1guestfish(1)                Virtualization Support                guestfish(1)
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NAME

6       guestfish - the guest filesystem shell
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SYNOPSIS

9        guestfish [--options] [commands]
10
11        guestfish
12
13        guestfish [--ro|--rw] -a disk.img
14
15        guestfish [--ro|--rw] -a disk.img -m dev[:mountpoint]
16
17        guestfish -d libvirt-domain
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19        guestfish [--ro|--rw] -a disk.img -i
20
21        guestfish -d libvirt-domain -i
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WARNING

24       Using "guestfish" in write mode on live virtual machines, or
25       concurrently with other disk editing tools, can be dangerous,
26       potentially causing disk corruption.  The virtual machine must be shut
27       down before you use this command, and disk images must not be edited
28       concurrently.
29
30       Use the --ro (read-only) option to use "guestfish" safely if the disk
31       image or virtual machine might be live.  You may see strange or
32       inconsistent results if running concurrently with other changes, but
33       with this option you won't risk disk corruption.
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DESCRIPTION

36       Guestfish is a shell and command-line tool for examining and modifying
37       virtual machine filesystems.  It uses libguestfs and exposes all of the
38       functionality of the guestfs API, see guestfs(3).
39
40       Guestfish gives you structured access to the libguestfs API, from shell
41       scripts or the command line or interactively.  If you want to rescue a
42       broken virtual machine image, you should look at the virt-rescue(1)
43       command.
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EXAMPLES

46   As an interactive shell
47        $ guestfish
48
49        Welcome to guestfish, the guest filesystem shell for
50        editing virtual machine filesystems.
51
52        Type: 'help' for a list of commands
53              'man' to read the manual
54              'quit' to quit the shell
55
56        ><fs> add-ro disk.img
57        ><fs> run
58        ><fs> list-filesystems
59        /dev/sda1: ext4
60        /dev/vg_guest/lv_root: ext4
61        /dev/vg_guest/lv_swap: swap
62        ><fs> mount /dev/vg_guest/lv_root /
63        ><fs> cat /etc/fstab
64        # /etc/fstab
65        # Created by anaconda
66        [...]
67        ><fs> exit
68
69   From shell scripts
70       Create a new /etc/motd file in a guest or disk image:
71
72        guestfish <<_EOF_
73        add disk.img
74        run
75        mount /dev/vg_guest/lv_root /
76        write /etc/motd "Welcome, new users"
77        _EOF_
78
79       List the LVM logical volumes in a disk image:
80
81        guestfish -a disk.img --ro <<_EOF_
82        run
83        lvs
84        _EOF_
85
86       List all the filesystems in a disk image:
87
88        guestfish -a disk.img --ro <<_EOF_
89        run
90        list-filesystems
91        _EOF_
92
93   On one command line
94       Update /etc/resolv.conf in a guest:
95
96        guestfish \
97          add disk.img : run : mount /dev/vg_guest/lv_root / : \
98          write /etc/resolv.conf "nameserver 1.2.3.4"
99
100       Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf interactively:
101
102        guestfish --rw --add disk.img \
103          --mount /dev/vg_guest/lv_root \
104          --mount /dev/sda1:/boot \
105          edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
106
107   Mount disks automatically
108       Use the -i option to automatically mount the disks from a virtual
109       machine:
110
111        guestfish --ro -a disk.img -i cat /etc/group
112
113        guestfish --ro -d libvirt-domain -i cat /etc/group
114
115       Another way to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf interactively is:
116
117        guestfish --rw -a disk.img -i edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
118
119   As a script interpreter
120       Create a 100MB disk containing an ext2-formatted partition:
121
122        #!/usr/bin/guestfish -f
123        sparse test1.img 100M
124        run
125        part-disk /dev/sda mbr
126        mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1
127
128   Start with a prepared disk
129       Create a 1G disk called test1.img containing a single ext2-formatted
130       partition:
131
132        guestfish -N fs
133
134       To list what is available do:
135
136        guestfish -N help | less
137
138   Remote drives
139       Access a remote disk using ssh:
140
141        guestfish -a ssh://example.com/path/to/disk.img
142
143   Remote control
144        eval "`guestfish --listen`"
145        guestfish --remote add-ro disk.img
146        guestfish --remote run
147        guestfish --remote lvs
148

OPTIONS

150       --help
151           Displays general help on options.
152
153       -h
154       --cmd-help
155           Lists all available guestfish commands.
156
157       -h CMD
158       --cmd-help CMD
159           Displays detailed help on a single command "cmd".
160
161       -a IMAGE
162       --add IMAGE
163           Add a block device or virtual machine image to the shell.
164
165           The format of the disk image is auto-detected.  To override this
166           and force a particular format use the --format=.. option.
167
168           Using this flag is mostly equivalent to using the "add" command,
169           with "readonly:true" if the --ro flag was given, and with
170           "format:..." if the --format=... flag was given.
171
172       -a URI
173       --add URI
174           Add a remote disk.  See "ADDING REMOTE STORAGE".
175
176       -c URI
177       --connect URI
178           When used in conjunction with the -d option, this specifies the
179           libvirt URI to use.  The default is to use the default libvirt
180           connection.
181
182       --csh
183           If using the --listen option and a csh-like shell, use this option.
184           See section "REMOTE CONTROL AND CSH" below.
185
186       -d LIBVIRT-DOMAIN
187       --domain LIBVIRT-DOMAIN
188           Add disks from the named libvirt domain.  If the --ro option is
189           also used, then any libvirt domain can be used.  However in write
190           mode, only libvirt domains which are shut down can be named here.
191
192           Domain UUIDs can be used instead of names.
193
194           Using this flag is mostly equivalent to using the "add-domain"
195           command, with "readonly:true" if the --ro flag was given, and with
196           "format:..." if the --format=... flag was given.
197
198       --echo-keys
199           When prompting for keys and passphrases, guestfish normally turns
200           echoing off so you cannot see what you are typing.  If you are not
201           worried about Tempest attacks and there is no one else in the room
202           you can specify this flag to see what you are typing.
203
204       -f FILE
205       --file FILE
206           Read commands from "FILE".  To write pure guestfish scripts, use:
207
208            #!/usr/bin/guestfish -f
209
210       --format=raw|qcow2|..
211       --format
212           The default for the -a option is to auto-detect the format of the
213           disk image.  Using this forces the disk format for -a options which
214           follow on the command line.  Using --format with no argument
215           switches back to auto-detection for subsequent -a options.
216
217           For example:
218
219            guestfish --format=raw -a disk.img
220
221           forces raw format (no auto-detection) for disk.img.
222
223            guestfish --format=raw -a disk.img --format -a another.img
224
225           forces raw format (no auto-detection) for disk.img and reverts to
226           auto-detection for another.img.
227
228           If you have untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should use
229           this option to specify the disk format.  This avoids a possible
230           security problem with malicious guests (CVE-2010-3851).  See also
231           "add".
232
233       -i
234       --inspector
235           Using virt-inspector(1) code, inspect the disks looking for an
236           operating system and mount filesystems as they would be mounted on
237           the real virtual machine.
238
239           Typical usage is either:
240
241            guestfish -d myguest -i
242
243           (for an inactive libvirt domain called myguest), or:
244
245            guestfish --ro -d myguest -i
246
247           (for active domains, readonly), or specify the block device
248           directly:
249
250            guestfish --rw -a /dev/Guests/MyGuest -i
251
252           Note that the command line syntax changed slightly over older
253           versions of guestfish.  You can still use the old syntax:
254
255            guestfish [--ro] -i disk.img
256
257            guestfish [--ro] -i libvirt-domain
258
259           Using this flag is mostly equivalent to using the "inspect-os"
260           command and then using other commands to mount the filesystems that
261           were found.
262
263       --key SELECTOR
264           Specify a key for LUKS, to automatically open a LUKS device when
265           using the inspection.  "SELECTOR" can be in one of the following
266           formats:
267
268           --key "DEVICE":key:KEY_STRING
269               Use the specified "KEY_STRING" as passphrase.
270
271           --key "DEVICE":file:FILENAME
272               Read the passphrase from FILENAME.
273
274       --keys-from-stdin
275           Read key or passphrase parameters from stdin.  The default is to
276           try to read passphrases from the user by opening /dev/tty.
277
278       --listen
279           Fork into the background and listen for remote commands.  See
280           section "REMOTE CONTROL GUESTFISH OVER A SOCKET" below.
281
282       --live
283           Connect to a live virtual machine.  (Experimental, see "ATTACHING
284           TO RUNNING DAEMONS" in guestfs(3)).
285
286       -m dev[:mountpoint[:options[:fstype]]]
287       --mount dev[:mountpoint[:options[:fstype]]]
288           Mount the named partition or logical volume on the given
289           mountpoint.
290
291           If the mountpoint is omitted, it defaults to /.
292
293           You have to mount something on / before most commands will work.
294
295           If any -m or --mount options are given, the guest is automatically
296           launched.
297
298           If you don’t know what filesystems a disk image contains, you can
299           either run guestfish without this option, then list the partitions,
300           filesystems and LVs available (see "list-partitions", "list-
301           filesystems" and "lvs" commands), or you can use the
302           virt-filesystems(1) program.
303
304           The third (and rarely used) part of the mount parameter is the list
305           of mount options used to mount the underlying filesystem.  If this
306           is not given, then the mount options are either the empty string or
307           "ro" (the latter if the --ro flag is used).  By specifying the
308           mount options, you override this default choice.  Probably the only
309           time you would use this is to enable ACLs and/or extended
310           attributes if the filesystem can support them:
311
312            -m /dev/sda1:/:acl,user_xattr
313
314           Using this flag is equivalent to using the "mount-options" command.
315
316           The fourth part of the parameter is the filesystem driver to use,
317           such as "ext3" or "ntfs". This is rarely needed, but can be useful
318           if multiple drivers are valid for a filesystem (eg: "ext2" and
319           "ext3"), or if libguestfs misidentifies a filesystem.
320
321       --network
322           Enable QEMU user networking in the guest.
323
324       -N [FILENAME=]TYPE
325       --new [FILENAME=]TYPE
326       -N help
327           Prepare a fresh disk image formatted as "TYPE".  This is an
328           alternative to the -a option: whereas -a adds an existing disk, -N
329           creates a preformatted disk with a filesystem and adds it.  See
330           "PREPARED DISK IMAGES" below.
331
332       -n
333       --no-sync
334           Disable autosync.  This is enabled by default.  See the discussion
335           of autosync in the guestfs(3) manpage.
336
337       --no-dest-paths
338           Don’t tab-complete paths on the guest filesystem.  It is useful to
339           be able to hit the tab key to complete paths on the guest
340           filesystem, but this causes extra "hidden" guestfs calls to be
341           made, so this option is here to allow this feature to be disabled.
342
343       --pipe-error
344           If writes fail to pipe commands (see "PIPES" below), then the
345           command returns an error.
346
347           The default (also for historical reasons) is to ignore such errors
348           so that:
349
350            ><fs> command_with_lots_of_output | head
351
352           doesn't give an error.
353
354       --progress-bars
355           Enable progress bars, even when guestfish is used non-
356           interactively.
357
358           Progress bars are enabled by default when guestfish is used as an
359           interactive shell.
360
361       --no-progress-bars
362           Disable progress bars.
363
364       --remote
365       --remote=PID
366           Send remote commands to $GUESTFISH_PID or "pid".  See section
367           "REMOTE CONTROL GUESTFISH OVER A SOCKET" below.
368
369       -r
370       --ro
371           This changes the -a, -d and -m options so that disks are added and
372           mounts are done read-only.
373
374           The option must always be used if the disk image or virtual machine
375           might be running, and is generally recommended in cases where you
376           don't need write access to the disk.
377
378           Note that prepared disk images created with -N are not affected by
379           this option.  Also commands like "add" are not affected - you have
380           to specify the "readonly:true" option explicitly if you need it.
381
382           See also "OPENING DISKS FOR READ AND WRITE" below.
383
384       --selinux
385           This option is provided for backwards compatibility and does
386           nothing.
387
388       -v
389       --verbose
390           Enable very verbose messages.  This is particularly useful if you
391           find a bug.
392
393       -V
394       --version
395           Display the guestfish / libguestfs version number and exit.
396
397       -w
398       --rw
399           This changes the -a, -d and -m options so that disks are added and
400           mounts are done read-write.
401
402           See "OPENING DISKS FOR READ AND WRITE" below.
403
404       -x  Echo each command before executing it.
405

COMMANDS ON COMMAND LINE

407       Any additional (non-option) arguments are treated as commands to
408       execute.
409
410       Commands to execute should be separated by a colon (":"), where the
411       colon is a separate parameter.  Thus:
412
413        guestfish cmd [args...] : cmd [args...] : cmd [args...] ...
414
415       If there are no additional arguments, then we enter a shell, either an
416       interactive shell with a prompt (if the input is a terminal) or a non-
417       interactive shell.
418
419       In either command line mode or non-interactive shell, the first command
420       that gives an error causes the whole shell to exit.  In interactive
421       mode (with a prompt) if a command fails, you can continue to enter
422       commands.
423
424       Note that arguments of the commands will be considered as guestfish
425       options if they start with a dash ("-"): you can always separate the
426       guestfish options and the rest of the commands (with their arguments)
427       using a double dash ("--").  For example:
428
429        guestfish -- disk_create overlay.qcow2 qcow2 -1 backingfile:image.img
430

USING launch (OR run)

432       As with guestfs(3), you must first configure your guest by adding
433       disks, then launch it, then mount any disks you need, and finally issue
434       actions/commands.  So the general order of the day is:
435
436       ·   add or -a/--add
437
438       ·   launch (aka run)
439
440       ·   mount or -m/--mount
441
442       ·   any other commands
443
444       "run" is a synonym for "launch".  You must "launch" (or "run") your
445       guest before mounting or performing any other commands.
446
447       The only exception is that if any of the -i, -m, --mount, -N or --new
448       options were given then "run" is done automatically, simply because
449       guestfish can't perform the action you asked for without doing this.
450

OPENING DISKS FOR READ AND WRITE

452       The guestfish, guestmount(1) and virt-rescue(1) options --ro and --rw
453       affect whether the other command line options -a, -c, -d, -i and -m
454       open disk images read-only or for writing.
455
456       In libguestfs ≤ 1.10, guestfish, guestmount and virt-rescue defaulted
457       to opening disk images supplied on the command line for write.  To open
458       a disk image read-only you have to do -a image --ro.
459
460       This matters: If you accidentally open a live VM disk image writable
461       then you will cause irreversible disk corruption.
462
463       In a future libguestfs we intend to change the default the other way.
464       Disk images will be opened read-only.  You will have to either specify
465       guestfish --rw, guestmount --rw, virt-rescue --rw, or change the
466       configuration file in order to get write access for disk images
467       specified by those other command line options.
468
469       This version of guestfish, guestmount and virt-rescue has a --rw option
470       which does nothing (it is already the default).  However it is highly
471       recommended that you use this option to indicate that you need write
472       access, and prepare your scripts for the day when this option will be
473       required for write access.
474
475       Note: This does not affect commands like "add" and "mount", or any
476       other libguestfs program apart from guestfish and guestmount.
477

QUOTING

479       You can quote ordinary parameters using either single or double quotes.
480       For example:
481
482        add "file with a space.img"
483
484        rm '/file name'
485
486        rm '/"'
487
488       A few commands require a list of strings to be passed.  For these, use
489       a whitespace-separated list, enclosed in quotes.  Strings containing
490       whitespace to be passed through must be enclosed in single quotes.  A
491       literal single quote must be escaped with a backslash.
492
493        vgcreate VG "/dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1"
494        command "/bin/echo 'foo      bar'"
495        command "/bin/echo \'foo\'"
496
497   ESCAPE SEQUENCES IN DOUBLE QUOTED ARGUMENTS
498       In double-quoted arguments (only) use backslash to insert special
499       characters:
500
501       "\a"
502           Alert (bell) character.
503
504       "\b"
505           Backspace character.
506
507       "\f"
508           Form feed character.
509
510       "\n"
511           Newline character.
512
513       "\r"
514           Carriage return character.
515
516       "\t"
517           Horizontal tab character.
518
519       "\v"
520           Vertical tab character.
521
522       "\""
523           A literal double quote character.
524
525       "\ooo"
526           A character with octal value ooo.  There must be precisely 3 octal
527           digits (unlike C).
528
529       "\xhh"
530           A character with hex value hh.  There must be precisely 2 hex
531           digits.
532
533           In the current implementation "\000" and "\x00" cannot be used in
534           strings.
535
536       "\\"
537           A literal backslash character.
538

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS

540       Some commands take optional arguments.  These arguments appear in this
541       documentation as "[argname:..]".  You can use them as in these
542       examples:
543
544        add filename
545
546        add filename readonly:true
547
548        add filename format:qcow2 readonly:false
549
550       Each optional argument can appear at most once.  All optional arguments
551       must appear after the required ones.
552

NUMBERS

554       This section applies to all commands which can take integers as
555       parameters.
556
557   SIZE SUFFIX
558       When the command takes a parameter measured in bytes, you can use one
559       of the following suffixes to specify kilobytes, megabytes and larger
560       sizes:
561
562       k or K or KiB
563           The size in kilobytes (multiplied by 1024).
564
565       KB  The size in SI 1000 byte units.
566
567       M or MiB
568           The size in megabytes (multiplied by 1048576).
569
570       MB  The size in SI 1000000 byte units.
571
572       G or GiB
573           The size in gigabytes (multiplied by 2**30).
574
575       GB  The size in SI 10**9 byte units.
576
577       T or TiB
578           The size in terabytes (multiplied by 2**40).
579
580       TB  The size in SI 10**12 byte units.
581
582       P or PiB
583           The size in petabytes (multiplied by 2**50).
584
585       PB  The size in SI 10**15 byte units.
586
587       E or EiB
588           The size in exabytes (multiplied by 2**60).
589
590       EB  The size in SI 10**18 byte units.
591
592       Z or ZiB
593           The size in zettabytes (multiplied by 2**70).
594
595       ZB  The size in SI 10**21 byte units.
596
597       Y or YiB
598           The size in yottabytes (multiplied by 2**80).
599
600       YB  The size in SI 10**24 byte units.
601
602       For example:
603
604        truncate-size /file 1G
605
606       would truncate the file to 1 gigabyte.
607
608       Be careful because a few commands take sizes in kilobytes or megabytes
609       (eg. the parameter to "memsize" is specified in megabytes already).
610       Adding a suffix will probably not do what you expect.
611
612   OCTAL AND HEXADECIMAL NUMBERS
613       For specifying the radix (base) use the C convention: 0 to prefix an
614       octal number or "0x" to prefix a hexadecimal number.  For example:
615
616        1234      decimal number 1234
617        02322     octal number, equivalent to decimal 1234
618        0x4d2     hexadecimal number, equivalent to decimal 1234
619
620       When using the "chmod" command, you almost always want to specify an
621       octal number for the mode, and you must prefix it with 0 (unlike the
622       Unix chmod(1) program):
623
624        chmod 0777 /public  # OK
625        chmod 777 /public   # WRONG! This is mode 777 decimal = 01411 octal.
626
627       Commands that return numbers usually print them in decimal, but some
628       commands print numbers in other radices (eg. "umask" prints the mode in
629       octal, preceded by 0).
630

WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING

632       Neither guestfish nor the underlying guestfs API performs wildcard
633       expansion (globbing) by default.  So for example the following will not
634       do what you expect:
635
636        rm-rf /home/*
637
638       Assuming you don’t have a directory called literally /home/* then the
639       above command will return an error.
640
641       To perform wildcard expansion, use the "glob" command.
642
643        glob rm-rf /home/*
644
645       runs "rm-rf" on each path that matches (ie. potentially running the
646       command many times), equivalent to:
647
648        rm-rf /home/jim
649        rm-rf /home/joe
650        rm-rf /home/mary
651
652       "glob" only works on simple guest paths and not on device names.
653
654       If you have several parameters, each containing a wildcard, then glob
655       will perform a Cartesian product.
656

COMMENTS

658       Any line which starts with a # character is treated as a comment and
659       ignored.  The # can optionally be preceded by whitespace, but not by a
660       command.  For example:
661
662        # this is a comment
663                # this is a comment
664        foo # NOT a comment
665
666       Blank lines are also ignored.
667

RUNNING COMMANDS LOCALLY

669       Any line which starts with a ! character is treated as a command sent
670       to the local shell (/bin/sh or whatever system(3) uses).  For example:
671
672        !mkdir local
673        tgz-out /remote local/remote-data.tar.gz
674
675       will create a directory "local" on the host, and then export the
676       contents of /remote on the mounted filesystem to
677       local/remote-data.tar.gz.  (See "tgz-out").
678
679       To change the local directory, use the "lcd" command.  "!cd" will have
680       no effect, due to the way that subprocesses work in Unix.
681
682   LOCAL COMMANDS WITH INLINE EXECUTION
683       If a line starts with <! then the shell command is executed (as for !),
684       but subsequently any output (stdout) of the shell command is parsed and
685       executed as guestfish commands.
686
687       Thus you can use shell script to construct arbitrary guestfish commands
688       which are then parsed by guestfish.
689
690       For example it is tedious to create a sequence of files (eg. /foo.1
691       through /foo.100) using guestfish commands alone.  However this is
692       simple if we use a shell script to create the guestfish commands for
693       us:
694
695        <! for n in `seq 1 100`; do echo write /foo.$n $n; done
696
697       or with names like /foo.001:
698
699        <! for n in `seq 1 100`; do printf "write /foo.%03d %d\n" $n $n; done
700
701       When using guestfish interactively it can be helpful to just run the
702       shell script first (ie. remove the initial "<" character so it is just
703       an ordinary ! local command), see what guestfish commands it would run,
704       and when you are happy with those prepend the "<" character to run the
705       guestfish commands for real.
706

PIPES

708       Use "command <space> | command" to pipe the output of the first command
709       (a guestfish command) to the second command (any host command).  For
710       example:
711
712        cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '$3 == 0 { print }'
713
714       (where "cat" is the guestfish cat command, but "awk" is the host awk
715       program).  The above command would list all accounts in the guest
716       filesystem which have UID 0, ie. root accounts including backdoors.
717       Other examples:
718
719        hexdump /bin/ls | head
720        list-devices | tail -1
721        tgz-out / - | tar ztf -
722
723       The space before the pipe symbol is required, any space after the pipe
724       symbol is optional.  Everything after the pipe symbol is just passed
725       straight to the host shell, so it can contain redirections, globs and
726       anything else that makes sense on the host side.
727
728       To use a literal argument which begins with a pipe symbol, you have to
729       quote it, eg:
730
731        echo "|"
732

HOME DIRECTORIES

734       If a parameter starts with the character "~" then the tilde may be
735       expanded as a home directory path (either "~" for the current user's
736       home directory, or "~user" for another user).
737
738       Note that home directory expansion happens for users known on the host,
739       not in the guest filesystem.
740
741       To use a literal argument which begins with a tilde, you have to quote
742       it, eg:
743
744        echo "~"
745

ENCRYPTED DISKS

747       Libguestfs has some support for Linux guests encrypted according to the
748       Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) standard, which includes nearly all
749       whole disk encryption systems used by modern Linux guests.  Currently
750       only LVM-on-LUKS is supported.
751
752       Identify encrypted block devices and partitions using "vfs-type":
753
754        ><fs> vfs-type /dev/sda2
755        crypto_LUKS
756
757       Then open those devices using "luks-open".  This creates a device-
758       mapper device called /dev/mapper/luksdev.
759
760        ><fs> luks-open /dev/sda2 luksdev
761        Enter key or passphrase ("key"): <enter the passphrase>
762
763       Finally you have to tell LVM to scan for volume groups on the newly
764       created mapper device:
765
766        vgscan
767        vg-activate-all true
768
769       The logical volume(s) can now be mounted in the usual way.
770
771       Before closing a LUKS device you must unmount any logical volumes on it
772       and deactivate the volume groups by calling "vg-activate false VG" on
773       each one.  Then you can close the mapper device:
774
775        vg-activate false /dev/VG
776        luks-close /dev/mapper/luksdev
777

WINDOWS PATHS

779       If a path is prefixed with "win:" then you can use Windows-style drive
780       letters and paths (with some limitations).  The following commands are
781       equivalent:
782
783        file /WINDOWS/system32/config/system.LOG
784
785        file win:\windows\system32\config\system.log
786
787        file WIN:C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.LOG
788
789       The parameter is rewritten "behind the scenes" by looking up the
790       position where the drive is mounted, prepending that to the path,
791       changing all backslash characters to forward slash, then resolving the
792       result using "case-sensitive-path".  For example if the E: drive was
793       mounted on /e then the parameter might be rewritten like this:
794
795        win:e:\foo\bar => /e/FOO/bar
796
797       This only works in argument positions that expect a path.
798

UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING FILES

800       For commands such as "upload", "download", "tar-in", "tar-out" and
801       others which upload from or download to a local file, you can use the
802       special filename "-" to mean "from stdin" or "to stdout".  For example:
803
804        upload - /foo
805
806       reads stdin and creates from that a file /foo in the disk image, and:
807
808        tar-out /etc - | tar tf -
809
810       writes the tarball to stdout and then pipes that into the external
811       "tar" command (see "PIPES").
812
813       When using "-" to read from stdin, the input is read up to the end of
814       stdin.  You can also use a special "heredoc"-like syntax to read up to
815       some arbitrary end marker:
816
817        upload -<<END /foo
818        input line 1
819        input line 2
820        input line 3
821        END
822
823       Any string of characters can be used instead of "END".  The end marker
824       must appear on a line of its own, without any preceding or following
825       characters (not even spaces).
826
827       Note that the "-<<" syntax only applies to parameters used to upload
828       local files (so-called "FileIn" parameters in the generator).
829

EXIT ON ERROR BEHAVIOUR

831       By default, guestfish will ignore any errors when in interactive mode
832       (ie. taking commands from a human over a tty), and will exit on the
833       first error in non-interactive mode (scripts, commands given on the
834       command line).
835
836       If you prefix a command with a - character, then that command will not
837       cause guestfish to exit, even if that (one) command returns an error.
838

REMOTE CONTROL GUESTFISH OVER A SOCKET

840       Guestfish can be remote-controlled over a socket.  This is useful
841       particularly in shell scripts where you want to make several different
842       changes to a filesystem, but you don't want the overhead of starting up
843       a guestfish process each time.
844
845       Start a guestfish server process using:
846
847        eval "`guestfish --listen`"
848
849       and then send it commands by doing:
850
851        guestfish --remote cmd [...]
852
853       To cause the server to exit, send it the exit command:
854
855        guestfish --remote exit
856
857       Note that the server will normally exit if there is an error in a
858       command.  You can change this in the usual way.  See section "EXIT ON
859       ERROR BEHAVIOUR".
860
861   CONTROLLING MULTIPLE GUESTFISH PROCESSES
862       The "eval" statement sets the environment variable $GUESTFISH_PID,
863       which is how the --remote option knows where to send the commands.  You
864       can have several guestfish listener processes running using:
865
866        eval "`guestfish --listen`"
867        pid1=$GUESTFISH_PID
868        eval "`guestfish --listen`"
869        pid2=$GUESTFISH_PID
870        ...
871        guestfish --remote=$pid1 cmd
872        guestfish --remote=$pid2 cmd
873
874   REMOTE CONTROL AND CSH
875       When using csh-like shells (csh, tcsh etc) you have to add the --csh
876       option:
877
878        eval "`guestfish --listen --csh`"
879
880   REMOTE CONTROL DETAILS
881       Remote control happens over a Unix domain socket called
882       /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/socket-$PID, where $UID is the effective user ID
883       of the process, and $PID is the process ID of the server.
884
885       Guestfish client and server versions must match exactly.
886
887       Older versions of guestfish were vulnerable to CVE-2013-4419 (see
888       "CVE-2013-4419" in guestfs(3)).  This is fixed in the current version.
889
890   USING REMOTE CONTROL ROBUSTLY FROM SHELL SCRIPTS
891       From Bash, you can use the following code which creates a guestfish
892       instance, correctly quotes the command line, handles failure to start,
893       and cleans up guestfish when the script exits:
894
895        #!/bin/bash -
896
897        set -e
898
899        guestfish[0]="guestfish"
900        guestfish[1]="--listen"
901        guestfish[2]="--ro"
902        guestfish[3]="-a"
903        guestfish[4]="disk.img"
904
905        GUESTFISH_PID=
906        eval $("${guestfish[@]}")
907        if [ -z "$GUESTFISH_PID" ]; then
908            echo "error: guestfish didn't start up, see error messages above"
909            exit 1
910        fi
911
912        cleanup_guestfish ()
913        {
914            guestfish --remote -- exit >/dev/null 2>&1 ||:
915        }
916        trap cleanup_guestfish EXIT ERR
917
918        guestfish --remote -- run
919
920        # ...
921
922   REMOTE CONTROL DOES NOT WORK WITH -a ETC. OPTIONS
923       Options such as -a, --add, -N, --new etc don’t interact properly with
924       remote support.  They are processed locally, and not sent through to
925       the remote guestfish.  In particular this won't do what you expect:
926
927        guestfish --remote --add disk.img
928
929       Don’t use these options.  Use the equivalent commands instead, eg:
930
931        guestfish --remote add-drive disk.img
932
933       or:
934
935        guestfish --remote
936        ><fs> add disk.img
937
938   REMOTE CONTROL RUN COMMAND HANGING
939       Using the "run" (or "launch") command remotely in a command
940       substitution context hangs, ie. don't do (note the backquotes):
941
942        a=`guestfish --remote run`
943
944       Since the "run" command produces no output on stdout, this is not
945       useful anyway.  For further information see
946       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910.
947

