];
5377 ["read_file"; "/fill_pattern"]], "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzab")],
5378 "fill a file with a repeating pattern of bytes",
5380 This function is like C<guestfs_fill> except that it creates
5381 a new file of length C<len> containing the repeating pattern
5382 of bytes in C<pattern>. The pattern is truncated if necessary
5383 to ensure the length of the file is exactly C<len> bytes.");
5385 ("write", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; BufferIn "content"], []), 246, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
5386 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5387 [["write"; "/write"; "new file contents"];
5388 ["cat"; "/write"]], "new file contents");
5389 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5390 [["write"; "/write2"; "\nnew file contents\n"];
5391 ["cat"; "/write2"]], "\nnew file contents\n");
5392 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5393 [["write"; "/write3"; "\n\n"];
5394 ["cat"; "/write3"]], "\n\n");
5395 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5396 [["write"; "/write4"; ""];
5397 ["cat"; "/write4"]], "");
5398 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5399 [["write"; "/write5"; "\n\n\n"];
5400 ["cat"; "/write5"]], "\n\n\n");
5401 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5402 [["write"; "/write6"; "\n"];
5403 ["cat"; "/write6"]], "\n")],
5404 "create a new file",
5406 This call creates a file called C<path>. The content of the
5407 file is the string C<content> (which can contain any 8 bit data).");
5409 ("pwrite", (RInt "nbytes", [Pathname "path"; BufferIn "content"; Int64 "offset"], []), 247, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
5410 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5411 [["write"; "/pwrite"; "new file contents"];
5412 ["pwrite"; "/pwrite"; "data"; "4"];
5413 ["cat"; "/pwrite"]], "new data contents");
5414 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5415 [["write"; "/pwrite2"; "new file contents"];
5416 ["pwrite"; "/pwrite2"; "is extended"; "9"];
5417 ["cat"; "/pwrite2"]], "new file is extended");
5418 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5419 [["write"; "/pwrite3"; "new file contents"];
5420 ["pwrite"; "/pwrite3"; ""; "4"];
5421 ["cat"; "/pwrite3"]], "new file contents")],
5422 "write to part of a file",
5424 This command writes to part of a file. It writes the data
5425 buffer C<content> to the file C<path> starting at offset C<offset>.
5427 This command implements the L<pwrite(2)> system call, and like
5428 that system call it may not write the full data requested. The
5429 return value is the number of bytes that were actually written
5430 to the file. This could even be 0, although short writes are
5431 unlikely for regular files in ordinary circumstances.
5433 See also C<guestfs_pread>, C<guestfs_pwrite_device>.");
5435 ("resize2fs_size", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int64 "size"], []), 248, [],
5437 "resize an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem (with size)",
5439 This command is the same as C<guestfs_resize2fs> except that it
5440 allows you to specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.");
5442 ("pvresize_size", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int64 "size"], []), 249, [Optional "lvm2"],
5444 "resize an LVM physical volume (with size)",
5446 This command is the same as C<guestfs_pvresize> except that it
5447 allows you to specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.");
5449 ("ntfsresize_size", (RErr, [Device "device"; Int64 "size"], []), 250, [Optional "ntfsprogs"],
5451 "resize an NTFS filesystem (with size)",
5453 This command is the same as C<guestfs_ntfsresize> except that it
5454 allows you to specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.");
5456 ("available_all_groups", (RStringList "groups", [], []), 251, [],
5457 [InitNone, Always, TestRun [["available_all_groups"]]],
5458 "return a list of all optional groups",
5460 This command returns a list of all optional groups that this
5461 daemon knows about. Note this returns both supported and unsupported
5462 groups. To find out which ones the daemon can actually support
5463 you have to call C<guestfs_available> on each member of the
5466 See also C<guestfs_available> and L<guestfs(3)/AVAILABILITY>.");
5468 ("fallocate64", (RErr, [Pathname "path"; Int64 "len"], []), 252, [],
5469 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
5470 [["fallocate64"; "/fallocate64"; "1000000"];
5471 ["stat"; "/fallocate64"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1_000_000)])],
5472 "preallocate a file in the guest filesystem",
5474 This command preallocates a file (containing zero bytes) named
5475 C<path> of size C<len> bytes. If the file exists already, it
5478 Note that this call allocates disk blocks for the file.
5479 To create a sparse file use C<guestfs_truncate_size> instead.
5481 The deprecated call C<guestfs_fallocate> does the same,
5482 but owing to an oversight it only allowed 30 bit lengths
5483 to be specified, effectively limiting the maximum size
5484 of files created through that call to 1GB.
