=cut
+my $format;
+
+=item B<--format> raw
+
+Specify the format of disk images given on the command line. If this
+is omitted then the format is autodetected from the content of the
+disk image.
+
+If disk images are requested from libvirt, then this program asks
+libvirt for this information. In this case, the value of the format
+parameter is ignored.
+
+If working with untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should
+ensure the format is always specified.
+
+=cut
+
my $output = "text";
=back
GetOptions ("help|?" => \$help,
"version" => \$version,
"connect|c=s" => \$uri,
+ "format=s" => \$format,
"text" => sub { $output = "text" },
"none" => sub { $output = "none" },
"xml" => sub { $output = "xml" },
pod2usage (__"virt-inspector: no image or VM names given") if @ARGV == 0;
my $rw = 0;
+
+# XXX This is a bug: Originally we intended to open the guest with
+# rw=>1 in order to tell Sys::Guestfs::Lib that we should disallow
+# active domains. However this also has the effect of opening the
+# disk image in write mode, and in any case we don't use this option
+# in guestfish any more since we moved all the inspection code into
+# the core library. We should drop the fish output modes completely.
$rw = 1 if $output eq "fish";
+
my $g;
my @images;
if ($uri) {
my ($conn, $dom);
($g, $conn, $dom, @images) =
- open_guest (\@ARGV, rw => $rw, address => $uri);
+ open_guest (\@ARGV, rw => $rw, address => $uri, format => $format);
} else {
my ($conn, $dom);
($g, $conn, $dom, @images) =
- open_guest (\@ARGV, rw => $rw);
+ open_guest (\@ARGV, rw => $rw, format => $format);
}
$g->launch ();
}
foreach (@images) {
- printf "-a %s ", shell_quote ($_);
+ unless (defined $_->[1]) {
+ printf "-a %s ", shell_quote ($_->[0]);
+ } else {
+ printf "--format %s -a %s ",
+ shell_quote ($_->[1]), shell_quote ($_->[0]);
+ }
}
my $mounts = $oses->{$root_dev}->{mounts};
=back
+=head1 SHELL QUOTING
+
+Libvirt guest names can contain arbitrary characters, some of which
+have meaning to the shell such as C<#> and space. You may need to
+quote or escape these characters on the command line. See the shell
+manual page L<sh(1)> for details.
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<guestfs(3)>,