PREPARED DISK IMAGES

949       Use the -N [filename=]type or --new [filename=]type parameter to select
950       one of a set of preformatted disk images that guestfish can make for
951       you to save typing.  This is particularly useful for testing purposes.
952       This option is used instead of the -a option, and like -a can appear
953       multiple times (and can be mixed with -a).
954
955       The new disk is called test1.img for the first -N, test2.img for the
956       second and so on.  Existing files in the current directory are
957       overwritten.  You can use a different filename by specifying
958       "filename=" before the type (see examples below).
959
960       The type briefly describes how the disk should be sized, partitioned,
961       how filesystem(s) should be created, and how content should be added.
962       Optionally the type can be followed by extra parameters, separated by
963       ":" (colon) characters.  For example, -N fs creates a default 1G,
964       sparsely-allocated disk, containing a single partition, with the
965       partition formatted as ext2.  -N fs:ext4:2G is the same, but for an
966       ext4 filesystem on a 2GB disk instead.
967
968       Note that the prepared filesystem is not mounted.  You would usually
969       have to use the "mount /dev/sda1 /" command or add the -m /dev/sda1
970       option.
971
972       If any -N or --new options are given, the libguestfs appliance is
973       automatically launched.
974
975   EXAMPLES
976       Create a 1G disk with an ext4-formatted partition, called test1.img in
977       the current directory:
978
979        guestfish -N fs:ext4
980
981       Create a 32MB disk with a VFAT-formatted partition, and mount it:
982
983        guestfish -N fs:vfat:32M -m /dev/sda1
984
985       Create a blank 200MB disk:
986
987        guestfish -N disk:200M
988
989       Create a blank 200MB disk called blankdisk.img (instead of test1.img):
990
991        guestfish -N blankdisk.img=disk:200M
992
993   -N disk - create a blank disk
994       "guestfish -N [filename=]disk[:size]"
995
996       Create a blank disk, size 1G (by default).
997
998       The default size can be changed by supplying an optional parameter.
999
1000       The optional parameters are:
1001
1002        Name          Default value
1003        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1004
1005   -N part - create a partitioned disk
1006       "guestfish -N [filename=]part[:size[:partition]]"
1007
1008       Create a disk with a single partition.  By default the size of the disk
1009       is 1G (the available space in the partition will be a tiny bit smaller)
1010       and the partition table will be MBR (old DOS-style).
1011
1012       These defaults can be changed by supplying optional parameters.
1013
1014       The optional parameters are:
1015
1016        Name          Default value
1017        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1018        partition     mbr           partition table type
1019
1020   -N fs - create a filesystem
1021       "guestfish -N [filename=]fs[:filesystem[:size[:partition]]]"
1022
1023       Create a disk with a single partition, with the partition containing an
1024       empty filesystem.  This defaults to creating a 1G disk (the available
1025       space in the filesystem will be a tiny bit smaller) with an MBR (old
1026       DOS-style) partition table and an ext2 filesystem.
1027
1028       These defaults can be changed by supplying optional parameters.
1029
1030       The optional parameters are:
1031
1032        Name          Default value
1033        filesystem    ext2          the type of filesystem to use
1034        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1035        partition     mbr           partition table type
1036
1037   -N lv - create a disk with logical volume
1038       "guestfish -N [filename=]lv[:name[:size[:partition]]]"
1039
1040       Create a disk with a single partition, set up the partition as an LVM2
1041       physical volume, and place a volume group and logical volume on there.
1042       This defaults to creating a 1G disk with the VG and LV called
1043       "/dev/VG/LV".  You can change the name of the VG and LV by supplying an
1044       alternate name as the first optional parameter.
1045
1046       Note this does not create a filesystem.  Use 'lvfs' to do that.
1047
1048       The optional parameters are:
1049
1050        Name          Default value
1051        name          /dev/VG/LV    the name of the VG and LV to use
1052        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1053        partition     mbr           partition table type
1054
1055   -N lvfs - create a disk with logical volume and filesystem
1056       "guestfish -N [filename=]lvfs[:name[:filesystem[:size[:partition]]]]"
1057
1058       Create a disk with a single partition, set up the partition as an LVM2
1059       physical volume, and place a volume group and logical volume on there.
1060       Then format the LV with a filesystem.  This defaults to creating a 1G
1061       disk with the VG and LV called "/dev/VG/LV", with an ext2 filesystem.
1062
1063       The optional parameters are:
1064
1065        Name          Default value
1066        name          /dev/VG/LV    the name of the VG and LV to use
1067        filesystem    ext2          the type of filesystem to use
1068        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1069        partition     mbr           partition table type
1070
1071   -N bootroot - create a boot and root filesystem
1072       "guestfish -N
1073       [filename=]bootroot[:bootfs[:rootfs[:size[:bootsize[:partition]]]]]"
1074
1075       Create a disk with two partitions, for boot and root filesystem.
1076       Format the two filesystems independently.  There are several optional
1077       parameters which control the exact layout and filesystem types.
1078
1079       The optional parameters are:
1080
1081        Name          Default value
1082        bootfs        ext2          the type of filesystem to use for boot
1083        rootfs        ext2          the type of filesystem to use for root
1084        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1085        bootsize      128M          the size of the boot filesystem
1086        partition     mbr           partition table type
1087
1088   -N bootrootlv - create a boot and root filesystem using LVM
1089       "guestfish -N
1090       [filename=]bootrootlv[:name[:bootfs[:rootfs[:size[:bootsize[:partition]]]]]]"
1091
1092       This is the same as "bootroot" but the root filesystem (only) is placed
1093       on a logical volume, named by default "/dev/VG/LV".  There are several
1094       optional parameters which control the exact layout.
1095
1096       The optional parameters are:
1097
1098        Name          Default value
1099        name          /dev/VG/LV    the name of the VG and LV for root
1100        bootfs        ext2          the type of filesystem to use for boot
1101        rootfs        ext2          the type of filesystem to use for root
1102        size          1G            the size of the disk image
1103        bootsize      128M          the size of the boot filesystem
1104        partition     mbr           partition table type
1105

ADDING REMOTE STORAGE

1107       For API-level documentation on this topic, see "guestfs_add_drive_opts"
1108       in guestfs(3) and "REMOTE STORAGE" in guestfs(3).
1109
1110       On the command line, you can use the -a option to add network block
1111       devices using a URI-style format, for example:
1112
1113        guestfish -a ssh://root@example.com/disk.img
1114
1115       URIs cannot be used with the "add" command.  The equivalent command
1116       using the API directly is:
1117
1118        ><fs> add /disk.img protocol:ssh server:tcp:example.com username:root
1119
1120       The possible -a URI formats are described below.
1121
1122   -a disk.img
1123   -a file:///path/to/disk.img
1124       Add the local disk image (or device) called disk.img.
1125
1126   -a ftp://[user@]example.com[:port]/disk.img
1127   -a ftps://[user@]example.com[:port]/disk.img
1128   -a http://[user@]example.com[:port]/disk.img
1129   -a https://[user@]example.com[:port]/disk.img
1130   -a tftp://[user@]example.com[:port]/disk.img
1131       Add a disk located on a remote FTP, HTTP or TFTP server.
1132
1133       The equivalent API command would be:
1134
1135        ><fs> add /disk.img protocol:(ftp|...) server:tcp:example.com
1136
1137   -a gluster://example.com[:port]/volname/image
1138       Add a disk image located on GlusterFS storage.
1139
1140       The server is the one running "glusterd", and may be "localhost".
1141
1142       The equivalent API command would be:
1143
1144        ><fs> add volname/image protocol:gluster server:tcp:example.com
1145
1146   -a iscsi://example.com[:port]/target-iqn-name[/lun]
1147       Add a disk located on an iSCSI server.
1148
1149       The equivalent API command would be:
1150
1151        ><fs> add target-iqn-name/lun protocol:iscsi server:tcp:example.com
1152
1153   -a nbd://example.com[:port]
1154   -a nbd://example.com[:port]/exportname
1155   -a nbd://?socket=/socket
1156   -a nbd:///exportname?socket=/socket
1157       Add a disk located on Network Block Device (nbd) storage.
1158
1159       The /exportname part of the URI specifies an NBD export name, but is
1160       usually left empty.
1161
1162       The optional ?socket parameter can be used to specify a Unix domain
1163       socket that we talk to the NBD server over.  Note that you cannot mix
1164       server name (ie. TCP/IP) and socket path.
1165
1166       The equivalent API command would be (no export name):
1167
1168        ><fs> add "" protocol:nbd server:[tcp:example.com|unix:/socket]
1169
1170   -a rbd:///pool/disk
1171   -a rbd://example.com[:port]/pool/disk
1172       Add a disk image located on a Ceph (RBD/librbd) storage volume.
1173
1174       Although libguestfs and Ceph supports multiple servers, only a single
1175       server can be specified when using this URI syntax.
1176
1177       The equivalent API command would be:
1178
1179        ><fs> add pool/disk protocol:rbd server:tcp:example.com:port
1180
1181   -a sheepdog://[example.com[:port]]/volume/image
1182       Add a disk image located on a Sheepdog volume.
1183
1184       The server name is optional.  Although libguestfs and Sheepdog supports
1185       multiple servers, only at most one server can be specified when using
1186       this URI syntax.
1187
1188       The equivalent API command would be:
1189
1190        ><fs> add volume protocol:sheepdog [server:tcp:example.com]
1191
1192   -a ssh://[user@]example.com[:port]/disk.img
1193       Add a disk image located on a remote server, accessed using the Secure
1194       Shell (ssh) SFTP protocol.  SFTP is supported out of the box by all
1195       major SSH servers.
1196
1197       The equivalent API command would be:
1198
1199        ><fs> add /disk protocol:ssh server:tcp:example.com [username:user]
1200
1201       Note that the URIs follow the syntax of RFC 3986: in particular, there
1202       are restrictions on the allowed characters for the various components
1203       of the URI.  Characters such as ":", "@", and "/" must be percent-
1204       encoded:
1205
1206        $ guestfish -a ssh://user:pass%40word@example.com/disk.img
1207
1208       In this case, the password is "pass@word".
1209

PROGRESS BARS

1211       Some (not all) long-running commands send progress notification
1212       messages as they are running.  Guestfish turns these messages into
1213       progress bars.
1214
1215       When a command that supports progress bars takes longer than two
1216       seconds to run, and if progress bars are enabled, then you will see one
1217       appearing below the command:
1218
1219        ><fs> copy-size /large-file /another-file 2048M
1220        / 10% [#####-----------------------------------------] 00:30
1221
1222       The spinner on the left hand side moves round once for every progress
1223       notification received from the backend.  This is a (reasonably) golden
1224       assurance that the command is "doing something" even if the progress
1225       bar is not moving, because the command is able to send the progress
1226       notifications.  When the bar reaches 100% and the command finishes, the
1227       spinner disappears.
1228
1229       Progress bars are enabled by default when guestfish is used
1230       interactively.  You can enable them even for non-interactive modes
1231       using --progress-bars, and you can disable them completely using
1232       --no-progress-bars.
1233

PROMPT

1235       You can change or add colours to the default prompt ("><fs>") by
1236       setting the "GUESTFISH_PS1" environment variable.  A second string
1237       ("GUESTFISH_OUTPUT") is printed after the command has been entered and
1238       before the output, allowing you to control the colour of the output.  A
1239       third string ("GUESTFISH_INIT") is printed before the welcome message,
1240       allowing you to control the colour of that message.  A fourth string
1241       ("GUESTFISH_RESTORE") is printed before guestfish exits.
1242
1243       A simple prompt can be set by setting "GUESTFISH_PS1" to an alternate
1244       string:
1245
1246        $ GUESTFISH_PS1='(type a command) '
1247        $ export GUESTFISH_PS1
1248        $ guestfish
1249        [...]
1250        (type a command) ▂
1251
1252       You can also use special escape sequences, as described in the table
1253       below:
1254
1255       \\  A literal backslash character.
1256
1257       \[
1258       \]  (These should only be used in "GUESTFISH_PS1".)
1259
1260           Place non-printing characters (eg. terminal control codes for
1261           colours) between "\[...\]".  What this does it to tell the
1262           readline(3) library that it should treat this subsequence as zero-
1263           width, so that command-line redisplay, editing etc works.
1264
1265       \a  A bell character.
1266
1267       \e  An ASCII ESC (escape) character.
1268
1269       \n  A newline.
1270
1271       \r  A carriage return.
1272
1273       \NNN
1274           The ASCII character whose code is the octal value NNN.
1275
1276       \xNN
1277           The ASCII character whose code is the hex value NN.
1278
1279   EXAMPLES OF PROMPTS
1280       Note that these examples require a terminal that supports ANSI escape
1281       codes.
1282
1283       ·
1284
1285
1286            GUESTFISH_PS1='\[\e[1;30m\]><fs>\[\e[0;30m\] '
1287
1288           A bold black version of the ordinary prompt.
1289
1290       ·
1291
1292
1293            GUESTFISH_PS1='\[\e[1;32m\]><fs>\[\e[0;31m\] '
1294            GUESTFISH_OUTPUT='\e[0m'
1295            GUESTFISH_RESTORE="$GUESTFISH_OUTPUT"
1296            GUESTFISH_INIT='\e[1;34m'
1297
1298           Blue welcome text, green prompt, red commands, black command
1299           output.
1300

WINDOWS 8

1302       Windows 8 "fast startup" can prevent guestfish from mounting NTFS
1303       partitions.  See "WINDOWS HIBERNATION AND WINDOWS 8 FAST STARTUP" in
1304       guestfs(3).
1305

GUESTFISH COMMANDS

1307       The commands in this section are guestfish convenience commands, in
1308       other words, they are not part of the guestfs(3) API.
1309
1310   help
1311        help
1312        help cmd
1313        help -l|--list
1314
1315       Without any parameter, this provides general help.
1316
1317       With a "cmd" parameter, this displays detailed help for that command.
1318
1319       With -l or --list, this list all commands.
1320
1321   exit
1322   quit
1323       This exits guestfish.  You can also use "^D" key.
1324
1325   alloc
1326   allocate
1327        alloc filename size
1328
1329       This creates an empty (zeroed) file of the given size, and then adds so
1330       it can be further examined.
1331
1332       For more advanced image creation, see "disk-create".
1333
1334       Size can be specified using standard suffixes, eg. "1M".
1335
1336       To create a sparse file, use "sparse" instead.  To create a prepared
1337       disk image, see "PREPARED DISK IMAGES".
1338
1339   copy-in
1340        copy-in local [local ...] /remotedir
1341
1342       "copy-in" copies local files or directories recursively into the disk
1343       image, placing them in the directory called /remotedir (which must
1344       exist).  This guestfish meta-command turns into a sequence of "tar-in"
1345       and other commands as necessary.
1346
1347       Multiple local files and directories can be specified, but the last
1348       parameter must always be a remote directory.  Wildcards cannot be used.
1349
1350   copy-out
1351        copy-out remote [remote ...] localdir
1352
1353       "copy-out" copies remote files or directories recursively out of the
1354       disk image, placing them on the host disk in a local directory called
1355       "localdir" (which must exist).  This guestfish meta-command turns into
1356       a sequence of "download", "tar-out" and other commands as necessary.
1357
1358       Multiple remote files and directories can be specified, but the last
1359       parameter must always be a local directory.  To download to the current
1360       directory, use "." as in:
1361
1362        copy-out /home .
1363
1364       Wildcards cannot be used in the ordinary command, but you can use them
1365       with the help of "glob" like this:
1366
1367        glob copy-out /home/* .
1368
1369   delete-event
1370        delete-event name
1371
1372       Delete the event handler which was previously registered as "name".  If
1373       multiple event handlers were registered with the same name, they are
1374       all deleted.
1375
1376       See also the guestfish commands "event" and "list-events".
1377
1378   display
1379        display filename
1380
1381       Use "display" (a graphical display program) to display an image file.
1382       It downloads the file, and runs "display" on it.
1383
1384       To use an alternative program, set the "GUESTFISH_DISPLAY_IMAGE"
1385       environment variable.  For example to use the GNOME display program:
1386
1387        export GUESTFISH_DISPLAY_IMAGE=eog
1388
1389       See also display(1).
1390
1391   echo
1392        echo [params ...]
1393
1394       This echos the parameters to the terminal.
1395
1396   edit
1397   vi
1398   emacs
1399        edit filename
1400
1401       This is used to edit a file.  It downloads the file, edits it locally
1402       using your editor, then uploads the result.
1403
1404       The editor is $EDITOR.  However if you use the alternate commands "vi"
1405       or "emacs" you will get those corresponding editors.
1406
1407   event
1408        event name eventset "shell script ..."
1409
1410       Register a shell script fragment which is executed when an event is
1411       raised.  See "guestfs_set_event_callback" in guestfs(3) for a
1412       discussion of the event API in libguestfs.
1413
1414       The "name" parameter is a name that you give to this event handler.  It
1415       can be any string (even the empty string) and is simply there so you
1416       can delete the handler using the guestfish "delete-event" command.
1417
1418       The "eventset" parameter is a comma-separated list of one or more
1419       events, for example "close" or "close,trace".  The special value "*"
1420       means all events.
1421
1422       The third and final parameter is the shell script fragment (or any
1423       external command) that is executed when any of the events in the
1424       eventset occurs.  It is executed using "$SHELL -c", or if $SHELL is not
1425       set then /bin/sh -c.
1426
1427       The shell script fragment receives callback parameters as arguments $1,
1428       $2 etc.  The actual event that was called is available in the
1429       environment variable $EVENT.
1430
1431        event "" close "echo closed"
1432        event messages appliance,library,trace "echo $@"
1433        event "" progress "echo progress: $3/$4"
1434        event "" * "echo $EVENT $@"
1435
1436       See also the guestfish commands "delete-event" and "list-events".
1437
1438   glob
1439        glob command args...
1440
1441       Expand wildcards in any paths in the args list, and run "command"
1442       repeatedly on each matching path.
1443
1444       See "WILDCARDS AND GLOBBING".
1445
1446   hexedit
1447        hexedit <filename|device>
1448        hexedit <filename|device> <max>
1449        hexedit <filename|device> <start> <max>
1450
1451       Use hexedit (a hex editor) to edit all or part of a binary file or
1452       block device.
1453
1454       This command works by downloading potentially the whole file or device,
1455       editing it locally, then uploading it.  If the file or device is large,
1456       you have to specify which part you wish to edit by using "max" and/or
1457       "start" "max" parameters.  "start" and "max" are specified in bytes,
1458       with the usual modifiers allowed such as "1M" (1 megabyte).
1459
1460       For example to edit the first few sectors of a disk you might do:
1461
1462        hexedit /dev/sda 1M
1463
1464       which would allow you to edit anywhere within the first megabyte of the
1465       disk.
1466
1467       To edit the superblock of an ext2 filesystem on /dev/sda1, do:
1468
1469        hexedit /dev/sda1 0x400 0x400
1470
1471       (assuming the superblock is in the standard location).
1472
1473       This command requires the external hexedit(1) program.  You can specify
1474       another program to use by setting the "HEXEDITOR" environment variable.
1475
1476       See also "hexdump".
1477
1478   lcd
1479        lcd directory
1480
1481       Change the local directory, ie. the current directory of guestfish
1482       itself.
1483
1484       Note that "!cd" won't do what you might expect.
1485
1486   list-events
1487        list-events
1488
1489       List the event handlers registered using the guestfish "event" command.
1490
1491   man
1492   manual
1493         man
1494
1495       Opens the manual page for guestfish.
1496
1497   more
1498   less
1499        more filename
1500
1501        less filename
1502
1503       This is used to view a file.
1504
1505       The default viewer is $PAGER.  However if you use the alternate command
1506       "less" you will get the "less" command specifically.
1507
1508   reopen
1509         reopen
1510
1511       Close and reopen the libguestfs handle.  It is not necessary to use
1512       this normally, because the handle is closed properly when guestfish
1513       exits.  However this is occasionally useful for testing.
1514
1515   setenv
1516         setenv VAR value
1517
1518       Set the environment variable "VAR" to the string "value".
1519
1520       To print the value of an environment variable use a shell command such
1521       as:
1522
1523        !echo $VAR
1524
1525   sparse
1526        sparse filename size
1527
1528       This creates an empty sparse file of the given size, and then adds so
1529       it can be further examined.
1530
1531       In all respects it works the same as the "alloc" command, except that
1532       the image file is allocated sparsely, which means that disk blocks are
1533       not assigned to the file until they are needed.  Sparse disk files only
1534       use space when written to, but they are slower and there is a danger
1535       you could run out of real disk space during a write operation.
1536
1537       For more advanced image creation, see "disk-create".
1538
1539       Size can be specified using standard suffixes, eg. "1M".
1540
1541       See also the guestfish "scratch" command.
1542
1543   supported
1544        supported
1545
1546       This command returns a list of the optional groups known to the daemon,
1547       and indicates which ones are supported by this build of the libguestfs
1548       appliance.
1549
1550       See also "AVAILABILITY" in guestfs(3).
1551
1552   time
1553        time command args...
1554
1555       Run the command as usual, but print the elapsed time afterwards.  This
1556       can be useful for benchmarking operations.
1557
1558   unsetenv
1559         unsetenv VAR
1560
1561       Remove "VAR" from the environment.
1562