5486 Do not confuse this with the guestfish-specific
5487 C<alloc> and C<sparse> commands which create
5488 a file in the host and attach it as a device.");
5490 ("vfs_label", (RString "label", [Device "device"], []), 253, [],
5491 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
5492 [["set_e2label"; "/dev/sda1"; "LTEST"];
5493 ["vfs_label"; "/dev/sda1"]], "LTEST")],
5494 "get the filesystem label",
5496 This returns the filesystem label of the filesystem on
5499 If the filesystem is unlabeled, this returns the empty string.
5501 To find a filesystem from the label, use C<guestfs_findfs_label>.");
5503 ("vfs_uuid", (RString "uuid", [Device "device"], []), 254, [],
5504 (let uuid = uuidgen () in
5505 [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
5506 [["set_e2uuid"; "/dev/sda1"; uuid];
5507 ["vfs_uuid"; "/dev/sda1"]], uuid)]),
5508 "get the filesystem UUID",
5510 This returns the filesystem UUID of the filesystem on
5513 If the filesystem does not have a UUID, this returns the empty string.
5515 To find a filesystem from the UUID, use C<guestfs_findfs_uuid>.");
5517 ("lvm_set_filter", (RErr, [DeviceList "devices"], []), 255, [Optional "lvm2"],
5518 (* Can't be tested with the current framework because
5519 * the VG is being used by the mounted filesystem, so
5520 * the vgchange -an command we do first will fail.
5523 "set LVM device filter",
5525 This sets the LVM device filter so that LVM will only be
5526 able to \"see\" the block devices in the list C<devices>,
5527 and will ignore all other attached block devices.
5529 Where disk image(s) contain duplicate PVs or VGs, this
5530 command is useful to get LVM to ignore the duplicates, otherwise
5531 LVM can get confused. Note also there are two types
5532 of duplication possible: either cloned PVs/VGs which have
5533 identical UUIDs; or VGs that are not cloned but just happen
5534 to have the same name. In normal operation you cannot
5535 create this situation, but you can do it outside LVM, eg.
5536 by cloning disk images or by bit twiddling inside the LVM
5539 This command also clears the LVM cache and performs a volume
5542 You can filter whole block devices or individual partitions.
5544 You cannot use this if any VG is currently in use (eg.
5545 contains a mounted filesystem), even if you are not
5546 filtering out that VG.");
5548 ("lvm_clear_filter", (RErr, [], []), 256, [],
5549 [], (* see note on lvm_set_filter *)
5550 "clear LVM device filter",
5552 This undoes the effect of C<guestfs_lvm_set_filter>. LVM
5553 will be able to see every block device.
5555 This command also clears the LVM cache and performs a volume
5558 ("luks_open", (RErr, [Device "device"; Key "key"; String "mapname"], []), 257, [Optional "luks"],
5560 "open a LUKS-encrypted block device",
5562 This command opens a block device which has been encrypted
5563 according to the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) standard.
5565 C<device> is the encrypted block device or partition.
5567 The caller must supply one of the keys associated with the
5568 LUKS block device, in the C<key> parameter.
5570 This creates a new block device called C</dev/mapper/mapname>.
5571 Reads and writes to this block device are decrypted from and
5572 encrypted to the underlying C<device> respectively.
