#!/usr/bin/perl -w # virt-cat # Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it 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. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. use warnings; use strict; use Sys::Guestfs; use Sys::Guestfs::Lib qw(open_guest get_partitions resolve_windows_path inspect_all_partitions inspect_partition inspect_operating_systems mount_operating_system); use Pod::Usage; use Getopt::Long; use Locale::TextDomain 'libguestfs'; =encoding utf8 =head1 NAME virt-cat - Display a file in a virtual machine =head1 SYNOPSIS virt-cat [--options] domname file virt-cat [--options] disk.img [disk.img ...] file =head1 DESCRIPTION C is a command line tool to display the contents of C where C exists in the named virtual machine (or disk image). C can be used to quickly view a single file. To edit a file, use C. For more complex cases you should look at the L tool. =head1 EXAMPLES Display C file from inside the libvirt VM called C: virt-cat mydomain /etc/fstab List syslog messages from a VM: virt-cat mydomain /var/log/messages | tail Find out what DHCP IP address a VM acquired: virt-cat mydomain /var/log/messages | grep 'dhclient: bound to' | tail Find out what packages were recently installed: virt-cat mydomain /var/log/yum.log | tail Find out who is logged on inside a virtual machine: virt-cat mydomain /var/run/utmp > /tmp/utmp who /tmp/utmp or who was logged on: virt-cat mydomain /var/log/wtmp > /tmp/wtmp last -f /tmp/wtmp =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 =cut my $help; =item B<--help> Display brief help. =cut my $version; =item B<--version> Display version number and exit. =cut my $uri; =item B<--connect URI> | B<-c URI> If using libvirt, connect to the given I. If omitted, then we connect to the default libvirt hypervisor. If you specify guest block devices directly, then libvirt is not used at all. =back =cut GetOptions ("help|?" => \$help, "version" => \$version, "connect|c=s" => \$uri, ) or pod2usage (2); pod2usage (1) if $help; if ($version) { my $g = Sys::Guestfs->new (); my %h = $g->version (); print "$h{major}.$h{minor}.$h{release}$h{extra}\n"; exit } pod2usage (__"virt-cat: no image, VM names or filenames to cat given") if @ARGV <= 1; my $filename = pop @ARGV; my $g; if ($uri) { $g = open_guest (\@ARGV, address => $uri); } else { $g = open_guest (\@ARGV); } $g->launch (); # List of possible filesystems. my @partitions = get_partitions ($g); # Now query each one to build up a picture of what's in it. my %fses = inspect_all_partitions ($g, \@partitions, use_windows_registry => 0); my $oses = inspect_operating_systems ($g, \%fses); my @roots = keys %$oses; die __"multiboot operating systems are not supported by virt-cat" if @roots > 1; my $root_dev = $roots[0]; my $os = $oses->{$root_dev}; mount_operating_system ($g, $os); # Allow this to fail in case eg. the file does not exist. # NB: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501888 print $g->download($filename, "/dev/stdout"); =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, L, L, L, L. =head1 AUTHOR Richard W.M. Jones L =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 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. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.