COMMANDS

1564   acl-delete-def-file
1565        acl-delete-def-file dir
1566
1567       This function deletes the default POSIX Access Control List (ACL)
1568       attached to directory "dir".
1569
1570       This command depends on the feature "acl".   See also "feature-
1571       available".
1572
1573   acl-get-file
1574        acl-get-file path acltype
1575
1576       This function returns the POSIX Access Control List (ACL) attached to
1577       "path".  The ACL is returned in "long text form" (see acl(5)).
1578
1579       The "acltype" parameter may be:
1580
1581       "access"
1582           Return the ordinary (access) ACL for any file, directory or other
1583           filesystem object.
1584
1585       "default"
1586           Return the default ACL.  Normally this only makes sense if "path"
1587           is a directory.
1588
1589       This command depends on the feature "acl".   See also "feature-
1590       available".
1591
1592   acl-set-file
1593        acl-set-file path acltype acl
1594
1595       This function sets the POSIX Access Control List (ACL) attached to
1596       "path".
1597
1598       The "acltype" parameter may be:
1599
1600       "access"
1601           Set the ordinary (access) ACL for any file, directory or other
1602           filesystem object.
1603
1604       "default"
1605           Set the default ACL.  Normally this only makes sense if "path" is a
1606           directory.
1607
1608       The "acl" parameter is the new ACL in either "long text form" or "short
1609       text form" (see acl(5)).  The new ACL completely replaces any previous
1610       ACL on the file.  The ACL must contain the full Unix permissions (eg.
1611       "u::rwx,g::rx,o::rx").
1612
1613       If you are specifying individual users or groups, then the mask field
1614       is also required (eg. "m::rwx"), followed by the "u:ID:..." and/or
1615       "g:ID:..." field(s).  A full ACL string might therefore look like this:
1616
1617        u::rwx,g::rwx,o::rwx,m::rwx,u:500:rwx,g:500:rwx
1618        \ Unix permissions / \mask/ \      ACL        /
1619
1620       You should use numeric UIDs and GIDs.  To map usernames and groupnames
1621       to the correct numeric ID in the context of the guest, use the Augeas
1622       functions (see "aug-init").
1623
1624       This command depends on the feature "acl".   See also "feature-
1625       available".
1626
1627   add-cdrom
1628        add-cdrom filename
1629
1630       This function adds a virtual CD-ROM disk image to the guest.
1631
1632       The image is added as read-only drive, so this function is equivalent
1633       of "add-drive-ro".
1634
1635       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "add-drive-ro" call
1636       instead.
1637
1638       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
1639       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
1640       use of these functions.
1641
1642   add-domain
1643   domain
1644        add-domain dom [libvirturi:..] [readonly:true|false] [iface:..] [live:true|false] [allowuuid:true|false] [readonlydisk:..] [cachemode:..] [discard:..] [copyonread:true|false]
1645
1646       This function adds the disk(s) attached to the named libvirt domain
1647       "dom".  It works by connecting to libvirt, requesting the domain and
1648       domain XML from libvirt, parsing it for disks, and calling "add-drive-
1649       opts" on each one.
1650
1651       The number of disks added is returned.  This operation is atomic: if an
1652       error is returned, then no disks are added.
1653
1654       This function does some minimal checks to make sure the libvirt domain
1655       is not running (unless "readonly" is true).  In a future version we
1656       will try to acquire the libvirt lock on each disk.
1657
1658       Disks must be accessible locally.  This often means that adding disks
1659       from a remote libvirt connection (see http://libvirt.org/remote.html)
1660       will fail unless those disks are accessible via the same device path
1661       locally too.
1662
1663       The optional "libvirturi" parameter sets the libvirt URI (see
1664       http://libvirt.org/uri.html).  If this is not set then we connect to
1665       the default libvirt URI (or one set through an environment variable,
1666       see the libvirt documentation for full details).
1667
1668       The optional "live" flag controls whether this call will try to connect
1669       to a running virtual machine "guestfsd" process if it sees a suitable
1670       <channel> element in the libvirt XML definition.  The default (if the
1671       flag is omitted) is never to try.  See "ATTACHING TO RUNNING DAEMONS"
1672       in guestfs(3) for more information.
1673
1674       If the "allowuuid" flag is true (default is false) then a UUID may be
1675       passed instead of the domain name.  The "dom" string is treated as a
1676       UUID first and looked up, and if that lookup fails then we treat "dom"
1677       as a name as usual.
1678
1679       The optional "readonlydisk" parameter controls what we do for disks
1680       which are marked <readonly/> in the libvirt XML.  Possible values are:
1681
1682       readonlydisk = "error"
1683           If "readonly" is false:
1684
1685           The whole call is aborted with an error if any disk with the
1686           <readonly/> flag is found.
1687
1688           If "readonly" is true:
1689
1690           Disks with the <readonly/> flag are added read-only.
1691
1692       readonlydisk = "read"
1693           If "readonly" is false:
1694
1695           Disks with the <readonly/> flag are added read-only.  Other disks
1696           are added read/write.
1697
1698           If "readonly" is true:
1699
1700           Disks with the <readonly/> flag are added read-only.
1701
1702       readonlydisk = "write" (default)
1703           If "readonly" is false:
1704
1705           Disks with the <readonly/> flag are added read/write.
1706
1707           If "readonly" is true:
1708
1709           Disks with the <readonly/> flag are added read-only.
1710
1711       readonlydisk = "ignore"
1712           If "readonly" is true or false:
1713
1714           Disks with the <readonly/> flag are skipped.
1715
1716       The other optional parameters are passed directly through to "add-
1717       drive-opts".
1718
1719       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
1720       ARGUMENTS".
1721
1722   add-drive
1723   add
1724   add-drive-opts
1725        add-drive filename [readonly:true|false] [format:..] [iface:..] [name:..] [label:..] [protocol:..] [server:..] [username:..] [secret:..] [cachemode:..] [discard:..] [copyonread:true|false]
1726
1727       This function adds a disk image called filename to the handle.
1728       filename may be a regular host file or a host device.
1729
1730       When this function is called before "launch" (the usual case) then the
1731       first time you call this function, the disk appears in the API as
1732       /dev/sda, the second time as /dev/sdb, and so on.
1733
1734       In libguestfs ≥ 1.20 you can also call this function after launch (with
1735       some restrictions).  This is called "hotplugging".  When hotplugging,
1736       you must specify a "label" so that the new disk gets a predictable
1737       name.  For more information see "HOTPLUGGING" in guestfs(3).
1738
1739       You don't necessarily need to be root when using libguestfs.  However
1740       you obviously do need sufficient permissions to access the filename for
1741       whatever operations you want to perform (ie. read access if you just
1742       want to read the image or write access if you want to modify the
1743       image).
1744
1745       This call checks that filename exists.
1746
1747       filename may be the special string "/dev/null".  See "NULL DISKS" in
1748       guestfs(3).
1749
1750       The optional arguments are:
1751
1752       "readonly"
1753           If true then the image is treated as read-only.  Writes are still
1754           allowed, but they are stored in a temporary snapshot overlay which
1755           is discarded at the end.  The disk that you add is not modified.
1756
1757       "format"
1758           This forces the image format.  If you omit this (or use "add-drive"
1759           or "add-drive-ro") then the format is automatically detected.
1760           Possible formats include "raw" and "qcow2".
1761
1762           Automatic detection of the format opens you up to a potential
1763           security hole when dealing with untrusted raw-format images.  See
1764           CVE-2010-3851 and RHBZ#642934.  Specifying the format closes this
1765           security hole.
1766
1767       "iface"
1768           This rarely-used option lets you emulate the behaviour of the
1769           deprecated "add-drive-with-if" call (q.v.)
1770
1771       "name"
1772           The name the drive had in the original guest, e.g. /dev/sdb.  This
1773           is used as a hint to the guest inspection process if it is
1774           available.
1775
1776       "label"
1777           Give the disk a label.  The label should be a unique, short string
1778           using only ASCII characters "[a-zA-Z]".  As well as its usual name
1779           in the API (such as /dev/sda), the drive will also be named
1780           /dev/disk/guestfs/label.
1781
1782           See "DISK LABELS" in guestfs(3).
1783
1784       "protocol"
1785           The optional protocol argument can be used to select an alternate
1786           source protocol.
1787
1788           See also: "REMOTE STORAGE" in guestfs(3).
1789
1790           "protocol = "file""
1791               filename is interpreted as a local file or device.  This is the
1792               default if the optional protocol parameter is omitted.
1793
1794           "protocol = "ftp"|"ftps"|"http"|"https"|"tftp""
1795               Connect to a remote FTP, HTTP or TFTP server.  The "server"
1796               parameter must also be supplied - see below.
1797
1798               See also: "FTP, HTTP AND TFTP" in guestfs(3)
1799
1800           "protocol = "gluster""
1801               Connect to the GlusterFS server.  The "server" parameter must
1802               also be supplied - see below.
1803
1804               See also: "GLUSTER" in guestfs(3)
1805
1806           "protocol = "iscsi""
1807               Connect to the iSCSI server.  The "server" parameter must also
1808               be supplied - see below.  The "username" parameter may be
1809               supplied.  See below.  The "secret" parameter may be supplied.
1810               See below.
1811
1812               See also: "ISCSI" in guestfs(3).
1813
1814           "protocol = "nbd""
1815               Connect to the Network Block Device server.  The "server"
1816               parameter must also be supplied - see below.
1817
1818               See also: "NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE" in guestfs(3).
1819
1820           "protocol = "rbd""
1821               Connect to the Ceph (librbd/RBD) server.  The "server"
1822               parameter must also be supplied - see below.  The "username"
1823               parameter may be supplied.  See below.  The "secret" parameter
1824               may be supplied.  See below.
1825
1826               See also: "CEPH" in guestfs(3).
1827
1828           "protocol = "sheepdog""
1829               Connect to the Sheepdog server.  The "server" parameter may
1830               also be supplied - see below.
1831
1832               See also: "SHEEPDOG" in guestfs(3).
1833
1834           "protocol = "ssh""
1835               Connect to the Secure Shell (ssh) server.
1836
1837               The "server" parameter must be supplied.  The "username"
1838               parameter may be supplied.  See below.
1839
1840               See also: "SSH" in guestfs(3).
1841
1842       "server"
1843           For protocols which require access to a remote server, this is a
1844           list of server(s).
1845
1846            Protocol       Number of servers required
1847            --------       --------------------------
1848            file           List must be empty or param not used at all
1849            ftp|ftps|http|https|tftp  Exactly one
1850            gluster        Exactly one
1851            iscsi          Exactly one
1852            nbd            Exactly one
1853            rbd            Zero or more
1854            sheepdog       Zero or more
1855            ssh            Exactly one
1856
1857           Each list element is a string specifying a server.  The string must
1858           be in one of the following formats:
1859
1860            hostname
1861            hostname:port
1862            tcp:hostname
1863            tcp:hostname:port
1864            unix:/path/to/socket
1865
1866           If the port number is omitted, then the standard port number for
1867           the protocol is used (see /etc/services).
1868
1869       "username"
1870           For the "ftp", "ftps", "http", "https", "iscsi", "rbd", "ssh" and
1871           "tftp" protocols, this specifies the remote username.
1872
1873           If not given, then the local username is used for "ssh", and no
1874           authentication is attempted for ceph.  But note this sometimes may
1875           give unexpected results, for example if using the libvirt backend
1876           and if the libvirt backend is configured to start the qemu
1877           appliance as a special user such as "qemu.qemu".  If in doubt,
1878           specify the remote username you want.
1879
1880       "secret"
1881           For the "rbd" protocol only, this specifies the ‘secret’ to use
1882           when connecting to the remote device.  It must be base64 encoded.
1883
1884           If not given, then a secret matching the given username will be
1885           looked up in the default keychain locations, or if no username is
1886           given, then no authentication will be used.
1887
1888       "cachemode"
1889           Choose whether or not libguestfs will obey sync operations (safe
1890           but slow) or not (unsafe but fast).  The possible values for this
1891           string are:
1892
1893           "cachemode = "writeback""
1894               This is the default.
1895
1896               Write operations in the API do not return until a write(2) call
1897               has completed in the host [but note this does not imply that
1898               anything gets written to disk].
1899
1900               Sync operations in the API, including implicit syncs caused by
1901               filesystem journalling, will not return until an fdatasync(2)
1902               call has completed in the host, indicating that data has been
1903               committed to disk.
1904
1905           "cachemode = "unsafe""
1906               In this mode, there are no guarantees.  Libguestfs may cache
1907               anything and ignore sync requests.  This is suitable only for
1908               scratch or temporary disks.
1909
1910       "discard"
1911           Enable or disable discard (a.k.a. trim or unmap) support on this
1912           drive.  If enabled, operations such as "fstrim" will be able to
1913           discard / make thin / punch holes in the underlying host file or
1914           device.
1915
1916           Possible discard settings are:
1917
1918           "discard = "disable""
1919               Disable discard support.  This is the default.
1920
1921           "discard = "enable""
1922               Enable discard support.  Fail if discard is not possible.
1923
1924           "discard = "besteffort""
1925               Enable discard support if possible, but don't fail if it is not
1926               supported.
1927
1928               Since not all backends and not all underlying systems support
1929               discard, this is a good choice if you want to use discard if
1930               possible, but don't mind if it doesn't work.
1931
1932       "copyonread"
1933           The boolean parameter "copyonread" enables copy-on-read support.
1934           This only affects disk formats which have backing files, and causes
1935           reads to be stored in the overlay layer, speeding up multiple reads
1936           of the same area of disk.
1937
1938           The default is false.
1939
1940       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
1941       ARGUMENTS".
1942
1943   add-drive-ro
1944   add-ro
1945        add-drive-ro filename
1946
1947       This function is the equivalent of calling "add-drive-opts" with the
1948       optional parameter "GUESTFS_ADD_DRIVE_OPTS_READONLY" set to 1, so the
1949       disk is added read-only, with the format being detected automatically.
1950
1951   add-drive-ro-with-if
1952        add-drive-ro-with-if filename iface
1953
1954       This is the same as "add-drive-ro" but it allows you to specify the
1955       QEMU interface emulation to use at run time.
1956
1957       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "add-drive" call
1958       instead.
1959
1960       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
1961       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
1962       use of these functions.
1963
1964   add-drive-scratch
1965   scratch
1966        add-drive-scratch size [name:..] [label:..]
1967
1968       This command adds a temporary scratch drive to the handle.  The "size"
1969       parameter is the virtual size (in bytes).  The scratch drive is blank
1970       initially (all reads return zeroes until you start writing to it).  The
1971       drive is deleted when the handle is closed.
1972
1973       The optional arguments "name" and "label" are passed through to "add-
1974       drive".
1975
1976       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
1977       ARGUMENTS".
1978
1979   add-drive-with-if
1980        add-drive-with-if filename iface
1981
1982       This is the same as "add-drive" but it allows you to specify the QEMU
1983       interface emulation to use at run time.
1984
1985       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "add-drive" call
1986       instead.
1987
1988       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
1989       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
1990       use of these functions.
1991
1992   aug-clear
1993        aug-clear augpath
1994
1995       Set the value associated with "path" to "NULL".  This is the same as
1996       the augtool(1) "clear" command.
1997
1998   aug-close
1999        aug-close
2000
2001       Close the current Augeas handle and free up any resources used by it.
2002       After calling this, you have to call "aug-init" again before you can
2003       use any other Augeas functions.
2004
2005   aug-defnode
2006        aug-defnode name expr val
2007
2008       Defines a variable "name" whose value is the result of evaluating
2009       "expr".
2010
2011       If "expr" evaluates to an empty nodeset, a node is created, equivalent
2012       to calling "aug-set" "expr", "value".  "name" will be the nodeset
2013       containing that single node.
2014
2015       On success this returns a pair containing the number of nodes in the
2016       nodeset, and a boolean flag if a node was created.
2017
2018   aug-defvar
2019        aug-defvar name expr
2020
2021       Defines an Augeas variable "name" whose value is the result of
2022       evaluating "expr".  If "expr" is NULL, then "name" is undefined.
2023
2024       On success this returns the number of nodes in "expr", or 0 if "expr"
2025       evaluates to something which is not a nodeset.
2026
2027   aug-get
2028        aug-get augpath
2029
2030       Look up the value associated with "path".  If "path" matches exactly
2031       one node, the "value" is returned.
2032
2033   aug-init
2034        aug-init root flags
2035
2036       Create a new Augeas handle for editing configuration files.  If there
2037       was any previous Augeas handle associated with this guestfs session,
2038       then it is closed.
2039
2040       You must call this before using any other "aug-*" commands.
2041
2042       "root" is the filesystem root.  "root" must not be NULL, use / instead.
2043
2044       The flags are the same as the flags defined in <augeas.h>, the logical
2045       or of the following integers:
2046
2047       "AUG_SAVE_BACKUP" = 1
2048           Keep the original file with a ".augsave" extension.
2049
2050       "AUG_SAVE_NEWFILE" = 2
2051           Save changes into a file with extension ".augnew", and do not
2052           overwrite original.  Overrides "AUG_SAVE_BACKUP".
2053
2054       "AUG_TYPE_CHECK" = 4
2055           Typecheck lenses.
2056
2057           This option is only useful when debugging Augeas lenses.  Use of
2058           this option may require additional memory for the libguestfs
2059           appliance.  You may need to set the "LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE"
2060           environment variable or call "set-memsize".
2061
2062       "AUG_NO_STDINC" = 8
2063           Do not use standard load path for modules.
2064
2065       "AUG_SAVE_NOOP" = 16
2066           Make save a no-op, just record what would have been changed.
2067
2068       "AUG_NO_LOAD" = 32
2069           Do not load the tree in "aug-init".
2070
2071       To close the handle, you can call "aug-close".
2072
2073       To find out more about Augeas, see http://augeas.net/.
2074
2075   aug-insert
2076        aug-insert augpath label true|false
2077
2078       Create a new sibling "label" for "path", inserting it into the tree
2079       before or after "path" (depending on the boolean flag "before").
2080
2081       "path" must match exactly one existing node in the tree, and "label"
2082       must be a label, ie. not contain /, "*" or end with a bracketed index
2083       "[N]".
2084
2085   aug-label
2086        aug-label augpath
2087
2088       The label (name of the last element) of the Augeas path expression
2089       "augpath" is returned.  "augpath" must match exactly one node, else
2090       this function returns an error.
2091
2092   aug-load
2093        aug-load
2094
2095       Load files into the tree.
2096
2097       See "aug_load" in the Augeas documentation for the full gory details.
2098
2099   aug-ls
2100        aug-ls augpath
2101
2102       This is just a shortcut for listing "aug-match" "path/*" and sorting
2103       the resulting nodes into alphabetical order.
2104
2105   aug-match
2106        aug-match augpath
2107
2108       Returns a list of paths which match the path expression "path".  The
2109       returned paths are sufficiently qualified so that they match exactly
2110       one node in the current tree.
2111
2112   aug-mv
2113        aug-mv src dest
2114
2115       Move the node "src" to "dest".  "src" must match exactly one node.
2116       "dest" is overwritten if it exists.
2117
2118   aug-rm
2119        aug-rm augpath
2120
2121       Remove "path" and all of its children.
2122
2123       On success this returns the number of entries which were removed.
2124
2125   aug-save
2126        aug-save
2127
2128       This writes all pending changes to disk.
2129
2130       The flags which were passed to "aug-init" affect exactly how files are
2131       saved.
2132
2133   aug-set
2134        aug-set augpath val
2135
2136       Set the value associated with "path" to "val".
2137
2138       In the Augeas API, it is possible to clear a node by setting the value
2139       to NULL.  Due to an oversight in the libguestfs API you cannot do that
2140       with this call.  Instead you must use the "aug-clear" call.
2141
2142   aug-setm
2143        aug-setm base sub val
2144
2145       Change multiple Augeas nodes in a single operation.  "base" is an
2146       expression matching multiple nodes.  "sub" is a path expression
2147       relative to "base".  All nodes matching "base" are found, and then for
2148       each node, "sub" is changed to "val".  "sub" may also be "NULL" in
2149       which case the "base" nodes are modified.
2150
2151       This returns the number of nodes modified.
2152
2153   aug-transform
2154        aug-transform lens file [remove:true|false]
2155
2156       Add an Augeas transformation for the specified "lens" so it can handle
2157       "file".
2158
2159       If "remove" is true ("false" by default), then the transformation is
2160       removed.
2161
2162       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2163       ARGUMENTS".
2164
2165   available
2166        available 'groups ...'
2167
2168       This command is used to check the availability of some groups of
2169       functionality in the appliance, which not all builds of the libguestfs
2170       appliance will be able to provide.
2171
2172       The libguestfs groups, and the functions that those groups correspond
2173       to, are listed in "AVAILABILITY" in guestfs(3).  You can also fetch
2174       this list at runtime by calling "available-all-groups".
2175
2176       The argument "groups" is a list of group names, eg: "["inotify",
2177       "augeas"]" would check for the availability of the Linux inotify
2178       functions and Augeas (configuration file editing) functions.
2179
2180       The command returns no error if all requested groups are available.
2181
2182       It fails with an error if one or more of the requested groups is
2183       unavailable in the appliance.
2184
2185       If an unknown group name is included in the list of groups then an
2186       error is always returned.
2187
2188       Notes:
2189
2190       ·   "feature-available" is the same as this call, but with a slightly
2191           simpler to use API: that call returns a boolean true/false instead
2192           of throwing an error.
2193
2194       ·   You must call "launch" before calling this function.
2195
2196           The reason is because we don't know what groups are supported by
2197           the appliance/daemon until it is running and can be queried.
2198
2199       ·   If a group of functions is available, this does not necessarily
2200           mean that they will work.  You still have to check for errors when
2201           calling individual API functions even if they are available.
2202
2203       ·   It is usually the job of distro packagers to build complete
2204           functionality into the libguestfs appliance.  Upstream libguestfs,
2205           if built from source with all requirements satisfied, will support
2206           everything.
2207
2208       ·   This call was added in version 1.0.80.  In previous versions of
2209           libguestfs all you could do would be to speculatively execute a
2210           command to find out if the daemon implemented it.  See also
2211           "version".
2212
2213       See also "filesystem-available".
2214
2215   available-all-groups
2216        available-all-groups
2217
2218       This command returns a list of all optional groups that this daemon
2219       knows about.  Note this returns both supported and unsupported groups.
2220       To find out which ones the daemon can actually support you have to call
2221       "available" / "feature-available" on each member of the returned list.
2222
2223       See also "available", "feature-available" and "AVAILABILITY" in
2224       guestfs(3).
2225
2226   base64-in
2227        base64-in (base64file|-) filename
2228
2229       This command uploads base64-encoded data from "base64file" to filename.
2230
2231       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
2232
2233   base64-out
2234        base64-out filename (base64file|-)
2235
2236       This command downloads the contents of filename, writing it out to
2237       local file "base64file" encoded as base64.
2238
2239       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
2240
2241   blkdiscard
2242        blkdiscard device
2243
2244       This discards all blocks on the block device "device", giving the free
2245       space back to the host.
2246
2247       This operation requires support in libguestfs, the host filesystem,
2248       qemu and the host kernel.  If this support isn't present it may give an
2249       error or even appear to run but do nothing.  You must also set the
2250       "discard" attribute on the underlying drive (see "add-drive-opts").
2251
2252       This command depends on the feature "blkdiscard".   See also "feature-
2253       available".
2254
2255   blkdiscardzeroes
2256        blkdiscardzeroes device
2257
2258       This call returns true if blocks on "device" that have been discarded
2259       by a call to "blkdiscard" are returned as blocks of zero bytes when
2260       read the next time.
2261
2262       If it returns false, then it may be that discarded blocks are read as
2263       stale or random data.
2264
2265       This command depends on the feature "blkdiscardzeroes".   See also
2266       "feature-available".
2267
2268   blkid
2269        blkid device
2270
2271       This command returns block device attributes for "device". The
2272       following fields are usually present in the returned hash. Other fields
2273       may also be present.
2274
2275       "UUID"
2276           The uuid of this device.
2277
2278       "LABEL"
2279           The label of this device.
2280
2281       "VERSION"
2282           The version of blkid command.
2283
2284       "TYPE"
2285           The filesystem type or RAID of this device.
2286
2287       "USAGE"
2288           The usage of this device, for example "filesystem" or "raid".
2289
2290   blockdev-flushbufs
2291        blockdev-flushbufs device
2292
2293       This tells the kernel to flush internal buffers associated with
2294       "device".
2295
2296       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2297
2298   blockdev-getbsz
2299        blockdev-getbsz device
2300
2301       This returns the block size of a device.
2302
2303       Note: this is different from both size in blocks and filesystem block
2304       size.  Also this setting is not really used by anything.  You should
2305       probably not use it for anything.  Filesystems have their own idea
2306       about what block size to choose.
2307
2308       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2309
2310   blockdev-getro
2311        blockdev-getro device
2312
2313       Returns a boolean indicating if the block device is read-only (true if
2314       read-only, false if not).
2315
2316       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2317
2318   blockdev-getsize64
2319        blockdev-getsize64 device
2320
2321       This returns the size of the device in bytes.
2322
2323       See also "blockdev-getsz".
2324
2325       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2326
2327   blockdev-getss
2328        blockdev-getss device
2329
2330       This returns the size of sectors on a block device.  Usually 512, but
2331       can be larger for modern devices.
2332
2333       (Note, this is not the size in sectors, use "blockdev-getsz" for that).
2334
2335       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2336
2337   blockdev-getsz
2338        blockdev-getsz device
2339
2340       This returns the size of the device in units of 512-byte sectors (even
2341       if the sectorsize isn't 512 bytes ... weird).
2342
2343       See also "blockdev-getss" for the real sector size of the device, and
2344       "blockdev-getsize64" for the more useful size in bytes.
2345
2346       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2347
2348   blockdev-rereadpt
2349        blockdev-rereadpt device
2350
2351       Reread the partition table on "device".
2352
2353       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2354
2355   blockdev-setbsz
2356        blockdev-setbsz device blocksize
2357
2358       This call does nothing and has never done anything because of a bug in
2359       blockdev.  Do not use it.
2360
2361       If you need to set the filesystem block size, use the "blocksize"
2362       option of "mkfs".
2363
2364       This function is deprecated.  There is no replacement.  Consult the API
2365       documentation in guestfs(3) for further information.
2366
2367       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
2368       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
2369       use of these functions.
2370
2371   blockdev-setra
2372        blockdev-setra device sectors
2373
2374       Set readahead (in 512-byte sectors) for the device.
2375
2376       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2377
2378   blockdev-setro
2379        blockdev-setro device
2380
2381       Sets the block device named "device" to read-only.
2382
2383       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2384
2385   blockdev-setrw
2386        blockdev-setrw device
2387
2388       Sets the block device named "device" to read-write.
2389
2390       This uses the blockdev(8) command.
2391
2392   btrfs-balance-cancel
2393        btrfs-balance-cancel path
2394
2395       Cancel a running balance on a btrfs filesystem.
2396
2397       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2398       available".
2399
2400   btrfs-balance-pause
2401        btrfs-balance-pause path
2402
2403       Pause a running balance on a btrfs filesystem.
2404
2405       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2406       available".
2407
2408   btrfs-balance-resume
2409        btrfs-balance-resume path
2410
2411       Resume a paused balance on a btrfs filesystem.
2412
2413       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2414       available".
2415
2416   btrfs-balance-status
2417        btrfs-balance-status path
2418
2419       Show the status of a running or paused balance on a btrfs filesystem.
2420
2421       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2422       available".
2423
2424   btrfs-device-add
2425        btrfs-device-add 'devices ...' fs
2426
2427       Add the list of device(s) in "devices" to the btrfs filesystem mounted
2428       at "fs".  If "devices" is an empty list, this does nothing.
2429
2430       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2431       available".
2432
2433   btrfs-device-delete
2434        btrfs-device-delete 'devices ...' fs
2435
2436       Remove the "devices" from the btrfs filesystem mounted at "fs".  If
2437       "devices" is an empty list, this does nothing.
2438
2439       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2440       available".
2441
2442   btrfs-filesystem-balance
2443   btrfs-balance
2444        btrfs-filesystem-balance fs
2445
2446       Balance the chunks in the btrfs filesystem mounted at "fs" across the
2447       underlying devices.
2448
2449       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2450       available".
2451
2452   btrfs-filesystem-defragment
2453        btrfs-filesystem-defragment path [flush:true|false] [compress:..]
2454
2455       Defragment a file or directory on a btrfs filesystem. compress is one
2456       of zlib or lzo.
2457
2458       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2459       ARGUMENTS".
2460
2461       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2462       available".
2463
2464   btrfs-filesystem-resize
2465        btrfs-filesystem-resize mountpoint [size:N]
2466
2467       This command resizes a btrfs filesystem.
2468
2469       Note that unlike other resize calls, the filesystem has to be mounted
2470       and the parameter is the mountpoint not the device (this is a
2471       requirement of btrfs itself).
2472
2473       The optional parameters are:
2474
2475       "size"
2476           The new size (in bytes) of the filesystem.  If omitted, the
2477           filesystem is resized to the maximum size.
2478
2479       See also btrfs(8).
2480
2481       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2482       ARGUMENTS".
2483
2484       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2485       available".
2486
2487   btrfs-filesystem-show
2488        btrfs-filesystem-show device
2489
2490       Show all the devices where the filesystems in "device" is spanned over.
2491
2492       If not all the devices for the filesystems are present, then this
2493       function fails and the "errno" is set to "ENODEV".
2494
2495       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2496       available".
2497
2498   btrfs-filesystem-sync
2499        btrfs-filesystem-sync fs
2500
2501       Force sync on the btrfs filesystem mounted at "fs".
2502
2503       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2504       available".
2505