5574 If this block device contains LVM volume groups, then
5575 calling C<guestfs_vgscan> followed by C<guestfs_vg_activate_all>
5576 will make them visible.");
5578 ("luks_open_ro", (RErr, [Device "device"; Key "key"; String "mapname"], []), 258, [Optional "luks"],
5580 "open a LUKS-encrypted block device read-only",
5582 This is the same as C<guestfs_luks_open> except that a read-only
5583 mapping is created.");
5585 ("luks_close", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 259, [Optional "luks"],
5587 "close a LUKS device",
5589 This closes a LUKS device that was created earlier by
5590 C<guestfs_luks_open> or C<guestfs_luks_open_ro>. The
5591 C<device> parameter must be the name of the LUKS mapping
5592 device (ie. C</dev/mapper/mapname>) and I<not> the name
5593 of the underlying block device.");
5595 ("luks_format", (RErr, [Device "device"; Key "key"; Int "keyslot"], []), 260, [Optional "luks"; DangerWillRobinson],
5597 "format a block device as a LUKS encrypted device",
5599 This command erases existing data on C<device> and formats
5600 the device as a LUKS encrypted device. C<key> is the
5601 initial key, which is added to key slot C<slot>. (LUKS
5602 supports 8 key slots, numbered 0-7).");
5604 ("luks_format_cipher", (RErr, [Device "device"; Key "key"; Int "keyslot"; String "cipher"], []), 261, [Optional "luks"; DangerWillRobinson],
5606 "format a block device as a LUKS encrypted device",
5608 This command is the same as C<guestfs_luks_format> but
5609 it also allows you to set the C<cipher> used.");
5611 ("luks_add_key", (RErr, [Device "device"; Key "key"; Key "newkey"; Int "keyslot"], []), 262, [Optional "luks"],
5613 "add a key on a LUKS encrypted device",
5615 This command adds a new key on LUKS device C<device>.
5616 C<key> is any existing key, and is used to access the device.
5617 C<newkey> is the new key to add. C<keyslot> is the key slot
5618 that will be replaced.
5620 Note that if C<keyslot> already contains a key, then this
5621 command will fail. You have to use C<guestfs_luks_kill_slot>
5622 first to remove that key.");
5624 ("luks_kill_slot", (RErr, [Device "device"; Key "key"; Int "keyslot"], []), 263, [Optional "luks"],
5626 "remove a key from a LUKS encrypted device",
5628 This command deletes the key in key slot C<keyslot> from the
5629 encrypted LUKS device C<device>. C<key> must be one of the
5632 ("is_lv", (RBool "lvflag", [Device "device"], []), 264, [Optional "lvm2"],
5633 [InitBasicFSonLVM, IfAvailable "lvm2", TestOutputTrue (
5634 [["is_lv"; "/dev/VG/LV"]]);
5635 InitBasicFSonLVM, IfAvailable "lvm2", TestOutputFalse (
5636 [["is_lv"; "/dev/sda1"]])],
5637 "test if device is a logical volume",
5639 This command tests whether C<device> is a logical volume, and
5640 returns true iff this is the case.");
5642 ("findfs_uuid", (RString "device", [String "uuid"], []), 265, [],
5644 "find a filesystem by UUID",
5646 This command searches the filesystems and returns the one
5647 which has the given UUID. An error is returned if no such
5648 filesystem can be found.
5650 To find the UUID of a filesystem, use C<guestfs_vfs_uuid>.");
5652 ("findfs_label", (RString "device", [String "label"], []), 266, [],
5654 "find a filesystem by label",
5656 This command searches the filesystems and returns the one
5657 which has the given label. An error is returned if no such
5658 filesystem can be found.
5660 To find the label of a filesystem, use C<guestfs_vfs_label>.");
5662 ("is_chardev", (RBool "flag", [Pathname "path"], []), 267, [],
5663 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
5664 [["is_chardev"; "/directory"]]);
5665 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
5666 [["mknod_c"; "0o777"; "99"; "66"; "/is_chardev"];
5667 ["is_chardev"; "/is_chardev"]])],
5668 "test if character device",
5670 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a character device
5671 with the given C<path> name.
5673 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
5675 ("is_blockdev", (RBool "flag", [Pathname "path"], []), 268, [],
5676 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
5677 [["is_blockdev"; "/directory"]]);
5678 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
5679 [["mknod_b"; "0o777"; "99"; "66"; "/is_blockdev"];
5680 ["is_blockdev"; "/is_blockdev"]])],
5681 "test if block device",
5683 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a block device
5684 with the given C<path> name.
