virt tools: Documentation
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libvirt API documentation
This is the main documentation for programming
against the libvirt API.
Difficulty: 4 out of 5.
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libvirt domain XML
This page documents the libvirt XML for
domains (guests). Use
virsh edit GuestName
to edit this for a particular libvirt guest.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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libguestfs API documentation
This is the main documentation for programming
against the libguestfs API.
Difficulty: 4 out of 5.
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guestfish manual page
Guestfish is an interactive shell tool for viewing
and editing disk images, exposing the full libguestfs API.
This manual page is the primary reference for all guestfish
operations.
Difficulty: 3 out of 5.
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virt-cat manual page
virt-cat lets you display a single file from
a guest or disk image.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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virt-df manual page
virt-df lets you display the free disk space in
a guest or disk image.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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virt-edit manual page
virt-edit lets you interactively edit a single
file from a guest or disk image, or
non-interactively edit from scripts
Difficulty: 3 out of 5.
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virt-inspector manual page
virt-inspector can inspect an unknown disk image
and produce a report on the operating system and applications
contained inside it.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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virt-list-filesystems manual page
virt-list-filesystems is primarily a shell
script tool for listing out the filesystems found inside
a virtual machine or disk image, so you can iterate over them.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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virt-list-partitions manual page
virt-list-partitions is like virt-list-filesystems
except it lists the partitions found in the disk image.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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virt-ls manual page
virt-ls is like the
ls(1) command
for guests and disk images.
Difficulty: 2 out of 5.
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virt-make-fs manual page
virt-make-fs can be used to prepare a disk
image containing some predefined content.
Difficulty: 4 out of 5.
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virt-rescue manual page
virt-rescue is a
rescue shell
for virtual
machines, similar in concept to the rescue disks used for
physical machines.
Difficulty: 3 out of 5.
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virt-resize manual page
virt-resize lets you expand or shrink guest disk
images (offline only). This complex topic is the subject
of this manual page.
Difficulty: 3 out of 5.
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virt-tar manual page
virt-tar can be used either to extract files and
directories from a guest disk image, or to upload files and
directories into a disk image.
Difficulty: 3 out of 5.
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virt-win-reg manual page
virt-win-reg is a comprehensive Windows Registry
export and merging tool, which you can use to export parts of
the Registry from your Windows guests, or to merge changes
into your Windows guests.
Difficulty: 3 out of 5.
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guestmount manual page
Guestmount uses libguestfs and FUSE to
mount guest filesystems (from disk images) directly
on the host.
Difficulty: 5 out of 5.
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