Bug 36247 – Access VM files directly - libguestfs

Bug 36247 - Access VM files directly - libguestfs


Summary:	Access VM files directly - libguestfs

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Product:	UCS
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UMC - Virtual machines (UVMM)
Version:	UCS 4.2
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	P5 enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To:	UMC maintainers
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Reported:	2014-10-21 16:03 CEST by Philipp Hahn
Modified:	2023-06-28 10:51 CEST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Philipp Hahn

2014-10-21 16:03:02 CEST

A customer requires access to some files from the image of a virtual machine. This currently needs some work-arounds using
 qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=/nfs/___.img -o
backing_fmt=raw /var/tmp/overlay.qcow2
  qemu-nbd -t -f qcow2 /var/tmp/overlay.qcow2 & # NO -r
  pid=$!
  nbd-client localhost 10809 /dev/nbd0
  mount -t ext3 /dev/nbd0p1 /floppy # NO -o ro
...
  nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0
  kill $pid

It would be a unique selling point for UCS it a user could access such files easily from UVMM, for example by using <http://libguestfs.org/> with works with both Windows and Linux gest virtual machines.

Comment 1 Florian Best

2017-06-28 14:52:36 CEST

There is a Customer ID set so I set the flag "Enterprise Customer affected".

Comment 2 Ingo Steuwer

2020-07-03 20:55:01 CEST

This issue has been filed against UCS 4.2.

UCS 4.2 is out of maintenance and many UCS components have changed in later releases. Thus, this issue is now being closed.

If this issue still occurs in newer UCS versions, please use "Clone this bug" or reopen it and update the UCS version. In this case please provide detailed information on how this issue is affecting you.