5686 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
5688 ("is_fifo", (RBool "flag", [Pathname "path"], []), 269, [],
5689 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
5690 [["is_fifo"; "/directory"]]);
5691 InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
5692 [["mkfifo"; "0o777"; "/is_fifo"];
5693 ["is_fifo"; "/is_fifo"]])],
5694 "test if FIFO (named pipe)",
5696 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a FIFO (named pipe)
5697 with the given C<path> name.
5699 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
5701 ("is_symlink", (RBool "flag", [Pathname "path"], []), 270, [],
5702 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
5703 [["is_symlink"; "/directory"]]);
5704 InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputTrue (
5705 [["is_symlink"; "/abssymlink"]])],
5706 "test if symbolic link",
5708 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a symbolic link
5709 with the given C<path> name.
5711 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
5713 ("is_socket", (RBool "flag", [Pathname "path"], []), 271, [],
5714 (* XXX Need a positive test for sockets. *)
5715 [InitISOFS, Always, TestOutputFalse (
5716 [["is_socket"; "/directory"]])],
5719 This returns C<true> if and only if there is a Unix domain socket
5720 with the given C<path> name.
5722 See also C<guestfs_stat>.");
5724 ("part_to_dev", (RString "device", [Device "partition"], []), 272, [],
5725 [InitPartition, Always, TestOutputDevice (
5726 [["part_to_dev"; "/dev/sda1"]], "/dev/sda");
5727 InitEmpty, Always, TestLastFail (
5728 [["part_to_dev"; "/dev/sda"]])],
5729 "convert partition name to device name",
5731 This function takes a partition name (eg. \"/dev/sdb1\") and
5732 removes the partition number, returning the device name
5735 The named partition must exist, for example as a string returned
5736 from C<guestfs_list_partitions>.");
5738 ("upload_offset", (RErr, [FileIn "filename"; Dev_or_Path "remotefilename"; Int64 "offset"], []), 273, [Progress],
5739 (let md5 = Digest.to_hex (Digest.file "COPYING.LIB") in
5740 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5741 [["upload_offset"; "../COPYING.LIB"; "/upload_offset"; "0"];
5742 ["checksum"; "md5"; "/upload_offset"]], md5)]),
5743 "upload a file from the local machine with offset",
5745 Upload local file C<filename> to C<remotefilename> on the
5748 C<remotefilename> is overwritten starting at the byte C<offset>
5749 specified. The intention is to overwrite parts of existing
5750 files or devices, although if a non-existant file is specified
5751 then it is created with a \"hole\" before C<offset>. The
5752 size of the data written is implicit in the size of the
5755 Note that there is no limit on the amount of data that
5756 can be uploaded with this call, unlike with C<guestfs_pwrite>,
5757 and this call always writes the full amount unless an
5760 See also C<guestfs_upload>, C<guestfs_pwrite>.");
5762 ("download_offset", (RErr, [Dev_or_Path "remotefilename"; FileOut "filename"; Int64 "offset"; Int64 "size"], []), 274, [Progress],
5763 (let md5 = Digest.to_hex (Digest.file "COPYING.LIB") in
5764 let offset = string_of_int 100 in
5765 let size = string_of_int ((Unix.stat "COPYING.LIB").Unix.st_size - 100) in
5766 [InitScratchFS, Always, TestOutput (
5767 (* Pick a file from cwd which isn't likely to change. *)
5768 [["mkdir"; "/download_offset"];
5769 ["upload"; "../COPYING.LIB"; "/download_offset/COPYING.LIB"];
5770 ["download_offset"; "/download_offset/COPYING.LIB"; "testdownload.tmp"; offset; size];
5771 ["upload_offset"; "testdownload.tmp"; "/download_offset/COPYING.LIB"; offset];
5772 ["checksum"; "md5"; "/download_offset/COPYING.LIB"]], md5)]),
5773 "download a file to the local machine with offset and size",
5775 Download file C<remotefilename> and save it as C<filename>
5776 on the local machine.
5778 C<remotefilename> is read for C<size> bytes starting at C<offset>
5779 (this region must be within the file or device).
