On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:43:02PM +0200, Jean-Michel Guillaume wrote: There isn't any explicit direct way to pass information into the guest. Some other options though - Add an extra NIC, but don't connect it to the main host OS public network. So host can talk to guest via the NIC & vica-verca, but outside world can't see it. - Create a ISO / floppy disk image put files in it and add this disk to the guest - For Linux only, if you're booting off kenrel+initrd, you can pass a limited amount of info via the 'cmdline' args parameter Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|