2506   btrfs-fsck
2507        btrfs-fsck device [superblock:N] [repair:true|false]
2508
2509       Used to check a btrfs filesystem, "device" is the device file where the
2510       filesystem is stored.
2511
2512       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2513       ARGUMENTS".
2514
2515       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2516       available".
2517
2518   btrfs-image
2519        btrfs-image 'source ...' image [compresslevel:N]
2520
2521       This is used to create an image of a btrfs filesystem.  All data will
2522       be zeroed, but metadata and the like is preserved.
2523
2524       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2525       ARGUMENTS".
2526
2527       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2528       available".
2529
2530   btrfs-qgroup-assign
2531        btrfs-qgroup-assign src dst path
2532
2533       Add qgroup "src" to parent qgroup "dst". This command can group several
2534       qgroups into a parent qgroup to share common limit.
2535
2536       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2537       available".
2538
2539   btrfs-qgroup-create
2540        btrfs-qgroup-create qgroupid subvolume
2541
2542       Create a quota group (qgroup) for subvolume at "subvolume".
2543
2544       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2545       available".
2546
2547   btrfs-qgroup-destroy
2548        btrfs-qgroup-destroy qgroupid subvolume
2549
2550       Destroy a quota group.
2551
2552       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2553       available".
2554
2555   btrfs-qgroup-limit
2556        btrfs-qgroup-limit subvolume size
2557
2558       Limit the size of the subvolume with path "subvolume".
2559
2560       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2561       available".
2562
2563   btrfs-qgroup-remove
2564        btrfs-qgroup-remove src dst path
2565
2566       Remove qgroup "src" from the parent qgroup "dst".
2567
2568       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2569       available".
2570
2571   btrfs-qgroup-show
2572        btrfs-qgroup-show path
2573
2574       Show all subvolume quota groups in a btrfs filesystem, including their
2575       usages.
2576
2577       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2578       available".
2579
2580   btrfs-quota-enable
2581        btrfs-quota-enable fs true|false
2582
2583       Enable or disable subvolume quota support for filesystem which contains
2584       "path".
2585
2586       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2587       available".
2588
2589   btrfs-quota-rescan
2590        btrfs-quota-rescan fs
2591
2592       Trash all qgroup numbers and scan the metadata again with the current
2593       config.
2594
2595       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2596       available".
2597
2598   btrfs-replace
2599        btrfs-replace srcdev targetdev mntpoint
2600
2601       Replace device of a btrfs filesystem. On a live filesystem, duplicate
2602       the data to the target device which is currently stored on the source
2603       device.  After completion of the operation, the source device is wiped
2604       out and removed from the filesystem.
2605
2606       The "targetdev" needs to be same size or larger than the "srcdev".
2607       Devices which are currently mounted are never allowed to be used as the
2608       "targetdev".
2609
2610       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2611       available".
2612
2613   btrfs-rescue-chunk-recover
2614        btrfs-rescue-chunk-recover device
2615
2616       Recover the chunk tree of btrfs filesystem by scanning the devices one
2617       by one.
2618
2619       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2620       available".
2621
2622   btrfs-rescue-super-recover
2623        btrfs-rescue-super-recover device
2624
2625       Recover bad superblocks from good copies.
2626
2627       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2628       available".
2629
2630   btrfs-scrub-cancel
2631        btrfs-scrub-cancel path
2632
2633       Cancel a running scrub on a btrfs filesystem.
2634
2635       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2636       available".
2637
2638   btrfs-scrub-resume
2639        btrfs-scrub-resume path
2640
2641       Resume a previously canceled or interrupted scrub on a btrfs
2642       filesystem.
2643
2644       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2645       available".
2646
2647   btrfs-scrub-start
2648        btrfs-scrub-start path
2649
2650       Reads all the data and metadata on the filesystem, and uses checksums
2651       and the duplicate copies from RAID storage to identify and repair any
2652       corrupt data.
2653
2654       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2655       available".
2656
2657   btrfs-scrub-status
2658        btrfs-scrub-status path
2659
2660       Show status of running or finished scrub on a btrfs filesystem.
2661
2662       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2663       available".
2664
2665   btrfs-set-seeding
2666        btrfs-set-seeding device true|false
2667
2668       Enable or disable the seeding feature of a device that contains a btrfs
2669       filesystem.
2670
2671       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2672       available".
2673
2674   btrfs-subvolume-create
2675   btrfs-subvolume-create-opts
2676        btrfs-subvolume-create dest [qgroupid:..]
2677
2678       Create a btrfs subvolume.  The "dest" argument is the destination
2679       directory and the name of the subvolume, in the form
2680       /path/to/dest/name.  The optional parameter "qgroupid" represents the
2681       qgroup which the newly created subvolume will be added to.
2682
2683       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2684       ARGUMENTS".
2685
2686       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2687       available".
2688
2689   btrfs-subvolume-delete
2690        btrfs-subvolume-delete subvolume
2691
2692       Delete the named btrfs subvolume or snapshot.
2693
2694       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2695       available".
2696
2697   btrfs-subvolume-get-default
2698        btrfs-subvolume-get-default fs
2699
2700       Get the default subvolume or snapshot of a filesystem mounted at
2701       "mountpoint".
2702
2703       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2704       available".
2705
2706   btrfs-subvolume-list
2707        btrfs-subvolume-list fs
2708
2709       List the btrfs snapshots and subvolumes of the btrfs filesystem which
2710       is mounted at "fs".
2711
2712       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2713       available".
2714
2715   btrfs-subvolume-set-default
2716        btrfs-subvolume-set-default id fs
2717
2718       Set the subvolume of the btrfs filesystem "fs" which will be mounted by
2719       default.  See "btrfs-subvolume-list" to get a list of subvolumes.
2720
2721       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2722       available".
2723
2724   btrfs-subvolume-show
2725        btrfs-subvolume-show subvolume
2726
2727       Return detailed information of the subvolume.
2728
2729       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2730       available".
2731
2732   btrfs-subvolume-snapshot
2733   btrfs-subvolume-snapshot-opts
2734        btrfs-subvolume-snapshot source dest [ro:true|false] [qgroupid:..]
2735
2736       Create a snapshot of the btrfs subvolume "source".  The "dest" argument
2737       is the destination directory and the name of the snapshot, in the form
2738       /path/to/dest/name. By default the newly created snapshot is writable,
2739       if the value of optional parameter "ro" is true, then a readonly
2740       snapshot is created. The optional parameter "qgroupid" represents the
2741       qgroup which the newly created snapshot will be added to.
2742
2743       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
2744       ARGUMENTS".
2745
2746       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2747       available".
2748
2749   btrfstune-enable-extended-inode-refs
2750        btrfstune-enable-extended-inode-refs device
2751
2752       This will Enable extended inode refs.
2753
2754       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2755       available".
2756
2757   btrfstune-enable-skinny-metadata-extent-refs
2758        btrfstune-enable-skinny-metadata-extent-refs device
2759
2760       This enable skinny metadata extent refs.
2761
2762       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2763       available".
2764
2765   btrfstune-seeding
2766        btrfstune-seeding device true|false
2767
2768       Enable seeding of a btrfs device, this will force a fs readonly so that
2769       you can use it to build other filesystems.
2770
2771       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
2772       available".
2773
2774   c-pointer
2775        c-pointer
2776
2777       In non-C language bindings, this allows you to retrieve the underlying
2778       C pointer to the handle (ie. "h *").  The purpose of this is to allow
2779       other libraries to interwork with libguestfs.
2780
2781   canonical-device-name
2782        canonical-device-name device
2783
2784       This utility function is useful when displaying device names to the
2785       user.  It takes a number of irregular device names and returns them in
2786       a consistent format:
2787
2788       /dev/hdX
2789       /dev/vdX
2790           These are returned as /dev/sdX.  Note this works for device names
2791           and partition names.  This is approximately the reverse of the
2792           algorithm described in "BLOCK DEVICE NAMING" in guestfs(3).
2793
2794       /dev/mapper/VG-LV
2795       /dev/dm-N
2796           Converted to /dev/VG/LV form using "lvm-canonical-lv-name".
2797
2798       Other strings are returned unmodified.
2799
2800   cap-get-file
2801        cap-get-file path
2802
2803       This function returns the Linux capabilities attached to "path".  The
2804       capabilities set is returned in text form (see cap_to_text(3)).
2805
2806       If no capabilities are attached to a file, an empty string is returned.
2807
2808       This command depends on the feature "linuxcaps".   See also "feature-
2809       available".
2810
2811   cap-set-file
2812        cap-set-file path cap
2813
2814       This function sets the Linux capabilities attached to "path".  The
2815       capabilities set "cap" should be passed in text form (see
2816       cap_from_text(3)).
2817
2818       This command depends on the feature "linuxcaps".   See also "feature-
2819       available".
2820
2821   case-sensitive-path
2822        case-sensitive-path path
2823
2824       This can be used to resolve case insensitive paths on a filesystem
2825       which is case sensitive.  The use case is to resolve paths which you
2826       have read from Windows configuration files or the Windows Registry, to
2827       the true path.
2828
2829       The command handles a peculiarity of the Linux ntfs-3g filesystem
2830       driver (and probably others), which is that although the underlying
2831       filesystem is case-insensitive, the driver exports the filesystem to
2832       Linux as case-sensitive.
2833
2834       One consequence of this is that special directories such as C:\windows
2835       may appear as /WINDOWS or /windows (or other things) depending on the
2836       precise details of how they were created.  In Windows itself this would
2837       not be a problem.
2838
2839       Bug or feature?  You decide:
2840       http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#posixfilenames1
2841
2842       "case-sensitive-path" attempts to resolve the true case of each element
2843       in the path. It will return a resolved path if either the full path or
2844       its parent directory exists. If the parent directory exists but the
2845       full path does not, the case of the parent directory will be correctly
2846       resolved, and the remainder appended unmodified. For example, if the
2847       file "/Windows/System32/netkvm.sys" exists:
2848
2849       "case-sensitive-path" ("/windows/system32/netkvm.sys")
2850           "Windows/System32/netkvm.sys"
2851
2852       "case-sensitive-path" ("/windows/system32/NoSuchFile")
2853           "Windows/System32/NoSuchFile"
2854
2855       "case-sensitive-path" ("/windows/system33/netkvm.sys")
2856           ERROR
2857
2858       Note: Because of the above behaviour, "case-sensitive-path" cannot be
2859       used to check for the existence of a file.
2860
2861       Note: This function does not handle drive names, backslashes etc.
2862
2863       See also "realpath".
2864
2865   cat
2866        cat path
2867
2868       Return the contents of the file named "path".
2869
2870       Because, in C, this function returns a "char *", there is no way to
2871       differentiate between a "\0" character in a file and end of string.  To
2872       handle binary files, use the "read-file" or "download" functions.
2873
2874   checksum
2875        checksum csumtype path
2876
2877       This call computes the MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of the file named
2878       "path".
2879
2880       The type of checksum to compute is given by the "csumtype" parameter
2881       which must have one of the following values:
2882
2883       "crc"
2884           Compute the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) specified by POSIX for
2885           the "cksum" command.
2886
2887       "md5"
2888           Compute the MD5 hash (using the "md5sum" program).
2889
2890       "sha1"
2891           Compute the SHA1 hash (using the "sha1sum" program).
2892
2893       "sha224"
2894           Compute the SHA224 hash (using the "sha224sum" program).
2895
2896       "sha256"
2897           Compute the SHA256 hash (using the "sha256sum" program).
2898
2899       "sha384"
2900           Compute the SHA384 hash (using the "sha384sum" program).
2901
2902       "sha512"
2903           Compute the SHA512 hash (using the "sha512sum" program).
2904
2905       The checksum is returned as a printable string.
2906
2907       To get the checksum for a device, use "checksum-device".
2908
2909       To get the checksums for many files, use "checksums-out".
2910
2911   checksum-device
2912        checksum-device csumtype device
2913
2914       This call computes the MD5, SHAx or CRC checksum of the contents of the
2915       device named "device".  For the types of checksums supported see the
2916       "checksum" command.
2917
2918   checksums-out
2919        checksums-out csumtype directory (sumsfile|-)
2920
2921       This command computes the checksums of all regular files in directory
2922       and then emits a list of those checksums to the local output file
2923       "sumsfile".
2924
2925       This can be used for verifying the integrity of a virtual machine.
2926       However to be properly secure you should pay attention to the output of
2927       the checksum command (it uses the ones from GNU coreutils).  In
2928       particular when the filename is not printable, coreutils uses a special
2929       backslash syntax.  For more information, see the GNU coreutils info
2930       file.
2931
2932       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
2933
2934   chmod
2935        chmod mode path
2936
2937       Change the mode (permissions) of "path" to "mode".  Only numeric modes
2938       are supported.
2939
2940       Note: When using this command from guestfish, "mode" by default would
2941       be decimal, unless you prefix it with 0 to get octal, ie. use 0700 not
2942       700.
2943
2944       The mode actually set is affected by the umask.
2945
2946   chown
2947        chown owner group path
2948
2949       Change the file owner to "owner" and group to "group".
2950
2951       Only numeric uid and gid are supported.  If you want to use names, you
2952       will need to locate and parse the password file yourself (Augeas
2953       support makes this relatively easy).
2954
2955   clear-backend-setting
2956        clear-backend-setting name
2957
2958       If there is a backend setting string matching "name" or beginning with
2959       "name=", then that string is removed from the backend settings.
2960
2961       This call returns the number of strings which were removed (which may
2962       be 0, 1 or greater than 1).
2963
2964       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3), "BACKEND SETTINGS" in guestfs(3).
2965
2966   command
2967        command 'arguments ...'
2968
2969       This call runs a command from the guest filesystem.  The filesystem
2970       must be mounted, and must contain a compatible operating system (ie.
2971       something Linux, with the same or compatible processor architecture).
2972
2973       The single parameter is an argv-style list of arguments.  The first
2974       element is the name of the program to run.  Subsequent elements are
2975       parameters.  The list must be non-empty (ie. must contain a program
2976       name).  Note that the command runs directly, and is not invoked via the
2977       shell (see "sh").
2978
2979       The return value is anything printed to stdout by the command.
2980
2981       If the command returns a non-zero exit status, then this function
2982       returns an error message.  The error message string is the content of
2983       stderr from the command.
2984
2985       The $PATH environment variable will contain at least /usr/bin and /bin.
2986       If you require a program from another location, you should provide the
2987       full path in the first parameter.
2988
2989       Shared libraries and data files required by the program must be
2990       available on filesystems which are mounted in the correct places.  It
2991       is the caller’s responsibility to ensure all filesystems that are
2992       needed are mounted at the right locations.
2993
2994       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
2995       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
2996
2997   command-lines
2998        command-lines 'arguments ...'
2999
3000       This is the same as "command", but splits the result into a list of
3001       lines.
3002
3003       See also: "sh-lines"
3004
3005       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
3006       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
3007
3008   compress-device-out
3009        compress-device-out ctype device (zdevice|-) [level:N]
3010
3011       This command compresses "device" and writes it out to the local file
3012       "zdevice".
3013
3014       The "ctype" and optional "level" parameters have the same meaning as in
3015       "compress-out".
3016
3017       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3018
3019       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3020       ARGUMENTS".
3021
3022   compress-out
3023        compress-out ctype file (zfile|-) [level:N]
3024
3025       This command compresses file and writes it out to the local file zfile.
3026
3027       The compression program used is controlled by the "ctype" parameter.
3028       Currently this includes: "compress", "gzip", "bzip2", "xz" or "lzop".
3029       Some compression types may not be supported by particular builds of
3030       libguestfs, in which case you will get an error containing the
3031       substring "not supported".
3032
3033       The optional "level" parameter controls compression level.  The meaning
3034       and default for this parameter depends on the compression program being
3035       used.
3036
3037       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3038
3039       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3040       ARGUMENTS".
3041
3042   config
3043        config hvparam hvvalue
3044
3045       This can be used to add arbitrary hypervisor parameters of the form
3046       -param value.  Actually it’s not quite arbitrary - we prevent you from
3047       setting some parameters which would interfere with parameters that we
3048       use.
3049
3050       The first character of "hvparam" string must be a "-" (dash).
3051
3052       "hvvalue" can be NULL.
3053
3054   copy-attributes
3055        copy-attributes src dest [all:true|false] [mode:true|false] [xattributes:true|false] [ownership:true|false]
3056
3057       Copy the attributes of a path (which can be a file or a directory) to
3058       another path.
3059
3060       By default "no" attribute is copied, so make sure to specify any (or
3061       "all" to copy everything).
3062
3063       The optional arguments specify which attributes can be copied:
3064
3065       "mode"
3066           Copy part of the file mode from "source" to "destination". Only the
3067           UNIX permissions and the sticky/setuid/setgid bits can be copied.
3068
3069       "xattributes"
3070           Copy the Linux extended attributes (xattrs) from "source" to
3071           "destination".  This flag does nothing if the linuxxattrs feature
3072           is not available (see "feature-available").
3073
3074       "ownership"
3075           Copy the owner uid and the group gid of "source" to "destination".
3076
3077       "all"
3078           Copy all the attributes from "source" to "destination". Enabling it
3079           enables all the other flags, if they are not specified already.
3080
3081       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3082       ARGUMENTS".
3083
3084   copy-device-to-device
3085        copy-device-to-device src dest [srcoffset:N] [destoffset:N] [size:N] [sparse:true|false] [append:true|false]
3086
3087       The four calls "copy-device-to-device", "copy-device-to-file", "copy-
3088       file-to-device", and "copy-file-to-file" let you copy from a source
3089       (device|file) to a destination (device|file).
3090
3091       Partial copies can be made since you can specify optionally the source
3092       offset, destination offset and size to copy.  These values are all
3093       specified in bytes.  If not given, the offsets both default to zero,
3094       and the size defaults to copying as much as possible until we hit the
3095       end of the source.
3096
3097       The source and destination may be the same object.  However overlapping
3098       regions may not be copied correctly.
3099
3100       If the destination is a file, it is created if required.  If the
3101       destination file is not large enough, it is extended.
3102
3103       If the destination is a file and the "append" flag is not set, then the
3104       destination file is truncated.  If the "append" flag is set, then the
3105       copy appends to the destination file.  The "append" flag currently
3106       cannot be set for devices.
3107
3108       If the "sparse" flag is true then the call avoids writing blocks that
3109       contain only zeroes, which can help in some situations where the
3110       backing disk is thin-provisioned.  Note that unless the target is
3111       already zeroed, using this option will result in incorrect copying.
3112
3113       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3114       ARGUMENTS".
3115
3116   copy-device-to-file
3117        copy-device-to-file src dest [srcoffset:N] [destoffset:N] [size:N] [sparse:true|false] [append:true|false]
3118
3119       See "copy-device-to-device" for a general overview of this call.
3120
3121       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3122       ARGUMENTS".
3123
3124   copy-file-to-device
3125        copy-file-to-device src dest [srcoffset:N] [destoffset:N] [size:N] [sparse:true|false] [append:true|false]
3126
3127       See "copy-device-to-device" for a general overview of this call.
3128
3129       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3130       ARGUMENTS".
3131
3132   copy-file-to-file
3133        copy-file-to-file src dest [srcoffset:N] [destoffset:N] [size:N] [sparse:true|false] [append:true|false]
3134
3135       See "copy-device-to-device" for a general overview of this call.
3136
3137       This is not the function you want for copying files.  This is for
3138       copying blocks within existing files.  See "cp", "cp-a" and "mv" for
3139       general file copying and moving functions.
3140
3141       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3142       ARGUMENTS".
3143
3144   copy-size
3145        copy-size src dest size
3146
3147       This command copies exactly "size" bytes from one source device or file
3148       "src" to another destination device or file "dest".
3149
3150       Note this will fail if the source is too short or if the destination is
3151       not large enough.
3152
3153       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "copy-device-to-
3154       device" call instead.
3155
3156       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3157       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3158       use of these functions.
3159
3160   cp
3161        cp src dest
3162
3163       This copies a file from "src" to "dest" where "dest" is either a
3164       destination filename or destination directory.
3165
3166   cp-a
3167        cp-a src dest
3168
3169       This copies a file or directory from "src" to "dest" recursively using
3170       the "cp -a" command.
3171
3172   cp-r
3173        cp-r src dest
3174
3175       This copies a file or directory from "src" to "dest" recursively using
3176       the "cp -rP" command.
3177
3178       Most users should use "cp-a" instead.  This command is useful when you
3179       don't want to preserve permissions, because the target filesystem does
3180       not support it (primarily when writing to DOS FAT filesystems).
3181
3182   cpio-out
3183        cpio-out directory (cpiofile|-) [format:..]
3184
3185       This command packs the contents of directory and downloads it to local
3186       file "cpiofile".
3187
3188       The optional "format" parameter can be used to select the format.  Only
3189       the following formats are currently permitted:
3190
3191       "newc"
3192           New (SVR4) portable format.  This format happens to be compatible
3193           with the cpio-like format used by the Linux kernel for initramfs.
3194
3195           This is the default format.
3196
3197       "crc"
3198           New (SVR4) portable format with a checksum.
3199
3200       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3201
3202       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3203       ARGUMENTS".
3204
3205   dd
3206        dd src dest
3207
3208       This command copies from one source device or file "src" to another
3209       destination device or file "dest".  Normally you would use this to copy
3210       to or from a device or partition, for example to duplicate a
3211       filesystem.
3212
3213       If the destination is a device, it must be as large or larger than the
3214       source file or device, otherwise the copy will fail.  This command
3215       cannot do partial copies (see "copy-device-to-device").
3216
3217       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "copy-device-to-
3218       device" call instead.
3219
3220       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3221       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3222       use of these functions.
3223
3224   device-index
3225        device-index device
3226
3227       This function takes a device name (eg. "/dev/sdb") and returns the
3228       index of the device in the list of devices.
3229
3230       Index numbers start from 0.  The named device must exist, for example
3231       as a string returned from "list-devices".
3232
3233       See also "list-devices", "part-to-dev".
3234
3235   df
3236        df
3237
3238       This command runs the "df" command to report disk space used.
3239
3240       This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions.  It is not
3241       intended that you try to parse the output string.  Use "statvfs" from
3242       programs.
3243
3244   df-h
3245        df-h
3246
3247       This command runs the "df -h" command to report disk space used in
3248       human-readable format.
3249
3250       This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions.  It is not
3251       intended that you try to parse the output string.  Use "statvfs" from
3252       programs.
3253
3254   disk-create
3255        disk-create filename format size [backingfile:..] [backingformat:..] [preallocation:..] [compat:..] [clustersize:N]
3256
3257       Create a blank disk image called filename (a host file) with format
3258       "format" (usually "raw" or "qcow2").  The size is "size" bytes.
3259
3260       If used with the optional "backingfile" parameter, then a snapshot is
3261       created on top of the backing file.  In this case, "size" must be
3262       passed as "-1".  The size of the snapshot is the same as the size of
3263       the backing file, which is discovered automatically.  You are
3264       encouraged to also pass "backingformat" to describe the format of
3265       "backingfile".
3266
3267       If filename refers to a block device, then the device is formatted.
3268       The "size" is ignored since block devices have an intrinsic size.
3269
3270       The other optional parameters are:
3271
3272       "preallocation"
3273           If format is "raw", then this can be either "off" (or "sparse") or
3274           "full" to create a sparse or fully allocated file respectively.
3275           The default is "off".
3276
3277           If format is "qcow2", then this can be "off" (or "sparse"),
3278           "metadata" or "full".  Preallocating metadata can be faster when
3279           doing lots of writes, but uses more space.  The default is "off".
3280
3281       "compat"
3282           "qcow2" only: Pass the string 1.1 to use the advanced qcow2 format
3283           supported by qemu ≥ 1.1.
3284
3285       "clustersize"
3286           "qcow2" only: Change the qcow2 cluster size.  The default is 65536
3287           (bytes) and this setting may be any power of two between 512 and
3288           2097152.
3289
3290       Note that this call does not add the new disk to the handle.  You may
3291       need to call "add-drive-opts" separately.
3292
3293       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3294       ARGUMENTS".
3295
3296   disk-format
3297        disk-format filename
3298
3299       Detect and return the format of the disk image called filename.
3300       filename can also be a host device, etc.  If the format of the image
3301       could not be detected, then "unknown" is returned.
3302
3303       Note that detecting the disk format can be insecure under some
3304       circumstances.  See "CVE-2010-3851" in guestfs(3).
3305
3306       See also: "DISK IMAGE FORMATS" in guestfs(3)
3307
3308   disk-has-backing-file
3309        disk-has-backing-file filename
3310
3311       Detect and return whether the disk image filename has a backing file.
3312
3313       Note that detecting disk features can be insecure under some
3314       circumstances.  See "CVE-2010-3851" in guestfs(3).
3315
3316   disk-virtual-size
3317        disk-virtual-size filename
3318
3319       Detect and return the virtual size in bytes of the disk image called
3320       filename.
3321
3322       Note that detecting disk features can be insecure under some
3323       circumstances.  See "CVE-2010-3851" in guestfs(3).
3324
3325   dmesg
3326        dmesg
3327
3328       This returns the kernel messages ("dmesg" output) from the guest
3329       kernel.  This is sometimes useful for extended debugging of problems.
3330
3331       Another way to get the same information is to enable verbose messages
3332       with "set-verbose" or by setting the environment variable
3333       "LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1" before running the program.
3334
3335   download
3336        download remotefilename (filename|-)
3337
3338       Download file remotefilename and save it as filename on the local
3339       machine.
3340
3341       filename can also be a named pipe.
3342
3343       See also "upload", "cat".
3344
3345       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3346
3347   download-blocks
3348        download-blocks device start stop (filename|-) [unallocated:true|false]
3349
3350       Download the data units from start address to stop from the disk
3351       partition (eg. /dev/sda1) and save them as filename on the local
3352       machine.
3353
3354       The use of this API on sparse disk image formats such as QCOW, may
3355       result in large zero-filled files downloaded on the host.
3356
3357       The size of a data unit varies across filesystem implementations.  On
3358       NTFS filesystems data units are referred as clusters while on ExtX ones
3359       they are referred as fragments.
3360
3361       If the optional "unallocated" flag is true (default is false), only the
3362       unallocated blocks will be extracted.  This is useful to detect hidden
3363       data or to retrieve deleted files which data units have not been
3364       overwritten yet.
3365
3366       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3367
3368       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3369       ARGUMENTS".
3370
3371       This command depends on the feature "sleuthkit".   See also "feature-
3372       available".
3373
3374   download-inode
3375        download-inode device inode (filename|-)
3376
3377       Download a file given its inode from the disk partition (eg. /dev/sda1)
3378       and save it as filename on the local machine.
3379
3380       It is not required to mount the disk to run this command.
3381
3382       The command is capable of downloading deleted or inaccessible files.
3383
3384       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3385
3386       This command depends on the feature "sleuthkit".   See also "feature-
3387       available".
3388
3389   download-offset
3390        download-offset remotefilename (filename|-) offset size
3391
3392       Download file remotefilename and save it as filename on the local
3393       machine.
3394
3395       remotefilename is read for "size" bytes starting at "offset" (this
3396       region must be within the file or device).
3397
3398       Note that there is no limit on the amount of data that can be
3399       downloaded with this call, unlike with "pread", and this call always
3400       reads the full amount unless an error occurs.
3401
3402       See also "download", "pread".
3403
3404       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3405
3406   drop-caches
3407        drop-caches whattodrop
3408
3409       This instructs the guest kernel to drop its page cache, and/or dentries
3410       and inode caches.  The parameter "whattodrop" tells the kernel what
3411       precisely to drop, see http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches
3412
3413       Setting "whattodrop" to 3 should drop everything.
3414
3415       This automatically calls sync(2) before the operation, so that the
3416       maximum guest memory is freed.
3417
3418   du
3419        du path
3420
3421       This command runs the "du -s" command to estimate file space usage for
3422       "path".
3423
3424       "path" can be a file or a directory.  If "path" is a directory then the
3425       estimate includes the contents of the directory and all subdirectories
3426       (recursively).
3427
3428       The result is the estimated size in kilobytes (ie. units of 1024
3429       bytes).
3430
3431   e2fsck
3432        e2fsck device [correct:true|false] [forceall:true|false]
3433
3434       This runs the ext2/ext3 filesystem checker on "device".  It can take
3435       the following optional arguments:
3436
3437       "correct"
3438           Automatically repair the file system. This option will cause e2fsck
3439           to automatically fix any filesystem problems that can be safely
3440           fixed without human intervention.
3441
3442           This option may not be specified at the same time as the "forceall"
3443           option.
3444
3445       "forceall"
3446           Assume an answer of ‘yes’ to all questions; allows e2fsck to be
3447           used non-interactively.
3448
3449           This option may not be specified at the same time as the "correct"
3450           option.
3451
3452       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3453       ARGUMENTS".
3454