5781 Note that there is no limit on the amount of data that
5782 can be downloaded with this call, unlike with C<guestfs_pread>,
5783 and this call always reads the full amount unless an
5786 See also C<guestfs_download>, C<guestfs_pread>.");
5788 ("pwrite_device", (RInt "nbytes", [Device "device"; BufferIn "content"; Int64 "offset"], []), 275, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
5789 [InitPartition, Always, TestOutputListOfDevices (
5790 [["pwrite_device"; "/dev/sda"; "\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000"; "446"];
5791 ["blockdev_rereadpt"; "/dev/sda"];
5792 ["list_partitions"]], ["/dev/sdb1"])],
5793 "write to part of a device",
5795 This command writes to part of a device. It writes the data
5796 buffer C<content> to C<device> starting at offset C<offset>.
5798 This command implements the L<pwrite(2)> system call, and like
5799 that system call it may not write the full data requested
5800 (although short writes to disk devices and partitions are
5801 probably impossible with standard Linux kernels).
5803 See also C<guestfs_pwrite>.");
5805 ("pread_device", (RBufferOut "content", [Device "device"; Int "count"; Int64 "offset"], []), 276, [ProtocolLimitWarning],
5806 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutputBuffer (
5807 [["pread_device"; "/dev/sdd"; "8"; "32768"]], "\001CD001\001\000")],
5808 "read part of a device",
5810 This command lets you read part of a file. It reads C<count>
5811 bytes of C<device>, starting at C<offset>.
5813 This may read fewer bytes than requested. For further details
5814 see the L<pread(2)> system call.
5816 See also C<guestfs_pread>.");
5818 ("lvm_canonical_lv_name", (RString "lv", [Device "lvname"], []), 277, [],
5819 [InitBasicFSonLVM, IfAvailable "lvm2", TestOutput (
5820 [["lvm_canonical_lv_name"; "/dev/mapper/VG-LV"]], "/dev/VG/LV");
5821 InitBasicFSonLVM, IfAvailable "lvm2", TestOutput (
5822 [["lvm_canonical_lv_name"; "/dev/VG/LV"]], "/dev/VG/LV")],
5823 "get canonical name of an LV",
5825 This converts alternative naming schemes for LVs that you
5826 might find to the canonical name. For example, C</dev/mapper/VG-LV>
5827 is converted to C</dev/VG/LV>.
5829 This command returns an error if the C<lvname> parameter does
5830 not refer to a logical volume.
5832 See also C<guestfs_is_lv>.");
5834 ("mkfs_opts", (RErr, [String "fstype"; Device "device"], [Int "blocksize"; String "features"]), 278, [],
5835 [InitEmpty, Always, TestOutput (
5836 [["part_disk"; "/dev/sda"; "mbr"];
5837 ["mkfs_opts"; "ext2"; "/dev/sda1"; "4096"; ""];
5838 ["mount_options"; ""; "/dev/sda1"; "/"];
5839 ["write"; "/new"; "new file contents"];
5840 ["cat"; "/new"]], "new file contents")],
5841 "make a filesystem",
5843 This function creates a filesystem on C<device>. The filesystem
5844 type is C<fstype>, for example C<ext3>.
5846 The optional arguments are:
5852 The filesystem block size. Supported block sizes depend on the
5853 filesystem type, but typically they are C<1024>, C<2048> or C<4096>
5854 for Linux ext2/3 filesystems.
5856 For VFAT and NTFS the C<blocksize> parameter is treated as
5857 the requested cluster size.
5859 For UFS block sizes, please see L<mkfs.ufs(8)>.
5863 This passes the I<-O> parameter to the external mkfs program.
5865 For certain filesystem types, this allows extra filesystem
5866 features to be selected. See L<mke2fs(8)> and L<mkfs.ufs(8)>
5869 You cannot use this optional parameter with the C<gfs> or
5870 C<gfs2> filesystem type.
5874 ("getxattr", (RBufferOut "xattr", [Pathname "path"; String "name"], []), 279, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
5876 "get a single extended attribute",
5878 Get a single extended attribute from file C<path> named C<name>.
5879 This call follows symlinks. If you want to lookup an extended
5880 attribute for the symlink itself, use C<guestfs_lgetxattr>.
5882 Normally it is better to get all extended attributes from a file
5883 in one go by calling C<guestfs_getxattrs>. However some Linux
5884 filesystem implementations are buggy and do not provide a way to
5885 list out attributes. For these filesystems (notably ntfs-3g)
5886 you have to know the names of the extended attributes you want
5887 in advance and call this function.
