3 # Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
5 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
8 # (at your option) any later version.
10 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 # GNU General Public License for more details.
15 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
17 # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
23 use Sys::Guestfs::Lib qw(open_guest get_partitions resolve_windows_path
24 inspect_all_partitions inspect_partition
25 inspect_operating_systems mount_operating_system);
28 use Locale::TextDomain 'libguestfs';
34 virt-cat - Display a file in a virtual machine
38 virt-cat [--options] domname file
40 virt-cat [--options] disk.img [disk.img ...] file
44 C<virt-cat> is a command line tool to display the contents of C<file>
45 where C<file> exists in the named virtual machine (or disk image).
47 C<virt-cat> can be used to quickly view a single file. To edit a
48 file, use C<virt-edit>. For more complex cases you should look at the
53 Display C</etc/fstab> file from inside the libvirt VM called
56 virt-cat mydomain /etc/fstab
58 List syslog messages from a VM:
60 virt-cat mydomain /var/log/messages | tail
62 Find out what DHCP IP address a VM acquired:
64 virt-cat mydomain /var/log/messages | grep 'dhclient: bound to' | tail
66 Find out what packages were recently installed:
68 virt-cat mydomain /var/log/yum.log | tail
70 Find out who is logged on inside a virtual machine:
72 virt-cat mydomain /var/run/utmp > /tmp/utmp
77 virt-cat mydomain /var/log/wtmp > /tmp/wtmp
98 Display version number and exit.
104 =item B<--connect URI> | B<-c URI>
106 If using libvirt, connect to the given I<URI>. If omitted, then we
107 connect to the default libvirt hypervisor.
109 If you specify guest block devices directly, then libvirt is not used
116 GetOptions ("help|?" => \$help,
117 "version" => \$version,
118 "connect|c=s" => \$uri,
120 pod2usage (1) if $help;
122 my $g = Sys::Guestfs->new ();
123 my %h = $g->version ();
124 print "$h{major}.$h{minor}.$h{release}$h{extra}\n";
128 pod2usage (__"virt-cat: no image, VM names or filenames to cat given")
131 my $filename = pop @ARGV;
135 $g = open_guest (\@ARGV, address => $uri);
137 $g = open_guest (\@ARGV);
142 # List of possible filesystems.
143 my @partitions = get_partitions ($g);
145 # Now query each one to build up a picture of what's in it.
147 inspect_all_partitions ($g, \@partitions,
148 use_windows_registry => 0);
150 my $oses = inspect_operating_systems ($g, \%fses);
152 my @roots = keys %$oses;
153 die __"no root device found in this operating system image" if @roots == 0;
154 die __"multiboot operating systems are not supported by virt-cat" if @roots > 1;
155 my $root_dev = $roots[0];
157 my $os = $oses->{$root_dev};
158 mount_operating_system ($g, $os);
160 # Allow this to fail in case eg. the file does not exist.
161 # NB: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501888
162 print $g->download($filename, "/dev/stdout");
170 L<Sys::Guestfs::Lib(3)>,
172 L<http://libguestfs.org/>.
176 Richard W.M. Jones L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/>
180 Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
182 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
183 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
184 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
185 (at your option) any later version.
187 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
188 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
189 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
190 GNU General Public License for more details.
192 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
193 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
194 Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.