From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:10:53 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Allow guestfish -i / virt-inspector on live domains, in limited circumstances.
X-Git-Tag: 1.0.54~33
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=67a469c3eb68cbf735749118249ea6cd2c892486;p=libguestfs.git

Allow guestfish -i / virt-inspector on live domains, in limited circumstances.
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diff --git a/inspector/virt-inspector.pl b/inspector/virt-inspector.pl
index 6aa63ad..28bee77 100755
--- a/inspector/virt-inspector.pl
+++ b/inspector/virt-inspector.pl
@@ -222,6 +222,13 @@ if (-e $ARGV[0]) {
     die "cannot connect to libvirt $uri\n" unless $vmm;
 
     my @doms = $vmm->list_defined_domains ();
+    my $isitinactive = "an inactive libvirt domain";
+    if ($output ne "fish") {
+	# In the special case where we want read-only access to
+	# a domain, allow the user to specify an active domain too.
+	push @doms, $vmm->list_domains ();
+	$isitinactive = "a libvirt domain";
+    }
     my $dom;
     foreach (@doms) {
 	if ($_->get_name () eq $ARGV[0]) {
@@ -229,8 +236,7 @@ if (-e $ARGV[0]) {
 	    last;
 	}
     }
-    die "$ARGV[0] is not the name of an inactive libvirt domain\n"
-	unless $dom;
+    die "$ARGV[0] is not the name of $isitinactive\n" unless $dom;
 
     # Get the names of the image(s).
     my $xml = $dom->get_xml_description ();