3455   e2fsck-f
3456        e2fsck-f device
3457
3458       This runs "e2fsck -p -f device", ie. runs the ext2/ext3 filesystem
3459       checker on "device", noninteractively (-p), even if the filesystem
3460       appears to be clean (-f).
3461
3462       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "e2fsck" call
3463       instead.
3464
3465       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3466       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3467       use of these functions.
3468
3469   echo-daemon
3470        echo-daemon 'words ...'
3471
3472       This command concatenates the list of "words" passed with single spaces
3473       between them and returns the resulting string.
3474
3475       You can use this command to test the connection through to the daemon.
3476
3477       See also "ping-daemon".
3478
3479   egrep
3480        egrep regex path
3481
3482       This calls the external "egrep" program and returns the matching lines.
3483
3484       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
3485       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
3486
3487       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
3488
3489       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3490       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3491       use of these functions.
3492
3493   egrepi
3494        egrepi regex path
3495
3496       This calls the external "egrep -i" program and returns the matching
3497       lines.
3498
3499       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
3500       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
3501
3502       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
3503
3504       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3505       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3506       use of these functions.
3507
3508   equal
3509        equal file1 file2
3510
3511       This compares the two files file1 and file2 and returns true if their
3512       content is exactly equal, or false otherwise.
3513
3514       The external cmp(1) program is used for the comparison.
3515
3516   exists
3517        exists path
3518
3519       This returns "true" if and only if there is a file, directory (or
3520       anything) with the given "path" name.
3521
3522       See also "is-file", "is-dir", "stat".
3523
3524   extlinux
3525        extlinux directory
3526
3527       Install the SYSLINUX bootloader on the device mounted at directory.
3528       Unlike "syslinux" which requires a FAT filesystem, this can be used on
3529       an ext2/3/4 or btrfs filesystem.
3530
3531       The directory parameter can be either a mountpoint, or a directory
3532       within the mountpoint.
3533
3534       You also have to mark the partition as "active" ("part-set-bootable")
3535       and a Master Boot Record must be installed (eg. using "pwrite-device")
3536       on the first sector of the whole disk.  The SYSLINUX package comes with
3537       some suitable Master Boot Records.  See the extlinux(1) man page for
3538       further information.
3539
3540       Additional configuration can be supplied to SYSLINUX by placing a file
3541       called extlinux.conf on the filesystem under directory.  For further
3542       information about the contents of this file, see extlinux(1).
3543
3544       See also "syslinux".
3545
3546       This command depends on the feature "extlinux".   See also "feature-
3547       available".
3548
3549   f2fs-expand
3550        f2fs-expand device
3551
3552       This expands a f2fs filesystem to match the size of the underlying
3553       device.
3554
3555       This command depends on the feature "f2fs".   See also "feature-
3556       available".
3557
3558   fallocate
3559        fallocate path len
3560
3561       This command preallocates a file (containing zero bytes) named "path"
3562       of size "len" bytes.  If the file exists already, it is overwritten.
3563
3564       Do not confuse this with the guestfish-specific "alloc" command which
3565       allocates a file in the host and attaches it as a device.
3566
3567       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "fallocate64" call
3568       instead.
3569
3570       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3571       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3572       use of these functions.
3573
3574   fallocate64
3575        fallocate64 path len
3576
3577       This command preallocates a file (containing zero bytes) named "path"
3578       of size "len" bytes.  If the file exists already, it is overwritten.
3579
3580       Note that this call allocates disk blocks for the file.  To create a
3581       sparse file use "truncate-size" instead.
3582
3583       The deprecated call "fallocate" does the same, but owing to an
3584       oversight it only allowed 30 bit lengths to be specified, effectively
3585       limiting the maximum size of files created through that call to 1GB.
3586
3587       Do not confuse this with the guestfish-specific "alloc" and "sparse"
3588       commands which create a file in the host and attach it as a device.
3589
3590   feature-available
3591        feature-available 'groups ...'
3592
3593       This is the same as "available", but unlike that call it returns a
3594       simple true/false boolean result, instead of throwing an exception if a
3595       feature is not found.  For other documentation see "available".
3596
3597   fgrep
3598        fgrep pattern path
3599
3600       This calls the external "fgrep" program and returns the matching lines.
3601
3602       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
3603       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
3604
3605       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
3606
3607       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3608       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3609       use of these functions.
3610
3611   fgrepi
3612        fgrepi pattern path
3613
3614       This calls the external "fgrep -i" program and returns the matching
3615       lines.
3616
3617       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
3618       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
3619
3620       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
3621
3622       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
3623       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
3624       use of these functions.
3625
3626   file
3627        file path
3628
3629       This call uses the standard file(1) command to determine the type or
3630       contents of the file.
3631
3632       This call will also transparently look inside various types of
3633       compressed file.
3634
3635       The exact command which runs is "file -zb path".  Note in particular
3636       that the filename is not prepended to the output (the -b option).
3637
3638       The output depends on the output of the underlying file(1) command and
3639       it can change in future in ways beyond our control.  In other words,
3640       the output is not guaranteed by the ABI.
3641
3642       See also: file(1), "vfs-type", "lstat", "is-file", "is-blockdev" (etc),
3643       "is-zero".
3644
3645   file-architecture
3646        file-architecture filename
3647
3648       This detects the architecture of the binary filename, and returns it if
3649       known.
3650
3651       Currently defined architectures are:
3652
3653       "aarch64"
3654           64 bit ARM.
3655
3656       "arm"
3657           32 bit ARM.
3658
3659       "i386"
3660           This string is returned for all 32 bit i386, i486, i586, i686
3661           binaries irrespective of the precise processor requirements of the
3662           binary.
3663
3664       "ia64"
3665           Intel Itanium.
3666
3667       "ppc"
3668           32 bit Power PC.
3669
3670       "ppc64"
3671           64 bit Power PC (big endian).
3672
3673       "ppc64le"
3674           64 bit Power PC (little endian).
3675
3676       "riscv32"
3677       "riscv64"
3678       "riscv128"
3679           RISC-V 32-, 64- or 128-bit variants.
3680
3681       "s390"
3682           31 bit IBM S/390.
3683
3684       "s390x"
3685           64 bit IBM S/390.
3686
3687       "sparc"
3688           32 bit SPARC.
3689
3690       "sparc64"
3691           64 bit SPARC V9 and above.
3692
3693       "x86_64"
3694           64 bit x86-64.
3695
3696       Libguestfs may return other architecture strings in future.
3697
3698       The function works on at least the following types of files:
3699
3700       ·   many types of Un*x and Linux binary
3701
3702       ·   many types of Un*x and Linux shared library
3703
3704       ·   Windows Win32 and Win64 binaries
3705
3706       ·   Windows Win32 and Win64 DLLs
3707
3708           Win32 binaries and DLLs return "i386".
3709
3710           Win64 binaries and DLLs return "x86_64".
3711
3712       ·   Linux kernel modules
3713
3714       ·   Linux new-style initrd images
3715
3716       ·   some non-x86 Linux vmlinuz kernels
3717
3718       What it can't do currently:
3719
3720       ·   static libraries (libfoo.a)
3721
3722       ·   Linux old-style initrd as compressed ext2 filesystem (RHEL 3)
3723
3724       ·   x86 Linux vmlinuz kernels
3725
3726           x86 vmlinuz images (bzImage format) consist of a mix of 16-, 32-
3727           and compressed code, and are horribly hard to unpack.  If you want
3728           to find the architecture of a kernel, use the architecture of the
3729           associated initrd or kernel module(s) instead.
3730
3731   filesize
3732        filesize file
3733
3734       This command returns the size of file in bytes.
3735
3736       To get other stats about a file, use "stat", "lstat", "is-dir", "is-
3737       file" etc.  To get the size of block devices, use "blockdev-getsize64".
3738
3739   filesystem-available
3740        filesystem-available filesystem
3741
3742       Check whether libguestfs supports the named filesystem.  The argument
3743       "filesystem" is a filesystem name, such as "ext3".
3744
3745       You must call "launch" before using this command.
3746
3747       This is mainly useful as a negative test.  If this returns true, it
3748       doesn't mean that a particular filesystem can be created or mounted,
3749       since filesystems can fail for other reasons such as it being a later
3750       version of the filesystem, or having incompatible features, or lacking
3751       the right mkfs.<fs> tool.
3752
3753       See also "available", "feature-available", "AVAILABILITY" in
3754       guestfs(3).
3755
3756   filesystem-walk
3757        filesystem-walk device
3758
3759       Walk through the internal structures of a disk partition (eg.
3760       /dev/sda1) in order to return a list of all the files and directories
3761       stored within.
3762
3763       It is not necessary to mount the disk partition to run this command.
3764
3765       All entries in the filesystem are returned. This function can list
3766       deleted or unaccessible files. The entries are not sorted.
3767
3768       The "tsk_dirent" structure contains the following fields.
3769
3770       "tsk_inode"
3771           Filesystem reference number of the node. It might be 0 if the node
3772           has been deleted.
3773
3774       "tsk_type"
3775           Basic file type information.  See below for a detailed list of
3776           values.
3777
3778       "tsk_size"
3779           File size in bytes. It might be "-1" if the node has been deleted.
3780
3781       "tsk_name"
3782           The file path relative to its directory.
3783
3784       "tsk_flags"
3785           Bitfield containing extra information regarding the entry.  It
3786           contains the logical OR of the following values:
3787
3788           0x0001
3789               If set to 1, the file is allocated and visible within the
3790               filesystem.  Otherwise, the file has been deleted.  Under
3791               certain circumstances, the function "download_inode" can be
3792               used to recover deleted files.
3793
3794           0x0002
3795               Filesystem such as NTFS and Ext2 or greater, separate the file
3796               name from the metadata structure.  The bit is set to 1 when the
3797               file name is in an unallocated state and the metadata structure
3798               is in an allocated one.  This generally implies the metadata
3799               has been reallocated to a new file.  Therefore, information
3800               such as file type, file size, timestamps, number of links and
3801               symlink target might not correspond with the ones of the
3802               original deleted entry.
3803
3804           0x0004
3805               The bit is set to 1 when the file is compressed using
3806               filesystem native compression support (NTFS). The API is not
3807               able to detect application level compression.
3808
3809       "tsk_atime_sec"
3810       "tsk_atime_nsec"
3811       "tsk_mtime_sec"
3812       "tsk_mtime_nsec"
3813       "tsk_ctime_sec"
3814       "tsk_ctime_nsec"
3815       "tsk_crtime_sec"
3816       "tsk_crtime_nsec"
3817           Respectively, access, modification, last status change and creation
3818           time in Unix format in seconds and nanoseconds.
3819
3820       "tsk_nlink"
3821           Number of file names pointing to this entry.
3822
3823       "tsk_link"
3824           If the entry is a symbolic link, this field will contain the path
3825           to the target file.
3826
3827       The "tsk_type" field will contain one of the following characters:
3828
3829       'b' Block special
3830
3831       'c' Char special
3832
3833       'd' Directory
3834
3835       'f' FIFO (named pipe)
3836
3837       'l' Symbolic link
3838
3839       'r' Regular file
3840
3841       's' Socket
3842
3843       'h' Shadow inode (Solaris)
3844
3845       'w' Whiteout inode (BSD)
3846
3847       'u' Unknown file type
3848
3849       This command depends on the feature "libtsk".   See also "feature-
3850       available".
3851
3852   fill
3853        fill c len path
3854
3855       This command creates a new file called "path".  The initial content of
3856       the file is "len" octets of "c", where "c" must be a number in the
3857       range "[0..255]".
3858
3859       To fill a file with zero bytes (sparsely), it is much more efficient to
3860       use "truncate-size".  To create a file with a pattern of repeating
3861       bytes use "fill-pattern".
3862
3863   fill-dir
3864        fill-dir dir nr
3865
3866       This function, useful for testing filesystems, creates "nr" empty files
3867       in the directory "dir" with names 00000000 through "nr-1" (ie. each
3868       file name is 8 digits long padded with zeroes).
3869
3870   fill-pattern
3871        fill-pattern pattern len path
3872
3873       This function is like "fill" except that it creates a new file of
3874       length "len" containing the repeating pattern of bytes in "pattern".
3875       The pattern is truncated if necessary to ensure the length of the file
3876       is exactly "len" bytes.
3877
3878   find
3879        find directory
3880
3881       This command lists out all files and directories, recursively, starting
3882       at directory.  It is essentially equivalent to running the shell
3883       command "find directory -print" but some post-processing happens on the
3884       output, described below.
3885
3886       This returns a list of strings without any prefix.  Thus if the
3887       directory structure was:
3888
3889        /tmp/a
3890        /tmp/b
3891        /tmp/c/d
3892
3893       then the returned list from "find" /tmp would be 4 elements:
3894
3895        a
3896        b
3897        c
3898        c/d
3899
3900       If directory is not a directory, then this command returns an error.
3901
3902       The returned list is sorted.
3903
3904   find0
3905        find0 directory (files|-)
3906
3907       This command lists out all files and directories, recursively, starting
3908       at directory, placing the resulting list in the external file called
3909       files.
3910
3911       This command works the same way as "find" with the following
3912       exceptions:
3913
3914       ·   The resulting list is written to an external file.
3915
3916       ·   Items (filenames) in the result are separated by "\0" characters.
3917           See find(1) option -print0.
3918
3919       ·   The result list is not sorted.
3920
3921       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
3922
3923   find-inode
3924        find-inode device inode
3925
3926       Searches all the entries associated with the given inode.
3927
3928       For each entry, a "tsk_dirent" structure is returned.  See
3929       "filesystem_walk" for more information about "tsk_dirent" structures.
3930
3931       This command depends on the feature "libtsk".   See also "feature-
3932       available".
3933
3934   findfs-label
3935        findfs-label label
3936
3937       This command searches the filesystems and returns the one which has the
3938       given label.  An error is returned if no such filesystem can be found.
3939
3940       To find the label of a filesystem, use "vfs-label".
3941
3942   findfs-uuid
3943        findfs-uuid uuid
3944
3945       This command searches the filesystems and returns the one which has the
3946       given UUID.  An error is returned if no such filesystem can be found.
3947
3948       To find the UUID of a filesystem, use "vfs-uuid".
3949
3950   fsck
3951        fsck fstype device
3952
3953       This runs the filesystem checker (fsck) on "device" which should have
3954       filesystem type "fstype".
3955
3956       The returned integer is the status.  See fsck(8) for the list of status
3957       codes from "fsck".
3958
3959       Notes:
3960
3961       ·   Multiple status codes can be summed together.
3962
3963       ·   A non-zero return code can mean "success", for example if errors
3964           have been corrected on the filesystem.
3965
3966       ·   Checking or repairing NTFS volumes is not supported (by linux-
3967           ntfs).
3968
3969       This command is entirely equivalent to running "fsck -a -t fstype
3970       device".
3971
3972   fstrim
3973        fstrim mountpoint [offset:N] [length:N] [minimumfreeextent:N]
3974
3975       Trim the free space in the filesystem mounted on "mountpoint".  The
3976       filesystem must be mounted read-write.
3977
3978       The filesystem contents are not affected, but any free space in the
3979       filesystem is "trimmed", that is, given back to the host device, thus
3980       making disk images more sparse, allowing unused space in qcow2 files to
3981       be reused, etc.
3982
3983       This operation requires support in libguestfs, the mounted filesystem,
3984       the host filesystem, qemu and the host kernel.  If this support isn't
3985       present it may give an error or even appear to run but do nothing.
3986
3987       In the case where the kernel vfs driver does not support trimming, this
3988       call will fail with errno set to "ENOTSUP".  Currently this happens
3989       when trying to trim FAT filesystems.
3990
3991       See also "zero-free-space".  That is a slightly different operation
3992       that turns free space in the filesystem into zeroes.  It is valid to
3993       call "fstrim" either instead of, or after calling "zero-free-space".
3994
3995       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
3996       ARGUMENTS".
3997
3998       This command depends on the feature "fstrim".   See also "feature-
3999       available".
4000
4001   get-append
4002        get-append
4003
4004       Return the additional kernel options which are added to the libguestfs
4005       appliance kernel command line.
4006
4007       If "NULL" then no options are added.
4008
4009   get-attach-method
4010        get-attach-method
4011
4012       Return the current backend.
4013
4014       See "set-backend" and "BACKEND" in guestfs(3).
4015
4016       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "get-backend" call
4017       instead.
4018
4019       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4020       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4021       use of these functions.
4022
4023   get-autosync
4024        get-autosync
4025
4026       Get the autosync flag.
4027
4028   get-backend
4029        get-backend
4030
4031       Return the current backend.
4032
4033       This handle property was previously called the "attach method".
4034
4035       See "set-backend" and "BACKEND" in guestfs(3).
4036
4037   get-backend-setting
4038        get-backend-setting name
4039
4040       Find a backend setting string which is either "name" or begins with
4041       "name=".  If "name", this returns the string "1".  If "name=", this
4042       returns the part after the equals sign (which may be an empty string).
4043
4044       If no such setting is found, this function throws an error.  The errno
4045       (see "last-errno") will be "ESRCH" in this case.
4046
4047       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3), "BACKEND SETTINGS" in guestfs(3).
4048
4049   get-backend-settings
4050        get-backend-settings
4051
4052       Return the current backend settings.
4053
4054       This call returns all backend settings strings.  If you want to find a
4055       single backend setting, see "get-backend-setting".
4056
4057       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3), "BACKEND SETTINGS" in guestfs(3).
4058
4059   get-cachedir
4060        get-cachedir
4061
4062       Get the directory used by the handle to store the appliance cache.
4063
4064   get-direct
4065        get-direct
4066
4067       Return the direct appliance mode flag.
4068
4069       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "internal-get-
4070       console-socket" call instead.
4071
4072       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4073       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4074       use of these functions.
4075
4076   get-e2attrs
4077        get-e2attrs file
4078
4079       This returns the file attributes associated with file.
4080
4081       The attributes are a set of bits associated with each inode which
4082       affect the behaviour of the file.  The attributes are returned as a
4083       string of letters (described below).  The string may be empty,
4084       indicating that no file attributes are set for this file.
4085
4086       These attributes are only present when the file is located on an
4087       ext2/3/4 filesystem.  Using this call on other filesystem types will
4088       result in an error.
4089
4090       The characters (file attributes) in the returned string are currently:
4091
4092       'A' When the file is accessed, its atime is not modified.
4093
4094       'a' The file is append-only.
4095
4096       'c' The file is compressed on-disk.
4097
4098       'D' (Directories only.)  Changes to this directory are written
4099           synchronously to disk.
4100
4101       'd' The file is not a candidate for backup (see dump(8)).
4102
4103       'E' The file has compression errors.
4104
4105       'e' The file is using extents.
4106
4107       'h' The file is storing its blocks in units of the filesystem blocksize
4108           instead of sectors.
4109
4110       'I' (Directories only.)  The directory is using hashed trees.
4111
4112       'i' The file is immutable.  It cannot be modified, deleted or renamed.
4113           No link can be created to this file.
4114
4115       'j' The file is data-journaled.
4116
4117       's' When the file is deleted, all its blocks will be zeroed.
4118
4119       'S' Changes to this file are written synchronously to disk.
4120
4121       'T' (Directories only.)  This is a hint to the block allocator that
4122           subdirectories contained in this directory should be spread across
4123           blocks.  If not present, the block allocator will try to group
4124           subdirectories together.
4125
4126       't' For a file, this disables tail-merging.  (Not used by upstream
4127           implementations of ext2.)
4128
4129       'u' When the file is deleted, its blocks will be saved, allowing the
4130           file to be undeleted.
4131
4132       'X' The raw contents of the compressed file may be accessed.
4133
4134       'Z' The compressed file is dirty.
4135
4136       More file attributes may be added to this list later.  Not all file
4137       attributes may be set for all kinds of files.  For detailed
4138       information, consult the chattr(1) man page.
4139
4140       See also "set-e2attrs".
4141
4142       Don't confuse these attributes with extended attributes (see
4143       "getxattr").
4144
4145   get-e2generation
4146        get-e2generation file
4147
4148       This returns the ext2 file generation of a file.  The generation (which
4149       used to be called the "version") is a number associated with an inode.
4150       This is most commonly used by NFS servers.
4151
4152       The generation is only present when the file is located on an ext2/3/4
4153       filesystem.  Using this call on other filesystem types will result in
4154       an error.
4155
4156       See "set-e2generation".
4157
4158   get-e2label
4159        get-e2label device
4160
4161       This returns the ext2/3/4 filesystem label of the filesystem on
4162       "device".
4163
4164       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "vfs-label" call
4165       instead.
4166
4167       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4168       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4169       use of these functions.
4170
4171   get-e2uuid
4172        get-e2uuid device
4173
4174       This returns the ext2/3/4 filesystem UUID of the filesystem on
4175       "device".
4176
4177       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "vfs-uuid" call
4178       instead.
4179
4180       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4181       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4182       use of these functions.
4183
4184   get-hv
4185        get-hv
4186
4187       Return the current hypervisor binary.
4188
4189       This is always non-NULL.  If it wasn't set already, then this will
4190       return the default qemu binary name.
4191
4192   get-identifier
4193        get-identifier
4194
4195       Get the handle identifier.  See "set-identifier".
4196
4197   get-libvirt-requested-credential-challenge
4198        get-libvirt-requested-credential-challenge index
4199
4200       Get the challenge (provided by libvirt) for the "index"'th requested
4201       credential.  If libvirt did not provide a challenge, this returns the
4202       empty string "".
4203
4204       See "LIBVIRT AUTHENTICATION" in guestfs(3) for documentation and
4205       example code.
4206
4207   get-libvirt-requested-credential-defresult
4208        get-libvirt-requested-credential-defresult index
4209
4210       Get the default result (provided by libvirt) for the "index"'th
4211       requested credential.  If libvirt did not provide a default result,
4212       this returns the empty string "".
4213
4214       See "LIBVIRT AUTHENTICATION" in guestfs(3) for documentation and
4215       example code.
4216
4217   get-libvirt-requested-credential-prompt
4218        get-libvirt-requested-credential-prompt index
4219
4220       Get the prompt (provided by libvirt) for the "index"'th requested
4221       credential.  If libvirt did not provide a prompt, this returns the
4222       empty string "".
4223
4224       See "LIBVIRT AUTHENTICATION" in guestfs(3) for documentation and
4225       example code.
4226
4227   get-libvirt-requested-credentials
4228        get-libvirt-requested-credentials
4229
4230       This should only be called during the event callback for events of type
4231       "GUESTFS_EVENT_LIBVIRT_AUTH".
4232
4233       Return the list of credentials requested by libvirt.  Possible values
4234       are a subset of the strings provided when you called "set-libvirt-
4235       supported-credentials".
4236
4237       See "LIBVIRT AUTHENTICATION" in guestfs(3) for documentation and
4238       example code.
4239
4240   get-memsize
4241        get-memsize
4242
4243       This gets the memory size in megabytes allocated to the hypervisor.
4244
4245       If "set-memsize" was not called on this handle, and if
4246       "LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE" was not set, then this returns the compiled-in
4247       default value for memsize.
4248
4249       For more information on the architecture of libguestfs, see guestfs(3).
4250
4251   get-network
4252        get-network
4253
4254       This returns the enable network flag.
4255
4256   get-path
4257        get-path
4258
4259       Return the current search path.
4260
4261       This is always non-NULL.  If it wasn't set already, then this will
4262       return the default path.
4263
4264   get-pgroup
4265        get-pgroup
4266
4267       This returns the process group flag.
4268
4269   get-pid
4270   pid
4271        get-pid
4272
4273       Return the process ID of the hypervisor.  If there is no hypervisor
4274       running, then this will return an error.
4275
4276       This is an internal call used for debugging and testing.
4277
4278   get-program
4279        get-program
4280
4281       Get the program name.  See "set-program".
4282
4283   get-qemu
4284        get-qemu
4285
4286       Return the current hypervisor binary (usually qemu).
4287
4288       This is always non-NULL.  If it wasn't set already, then this will
4289       return the default qemu binary name.
4290
4291       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "get-hv" call
4292       instead.
4293
4294       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4295       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4296       use of these functions.
4297
4298   get-recovery-proc
4299        get-recovery-proc
4300
4301       Return the recovery process enabled flag.
4302
4303   get-selinux
4304        get-selinux
4305
4306       This returns the current setting of the selinux flag which is passed to
4307       the appliance at boot time.  See "set-selinux".
4308
4309       For more information on the architecture of libguestfs, see guestfs(3).
4310
4311       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "selinux-relabel"
4312       call instead.
4313
4314       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4315       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4316       use of these functions.
4317
4318   get-smp
4319        get-smp
4320
4321       This returns the number of virtual CPUs assigned to the appliance.
4322
4323   get-sockdir
4324        get-sockdir
4325
4326       Get the directory used by the handle to store temporary socket files.
4327
4328       This is different from "tmpdir", as we need shorter paths for sockets
4329       (due to the limited buffers of filenames for UNIX sockets), and
4330       "tmpdir" may be too long for them.
4331
4332       The environment variable "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" controls the default value:
4333       If "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" is set, then that is the default.  Else /tmp is
4334       the default.
4335
4336   get-tmpdir
4337        get-tmpdir
4338
4339       Get the directory used by the handle to store temporary files.
4340
4341   get-trace
4342        get-trace
4343
4344       Return the command trace flag.
4345
4346   get-umask
4347        get-umask
4348
4349       Return the current umask.  By default the umask is 022 unless it has
4350       been set by calling "umask".
4351
4352   get-verbose
4353        get-verbose
4354
4355       This returns the verbose messages flag.
4356
4357   getcon
4358        getcon
4359
4360       This gets the SELinux security context of the daemon.
4361
4362       See the documentation about SELINUX in guestfs(3), and "setcon"
4363
4364       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "selinux-relabel"
4365       call instead.
4366
4367       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4368       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4369       use of these functions.
4370
4371       This command depends on the feature "selinux".   See also "feature-
4372       available".
4373
4374   getxattr
4375        getxattr path name
4376
4377       Get a single extended attribute from file "path" named "name".  This
4378       call follows symlinks.  If you want to lookup an extended attribute for
4379       the symlink itself, use "lgetxattr".
4380
4381       Normally it is better to get all extended attributes from a file in one
4382       go by calling "getxattrs".  However some Linux filesystem
4383       implementations are buggy and do not provide a way to list out
4384       attributes.  For these filesystems (notably ntfs-3g) you have to know
4385       the names of the extended attributes you want in advance and call this
4386       function.
4387
4388       Extended attribute values are blobs of binary data.  If there is no
4389       extended attribute named "name", this returns an error.
4390
4391       See also: "getxattrs", "lgetxattr", attr(5).
4392
4393       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
4394       available".
4395
4396   getxattrs
4397        getxattrs path
4398
4399       This call lists the extended attributes of the file or directory
4400       "path".
4401
4402       At the system call level, this is a combination of the listxattr(2) and
4403       getxattr(2) calls.
4404
4405       See also: "lgetxattrs", attr(5).
4406
4407       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
4408       available".
4409
4410   glob-expand
4411   glob-expand-opts
4412        glob-expand pattern [directoryslash:true|false]
4413
4414       This command searches for all the pathnames matching "pattern"
4415       according to the wildcard expansion rules used by the shell.
4416
4417       If no paths match, then this returns an empty list (note: not an
4418       error).
4419
4420       It is just a wrapper around the C glob(3) function with flags
4421       "GLOB_MARK|GLOB_BRACE".  See that manual page for more details.
4422
4423       "directoryslash" controls whether use the "GLOB_MARK" flag for glob(3),
4424       and it defaults to true.  It can be explicitly set as off to return no
4425       trailing slashes in filenames of directories.
4426
4427       Notice that there is no equivalent command for expanding a device name
4428       (eg. /dev/sd*).  Use "list-devices", "list-partitions" etc functions
4429       instead.
4430
4431       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
4432       ARGUMENTS".
4433
4434   grep
4435   grep-opts
4436        grep regex path [extended:true|false] [fixed:true|false] [insensitive:true|false] [compressed:true|false]
4437
4438       This calls the external "grep" program and returns the matching lines.
4439
4440       The optional flags are:
4441
4442       "extended"
4443           Use extended regular expressions.  This is the same as using the -E
4444           flag.
4445
4446       "fixed"
4447           Match fixed (don't use regular expressions).  This is the same as
4448           using the -F flag.
4449
4450       "insensitive"
4451           Match case-insensitive.  This is the same as using the -i flag.
4452
4453       "compressed"
4454           Use "zgrep" instead of "grep".  This allows the input to be
4455           compress- or gzip-compressed.
4456
4457       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
4458       ARGUMENTS".
4459
4460       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
4461       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
4462
4463   grepi
4464        grepi regex path
4465
4466       This calls the external "grep -i" program and returns the matching
4467       lines.
4468
4469       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
4470       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
4471
4472       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
4473
4474       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4475       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4476       use of these functions.
4477
4478   grub-install
4479        grub-install root device
4480
4481       This command installs GRUB 1 (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
