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). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org