Re: [libvirt] Qemu guest agent to install RPMs in guest VM from host machine
On 06/12/2014 07:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:15:01PM +0530, Puneet Bakshi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to install RPM packages (available in host system at some
> path) to the guest VM and want this facility to be available as a tool.
Libguestfs can already do this for offline guests. I'd suggest looking
into using that, rather than waiting for qemu's guest-agent to be taught
a new command for manipulating live guests.
The general mindset of the QEMU community is to not turn the QEMU
guest agent into a general systems management tool. It aims to just
restrict itself to the functionality required for core virtualization
management tools. So RPM install is out of scope really
If you want general systems management facilities, such as RPM
installation, then there's countless existing tools for the job
that are preferrable to reinventing the wheel. eg func, puppet,
chef, ansible, and many many more.
There has been talk of adding a generic qemu guest-agent command for
spawning an arbitrary command, but no patches so far (in part because
libguestfs doing the same functionality for offline guests has been
sufficient).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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