4482       "device", with the root directory being "root".
4483
4484       Notes:
4485
4486       ·   There is currently no way in the API to install grub2, which is
4487           used by most modern Linux guests.  It is possible to run the grub2
4488           command from the guest, although see the caveats in "RUNNING
4489           COMMANDS" in guestfs(3).
4490
4491       ·   This uses "grub-install" from the host.  Unfortunately grub is not
4492           always compatible with itself, so this only works in rather narrow
4493           circumstances.  Careful testing with each guest version is
4494           advisable.
4495
4496       ·   If grub-install reports the error "No suitable drive was found in
4497           the generated device map."  it may be that you need to create a
4498           /boot/grub/device.map file first that contains the mapping between
4499           grub device names and Linux device names.  It is usually sufficient
4500           to create a file containing:
4501
4502            (hd0) /dev/vda
4503
4504           replacing /dev/vda with the name of the installation device.
4505
4506       This command depends on the feature "grub".   See also "feature-
4507       available".
4508
4509   head
4510        head path
4511
4512       This command returns up to the first 10 lines of a file as a list of
4513       strings.
4514
4515       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
4516       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
4517
4518   head-n
4519        head-n nrlines path
4520
4521       If the parameter "nrlines" is a positive number, this returns the first
4522       "nrlines" lines of the file "path".
4523
4524       If the parameter "nrlines" is a negative number, this returns lines
4525       from the file "path", excluding the last "nrlines" lines.
4526
4527       If the parameter "nrlines" is zero, this returns an empty list.
4528
4529       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
4530       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
4531
4532   hexdump
4533        hexdump path
4534
4535       This runs "hexdump -C" on the given "path".  The result is the human-
4536       readable, canonical hex dump of the file.
4537
4538       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
4539       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
4540
4541   hivex-close
4542        hivex-close
4543
4544       Close the current hivex handle.
4545
4546       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4547
4548       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4549       available".
4550
4551   hivex-commit
4552        hivex-commit filename
4553
4554       Commit (write) changes to the hive.
4555
4556       If the optional filename parameter is null, then the changes are
4557       written back to the same hive that was opened.  If this is not null
4558       then they are written to the alternate filename given and the original
4559       hive is left untouched.
4560
4561       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4562
4563       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4564       available".
4565
4566   hivex-node-add-child
4567        hivex-node-add-child parent name
4568
4569       Add a child node to "parent" named "name".
4570
4571       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4572
4573       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4574       available".
4575
4576   hivex-node-children
4577        hivex-node-children nodeh
4578
4579       Return the list of nodes which are subkeys of "nodeh".
4580
4581       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4582
4583       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4584       available".
4585
4586   hivex-node-delete-child
4587        hivex-node-delete-child nodeh
4588
4589       Delete "nodeh", recursively if necessary.
4590
4591       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4592
4593       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4594       available".
4595
4596   hivex-node-get-child
4597        hivex-node-get-child nodeh name
4598
4599       Return the child of "nodeh" with the name "name", if it exists.  This
4600       can return 0 meaning the name was not found.
4601
4602       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4603
4604       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4605       available".
4606
4607   hivex-node-get-value
4608        hivex-node-get-value nodeh key
4609
4610       Return the value attached to "nodeh" which has the name "key", if it
4611       exists.  This can return 0 meaning the key was not found.
4612
4613       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4614
4615       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4616       available".
4617
4618   hivex-node-name
4619        hivex-node-name nodeh
4620
4621       Return the name of "nodeh".
4622
4623       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4624
4625       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4626       available".
4627
4628   hivex-node-parent
4629        hivex-node-parent nodeh
4630
4631       Return the parent node of "nodeh".
4632
4633       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4634
4635       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4636       available".
4637
4638   hivex-node-set-value
4639        hivex-node-set-value nodeh key t val
4640
4641       Set or replace a single value under the node "nodeh".  The "key" is the
4642       name, "t" is the type, and "val" is the data.
4643
4644       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4645
4646       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4647       available".
4648
4649   hivex-node-values
4650        hivex-node-values nodeh
4651
4652       Return the array of (key, datatype, data) tuples attached to "nodeh".
4653
4654       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4655
4656       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4657       available".
4658
4659   hivex-open
4660        hivex-open filename [verbose:true|false] [debug:true|false] [write:true|false] [unsafe:true|false]
4661
4662       Open the Windows Registry hive file named filename.  If there was any
4663       previous hivex handle associated with this guestfs session, then it is
4664       closed.
4665
4666       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4667
4668       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
4669       ARGUMENTS".
4670
4671       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4672       available".
4673
4674   hivex-root
4675        hivex-root
4676
4677       Return the root node of the hive.
4678
4679       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4680
4681       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4682       available".
4683
4684   hivex-value-key
4685        hivex-value-key valueh
4686
4687       Return the key (name) field of a (key, datatype, data) tuple.
4688
4689       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4690
4691       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4692       available".
4693
4694   hivex-value-string
4695        hivex-value-string valueh
4696
4697       This calls "hivex-value-value" (which returns the data field from a
4698       hivex value tuple).  It then assumes that the field is a UTF-16LE
4699       string and converts the result to UTF-8 (or if this is not possible, it
4700       returns an error).
4701
4702       This is useful for reading strings out of the Windows registry.
4703       However it is not foolproof because the registry is not strongly-typed
4704       and fields can contain arbitrary or unexpected data.
4705
4706       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4707       available".
4708
4709   hivex-value-type
4710        hivex-value-type valueh
4711
4712       Return the data type field from a (key, datatype, data) tuple.
4713
4714       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4715
4716       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4717       available".
4718
4719   hivex-value-utf8
4720        hivex-value-utf8 valueh
4721
4722       This calls "hivex-value-value" (which returns the data field from a
4723       hivex value tuple).  It then assumes that the field is a UTF-16LE
4724       string and converts the result to UTF-8 (or if this is not possible, it
4725       returns an error).
4726
4727       This is useful for reading strings out of the Windows registry.
4728       However it is not foolproof because the registry is not strongly-typed
4729       and fields can contain arbitrary or unexpected data.
4730
4731       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "hivex-value-string"
4732       call instead.
4733
4734       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
4735       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
4736       use of these functions.
4737
4738       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4739       available".
4740
4741   hivex-value-value
4742        hivex-value-value valueh
4743
4744       Return the data field of a (key, datatype, data) tuple.
4745
4746       This is a wrapper around the hivex(3) call of the same name.
4747
4748       See also: "hivex-value-utf8".
4749
4750       This command depends on the feature "hivex".   See also "feature-
4751       available".
4752
4753   initrd-cat
4754        initrd-cat initrdpath filename
4755
4756       This command unpacks the file filename from the initrd file called
4757       initrdpath.  The filename must be given without the initial /
4758       character.
4759
4760       For example, in guestfish you could use the following command to
4761       examine the boot script (usually called /init) contained in a Linux
4762       initrd or initramfs image:
4763
4764        initrd-cat /boot/initrd-<version>.img init
4765
4766       See also "initrd-list".
4767
4768       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
4769       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
4770
4771   initrd-list
4772        initrd-list path
4773
4774       This command lists out files contained in an initrd.
4775
4776       The files are listed without any initial / character.  The files are
4777       listed in the order they appear (not necessarily alphabetical).
4778       Directory names are listed as separate items.
4779
4780       Old Linux kernels (2.4 and earlier) used a compressed ext2 filesystem
4781       as initrd.  We only support the newer initramfs format (compressed cpio
4782       files).
4783
4784   inotify-add-watch
4785        inotify-add-watch path mask
4786
4787       Watch "path" for the events listed in "mask".
4788
4789       Note that if "path" is a directory then events within that directory
4790       are watched, but this does not happen recursively (in subdirectories).
4791
4792       Note for non-C or non-Linux callers: the inotify events are defined by
4793       the Linux kernel ABI and are listed in /usr/include/sys/inotify.h.
4794
4795       This command depends on the feature "inotify".   See also "feature-
4796       available".
4797
4798   inotify-close
4799        inotify-close
4800
4801       This closes the inotify handle which was previously opened by
4802       inotify_init.  It removes all watches, throws away any pending events,
4803       and deallocates all resources.
4804
4805       This command depends on the feature "inotify".   See also "feature-
4806       available".
4807
4808   inotify-files
4809        inotify-files
4810
4811       This function is a helpful wrapper around "inotify-read" which just
4812       returns a list of pathnames of objects that were touched.  The returned
4813       pathnames are sorted and deduplicated.
4814
4815       This command depends on the feature "inotify".   See also "feature-
4816       available".
4817
4818   inotify-init
4819        inotify-init maxevents
4820
4821       This command creates a new inotify handle.  The inotify subsystem can
4822       be used to notify events which happen to objects in the guest
4823       filesystem.
4824
4825       "maxevents" is the maximum number of events which will be queued up
4826       between calls to "inotify-read" or "inotify-files".  If this is passed
4827       as 0, then the kernel (or previously set) default is used.  For Linux
4828       2.6.29 the default was 16384 events.  Beyond this limit, the kernel
4829       throws away events, but records the fact that it threw them away by
4830       setting a flag "IN_Q_OVERFLOW" in the returned structure list (see
4831       "inotify-read").
4832
4833       Before any events are generated, you have to add some watches to the
4834       internal watch list.  See: "inotify-add-watch" and "inotify-rm-watch".
4835
4836       Queued up events should be read periodically by calling "inotify-read"
4837       (or "inotify-files" which is just a helpful wrapper around "inotify-
4838       read").  If you don't read the events out often enough then you risk
4839       the internal queue overflowing.
4840
4841       The handle should be closed after use by calling "inotify-close".  This
4842       also removes any watches automatically.
4843
4844       See also inotify(7) for an overview of the inotify interface as exposed
4845       by the Linux kernel, which is roughly what we expose via libguestfs.
4846       Note that there is one global inotify handle per libguestfs instance.
4847
4848       This command depends on the feature "inotify".   See also "feature-
4849       available".
4850
4851   inotify-read
4852        inotify-read
4853
4854       Return the complete queue of events that have happened since the
4855       previous read call.
4856
4857       If no events have happened, this returns an empty list.
4858
4859       Note: In order to make sure that all events have been read, you must
4860       call this function repeatedly until it returns an empty list.  The
4861       reason is that the call will read events up to the maximum appliance-
4862       to-host message size and leave remaining events in the queue.
4863
4864       This command depends on the feature "inotify".   See also "feature-
4865       available".
4866
4867   inotify-rm-watch
4868        inotify-rm-watch wd
4869
4870       Remove a previously defined inotify watch.  See "inotify-add-watch".
4871
4872       This command depends on the feature "inotify".   See also "feature-
4873       available".
4874
4875   inspect-get-arch
4876        inspect-get-arch root
4877
4878       This returns the architecture of the inspected operating system.  The
4879       possible return values are listed under "file-architecture".
4880
4881       If the architecture could not be determined, then the string "unknown"
4882       is returned.
4883
4884       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
4885
4886   inspect-get-distro
4887        inspect-get-distro root
4888
4889       This returns the distro (distribution) of the inspected operating
4890       system.
4891
4892       Currently defined distros are:
4893
4894       "alpinelinux"
4895           Alpine Linux.
4896
4897       "altlinux"
4898           ALT Linux.
4899
4900       "archlinux"
4901           Arch Linux.
4902
4903       "buildroot"
4904           Buildroot-derived distro, but not one we specifically recognize.
4905
4906       "centos"
4907           CentOS.
4908
4909       "cirros"
4910           Cirros.
4911
4912       "coreos"
4913           CoreOS.
4914
4915       "debian"
4916           Debian.
4917
4918       "fedora"
4919           Fedora.
4920
4921       "freebsd"
4922           FreeBSD.
4923
4924       "freedos"
4925           FreeDOS.
4926
4927       "frugalware"
4928           Frugalware.
4929
4930       "gentoo"
4931           Gentoo.
4932
4933       "kalilinux"
4934           Kali Linux.
4935
4936       "linuxmint"
4937           Linux Mint.
4938
4939       "mageia"
4940           Mageia.
4941
4942       "mandriva"
4943           Mandriva.
4944
4945       "meego"
4946           MeeGo.
4947
4948       "msdos"
4949           Microsoft DOS.
4950
4951       "neokylin"
4952           NeoKylin.
4953
4954       "netbsd"
4955           NetBSD.
4956
4957       "openbsd"
4958           OpenBSD.
4959
4960       "opensuse"
4961           OpenSUSE.
4962
4963       "oraclelinux"
4964           Oracle Linux.
4965
4966       "pardus"
4967           Pardus.
4968
4969       "pldlinux"
4970           PLD Linux.
4971
4972       "redhat-based"
4973           Some Red Hat-derived distro.
4974
4975       "rhel"
4976           Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
4977
4978       "scientificlinux"
4979           Scientific Linux.
4980
4981       "slackware"
4982           Slackware.
4983
4984       "sles"
4985           SuSE Linux Enterprise Server or Desktop.
4986
4987       "suse-based"
4988           Some openSuSE-derived distro.
4989
4990       "ttylinux"
4991           ttylinux.
4992
4993       "ubuntu"
4994           Ubuntu.
4995
4996       "unknown"
4997           The distro could not be determined.
4998
4999       "voidlinux"
5000           Void Linux.
5001
5002       "windows"
5003           Windows does not have distributions.  This string is returned if
5004           the OS type is Windows.
5005
5006       Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings here.  The
5007       caller should be prepared to handle any string.
5008
5009       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5010
5011   inspect-get-drive-mappings
5012        inspect-get-drive-mappings root
5013
5014       This call is useful for Windows which uses a primitive system of
5015       assigning drive letters (like C:\) to partitions.  This inspection API
5016       examines the Windows Registry to find out how disks/partitions are
5017       mapped to drive letters, and returns a hash table as in the example
5018       below:
5019
5020        C      =>     /dev/vda2
5021        E      =>     /dev/vdb1
5022        F      =>     /dev/vdc1
5023
5024       Note that keys are drive letters.  For Windows, the key is case
5025       insensitive and just contains the drive letter, without the customary
5026       colon separator character.
5027
5028       In future we may support other operating systems that also used drive
5029       letters, but the keys for those might not be case insensitive and might
5030       be longer than 1 character.  For example in OS-9, hard drives were
5031       named "h0", "h1" etc.
5032
5033       For Windows guests, currently only hard drive mappings are returned.
5034       Removable disks (eg. DVD-ROMs) are ignored.
5035
5036       For guests that do not use drive mappings, or if the drive mappings
5037       could not be determined, this returns an empty hash table.
5038
5039       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.  See also
5040       "inspect-get-mountpoints", "inspect-get-filesystems".
5041
5042   inspect-get-filesystems
5043        inspect-get-filesystems root
5044
5045       This returns a list of all the filesystems that we think are associated
5046       with this operating system.  This includes the root filesystem, other
5047       ordinary filesystems, and non-mounted devices like swap partitions.
5048
5049       In the case of a multi-boot virtual machine, it is possible for a
5050       filesystem to be shared between operating systems.
5051
5052       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.  See also
5053       "inspect-get-mountpoints".
5054
5055   inspect-get-format
5056        inspect-get-format root
5057
5058       Before libguestfs 1.38, there was some unreliable support for detecting
5059       installer CDs.  This API would return:
5060
5061       "installed"
5062           This is an installed operating system.
5063
5064       "installer"
5065           The disk image being inspected is not an installed operating
5066           system, but a bootable install disk, live CD, or similar.
5067
5068       "unknown"
5069           The format of this disk image is not known.
5070
5071       In libguestfs ≥ 1.38, this only returns "installed".  Use libosinfo
5072       directly to detect installer CDs.
5073
5074       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5075
5076       This function is deprecated.  There is no replacement.  Consult the API
5077       documentation in guestfs(3) for further information.
5078
5079       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
5080       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
5081       use of these functions.
5082
5083   inspect-get-hostname
5084        inspect-get-hostname root
5085
5086       This function returns the hostname of the operating system as found by
5087       inspection of the guest’s configuration files.
5088
5089       If the hostname could not be determined, then the string "unknown" is
5090       returned.
5091
5092       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5093
5094   inspect-get-icon
5095        inspect-get-icon root [favicon:true|false] [highquality:true|false]
5096
5097       This function returns an icon corresponding to the inspected operating
5098       system.  The icon is returned as a buffer containing a PNG image (re-
5099       encoded to PNG if necessary).
5100
5101       If it was not possible to get an icon this function returns a zero-
5102       length (non-NULL) buffer.  Callers must check for this case.
5103
5104       Libguestfs will start by looking for a file called /etc/favicon.png or
5105       C:\etc\favicon.png and if it has the correct format, the contents of
5106       this file will be returned.  You can disable favicons by passing the
5107       optional "favicon" boolean as false (default is true).
5108
5109       If finding the favicon fails, then we look in other places in the guest
5110       for a suitable icon.
5111
5112       If the optional "highquality" boolean is true then only high quality
5113       icons are returned, which means only icons of high resolution with an
5114       alpha channel.  The default (false) is to return any icon we can, even
5115       if it is of substandard quality.
5116
5117       Notes:
5118
5119       ·   Unlike most other inspection API calls, the guest’s disks must be
5120           mounted up before you call this, since it needs to read information
5121           from the guest filesystem during the call.
5122
5123       ·   Security: The icon data comes from the untrusted guest, and should
5124           be treated with caution.  PNG files have been known to contain
5125           exploits.  Ensure that libpng (or other relevant libraries) are
5126           fully up to date before trying to process or display the icon.
5127
5128       ·   The PNG image returned can be any size.  It might not be square.
5129           Libguestfs tries to return the largest, highest quality icon
5130           available.  The application must scale the icon to the required
5131           size.
5132
5133       ·   Extracting icons from Windows guests requires the external
5134           "wrestool" program from the "icoutils" package, and several
5135           programs ("bmptopnm", "pnmtopng", "pamcut") from the "netpbm"
5136           package.  These must be installed separately.
5137
5138       ·   Operating system icons are usually trademarks.  Seek legal advice
5139           before using trademarks in applications.
5140
5141       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5142       ARGUMENTS".
5143
5144   inspect-get-major-version
5145        inspect-get-major-version root
5146
5147       This returns the major version number of the inspected operating
5148       system.
5149
5150       Windows uses a consistent versioning scheme which is not reflected in
5151       the popular public names used by the operating system.  Notably the
5152       operating system known as "Windows 7" is really version 6.1 (ie. major
5153       = 6, minor = 1).  You can find out the real versions corresponding to
5154       releases of Windows by consulting Wikipedia or MSDN.
5155
5156       If the version could not be determined, then 0 is returned.
5157
5158       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5159
5160   inspect-get-minor-version
5161        inspect-get-minor-version root
5162
5163       This returns the minor version number of the inspected operating
5164       system.
5165
5166       If the version could not be determined, then 0 is returned.
5167
5168       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.  See also
5169       "inspect-get-major-version".
5170
5171   inspect-get-mountpoints
5172        inspect-get-mountpoints root
5173
5174       This returns a hash of where we think the filesystems associated with
5175       this operating system should be mounted.  Callers should note that this
5176       is at best an educated guess made by reading configuration files such
5177       as /etc/fstab.  In particular note that this may return filesystems
5178       which are non-existent or not mountable and callers should be prepared
5179       to handle or ignore failures if they try to mount them.
5180
5181       Each element in the returned hashtable has a key which is the path of
5182       the mountpoint (eg. /boot) and a value which is the filesystem that
5183       would be mounted there (eg. /dev/sda1).
5184
5185       Non-mounted devices such as swap devices are not returned in this list.
5186
5187       For operating systems like Windows which still use drive letters, this
5188       call will only return an entry for the first drive "mounted on" /.  For
5189       information about the mapping of drive letters to partitions, see
5190       "inspect-get-drive-mappings".
5191
5192       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.  See also
5193       "inspect-get-filesystems".
5194
5195   inspect-get-osinfo
5196        inspect-get-osinfo root
5197
5198       This function returns a possible short ID for libosinfo corresponding
5199       to the guest.
5200
5201       Note: The returned ID is only a guess by libguestfs, and nothing
5202       ensures that it actually exists in osinfo-db.
5203
5204       If no ID could not be determined, then the string "unknown" is
5205       returned.
5206
5207   inspect-get-package-format
5208        inspect-get-package-format root
5209
5210       This function and "inspect-get-package-management" return the package
5211       format and package management tool used by the inspected operating
5212       system.  For example for Fedora these functions would return "rpm"
5213       (package format), and "yum" or "dnf" (package management).
5214
5215       This returns the string "unknown" if we could not determine the package
5216       format or if the operating system does not have a real packaging system
5217       (eg. Windows).
5218
5219       Possible strings include: "rpm", "deb", "ebuild", "pisi", "pacman",
5220       "pkgsrc", "apk", "xbps".  Future versions of libguestfs may return
5221       other strings.
5222
5223       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5224
5225   inspect-get-package-management
5226        inspect-get-package-management root
5227
5228       "inspect-get-package-format" and this function return the package
5229       format and package management tool used by the inspected operating
5230       system.  For example for Fedora these functions would return "rpm"
5231       (package format), and "yum" or "dnf" (package management).
5232
5233       This returns the string "unknown" if we could not determine the package
5234       management tool or if the operating system does not have a real
5235       packaging system (eg. Windows).
5236
5237       Possible strings include: "yum", "dnf", "up2date", "apt" (for all
5238       Debian derivatives), "portage", "pisi", "pacman", "urpmi", "zypper",
5239       "apk", "xbps".  Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings.
5240
5241       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5242
5243   inspect-get-product-name
5244        inspect-get-product-name root
5245
5246       This returns the product name of the inspected operating system.  The
5247       product name is generally some freeform string which can be displayed
5248       to the user, but should not be parsed by programs.
5249
5250       If the product name could not be determined, then the string "unknown"
5251       is returned.
5252
5253       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5254
5255   inspect-get-product-variant
5256        inspect-get-product-variant root
5257
5258       This returns the product variant of the inspected operating system.
5259
5260       For Windows guests, this returns the contents of the Registry key
5261       "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" "InstallationType"
5262       which is usually a string such as "Client" or "Server" (other values
5263       are possible).  This can be used to distinguish consumer and enterprise
5264       versions of Windows that have the same version number (for example,
5265       Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server are both version 6.1, but the former
5266       is "Client" and the latter is "Server").
5267
5268       For enterprise Linux guests, in future we intend this to return the
5269       product variant such as "Desktop", "Server" and so on.  But this is not
5270       implemented at present.
5271
5272       If the product variant could not be determined, then the string
5273       "unknown" is returned.
5274
5275       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.  See also
5276       "inspect-get-product-name", "inspect-get-major-version".
5277
5278   inspect-get-roots
5279        inspect-get-roots
5280
5281       This function is a convenient way to get the list of root devices, as
5282       returned from a previous call to "inspect-os", but without redoing the
5283       whole inspection process.
5284
5285       This returns an empty list if either no root devices were found or the
5286       caller has not called "inspect-os".
5287
5288       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5289
5290   inspect-get-type
5291        inspect-get-type root
5292
5293       This returns the type of the inspected operating system.  Currently
5294       defined types are:
5295
5296       "linux"
5297           Any Linux-based operating system.
5298
5299       "windows"
5300           Any Microsoft Windows operating system.
5301
5302       "freebsd"
5303           FreeBSD.
5304
5305       "netbsd"
5306           NetBSD.
5307
5308       "openbsd"
5309           OpenBSD.
5310
5311       "hurd"
5312           GNU/Hurd.
5313
5314       "dos"
5315           MS-DOS, FreeDOS and others.
5316
5317       "minix"
5318           MINIX.
5319
5320       "unknown"
5321           The operating system type could not be determined.
5322
5323       Future versions of libguestfs may return other strings here.  The
5324       caller should be prepared to handle any string.
5325
5326       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5327
5328   inspect-get-windows-current-control-set
5329        inspect-get-windows-current-control-set root
5330
5331       This returns the Windows CurrentControlSet of the inspected guest.  The
5332       CurrentControlSet is a registry key name such as "ControlSet001".
5333
5334       This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the Registry could
5335       be examined by inspection.  If this is not the case then an error is
5336       returned.
5337
5338       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5339
5340   inspect-get-windows-software-hive
5341        inspect-get-windows-software-hive root
5342
5343       This returns the path to the hive (binary Windows Registry file)
5344       corresponding to HKLM\SOFTWARE.
5345
5346       This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the guest has a
5347       software hive file with the right name.  If this is not the case then
5348       an error is returned.  This call does not check that the hive is a
5349       valid Windows Registry hive.
5350
5351       You can use "hivex-open" to read or write to the hive.
5352
5353       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5354
5355   inspect-get-windows-system-hive
5356        inspect-get-windows-system-hive root
5357
5358       This returns the path to the hive (binary Windows Registry file)
5359       corresponding to HKLM\SYSTEM.
5360
5361       This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the guest has a
5362       system hive file with the right name.  If this is not the case then an
5363       error is returned.  This call does not check that the hive is a valid
5364       Windows Registry hive.
5365
5366       You can use "hivex-open" to read or write to the hive.
5367
5368       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5369
5370   inspect-get-windows-systemroot
5371        inspect-get-windows-systemroot root
5372
5373       This returns the Windows systemroot of the inspected guest.  The
5374       systemroot is a directory path such as /WINDOWS.
5375
5376       This call assumes that the guest is Windows and that the systemroot
5377       could be determined by inspection.  If this is not the case then an
5378       error is returned.
5379
5380       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5381
5382   inspect-is-live
5383        inspect-is-live root
5384
5385       This is deprecated and always returns "false".
5386
5387       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5388
5389       This function is deprecated.  There is no replacement.  Consult the API
5390       documentation in guestfs(3) for further information.
5391
5392       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
5393       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
5394       use of these functions.
5395
5396   inspect-is-multipart
5397        inspect-is-multipart root
5398
5399       This is deprecated and always returns "false".
5400
5401       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5402
5403       This function is deprecated.  There is no replacement.  Consult the API
5404       documentation in guestfs(3) for further information.
5405
5406       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
5407       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
5408       use of these functions.
5409
5410   inspect-is-netinst
5411        inspect-is-netinst root
5412
5413       This is deprecated and always returns "false".
5414
5415       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5416
5417       This function is deprecated.  There is no replacement.  Consult the API
5418       documentation in guestfs(3) for further information.
5419
5420       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
5421       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
5422       use of these functions.
5423
5424   inspect-list-applications
5425        inspect-list-applications root
5426
5427       Return the list of applications installed in the operating system.
5428
5429       Note: This call works differently from other parts of the inspection
5430       API.  You have to call "inspect-os", then "inspect-get-mountpoints",
5431       then mount up the disks, before calling this.  Listing applications is
5432       a significantly more difficult operation which requires access to the
5433       full filesystem.  Also note that unlike the other "inspect-get-*" calls
5434       which are just returning data cached in the libguestfs handle, this
5435       call actually reads parts of the mounted filesystems during the call.
5436
5437       This returns an empty list if the inspection code was not able to
5438       determine the list of applications.
5439
5440       The application structure contains the following fields:
5441
5442       "app_name"
5443           The name of the application.  For Red Hat-derived and Debian-
5444           derived Linux guests, this is the package name.
5445
5446       "app_display_name"
5447           The display name of the application, sometimes localized to the
5448           install language of the guest operating system.
5449
5450           If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".  Callers
5451           needing to display something can use "app_name" instead.
5452
5453       "app_epoch"
