From 76bd81820f50a390b7e853d65f41b29a37e63f43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:36:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] inspector: Update documentation to cover element. This updates commit 7f16c346bbeba2f2fe3c31ccb85158178a284d84. --- inspector/virt-inspector.pod | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/inspector/virt-inspector.pod b/inspector/virt-inspector.pod index 2192b39..4d916a1 100755 --- a/inspector/virt-inspector.pod +++ b/inspector/virt-inspector.pod @@ -285,6 +285,27 @@ Note that this only covers permanent local filesystem mappings, not things like network shares. Furthermore NTFS volume mount points may not be listed here. +=head2 EiconE + +Virt-inspector is sometimes able to extract an icon or logo for the +guest. The icon is returned as base64-encoded PNG data. Note that +the icon can be very large and high quality. + + + + ... + + iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABg[.......] + [... many lines of base64 data ...] + + +To display the icon, you have to extract it and convert the base64 +data back to a binary file. Use an XPath query or simply an editor to +extract the data, then use the coreutils L program to do +the conversion back to a PNG file: + + base64 -i -d < icon.data > icon.png + =head2 INSPECTING INSTALL DISKS, LIVE CDs Virt-inspector can detect some operating system installers on @@ -353,6 +374,7 @@ versions of virt-inspector with different names: L, L, L, +L, L. =head1 AUTHORS -- 1.8.3.1