From: Richard W.M. Jones Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:07:59 +0000 (+0000) Subject: contrib: Add libguestfs talk. X-Git-Tag: 1.15.1~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ac261b3ee3fbc72614623b4ef630a55393b462f;p=libguestfs.git contrib: Add libguestfs talk. This is a short (10-15 min) talk that I give to introduce the main features of libguestfs. The "slides" are in the form of a complete self-contained HTML page with a handful images that can be easily distributed before the talk. --- diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README index ce695ec..a708d90 100644 --- a/contrib/README +++ b/contrib/README @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ guestfsd-in-wine.sh Run a Windows-compiled guestfsd under Wine. Read the instructions at the top of this file carefully. +intro/ "Slides" for an intro to libguestfs. This is a short (10-15 + min) talk that I give to introduce the main features of + libguestfs. The slides are in the form of a complete + self-contained HTML page with a handful images that can be + easily distributed before the talk. + visualize-alignment/ Tests for visualizing block device reads and writes and alignment using a patched qemu. See the README file in that diff --git a/contrib/intro/libguestfs-intro.html b/contrib/intro/libguestfs-intro.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfc7b8b --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/intro/libguestfs-intro.html @@ -0,0 +1,253 @@ + + + + Short introduction to libguestfs + + + +

Short introduction to libguestfs

+ by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> + +

The Idea

+ +

Reuse qemu, Linux kernel and userspace tools to read and + write disk images.

+ +

The Stable API

+ +

+  /* get the Linux VFS type corresponding to a mounted device */
+extern char *guestfs_vfs_type (guestfs_h *g, const char *device);
+

+ + + + +

Example using this API:

+#include <guestfs.h>
+
+char *fstype = guestfs_vfs_type (g, "/dev/vda1");
+printf ("%s\n", fstype);
+free (fstype);
+→ ntfs
+

click to see a real example ...

+ + + + + +

+ +

+  ("vfs_type",
+   (RString "fstype",
+        [Device "device"], []),
+   198, [],
+   [ (* tests *) ],
+   "get the Linux VFS type corresponding to a mounted device",
+   "\
+This command gets the filesystem type corresponding to
+the filesystem on C<device>.
+
+For most filesystems, the result is the name of the Linux
+VFS module which would be used to mount this filesystem
+if you mounted it without specifying the filesystem type.
+For example a string such as C<ext3> or C<ntfs>.");
+

full source ...

+ +

+char *
+do_vfs_type (const char *device)
+{
+  return get_blkid_tag (device, "TYPE");
+}
+
+static char *
+get_blkid_tag (const char *device, const char *tag)
+{
+  char *out, *err;
+  int r;
+
+  r = commandr (&out, &err,
+                "blkid",
+                "-c", "/dev/null",
+                "-o", "value", "-s", tag, device, NULL);
+  if (r != 0 && r != 2) {
+    if (r >= 0)
+      reply_with_error ("%s: %s (blkid returned %d)",
+                        device, err, r);
+    else
+      reply_with_error ("%s: %s", device, err);
+    free (out);
+    free (err);
+    return NULL;
+  }
+
+  /* ... */
+
+  return out;             /* caller frees */
+}
+

full source ...

+ +

+ Just these two fragments generate: +

+ +

bindings in C, + Perl, + Python, + Ruby, + Java, + OCaml, + PHP, + Haskell, + Erlang + and C#
guestfish + (shell script)
documentation in man pages and HTML
internal RPC code

+ +

Tools written around the API

+ +

+ + + + +

+guestfish -N fs -m /dev/sda1 <<EOF
+  mkdir /etc
+  upload /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
+  write /etc/hostname "test01.redhat.com"
+EOF
+

manual ...

+virt-df -a /dev/vg/F15x32 -h
+Filesystem                    Size  Used Available Use%
+F15x32:/dev/sda1              484M   31M      428M   7%
+F15x32:/dev/vg_f15x32/lv_root 5.5G  3.4G      1.8G  63%
+

manual ...

+virt-edit -c qemu:///system -d F15x32 /etc/passwd
+(launches editor)
+

manual ...

+virt-win-reg -c qemu:///system --unsafe-printable-strings \
+  Win7x32 'HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters' \
+  | grep DhcpIPAddress
+"DhcpIPAddress"=str(1):"192.168.122.178"
+

manual ...

+ +

Inspection

+ + + + +

V2V & P2V

+ + + + +

Read more ...

+ +

+ libguestfs.org is the + main website. +

+ +

+ guestfs(3) + is the manual page documenting the C API and the internals. +

+ +

+ There are manual pages + documenting guestfish, guestmount + and each virt tool. See + the main website or your + local man command. +

+ +

+ This page © 2011 Red Hat Inc. and distributed + under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. +

+ + + diff --git a/contrib/intro/overview.svg b/contrib/intro/overview.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25f245a --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/intro/overview.svg @@ -0,0 +1,524 @@ + + + + diff --git a/contrib/intro/talk.txt b/contrib/intro/talk.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8632f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/intro/talk.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This is a short (10-15 min) talk that I give to introduce the main +features of libguestfs. The "slides" are in the form of a complete +self-contained HTML page with a handful images that can be easily +distributed before the talk. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + diff --git a/contrib/intro/tools.svg b/contrib/intro/tools.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe1f034 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/intro/tools.svg @@ -0,0 +1,711 @@ + + + +