X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=guestfish.pod;h=026f82d105ac9274d4b2c99dc19f2e1c27cf1471;hp=f2255f1674a06eae29e8efb40feb345d84347b1c;hb=747eb7138ada2c999abc686fc5de18bcad96a1b7;hpb=98430c35faa073c60d4c00542c090fe0407c5af7 diff --git a/guestfish.pod b/guestfish.pod index f2255f1..026f82d 100644 --- a/guestfish.pod +++ b/guestfish.pod @@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ Remove C (in reality not such a great idea): =head2 As an interactive shell $ guestfish - + Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems. - + Type: 'help' for help with commands 'quit' to quit the shell - + > help =head2 As a script interpreter @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Remove C (in reality not such a great idea): #!/usr/bin/guestfish -f alloc /tmp/output.img 10M run - sfdisk /dev/sda 0 0 0 , + part-disk /dev/sda mbr mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1 =head2 Remote control @@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ Typical usage is either: guestfish -i /dev/Guests/MyGuest -You cannot use I<-a>, I<-m>, I<--listen> or I<--remote> in conjunction -with this option, and options other than I<--ro> might not behave -correctly. +You cannot use I<-a>, I<-m>, I<--listen>, I<--remote> or I<--selinux> +in conjunction with this option, and options other than I<--ro> might +not behave correctly. See also: L. @@ -167,6 +167,10 @@ I below. This changes the C<-m> option so that mounts are done read-only (see C in the L manpage). +=item B<--selinux> + +Enable SELinux support for the guest. See L. + =item B<-v> | B<--verbose> Enable very verbose messages. This is particularly useful if you find @@ -246,9 +250,13 @@ quotes. For example: rm '/"' A few commands require a list of strings to be passed. For these, use -a space-separated list, enclosed in quotes. For example: +a whitespace-separated list, enclosed in quotes. Strings containing whitespace +to be passed through must be enclosed in single quotes. A literal single quote +must be escaped with a backslash. vgcreate VG "/dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1" + command "/bin/echo 'foo bar'" + command "/bin/echo \'foo\'" =head1 WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING @@ -342,6 +350,23 @@ it, eg: echo "~" +=head1 WINDOWS PATHS + +If a path is prefixed with C then you can use Windows-style +paths (with some limitations). The following commands are equivalent: + + file /WINDOWS/system32/config/system.LOG + + file win:/windows/system32/config/system.log + + file win:\windows\system32\config\system.log + + file WIN:C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\conFIG\SYSTEM.LOG + +This syntax implicitly calls C (q.v.) so it also +handles case insensitivity like Windows would. This only works in +argument positions that expect a path. + =head1 EXIT ON ERROR BEHAVIOUR By default, guestfish will ignore any errors when in interactive mode @@ -390,13 +415,6 @@ You can have several guestfish listener processes running using: guestfish --remote=$pid1 cmd guestfish --remote=$pid2 cmd -=head2 STANDARD OUTPUT DURING REMOTE CONTROL - -Because of limitations in the C statement, stdout from the -listener is currently redirected to C. - -Stderr is unchanged. - =head2 REMOTE CONTROL DETAILS Remote control happens over a Unix domain socket called @@ -435,6 +453,18 @@ number of megabytes number of gigabytes +=item CT or CTB + +number of terabytes + +=item CP or CPB + +number of petabytes + +=item CE or CEB + +number of exabytes + =item Csects number of 512 byte sectors @@ -513,6 +543,55 @@ Close and reopen the libguestfs handle. It is not necessary to use this normally, because the handle is closed properly when guestfish exits. However this is occasionally useful for testing. +=head2 sparse + + sparse filename size + +This creates an empty sparse file of the given size, and then adds +so it can be further examined. + +In all respects it works the same as the C command, except that +the image file is allocated sparsely, which means that disk blocks are +not assigned to the file until they are needed. Sparse disk files +only use space when written to, but they are slower and there is a +danger you could run out of real disk space during a write operation. + +For more advanced image creation, see L utility. + +Size can be specified (where C means a number): + +=over 4 + +=item C or CK or CKB + +number of kilobytes, eg: C<1440> = standard 3.5in floppy + +=item CM or CMB + +number of megabytes + +=item CG or CGB + +number of gigabytes + +=item CT or CTB + +number of terabytes + +=item CP or CPB + +number of petabytes + +=item CE or CEB + +number of exabytes + +=item Csects + +number of 512 byte sectors + +=back + =head2 time time command args... @@ -571,6 +650,10 @@ Set the default qemu binary that libguestfs uses. If not set, then the qemu which was found at compile time by the configure script is used. +=item LIBGUESTFS_TRACE + +Set C to enable command traces. + =item PAGER The C command uses C<$PAGER> as the pager. If not @@ -596,7 +679,12 @@ I<1> if there was an error. =head1 SEE ALSO L, -L. +L, +L, +L, +L, +L, +L. =head1 AUTHORS