5454           For package managers which use epochs, this contains the epoch of
5455           the package (an integer).  If unavailable, this is returned as 0.
5456
5457       "app_version"
5458           The version string of the application or package.  If unavailable
5459           this is returned as an empty string "".
5460
5461       "app_release"
5462           The release string of the application or package, for package
5463           managers that use this.  If unavailable this is returned as an
5464           empty string "".
5465
5466       "app_install_path"
5467           The installation path of the application (on operating systems such
5468           as Windows which use installation paths).  This path is in the
5469           format used by the guest operating system, it is not a libguestfs
5470           path.
5471
5472           If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".
5473
5474       "app_trans_path"
5475           The install path translated into a libguestfs path.  If unavailable
5476           this is returned as an empty string "".
5477
5478       "app_publisher"
5479           The name of the publisher of the application, for package managers
5480           that use this.  If unavailable this is returned as an empty string
5481           "".
5482
5483       "app_url"
5484           The URL (eg. upstream URL) of the application.  If unavailable this
5485           is returned as an empty string "".
5486
5487       "app_source_package"
5488           For packaging systems which support this, the name of the source
5489           package.  If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".
5490
5491       "app_summary"
5492           A short (usually one line) description of the application or
5493           package.  If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".
5494
5495       "app_description"
5496           A longer description of the application or package.  If unavailable
5497           this is returned as an empty string "".
5498
5499       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5500
5501       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the
5502       "inspect-list-applications2" call instead.
5503
5504       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
5505       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
5506       use of these functions.
5507
5508   inspect-list-applications2
5509        inspect-list-applications2 root
5510
5511       Return the list of applications installed in the operating system.
5512
5513       Note: This call works differently from other parts of the inspection
5514       API.  You have to call "inspect-os", then "inspect-get-mountpoints",
5515       then mount up the disks, before calling this.  Listing applications is
5516       a significantly more difficult operation which requires access to the
5517       full filesystem.  Also note that unlike the other "inspect-get-*" calls
5518       which are just returning data cached in the libguestfs handle, this
5519       call actually reads parts of the mounted filesystems during the call.
5520
5521       This returns an empty list if the inspection code was not able to
5522       determine the list of applications.
5523
5524       The application structure contains the following fields:
5525
5526       "app2_name"
5527           The name of the application.  For Red Hat-derived and Debian-
5528           derived Linux guests, this is the package name.
5529
5530       "app2_display_name"
5531           The display name of the application, sometimes localized to the
5532           install language of the guest operating system.
5533
5534           If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".  Callers
5535           needing to display something can use "app2_name" instead.
5536
5537       "app2_epoch"
5538           For package managers which use epochs, this contains the epoch of
5539           the package (an integer).  If unavailable, this is returned as 0.
5540
5541       "app2_version"
5542           The version string of the application or package.  If unavailable
5543           this is returned as an empty string "".
5544
5545       "app2_release"
5546           The release string of the application or package, for package
5547           managers that use this.  If unavailable this is returned as an
5548           empty string "".
5549
5550       "app2_arch"
5551           The architecture string of the application or package, for package
5552           managers that use this.  If unavailable this is returned as an
5553           empty string "".
5554
5555       "app2_install_path"
5556           The installation path of the application (on operating systems such
5557           as Windows which use installation paths).  This path is in the
5558           format used by the guest operating system, it is not a libguestfs
5559           path.
5560
5561           If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".
5562
5563       "app2_trans_path"
5564           The install path translated into a libguestfs path.  If unavailable
5565           this is returned as an empty string "".
5566
5567       "app2_publisher"
5568           The name of the publisher of the application, for package managers
5569           that use this.  If unavailable this is returned as an empty string
5570           "".
5571
5572       "app2_url"
5573           The URL (eg. upstream URL) of the application.  If unavailable this
5574           is returned as an empty string "".
5575
5576       "app2_source_package"
5577           For packaging systems which support this, the name of the source
5578           package.  If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".
5579
5580       "app2_summary"
5581           A short (usually one line) description of the application or
5582           package.  If unavailable this is returned as an empty string "".
5583
5584       "app2_description"
5585           A longer description of the application or package.  If unavailable
5586           this is returned as an empty string "".
5587
5588       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5589
5590   inspect-os
5591        inspect-os
5592
5593       This function uses other libguestfs functions and certain heuristics to
5594       inspect the disk(s) (usually disks belonging to a virtual machine),
5595       looking for operating systems.
5596
5597       The list returned is empty if no operating systems were found.
5598
5599       If one operating system was found, then this returns a list with a
5600       single element, which is the name of the root filesystem of this
5601       operating system.  It is also possible for this function to return a
5602       list containing more than one element, indicating a dual-boot or multi-
5603       boot virtual machine, with each element being the root filesystem of
5604       one of the operating systems.
5605
5606       You can pass the root string(s) returned to other "inspect-get-*"
5607       functions in order to query further information about each operating
5608       system, such as the name and version.
5609
5610       This function uses other libguestfs features such as "mount-ro" and
5611       "umount-all" in order to mount and unmount filesystems and look at the
5612       contents.  This should be called with no disks currently mounted.  The
5613       function may also use Augeas, so any existing Augeas handle will be
5614       closed.
5615
5616       This function cannot decrypt encrypted disks.  The caller must do that
5617       first (supplying the necessary keys) if the disk is encrypted.
5618
5619       Please read "INSPECTION" in guestfs(3) for more details.
5620
5621       See also "list-filesystems".
5622
5623   is-blockdev
5624   is-blockdev-opts
5625        is-blockdev path [followsymlinks:true|false]
5626
5627       This returns "true" if and only if there is a block device with the
5628       given "path" name.
5629
5630       If the optional flag "followsymlinks" is true, then a symlink (or chain
5631       of symlinks) that ends with a block device also causes the function to
5632       return true.
5633
5634       This call only looks at files within the guest filesystem.  Libguestfs
5635       partitions and block devices (eg. /dev/sda) cannot be used as the
5636       "path" parameter of this call.
5637
5638       See also "stat".
5639
5640       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5641       ARGUMENTS".
5642
5643   is-chardev
5644   is-chardev-opts
5645        is-chardev path [followsymlinks:true|false]
5646
5647       This returns "true" if and only if there is a character device with the
5648       given "path" name.
5649
5650       If the optional flag "followsymlinks" is true, then a symlink (or chain
5651       of symlinks) that ends with a chardev also causes the function to
5652       return true.
5653
5654       See also "stat".
5655
5656       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5657       ARGUMENTS".
5658
5659   is-config
5660        is-config
5661
5662       This returns true iff this handle is being configured (in the "CONFIG"
5663       state).
5664
5665       For more information on states, see guestfs(3).
5666
5667   is-dir
5668   is-dir-opts
5669        is-dir path [followsymlinks:true|false]
5670
5671       This returns "true" if and only if there is a directory with the given
5672       "path" name.  Note that it returns false for other objects like files.
5673
5674       If the optional flag "followsymlinks" is true, then a symlink (or chain
5675       of symlinks) that ends with a directory also causes the function to
5676       return true.
5677
5678       See also "stat".
5679
5680       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5681       ARGUMENTS".
5682
5683   is-fifo
5684   is-fifo-opts
5685        is-fifo path [followsymlinks:true|false]
5686
5687       This returns "true" if and only if there is a FIFO (named pipe) with
5688       the given "path" name.
5689
5690       If the optional flag "followsymlinks" is true, then a symlink (or chain
5691       of symlinks) that ends with a FIFO also causes the function to return
5692       true.
5693
5694       See also "stat".
5695
5696       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5697       ARGUMENTS".
5698
5699   is-file
5700   is-file-opts
5701        is-file path [followsymlinks:true|false]
5702
5703       This returns "true" if and only if there is a regular file with the
5704       given "path" name.  Note that it returns false for other objects like
5705       directories.
5706
5707       If the optional flag "followsymlinks" is true, then a symlink (or chain
5708       of symlinks) that ends with a file also causes the function to return
5709       true.
5710
5711       See also "stat".
5712
5713       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5714       ARGUMENTS".
5715
5716   is-lv
5717        is-lv mountable
5718
5719       This command tests whether "mountable" is a logical volume, and returns
5720       true iff this is the case.
5721
5722   is-socket
5723   is-socket-opts
5724        is-socket path [followsymlinks:true|false]
5725
5726       This returns "true" if and only if there is a Unix domain socket with
5727       the given "path" name.
5728
5729       If the optional flag "followsymlinks" is true, then a symlink (or chain
5730       of symlinks) that ends with a socket also causes the function to return
5731       true.
5732
5733       See also "stat".
5734
5735       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
5736       ARGUMENTS".
5737
5738   is-symlink
5739        is-symlink path
5740
5741       This returns "true" if and only if there is a symbolic link with the
5742       given "path" name.
5743
5744       See also "stat".
5745
5746   is-whole-device
5747        is-whole-device device
5748
5749       This returns "true" if and only if "device" refers to a whole block
5750       device. That is, not a partition or a logical device.
5751
5752   is-zero
5753        is-zero path
5754
5755       This returns true iff the file exists and the file is empty or it
5756       contains all zero bytes.
5757
5758   is-zero-device
5759        is-zero-device device
5760
5761       This returns true iff the device exists and contains all zero bytes.
5762
5763       Note that for large devices this can take a long time to run.
5764
5765   isoinfo
5766        isoinfo isofile
5767
5768       This is the same as "isoinfo-device" except that it works for an ISO
5769       file located inside some other mounted filesystem.  Note that in the
5770       common case where you have added an ISO file as a libguestfs device,
5771       you would not call this.  Instead you would call "isoinfo-device".
5772
5773   isoinfo-device
5774        isoinfo-device device
5775
5776       "device" is an ISO device.  This returns a struct of information read
5777       from the primary volume descriptor (the ISO equivalent of the
5778       superblock) of the device.
5779
5780       Usually it is more efficient to use the isoinfo(1) command with the -d
5781       option on the host to analyze ISO files, instead of going through
5782       libguestfs.
5783
5784       For information on the primary volume descriptor fields, see
5785       http://wiki.osdev.org/ISO_9660#The_Primary_Volume_Descriptor
5786
5787   journal-close
5788        journal-close
5789
5790       Close the journal handle.
5791
5792       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5793       available".
5794
5795   journal-get
5796        journal-get
5797
5798       Read the current journal entry.  This returns all the fields in the
5799       journal as a set of "(attrname, attrval)" pairs.  The "attrname" is the
5800       field name (a string).
5801
5802       The "attrval" is the field value (a binary blob, often but not always a
5803       string).  Please note that "attrval" is a byte array, not a
5804       \0-terminated C string.
5805
5806       The length of data may be truncated to the data threshold (see:
5807       "journal-set-data-threshold", "journal-get-data-threshold").
5808
5809       If you set the data threshold to unlimited (0) then this call can read
5810       a journal entry of any size, ie. it is not limited by the libguestfs
5811       protocol.
5812
5813       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5814       available".
5815
5816   journal-get-data-threshold
5817        journal-get-data-threshold
5818
5819       Get the current data threshold for reading journal entries.  This is a
5820       hint to the journal that it may truncate data fields to this size when
5821       reading them (note also that it may not truncate them).  If this
5822       returns 0, then the threshold is unlimited.
5823
5824       See also "journal-set-data-threshold".
5825
5826       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5827       available".
5828
5829   journal-get-realtime-usec
5830        journal-get-realtime-usec
5831
5832       Get the realtime (wallclock) timestamp of the current journal entry.
5833
5834       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5835       available".
5836
5837   journal-next
5838        journal-next
5839
5840       Move to the next journal entry.  You have to call this at least once
5841       after opening the handle before you are able to read data.
5842
5843       The returned boolean tells you if there are any more journal records to
5844       read.  "true" means you can read the next record (eg. using "journal-
5845       get"), and "false" means you have reached the end of the journal.
5846
5847       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5848       available".
5849
5850   journal-open
5851        journal-open directory
5852
5853       Open the systemd journal located in directory.  Any previously opened
5854       journal handle is closed.
5855
5856       The contents of the journal can be read using "journal-next" and
5857       "journal-get".
5858
5859       After you have finished using the journal, you should close the handle
5860       by calling "journal-close".
5861
5862       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5863       available".
5864
5865   journal-set-data-threshold
5866        journal-set-data-threshold threshold
5867
5868       Set the data threshold for reading journal entries.  This is a hint to
5869       the journal that it may truncate data fields to this size when reading
5870       them (note also that it may not truncate them).  If you set this to 0,
5871       then the threshold is unlimited.
5872
5873       See also "journal-get-data-threshold".
5874
5875       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5876       available".
5877
5878   journal-skip
5879        journal-skip skip
5880
5881       Skip forwards ("skip ≥ 0") or backwards ("skip < 0") in the journal.
5882
5883       The number of entries actually skipped is returned (note "rskip ≥ 0").
5884       If this is not the same as the absolute value of the skip parameter
5885       ("|skip|") you passed in then it means you have reached the end or the
5886       start of the journal.
5887
5888       This command depends on the feature "journal".   See also "feature-
5889       available".
5890
5891   kill-subprocess
5892        kill-subprocess
5893
5894       This kills the hypervisor.
5895
5896       Do not call this.  See: "shutdown" instead.
5897
5898       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "shutdown" call
5899       instead.
5900
5901       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
5902       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
5903       use of these functions.
5904
5905   launch
5906   run
5907        launch
5908
5909       You should call this after configuring the handle (eg. adding drives)
5910       but before performing any actions.
5911
5912       Do not call "launch" twice on the same handle.  Although it will not
5913       give an error (for historical reasons), the precise behaviour when you
5914       do this is not well defined.  Handles are very cheap to create, so
5915       create a new one for each launch.
5916
5917   lchown
5918        lchown owner group path
5919
5920       Change the file owner to "owner" and group to "group".  This is like
5921       "chown" but if "path" is a symlink then the link itself is changed, not
5922       the target.
5923
5924       Only numeric uid and gid are supported.  If you want to use names, you
5925       will need to locate and parse the password file yourself (Augeas
5926       support makes this relatively easy).
5927
5928   ldmtool-create-all
5929        ldmtool-create-all
5930
5931       This function scans all block devices looking for Windows dynamic disk
5932       volumes and partitions, and creates devices for any that were found.
5933
5934       Call "list-ldm-volumes" and "list-ldm-partitions" to return all
5935       devices.
5936
5937       Note that you don't normally need to call this explicitly, since it is
5938       done automatically at "launch" time.  However you might want to call
5939       this function if you have hotplugged disks or have just created a
5940       Windows dynamic disk.
5941
5942       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
5943       available".
5944
5945   ldmtool-diskgroup-disks
5946        ldmtool-diskgroup-disks diskgroup
5947
5948       Return the disks in a Windows dynamic disk group.  The "diskgroup"
5949       parameter should be the GUID of a disk group, one element from the list
5950       returned by "ldmtool-scan".
5951
5952       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
5953       available".
5954
5955   ldmtool-diskgroup-name
5956        ldmtool-diskgroup-name diskgroup
5957
5958       Return the name of a Windows dynamic disk group.  The "diskgroup"
5959       parameter should be the GUID of a disk group, one element from the list
5960       returned by "ldmtool-scan".
5961
5962       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
5963       available".
5964
5965   ldmtool-diskgroup-volumes
5966        ldmtool-diskgroup-volumes diskgroup
5967
5968       Return the volumes in a Windows dynamic disk group.  The "diskgroup"
5969       parameter should be the GUID of a disk group, one element from the list
5970       returned by "ldmtool-scan".
5971
5972       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
5973       available".
5974
5975   ldmtool-remove-all
5976        ldmtool-remove-all
5977
5978       This is essentially the opposite of "ldmtool-create-all".  It removes
5979       the device mapper mappings for all Windows dynamic disk volumes
5980
5981       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
5982       available".
5983
5984   ldmtool-scan
5985        ldmtool-scan
5986
5987       This function scans for Windows dynamic disks.  It returns a list of
5988       identifiers (GUIDs) for all disk groups that were found.  These
5989       identifiers can be passed to other "ldmtool-*" functions.
5990
5991       This function scans all block devices.  To scan a subset of block
5992       devices, call "ldmtool-scan-devices" instead.
5993
5994       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
5995       available".
5996
5997   ldmtool-scan-devices
5998        ldmtool-scan-devices 'devices ...'
5999
6000       This function scans for Windows dynamic disks.  It returns a list of
6001       identifiers (GUIDs) for all disk groups that were found.  These
6002       identifiers can be passed to other "ldmtool-*" functions.
6003
6004       The parameter "devices" is a list of block devices which are scanned.
6005       If this list is empty, all block devices are scanned.
6006
6007       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
6008       available".
6009
6010   ldmtool-volume-hint
6011        ldmtool-volume-hint diskgroup volume
6012
6013       Return the hint field of the volume named "volume" in the disk group
6014       with GUID "diskgroup".  This may not be defined, in which case the
6015       empty string is returned.  The hint field is often, though not always,
6016       the name of a Windows drive, eg. "E:".
6017
6018       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
6019       available".
6020
6021   ldmtool-volume-partitions
6022        ldmtool-volume-partitions diskgroup volume
6023
6024       Return the list of partitions in the volume named "volume" in the disk
6025       group with GUID "diskgroup".
6026
6027       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
6028       available".
6029
6030   ldmtool-volume-type
6031        ldmtool-volume-type diskgroup volume
6032
6033       Return the type of the volume named "volume" in the disk group with
6034       GUID "diskgroup".
6035
6036       Possible volume types that can be returned here include: "simple",
6037       "spanned", "striped", "mirrored", "raid5".  Other types may also be
6038       returned.
6039
6040       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
6041       available".
6042
6043   lgetxattr
6044        lgetxattr path name
6045
6046       Get a single extended attribute from file "path" named "name".  If
6047       "path" is a symlink, then this call returns an extended attribute from
6048       the symlink.
6049
6050       Normally it is better to get all extended attributes from a file in one
6051       go by calling "getxattrs".  However some Linux filesystem
6052       implementations are buggy and do not provide a way to list out
6053       attributes.  For these filesystems (notably ntfs-3g) you have to know
6054       the names of the extended attributes you want in advance and call this
6055       function.
6056
6057       Extended attribute values are blobs of binary data.  If there is no
6058       extended attribute named "name", this returns an error.
6059
6060       See also: "lgetxattrs", "getxattr", attr(5).
6061
6062       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
6063       available".
6064
6065   lgetxattrs
6066        lgetxattrs path
6067
6068       This is the same as "getxattrs", but if "path" is a symbolic link, then
6069       it returns the extended attributes of the link itself.
6070
6071       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
6072       available".
6073
6074   list-9p
6075        list-9p
6076
6077       List all 9p filesystems attached to the guest.  A list of mount tags is
6078       returned.
6079
6080   list-devices
6081        list-devices
6082
6083       List all the block devices.
6084
6085       The full block device names are returned, eg. /dev/sda.
6086
6087       See also "list-filesystems".
6088
6089   list-disk-labels
6090        list-disk-labels
6091
6092       If you add drives using the optional "label" parameter of "add-drive-
6093       opts", you can use this call to map between disk labels, and raw block
6094       device and partition names (like /dev/sda and /dev/sda1).
6095
6096       This returns a hashtable, where keys are the disk labels (without the
6097       /dev/disk/guestfs prefix), and the values are the full raw block device
6098       and partition names (eg. /dev/sda and /dev/sda1).
6099
6100   list-dm-devices
6101        list-dm-devices
6102
6103       List all device mapper devices.
6104
6105       The returned list contains /dev/mapper/* devices, eg. ones created by a
6106       previous call to "luks-open".
6107
6108       Device mapper devices which correspond to logical volumes are not
6109       returned in this list.  Call "lvs" if you want to list logical volumes.
6110
6111   list-filesystems
6112        list-filesystems
6113
6114       This inspection command looks for filesystems on partitions, block
6115       devices and logical volumes, returning a list of "mountables"
6116       containing filesystems and their type.
6117
6118       The return value is a hash, where the keys are the devices containing
6119       filesystems, and the values are the filesystem types.  For example:
6120
6121        "/dev/sda1" => "ntfs"
6122        "/dev/sda2" => "ext2"
6123        "/dev/vg_guest/lv_root" => "ext4"
6124        "/dev/vg_guest/lv_swap" => "swap"
6125
6126       The key is not necessarily a block device. It may also be an opaque
6127       ‘mountable’ string which can be passed to "mount".
6128
6129       The value can have the special value "unknown", meaning the content of
6130       the device is undetermined or empty.  "swap" means a Linux swap
6131       partition.
6132
6133       In libguestfs ≤ 1.36 this command ran other libguestfs commands, which
6134       might have included "mount" and "umount", and therefore you had to use
6135       this soon after launch and only when nothing else was mounted.  This
6136       restriction is removed in libguestfs ≥ 1.38.
6137
6138       Not all of the filesystems returned will be mountable.  In particular,
6139       swap partitions are returned in the list.  Also this command does not
6140       check that each filesystem found is valid and mountable, and some
6141       filesystems might be mountable but require special options.
6142       Filesystems may not all belong to a single logical operating system
6143       (use "inspect-os" to look for OSes).
6144
6145   list-ldm-partitions
6146        list-ldm-partitions
6147
6148       This function returns all Windows dynamic disk partitions that were
6149       found at launch time.  It returns a list of device names.
6150
6151       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
6152       available".
6153
6154   list-ldm-volumes
6155        list-ldm-volumes
6156
6157       This function returns all Windows dynamic disk volumes that were found
6158       at launch time.  It returns a list of device names.
6159
6160       This command depends on the feature "ldm".   See also "feature-
6161       available".
6162
6163   list-md-devices
6164        list-md-devices
6165
6166       List all Linux md devices.
6167
6168   list-partitions
6169        list-partitions
6170
6171       List all the partitions detected on all block devices.
6172
6173       The full partition device names are returned, eg. /dev/sda1
6174
6175       This does not return logical volumes.  For that you will need to call
6176       "lvs".
6177
6178       See also "list-filesystems".
6179
6180   ll
6181        ll directory
6182
6183       List the files in directory (relative to the root directory, there is
6184       no cwd) in the format of 'ls -la'.
6185
6186       This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions.  It is not
6187       intended that you try to parse the output string.
6188
6189   llz
6190        llz directory
6191
6192       List the files in directory in the format of 'ls -laZ'.
6193
6194       This command is mostly useful for interactive sessions.  It is not
6195       intended that you try to parse the output string.
6196
6197       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "lgetxattrs" call
6198       instead.
6199
6200       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6201       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6202       use of these functions.
6203
6204   ln
6205        ln target linkname
6206
6207       This command creates a hard link using the "ln" command.
6208
6209   ln-f
6210        ln-f target linkname
6211
6212       This command creates a hard link using the "ln -f" command.  The -f
6213       option removes the link ("linkname") if it exists already.
6214
6215   ln-s
6216        ln-s target linkname
6217
6218       This command creates a symbolic link using the "ln -s" command.
6219
6220   ln-sf
6221        ln-sf target linkname
6222
6223       This command creates a symbolic link using the "ln -sf" command, The -f
6224       option removes the link ("linkname") if it exists already.
6225
6226   lremovexattr
6227        lremovexattr xattr path
6228
6229       This is the same as "removexattr", but if "path" is a symbolic link,
6230       then it removes an extended attribute of the link itself.
6231
6232       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
6233       available".
6234
6235   ls
6236        ls directory
6237
6238       List the files in directory (relative to the root directory, there is
6239       no cwd).  The '.' and '..' entries are not returned, but hidden files
6240       are shown.
6241
6242   ls0
6243        ls0 dir (filenames|-)
6244
6245       This specialized command is used to get a listing of the filenames in
6246       the directory "dir".  The list of filenames is written to the local
6247       file filenames (on the host).
6248
6249       In the output file, the filenames are separated by "\0" characters.
6250
6251       "." and ".." are not returned.  The filenames are not sorted.
6252
6253       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
6254
6255   lsetxattr
6256        lsetxattr xattr val vallen path
6257
6258       This is the same as "setxattr", but if "path" is a symbolic link, then
6259       it sets an extended attribute of the link itself.
6260
6261       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
6262       available".
6263
6264   lstat
6265        lstat path
6266
6267       Returns file information for the given "path".
6268
6269       This is the same as "stat" except that if "path" is a symbolic link,
6270       then the link is stat-ed, not the file it refers to.
6271
6272       This is the same as the lstat(2) system call.
6273
6274       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "lstatns" call
6275       instead.
6276
6277       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6278       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6279       use of these functions.
6280
6281   lstatlist
6282        lstatlist path 'names ...'
6283
6284       This call allows you to perform the "lstat" operation on multiple
6285       files, where all files are in the directory "path".  "names" is the
6286       list of files from this directory.
6287
6288       On return you get a list of stat structs, with a one-to-one
6289       correspondence to the "names" list.  If any name did not exist or could
6290       not be lstat'd, then the "st_ino" field of that structure is set to
6291       "-1".
6292
6293       This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently list a
6294       directory contents without making many round-trips.  See also
6295       "lxattrlist" for a similarly efficient call for getting extended
6296       attributes.
6297
6298       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "lstatnslist" call
6299       instead.
6300
6301       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6302       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6303       use of these functions.
6304
6305   lstatns
6306        lstatns path
6307
6308       Returns file information for the given "path".
6309
6310       This is the same as "statns" except that if "path" is a symbolic link,
6311       then the link is stat-ed, not the file it refers to.
6312
6313       This is the same as the lstat(2) system call.
6314
6315   lstatnslist
6316        lstatnslist path 'names ...'
6317
6318       This call allows you to perform the "lstatns" operation on multiple
6319       files, where all files are in the directory "path".  "names" is the
6320       list of files from this directory.
6321
6322       On return you get a list of stat structs, with a one-to-one
6323       correspondence to the "names" list.  If any name did not exist or could
6324       not be lstat'd, then the "st_ino" field of that structure is set to
6325       "-1".
6326
6327       This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently list a
6328       directory contents without making many round-trips.  See also
6329       "lxattrlist" for a similarly efficient call for getting extended
6330       attributes.
6331
6332   luks-add-key
6333        luks-add-key device keyslot
6334
6335       This command adds a new key on LUKS device "device".  "key" is any
6336       existing key, and is used to access the device.  "newkey" is the new
6337       key to add.  "keyslot" is the key slot that will be replaced.
6338
6339       Note that if "keyslot" already contains a key, then this command will
6340       fail.  You have to use "luks-kill-slot" first to remove that key.
6341
6342       This command has one or more key or passphrase parameters.  Guestfish
6343       will prompt for these separately.
6344
6345       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6346       available".
6347
6348   luks-close
6349        luks-close device
6350
6351       This closes a LUKS device that was created earlier by "luks-open" or
6352       "luks-open-ro".  The "device" parameter must be the name of the LUKS
6353       mapping device (ie. /dev/mapper/mapname) and not the name of the
6354       underlying block device.
6355
6356       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6357       available".
6358
6359   luks-format
6360        luks-format device keyslot
6361
6362       This command erases existing data on "device" and formats the device as
6363       a LUKS encrypted device.  "key" is the initial key, which is added to
6364       key slot "slot".  (LUKS supports 8 key slots, numbered 0-7).
6365
6366       This command has one or more key or passphrase parameters.  Guestfish
6367       will prompt for these separately.
6368
6369       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6370       available".
6371
6372   luks-format-cipher
6373        luks-format-cipher device keyslot cipher
6374
6375       This command is the same as "luks-format" but it also allows you to set
6376       the "cipher" used.
6377
6378       This command has one or more key or passphrase parameters.  Guestfish
6379       will prompt for these separately.
6380
6381       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6382       available".
6383
6384   luks-kill-slot
6385        luks-kill-slot device keyslot
6386
6387       This command deletes the key in key slot "keyslot" from the encrypted
6388       LUKS device "device".  "key" must be one of the other keys.
6389
6390       This command has one or more key or passphrase parameters.  Guestfish
6391       will prompt for these separately.
6392
6393       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6394       available".
6395
6396   luks-open
6397        luks-open device mapname
6398
6399       This command opens a block device which has been encrypted according to
6400       the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) standard.
