The package management tool used by the guest distribution. One of: "rhn",
"yum", "apt".
-=item osversion
+=item os_major_version
(For root partitions only).
-Operating system version.
+Operating system major version number.
+
+=item os_minor_version
+
+(For root partitions only).
+Operating system minor version number.
=item fstab
my $r = shift;
# Look into /etc to see if we recognise the operating system.
- if ($g->is_file ("/etc/redhat-release")) {
+ # N.B. don't use $g->is_file here, because it might be a symlink
+ if ($g->exists ("/etc/redhat-release")) {
$r->{package_format} = "rpm";
$_ = $g->cat ("/etc/redhat-release");
- if (/Fedora release (\d+\.\d+)/) {
+ if (/Fedora release (\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?/) {
$r->{osdistro} = "fedora";
- $r->{osversion} = "$1";
+ $r->{os_major_version} = "$1";
+ $r->{os_minor_version} = "$2" if(defined($2));
$r->{package_management} = "yum";
}
else { die };
if (/$distro.*release (\d+).*Update (\d+)/) {
- $r->{osversion} = "$1.$2";
+ $r->{os_major_version} = "$1";
+ $r->{os_minor_version} = "$2";
}
- elsif (/$distro.*release (\d+(?:\.(?:\d+))?)/) {
- $r->{osversion} = "$1";
+ elsif (/$distro.*release (\d+)(?:\.(\d+))?/) {
+ $r->{os_major_version} = "$1";
+
+ if(defined($2)) {
+ $r->{os_minor_version} = "$2";
+ } else {
+ $r->{os_minor_version} = "0";
+ }
}
# Package management in RHEL changed in version 5
if ($r->{osdistro} eq "rhel") {
- if ($r->{osversion} >= 5) {
+ if ($r->{os_major_version} >= 5) {
$r->{package_management} = "yum";
} else {
$r->{package_management} = "rhn";
$r->{package_management} = "apt";
$_ = $g->cat ("/etc/debian_version");
- if (/(\d+\.\d+)/) {
+ if (/(\d+)\.(\d+)/) {
$r->{osdistro} = "debian";
- $r->{osversion} = "$1";
+ $r->{os_major_version} = "$1";
+ $r->{os_minor_version} = "$2";
} else {
$r->{osdistro} = "debian";
}
Operating system distribution, eg. "debian".
-=item version
+=item major_version
-Operating system version, eg. "4.0".
+Operating system major version, eg. "4".
+
+=item minor_version
+
+Operating system minor version, eg "3".
=item root
$r->{os} = $r->{root}->{fsos} if exists $r->{root}->{fsos};
$r->{distro} = $r->{root}->{osdistro} if exists $r->{root}->{osdistro};
- $r->{version} = $r->{root}->{osversion} if exists $r->{root}->{osversion};
+ $r->{major_version} = $r->{root}->{os_major_version}
+ if exists $r->{root}->{os_major_version};
+ $r->{minor_version} = $r->{root}->{os_minor_version}
+ if exists $r->{root}->{os_minor_version};
$r->{package_format} = $r->{root}->{package_format}
if exists $r->{root}->{package_format};
$r->{package_management} = $r->{root}->{package_management}
=head2 mount_operating_system
- mount_operating_system ($g, \%os);
+ mount_operating_system ($g, \%os, [$ro]);
This function mounts the operating system described in the
C<%os> hash according to the C<mounts> table in that hash (see
C<inspect_operating_systems>).
-The partitions are mounted read-only.
+The partitions are mounted read-only unless the third parameter
+is specified as zero explicitly.
To reverse the effect of this call, use the standard
libguestfs API call C<$g-E<gt>umount_all ()>.
local $_;
my $g = shift;
my $os = shift;
+ my $ro = shift; # Read-only?
+
+ $ro = 1 unless defined $ro; # ro defaults to 1 if unspecified
my $mounts = $os->{mounts};
# Have to mount / first. Luckily '/' is early in the ASCII
# character set, so this should be OK.
foreach (sort keys %$mounts) {
- $g->mount_ro ($mounts->{$_}, $_)
- if $_ ne "swap" && $_ ne "none" && ($_ eq '/' || $g->is_dir ($_));
+ if($_ ne "swap" && $_ ne "none" && ($_ eq '/' || $g->is_dir ($_))) {
+ if($ro) {
+ $g->mount_ro ($mounts->{$_}, $_)
+ } else {
+ $g->mount ($mounts->{$_}, $_)
+ }
+ }
}
}
my $version = $1;
my @modules;
- # Disregard old-style compressed ext2 files, since cpio
- # takes ages to (fail to) process these.
- if ($g->file ("/boot/$initrd") !~ /gzip compressed/ ||
- $g->zfile ("gzip", "/boot/$initrd") !~ /ext2 filesystem/) {
+ # Disregard old-style compressed ext2 files and only
+ # work with real compressed cpio files, since cpio
+ # takes ages to (fail to) process anything else.
+ if ($g->file ("/boot/$initrd") =~ /cpio/) {
eval {
@modules = $g->initrd_list ("/boot/$initrd");
};