5889 Extended attribute values are blobs of binary data. If there
5890 is no extended attribute named C<name>, this returns an error.
5892 See also: C<guestfs_getxattrs>, C<guestfs_lgetxattr>, L<attr(5)>.");
5894 ("lgetxattr", (RBufferOut "xattr", [Pathname "path"; String "name"], []), 280, [Optional "linuxxattrs"],
5896 "get a single extended attribute",
5898 Get a single extended attribute from file C<path> named C<name>.
5899 If C<path> is a symlink, then this call returns an extended
5900 attribute from the symlink.
5902 Normally it is better to get all extended attributes from a file
5903 in one go by calling C<guestfs_getxattrs>. However some Linux
5904 filesystem implementations are buggy and do not provide a way to
5905 list out attributes. For these filesystems (notably ntfs-3g)
5906 you have to know the names of the extended attributes you want
5907 in advance and call this function.
5909 Extended attribute values are blobs of binary data. If there
5910 is no extended attribute named C<name>, this returns an error.
5912 See also: C<guestfs_lgetxattrs>, C<guestfs_getxattr>, L<attr(5)>.");
5914 ("resize2fs_M", (RErr, [Device "device"], []), 281, [],
5916 "resize an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem to the minimum size",
5918 This command is the same as C<guestfs_resize2fs>, but the filesystem
5919 is resized to its minimum size. This works like the I<-M> option
5920 to the C<resize2fs> command.
5922 To get the resulting size of the filesystem you should call
5923 C<guestfs_tune2fs_l> and read the C<Block size> and C<Block count>
5924 values. These two numbers, multiplied together, give the
5925 resulting size of the minimal filesystem in bytes.");
5927 ("internal_autosync", (RErr, [], []), 282, [NotInFish; NotInDocs],
5929 "internal autosync operation",
5931 This command performs the autosync operation just before the
5932 handle is closed. You should not call this command directly.
5933 Instead, use the autosync flag (C<guestfs_set_autosync>) to
5934 control whether or not this operation is performed when the
5935 handle is closed.");
5939 let all_functions = non_daemon_functions @ daemon_functions
5941 (* In some places we want the functions to be displayed sorted
5942 * alphabetically, so this is useful:
5944 let all_functions_sorted = List.sort action_compare all_functions
5946 (* This is used to generate the src/MAX_PROC_NR file which
5947 * contains the maximum procedure number, a surrogate for the
5948 * ABI version number. See src/Makefile.am for the details.
5951 let proc_nrs = List.map (
5952 fun (_, _, proc_nr, _, _, _, _) -> proc_nr
5953 ) daemon_functions in
5954 List.fold_left max 0 proc_nrs
5956 (* Non-API meta-commands available only in guestfish.
5958 * Note (1): style, proc_nr and tests fields are all meaningless.
5959 * The only fields which are actually used are the shortname,
5960 * FishAlias flags, shortdesc and longdesc.
5962 * Note (2): to refer to other commands, use L</shortname>.
5964 * Note (3): keep this list sorted by shortname.
5966 let fish_commands = [
5967 ("alloc", (RErr,[], []), -1, [FishAlias "allocate"], [],
5968 "allocate and add a disk file",
5969 " alloc filename size
5971 This creates an empty (zeroed) file of the given size, and then adds
5972 so it can be further examined.
5974 For more advanced image creation, see L<qemu-img(1)> utility.
5976 Size can be specified using standard suffixes, eg. C<1M>.
5978 To create a sparse file, use L</sparse> instead. To create a
5979 prepared disk image, see L</PREPARED DISK IMAGES>.");
