# Example showing how to inspect a virtual machine disk. require 'guestfs' if ARGV.length == 0 puts "usage: inspect_vm disk.img" exit 1 end disk = ARGV[0] g = Guestfs::Guestfs.new() # Attach the disk image read-only to libguestfs. g.add_drive_opts(disk, :readonly => 1) # Run the libguestfs back-end. g.launch() # Ask libguestfs to inspect for operating systems. roots = g.inspect_os() if roots.length == 0 puts "inspect_vm: no operating systems found" exit 1 end for root in roots do printf("Root device: %s\n", root) # Print basic information about the operating system. printf(" Product name: %s\n", g.inspect_get_product_name(root)) printf(" Version: %d.%d\n", g.inspect_get_major_version(root), g.inspect_get_minor_version(root)) printf(" Type: %s\n", g.inspect_get_type(root)) printf(" Distro: %s\n", g.inspect_get_distro(root)) # Mount up the disks, like guestfish -i. # # Sort keys by length, shortest first, so that we end up # mounting the filesystems in the correct order. mps = g.inspect_get_mountpoints(root) mps = mps.sort {|a,b| a[0].length <=> b[0].length} for mp in mps do begin g.mount_ro(mp[1], mp[0]) rescue Guestfs::Error => msg printf("%s (ignored)\n", msg) end end # If /etc/issue.net file exists, print up to 3 lines. filename = "/etc/issue.net" if g.is_file filename then printf("--- %s ---\n", filename) lines = g.head_n(3, filename) for line in lines do puts line end end # Unmount everything. g.umount_all() end