5981 ("copy_in", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
5982 "copy local files or directories into an image",
5983 " copy-in local [local ...] /remotedir
5985 C<copy-in> copies local files or directories recursively into the disk
5986 image, placing them in the directory called C</remotedir> (which must
5987 exist). This guestfish meta-command turns into a sequence of
5988 L</tar-in> and other commands as necessary.
5990 Multiple local files and directories can be specified, but the last
5991 parameter must always be a remote directory. Wildcards cannot be
5994 ("copy_out", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
5995 "copy remote files or directories out of an image",
5996 " copy-out remote [remote ...] localdir
5998 C<copy-out> copies remote files or directories recursively out of the
5999 disk image, placing them on the host disk in a local directory called
6000 C<localdir> (which must exist). This guestfish meta-command turns
6001 into a sequence of L</download>, L</tar-out> and other commands as
6004 Multiple remote files and directories can be specified, but the last
6005 parameter must always be a local directory. To download to the
6006 current directory, use C<.> as in:
6010 Wildcards cannot be used in the ordinary command, but you can use
6011 them with the help of L</glob> like this:
6013 glob copy-out /home/* .");
6015 ("echo", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6016 "display a line of text",
6019 This echos the parameters to the terminal.");
6021 ("edit", (RErr,[], []), -1, [FishAlias "vi"; FishAlias "emacs"], [],
6025 This is used to edit a file. It downloads the file, edits it
6026 locally using your editor, then uploads the result.
6028 The editor is C<$EDITOR>. However if you use the alternate
6029 commands C<vi> or C<emacs> you will get those corresponding
6032 ("glob", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6033 "expand wildcards in command",
6034 " glob command args...
6036 Expand wildcards in any paths in the args list, and run C<command>
6037 repeatedly on each matching path.
6039 See L</WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING>.");
6041 ("hexedit", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6042 "edit with a hex editor",
6043 " hexedit <filename|device>
6044 hexedit <filename|device> <max>
6045 hexedit <filename|device> <start> <max>
6047 Use hexedit (a hex editor) to edit all or part of a binary file
6050 This command works by downloading potentially the whole file or
6051 device, editing it locally, then uploading it. If the file or
6052 device is large, you have to specify which part you wish to edit
6053 by using C<max> and/or C<start> C<max> parameters.
6054 C<start> and C<max> are specified in bytes, with the usual
6055 modifiers allowed such as C<1M> (1 megabyte).
6057 For example to edit the first few sectors of a disk you
6062 which would allow you to edit anywhere within the first megabyte
6065 To edit the superblock of an ext2 filesystem on C</dev/sda1>, do:
6067 hexedit /dev/sda1 0x400 0x400
6069 (assuming the superblock is in the standard location).
6071 This command requires the external L<hexedit(1)> program. You
6072 can specify another program to use by setting the C<HEXEDITOR>
6073 environment variable.
6075 See also L</hexdump>.");
6077 ("lcd", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6078 "change working directory",
6081 Change the local directory, ie. the current directory of guestfish
6084 Note that C<!cd> won't do what you might expect.");
6086 ("man", (RErr,[], []), -1, [FishAlias "manual"], [],
6090 Opens the manual page for guestfish.");
6092 ("more", (RErr,[], []), -1, [FishAlias "less"], [],
6098 This is used to view a file.
6100 The default viewer is C<$PAGER>. However if you use the alternate
6101 command C<less> you will get the C<less> command specifically.");
6103 ("reopen", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6104 "close and reopen libguestfs handle",
6107 Close and reopen the libguestfs handle. It is not necessary to use
6108 this normally, because the handle is closed properly when guestfish
6109 exits. However this is occasionally useful for testing.");
6111 ("sparse", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6112 "create a sparse disk image and add",
6113 " sparse filename size
6115 This creates an empty sparse file of the given size, and then adds
6116 so it can be further examined.
6118 In all respects it works the same as the L</alloc> command, except that
6119 the image file is allocated sparsely, which means that disk blocks are
6120 not assigned to the file until they are needed. Sparse disk files
6121 only use space when written to, but they are slower and there is a
6122 danger you could run out of real disk space during a write operation.
6124 For more advanced image creation, see L<qemu-img(1)> utility.
6126 Size can be specified using standard suffixes, eg. C<1M>.");
6128 ("supported", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6129 "list supported groups of commands",
6132 This command returns a list of the optional groups
6133 known to the daemon, and indicates which ones are
6134 supported by this build of the libguestfs appliance.
6136 See also L<guestfs(3)/AVAILABILITY>.");
6138 ("time", (RErr,[], []), -1, [], [],
6139 "print elapsed time taken to run a command",
6140 " time command args...
6142 Run the command as usual, but print the elapsed time afterwards. This
6143 can be useful for benchmarking operations.");