6401
6402       "device" is the encrypted block device or partition.
6403
6404       The caller must supply one of the keys associated with the LUKS block
6405       device, in the "key" parameter.
6406
6407       This creates a new block device called /dev/mapper/mapname.  Reads and
6408       writes to this block device are decrypted from and encrypted to the
6409       underlying "device" respectively.
6410
6411       If this block device contains LVM volume groups, then calling "lvm-
6412       scan" with the "activate" parameter "true" will make them visible.
6413
6414       Use "list-dm-devices" to list all device mapper devices.
6415
6416       This command has one or more key or passphrase parameters.  Guestfish
6417       will prompt for these separately.
6418
6419       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6420       available".
6421
6422   luks-open-ro
6423        luks-open-ro device mapname
6424
6425       This is the same as "luks-open" except that a read-only mapping is
6426       created.
6427
6428       This command has one or more key or passphrase parameters.  Guestfish
6429       will prompt for these separately.
6430
6431       This command depends on the feature "luks".   See also "feature-
6432       available".
6433
6434   lvcreate
6435        lvcreate logvol volgroup mbytes
6436
6437       This creates an LVM logical volume called "logvol" on the volume group
6438       "volgroup", with "size" megabytes.
6439
6440       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6441       available".
6442
6443   lvcreate-free
6444        lvcreate-free logvol volgroup percent
6445
6446       Create an LVM logical volume called /dev/volgroup/logvol, using
6447       approximately "percent" % of the free space remaining in the volume
6448       group.  Most usefully, when "percent" is 100 this will create the
6449       largest possible LV.
6450
6451       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6452       available".
6453
6454   lvm-canonical-lv-name
6455        lvm-canonical-lv-name lvname
6456
6457       This converts alternative naming schemes for LVs that you might find to
6458       the canonical name.  For example, /dev/mapper/VG-LV is converted to
6459       /dev/VG/LV.
6460
6461       This command returns an error if the "lvname" parameter does not refer
6462       to a logical volume.
6463
6464       See also "is-lv", "canonical-device-name".
6465
6466   lvm-clear-filter
6467        lvm-clear-filter
6468
6469       This undoes the effect of "lvm-set-filter".  LVM will be able to see
6470       every block device.
6471
6472       This command also clears the LVM cache and performs a volume group
6473       scan.
6474
6475   lvm-remove-all
6476        lvm-remove-all
6477
6478       This command removes all LVM logical volumes, volume groups and
6479       physical volumes.
6480
6481       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6482       available".
6483
6484   lvm-scan
6485        lvm-scan true|false
6486
6487       This scans all block devices and rebuilds the list of LVM physical
6488       volumes, volume groups and logical volumes.
6489
6490       If the "activate" parameter is "true" then newly found volume groups
6491       and logical volumes are activated, meaning the LV /dev/VG/LV devices
6492       become visible.
6493
6494       When a libguestfs handle is launched it scans for existing devices, so
6495       you do not normally need to use this API.  However it is useful when
6496       you have added a new device or deleted an existing device (such as when
6497       the "luks-open" API is used).
6498
6499   lvm-set-filter
6500        lvm-set-filter 'devices ...'
6501
6502       This sets the LVM device filter so that LVM will only be able to "see"
6503       the block devices in the list "devices", and will ignore all other
6504       attached block devices.
6505
6506       Where disk image(s) contain duplicate PVs or VGs, this command is
6507       useful to get LVM to ignore the duplicates, otherwise LVM can get
6508       confused.  Note also there are two types of duplication possible:
6509       either cloned PVs/VGs which have identical UUIDs; or VGs that are not
6510       cloned but just happen to have the same name.  In normal operation you
6511       cannot create this situation, but you can do it outside LVM, eg.  by
6512       cloning disk images or by bit twiddling inside the LVM metadata.
6513
6514       This command also clears the LVM cache and performs a volume group
6515       scan.
6516
6517       You can filter whole block devices or individual partitions.
6518
6519       You cannot use this if any VG is currently in use (eg.  contains a
6520       mounted filesystem), even if you are not filtering out that VG.
6521
6522       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6523       available".
6524
6525   lvremove
6526        lvremove device
6527
6528       Remove an LVM logical volume "device", where "device" is the path to
6529       the LV, such as /dev/VG/LV.
6530
6531       You can also remove all LVs in a volume group by specifying the VG
6532       name, /dev/VG.
6533
6534       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6535       available".
6536
6537   lvrename
6538        lvrename logvol newlogvol
6539
6540       Rename a logical volume "logvol" with the new name "newlogvol".
6541
6542   lvresize
6543        lvresize device mbytes
6544
6545       This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM logical volume to
6546       "mbytes".  When reducing, data in the reduced part is lost.
6547
6548       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6549       available".
6550
6551   lvresize-free
6552        lvresize-free lv percent
6553
6554       This expands an existing logical volume "lv" so that it fills "pc"% of
6555       the remaining free space in the volume group.  Commonly you would call
6556       this with pc = 100 which expands the logical volume as much as
6557       possible, using all remaining free space in the volume group.
6558
6559       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6560       available".
6561
6562   lvs
6563        lvs
6564
6565       List all the logical volumes detected.  This is the equivalent of the
6566       lvs(8) command.
6567
6568       This returns a list of the logical volume device names (eg.
6569       /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00).
6570
6571       See also "lvs-full", "list-filesystems".
6572
6573       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6574       available".
6575
6576   lvs-full
6577        lvs-full
6578
6579       List all the logical volumes detected.  This is the equivalent of the
6580       lvs(8) command.  The "full" version includes all fields.
6581
6582       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
6583       available".
6584
6585   lvuuid
6586        lvuuid device
6587
6588       This command returns the UUID of the LVM LV "device".
6589
6590   lxattrlist
6591        lxattrlist path 'names ...'
6592
6593       This call allows you to get the extended attributes of multiple files,
6594       where all files are in the directory "path".  "names" is the list of
6595       files from this directory.
6596
6597       On return you get a flat list of xattr structs which must be
6598       interpreted sequentially.  The first xattr struct always has a zero-
6599       length "attrname".  "attrval" in this struct is zero-length to indicate
6600       there was an error doing "lgetxattr" for this file, or is a C string
6601       which is a decimal number (the number of following attributes for this
6602       file, which could be "0").  Then after the first xattr struct are the
6603       zero or more attributes for the first named file.  This repeats for the
6604       second and subsequent files.
6605
6606       This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently list a
6607       directory contents without making many round-trips.  See also
6608       "lstatlist" for a similarly efficient call for getting standard stats.
6609
6610       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
6611       available".
6612
6613   max-disks
6614        max-disks
6615
6616       Return the maximum number of disks that may be added to a handle (eg.
6617       by "add-drive-opts" and similar calls).
6618
6619       This function was added in libguestfs 1.19.7.  In previous versions of
6620       libguestfs the limit was 25.
6621
6622       See "MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DISKS" in guestfs(3) for additional information
6623       on this topic.
6624
6625   md-create
6626        md-create name 'devices ...' [missingbitmap:N] [nrdevices:N] [spare:N] [chunk:N] [level:..]
6627
6628       Create a Linux md (RAID) device named "name" on the devices in the list
6629       "devices".
6630
6631       The optional parameters are:
6632
6633       "missingbitmap"
6634           A bitmap of missing devices.  If a bit is set it means that a
6635           missing device is added to the array.  The least significant bit
6636           corresponds to the first device in the array.
6637
6638           As examples:
6639
6640           If "devices = ["/dev/sda"]" and "missingbitmap = 0x1" then the
6641           resulting array would be "[<missing>, "/dev/sda"]".
6642
6643           If "devices = ["/dev/sda"]" and "missingbitmap = 0x2" then the
6644           resulting array would be "["/dev/sda", <missing>]".
6645
6646           This defaults to 0 (no missing devices).
6647
6648           The length of "devices" + the number of bits set in "missingbitmap"
6649           must equal "nrdevices" + "spare".
6650
6651       "nrdevices"
6652           The number of active RAID devices.
6653
6654           If not set, this defaults to the length of "devices" plus the
6655           number of bits set in "missingbitmap".
6656
6657       "spare"
6658           The number of spare devices.
6659
6660           If not set, this defaults to 0.
6661
6662       "chunk"
6663           The chunk size in bytes.
6664
6665       "level"
6666           The RAID level, which can be one of: linear, raid0, 0, stripe,
6667           raid1, 1, mirror, raid4, 4, raid5, 5, raid6, 6, raid10, 10.  Some
6668           of these are synonymous, and more levels may be added in future.
6669
6670           If not set, this defaults to "raid1".
6671
6672       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
6673       ARGUMENTS".
6674
6675       This command depends on the feature "mdadm".   See also "feature-
6676       available".
6677
6678   md-detail
6679        md-detail md
6680
6681       This command exposes the output of 'mdadm -DY <md>'.  The following
6682       fields are usually present in the returned hash.  Other fields may also
6683       be present.
6684
6685       "level"
6686           The raid level of the MD device.
6687
6688       "devices"
6689           The number of underlying devices in the MD device.
6690
6691       "metadata"
6692           The metadata version used.
6693
6694       "uuid"
6695           The UUID of the MD device.
6696
6697       "name"
6698           The name of the MD device.
6699
6700       This command depends on the feature "mdadm".   See also "feature-
6701       available".
6702
6703   md-stat
6704        md-stat md
6705
6706       This call returns a list of the underlying devices which make up the
6707       single software RAID array device "md".
6708
6709       To get a list of software RAID devices, call "list-md-devices".
6710
6711       Each structure returned corresponds to one device along with additional
6712       status information:
6713
6714       "mdstat_device"
6715           The name of the underlying device.
6716
6717       "mdstat_index"
6718           The index of this device within the array.
6719
6720       "mdstat_flags"
6721           Flags associated with this device.  This is a string containing (in
6722           no specific order) zero or more of the following flags:
6723
6724           "W" write-mostly
6725
6726           "F" device is faulty
6727
6728           "S" device is a RAID spare
6729
6730           "R" replacement
6731
6732       This command depends on the feature "mdadm".   See also "feature-
6733       available".
6734
6735   md-stop
6736        md-stop md
6737
6738       This command deactivates the MD array named "md".  The device is
6739       stopped, but it is not destroyed or zeroed.
6740
6741       This command depends on the feature "mdadm".   See also "feature-
6742       available".
6743
6744   mkdir
6745        mkdir path
6746
6747       Create a directory named "path".
6748
6749   mkdir-mode
6750        mkdir-mode path mode
6751
6752       This command creates a directory, setting the initial permissions of
6753       the directory to "mode".
6754
6755       For common Linux filesystems, the actual mode which is set will be
6756       "mode & ~umask & 01777".  Non-native-Linux filesystems may interpret
6757       the mode in other ways.
6758
6759       See also "mkdir", "umask"
6760
6761   mkdir-p
6762        mkdir-p path
6763
6764       Create a directory named "path", creating any parent directories as
6765       necessary.  This is like the "mkdir -p" shell command.
6766
6767   mkdtemp
6768        mkdtemp tmpl
6769
6770       This command creates a temporary directory.  The "tmpl" parameter
6771       should be a full pathname for the temporary directory name with the
6772       final six characters being "XXXXXX".
6773
6774       For example: "/tmp/myprogXXXXXX" or "/Temp/myprogXXXXXX", the second
6775       one being suitable for Windows filesystems.
6776
6777       The name of the temporary directory that was created is returned.
6778
6779       The temporary directory is created with mode 0700 and is owned by root.
6780
6781       The caller is responsible for deleting the temporary directory and its
6782       contents after use.
6783
6784       See also: mkdtemp(3)
6785
6786   mke2fs
6787        mke2fs device [blockscount:N] [blocksize:N] [fragsize:N] [blockspergroup:N] [numberofgroups:N] [bytesperinode:N] [inodesize:N] [journalsize:N] [numberofinodes:N] [stridesize:N] [stripewidth:N] [maxonlineresize:N] [reservedblockspercentage:N] [mmpupdateinterval:N] [journaldevice:..] [label:..] [lastmounteddir:..] [creatoros:..] [fstype:..] [usagetype:..] [uuid:..] [forcecreate:true|false] [writesbandgrouponly:true|false] [lazyitableinit:true|false] [lazyjournalinit:true|false] [testfs:true|false] [discard:true|false] [quotatype:true|false] [extent:true|false] [filetype:true|false] [flexbg:true|false] [hasjournal:true|false] [journaldev:true|false] [largefile:true|false] [quota:true|false] [resizeinode:true|false] [sparsesuper:true|false] [uninitbg:true|false]
6788
6789       "mke2fs" is used to create an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem on
6790       "device".
6791
6792       The optional "blockscount" is the size of the filesystem in blocks.  If
6793       omitted it defaults to the size of "device".  Note if the filesystem is
6794       too small to contain a journal, "mke2fs" will silently create an ext2
6795       filesystem instead.
6796
6797       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
6798       ARGUMENTS".
6799
6800   mke2fs-J
6801        mke2fs-J fstype blocksize device journal
6802
6803       This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on "device" with an external
6804       journal on "journal".  It is equivalent to the command:
6805
6806        mke2fs -t fstype -b blocksize -J device=<journal> <device>
6807
6808       See also "mke2journal".
6809
6810       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mke2fs" call
6811       instead.
6812
6813       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6814       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6815       use of these functions.
6816
6817   mke2fs-JL
6818        mke2fs-JL fstype blocksize device label
6819
6820       This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on "device" with an external
6821       journal on the journal labeled "label".
6822
6823       See also "mke2journal-L".
6824
6825       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mke2fs" call
6826       instead.
6827
6828       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6829       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6830       use of these functions.
6831
6832   mke2fs-JU
6833        mke2fs-JU fstype blocksize device uuid
6834
6835       This creates an ext2/3/4 filesystem on "device" with an external
6836       journal on the journal with UUID "uuid".
6837
6838       See also "mke2journal-U".
6839
6840       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mke2fs" call
6841       instead.
6842
6843       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6844       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6845       use of these functions.
6846
6847       This command depends on the feature "linuxfsuuid".   See also "feature-
6848       available".
6849
6850   mke2journal
6851        mke2journal blocksize device
6852
6853       This creates an ext2 external journal on "device".  It is equivalent to
6854       the command:
6855
6856        mke2fs -O journal_dev -b blocksize device
6857
6858       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mke2fs" call
6859       instead.
6860
6861       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6862       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6863       use of these functions.
6864
6865   mke2journal-L
6866        mke2journal-L blocksize label device
6867
6868       This creates an ext2 external journal on "device" with label "label".
6869
6870       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mke2fs" call
6871       instead.
6872
6873       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6874       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6875       use of these functions.
6876
6877   mke2journal-U
6878        mke2journal-U blocksize uuid device
6879
6880       This creates an ext2 external journal on "device" with UUID "uuid".
6881
6882       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mke2fs" call
6883       instead.
6884
6885       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6886       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6887       use of these functions.
6888
6889       This command depends on the feature "linuxfsuuid".   See also "feature-
6890       available".
6891
6892   mkfifo
6893        mkfifo mode path
6894
6895       This call creates a FIFO (named pipe) called "path" with mode "mode".
6896       It is just a convenient wrapper around "mknod".
6897
6898       Unlike with "mknod", "mode" must contain only permissions bits.
6899
6900       The mode actually set is affected by the umask.
6901
6902       This command depends on the feature "mknod".   See also "feature-
6903       available".
6904
6905   mkfs
6906   mkfs-opts
6907        mkfs fstype device [blocksize:N] [features:..] [inode:N] [sectorsize:N] [label:..]
6908
6909       This function creates a filesystem on "device".  The filesystem type is
6910       "fstype", for example "ext3".
6911
6912       The optional arguments are:
6913
6914       "blocksize"
6915           The filesystem block size.  Supported block sizes depend on the
6916           filesystem type, but typically they are 1024, 2048 or 4096 for
6917           Linux ext2/3 filesystems.
6918
6919           For VFAT and NTFS the "blocksize" parameter is treated as the
6920           requested cluster size.
6921
6922           For UFS block sizes, please see mkfs.ufs(8).
6923
6924       "features"
6925           This passes the -O parameter to the external mkfs program.
6926
6927           For certain filesystem types, this allows extra filesystem features
6928           to be selected.  See mke2fs(8) and mkfs.ufs(8) for more details.
6929
6930           You cannot use this optional parameter with the "gfs" or "gfs2"
6931           filesystem type.
6932
6933       "inode"
6934           This passes the -I parameter to the external mke2fs(8) program
6935           which sets the inode size (only for ext2/3/4 filesystems at
6936           present).
6937
6938       "sectorsize"
6939           This passes the -S parameter to external mkfs.ufs(8) program, which
6940           sets sector size for ufs filesystem.
6941
6942       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
6943       ARGUMENTS".
6944
6945   mkfs-b
6946        mkfs-b fstype blocksize device
6947
6948       This call is similar to "mkfs", but it allows you to control the block
6949       size of the resulting filesystem.  Supported block sizes depend on the
6950       filesystem type, but typically they are 1024, 2048 or 4096 only.
6951
6952       For VFAT and NTFS the "blocksize" parameter is treated as the requested
6953       cluster size.
6954
6955       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mkfs" call instead.
6956
6957       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
6958       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
6959       use of these functions.
6960
6961   mkfs-btrfs
6962        mkfs-btrfs 'devices ...' [allocstart:N] [bytecount:N] [datatype:..] [leafsize:N] [label:..] [metadata:..] [nodesize:N] [sectorsize:N]
6963
6964       Create a btrfs filesystem, allowing all configurables to be set.  For
6965       more information on the optional arguments, see mkfs.btrfs(8).
6966
6967       Since btrfs filesystems can span multiple devices, this takes a non-
6968       empty list of devices.
6969
6970       To create general filesystems, use "mkfs".
6971
6972       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
6973       ARGUMENTS".
6974
6975       This command depends on the feature "btrfs".   See also "feature-
6976       available".
6977
6978   mklost-and-found
6979        mklost-and-found mountpoint
6980
6981       Make the "lost+found" directory, normally in the root directory of an
6982       ext2/3/4 filesystem.  "mountpoint" is the directory under which we try
6983       to create the "lost+found" directory.
6984
6985   mkmountpoint
6986        mkmountpoint exemptpath
6987
6988       "mkmountpoint" and "rmmountpoint" are specialized calls that can be
6989       used to create extra mountpoints before mounting the first filesystem.
6990
6991       These calls are only necessary in some very limited circumstances,
6992       mainly the case where you want to mount a mix of unrelated and/or read-
6993       only filesystems together.
6994
6995       For example, live CDs often contain a "Russian doll" nest of
6996       filesystems, an ISO outer layer, with a squashfs image inside, with an
6997       ext2/3 image inside that.  You can unpack this as follows in guestfish:
6998
6999        add-ro Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso
7000        run
7001        mkmountpoint /cd
7002        mkmountpoint /sqsh
7003        mkmountpoint /ext3fs
7004        mount /dev/sda /cd
7005        mount-loop /cd/LiveOS/squashfs.img /sqsh
7006        mount-loop /sqsh/LiveOS/ext3fs.img /ext3fs
7007
7008       The inner filesystem is now unpacked under the /ext3fs mountpoint.
7009
7010       "mkmountpoint" is not compatible with "umount-all".  You may get
7011       unexpected errors if you try to mix these calls.  It is safest to
7012       manually unmount filesystems and remove mountpoints after use.
7013
7014       "umount-all" unmounts filesystems by sorting the paths longest first,
7015       so for this to work for manual mountpoints, you must ensure that the
7016       innermost mountpoints have the longest pathnames, as in the example
7017       code above.
7018
7019       For more details see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503
7020
7021       Autosync [see "set-autosync", this is set by default on handles] can
7022       cause "umount-all" to be called when the handle is closed which can
7023       also trigger these issues.
7024
7025   mknod
7026        mknod mode devmajor devminor path
7027
7028       This call creates block or character special devices, or named pipes
7029       (FIFOs).
7030
7031       The "mode" parameter should be the mode, using the standard constants.
7032       "devmajor" and "devminor" are the device major and minor numbers, only
7033       used when creating block and character special devices.
7034
7035       Note that, just like mknod(2), the mode must be bitwise OR'd with
7036       S_IFBLK, S_IFCHR, S_IFIFO or S_IFSOCK (otherwise this call just creates
7037       a regular file).  These constants are available in the standard Linux
7038       header files, or you can use "mknod-b", "mknod-c" or "mkfifo" which are
7039       wrappers around this command which bitwise OR in the appropriate
7040       constant for you.
7041
7042       The mode actually set is affected by the umask.
7043
7044       This command depends on the feature "mknod".   See also "feature-
7045       available".
7046
7047   mknod-b
7048        mknod-b mode devmajor devminor path
7049
7050       This call creates a block device node called "path" with mode "mode"
7051       and device major/minor "devmajor" and "devminor".  It is just a
7052       convenient wrapper around "mknod".
7053
7054       Unlike with "mknod", "mode" must contain only permissions bits.
7055
7056       The mode actually set is affected by the umask.
7057
7058       This command depends on the feature "mknod".   See also "feature-
7059       available".
7060
7061   mknod-c
7062        mknod-c mode devmajor devminor path
7063
7064       This call creates a char device node called "path" with mode "mode" and
7065       device major/minor "devmajor" and "devminor".  It is just a convenient
7066       wrapper around "mknod".
7067
7068       Unlike with "mknod", "mode" must contain only permissions bits.
7069
7070       The mode actually set is affected by the umask.
7071
7072       This command depends on the feature "mknod".   See also "feature-
7073       available".
7074
7075   mksquashfs
7076        mksquashfs path (filename|-) [compress:..] [excludes:..]
7077
7078       Create a squashfs filesystem for the specified "path".
7079
7080       The optional "compress" flag controls compression.  If not given, then
7081       the output compressed using "gzip".  Otherwise one of the following
7082       strings may be given to select the compression type of the squashfs:
7083       "gzip", "lzma", "lzo", "lz4", "xz".
7084
7085       The other optional arguments are:
7086
7087       "excludes"
7088           A list of wildcards.  Files are excluded if they match any of the
7089           wildcards.
7090
7091       Please note that this API may fail when used to compress directories
7092       with large files, such as the resulting squashfs will be over 3GB big.
7093
7094       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
7095
7096       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7097       ARGUMENTS".
7098
7099       This command depends on the feature "squashfs".   See also "feature-
7100       available".
7101
7102   mkswap
7103   mkswap-opts
7104        mkswap device [label:..] [uuid:..]
7105
7106       Create a Linux swap partition on "device".
7107
7108       The option arguments "label" and "uuid" allow you to set the label
7109       and/or UUID of the new swap partition.
7110
7111       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7112       ARGUMENTS".
7113
7114   mkswap-L
7115        mkswap-L label device
7116
7117       Create a swap partition on "device" with label "label".
7118
7119       Note that you cannot attach a swap label to a block device (eg.
7120       /dev/sda), just to a partition.  This appears to be a limitation of the
7121       kernel or swap tools.
7122
7123       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mkswap" call
7124       instead.
7125
7126       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
7127       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
7128       use of these functions.
7129
7130   mkswap-U
7131        mkswap-U uuid device
7132
7133       Create a swap partition on "device" with UUID "uuid".
7134
7135       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "mkswap" call
7136       instead.
7137
7138       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
7139       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
7140       use of these functions.
7141
7142       This command depends on the feature "linuxfsuuid".   See also "feature-
7143       available".
7144
7145   mkswap-file
7146        mkswap-file path
7147
7148       Create a swap file.
7149
7150       This command just writes a swap file signature to an existing file.  To
7151       create the file itself, use something like "fallocate".
7152
7153   mktemp
7154        mktemp tmpl [suffix:..]
7155
7156       This command creates a temporary file.  The "tmpl" parameter should be
7157       a full pathname for the temporary directory name with the final six
7158       characters being "XXXXXX".
7159
7160       For example: "/tmp/myprogXXXXXX" or "/Temp/myprogXXXXXX", the second
7161       one being suitable for Windows filesystems.
7162
7163       The name of the temporary file that was created is returned.
7164
7165       The temporary file is created with mode 0600 and is owned by root.
7166
7167       The caller is responsible for deleting the temporary file after use.
7168
7169       If the optional "suffix" parameter is given, then the suffix (eg.
7170       ".txt") is appended to the temporary name.
7171
7172       See also: "mkdtemp".
7173
7174       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7175       ARGUMENTS".
7176
7177   modprobe
7178        modprobe modulename
7179
7180       This loads a kernel module in the appliance.
7181
7182       This command depends on the feature "linuxmodules".   See also
7183       "feature-available".
7184
7185   mount
7186        mount mountable mountpoint
7187
7188       Mount a guest disk at a position in the filesystem.  Block devices are
7189       named /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and so on, as they were added to the guest.
7190       If those block devices contain partitions, they will have the usual
7191       names (eg. /dev/sda1).  Also LVM /dev/VG/LV-style names can be used, or
7192       ‘mountable’ strings returned by "list-filesystems" or "inspect-get-
7193       mountpoints".
7194
7195       The rules are the same as for mount(2):  A filesystem must first be
7196       mounted on / before others can be mounted.  Other filesystems can only
7197       be mounted on directories which already exist.
7198
7199       The mounted filesystem is writable, if we have sufficient permissions
7200       on the underlying device.
7201
7202       Before libguestfs 1.13.16, this call implicitly added the options
7203       "sync" and "noatime".  The "sync" option greatly slowed writes and
7204       caused many problems for users.  If your program might need to work
7205       with older versions of libguestfs, use "mount-options" instead (using
7206       an empty string for the first parameter if you don't want any options).
7207
7208   mount-9p
7209        mount-9p mounttag mountpoint [options:..]
7210
7211       Mount the virtio-9p filesystem with the tag "mounttag" on the directory
7212       "mountpoint".
7213
7214       If required, "trans=virtio" will be automatically added to the options.
7215       Any other options required can be passed in the optional "options"
7216       parameter.
7217
7218       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7219       ARGUMENTS".
7220
7221   mount-local
7222        mount-local localmountpoint [readonly:true|false] [options:..] [cachetimeout:N] [debugcalls:true|false]
7223
7224       This call exports the libguestfs-accessible filesystem to a local
7225       mountpoint (directory) called "localmountpoint".  Ordinary reads and
7226       writes to files and directories under "localmountpoint" are redirected
7227       through libguestfs.
7228
7229       If the optional "readonly" flag is set to true, then writes to the
7230       filesystem return error "EROFS".
7231
7232       "options" is a comma-separated list of mount options.  See
7233       guestmount(1) for some useful options.
7234
7235       "cachetimeout" sets the timeout (in seconds) for cached directory
7236       entries.  The default is 60 seconds.  See guestmount(1) for further
7237       information.
7238
7239       If "debugcalls" is set to true, then additional debugging information
7240       is generated for every FUSE call.
7241
7242       When "mount-local" returns, the filesystem is ready, but is not
7243       processing requests (access to it will block).  You have to call
7244       "mount-local-run" to run the main loop.
7245
7246       See "MOUNT LOCAL" in guestfs(3) for full documentation.
7247
7248       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7249       ARGUMENTS".
7250
7251   mount-local-run
7252        mount-local-run
7253
7254       Run the main loop which translates kernel calls to libguestfs calls.
7255
7256       This should only be called after "mount-local" returns successfully.
7257       The call will not return until the filesystem is unmounted.
7258
7259       Note you must not make concurrent libguestfs calls on the same handle
7260       from another thread.
7261
7262       You may call this from a different thread than the one which called
7263       "mount-local", subject to the usual rules for threads and libguestfs
7264       (see "MULTIPLE HANDLES AND MULTIPLE THREADS" in guestfs(3)).
7265
7266       See "MOUNT LOCAL" in guestfs(3) for full documentation.
7267
7268   mount-loop
7269        mount-loop file mountpoint
7270
7271       This command lets you mount file (a filesystem image in a file) on a
7272       mount point.  It is entirely equivalent to the command "mount -o loop
7273       file mountpoint".
7274
7275   mount-options
7276        mount-options options mountable mountpoint
7277
7278       This is the same as the "mount" command, but it allows you to set the
7279       mount options as for the mount(8) -o flag.
7280
7281       If the "options" parameter is an empty string, then no options are
7282       passed (all options default to whatever the filesystem uses).
7283
7284   mount-ro
7285        mount-ro mountable mountpoint
7286
7287       This is the same as the "mount" command, but it mounts the filesystem
7288       with the read-only (-o ro) flag.
7289
7290   mount-vfs
7291        mount-vfs options vfstype mountable mountpoint
7292
7293       This is the same as the "mount" command, but it allows you to set both
7294       the mount options and the vfstype as for the mount(8) -o and -t flags.
7295
7296   mountable-device
7297        mountable-device mountable
7298
7299       Returns the device name of a mountable. In quite a lot of cases, the
7300       mountable is the device name.
7301
7302       However this doesn't apply for btrfs subvolumes, where the mountable is
7303       a combination of both the device name and the subvolume path (see also
7304       "mountable-subvolume" to extract the subvolume path of the mountable if
7305       any).
7306
7307   mountable-subvolume
7308        mountable-subvolume mountable
7309
7310       Returns the subvolume path of a mountable. Btrfs subvolumes mountables
7311       are a combination of both the device name and the subvolume path (see
7312       also "mountable-device" to extract the device of the mountable).
7313
7314       If the mountable does not represent a btrfs subvolume, then this
7315       function fails and the "errno" is set to "EINVAL".
7316
7317   mountpoints
7318        mountpoints
7319
7320       This call is similar to "mounts".  That call returns a list of devices.
7321       This one returns a hash table (map) of device name to directory where
7322       the device is mounted.
7323
7324   mounts
7325        mounts
7326
7327       This returns the list of currently mounted filesystems.  It returns the
7328       list of devices (eg. /dev/sda1, /dev/VG/LV).
7329
7330       Some internal mounts are not shown.
7331
7332       See also: "mountpoints"
7333
7334   mv
7335        mv src dest
7336
7337       This moves a file from "src" to "dest" where "dest" is either a
7338       destination filename or destination directory.
7339
7340       See also: "rename".
7341
7342   nr-devices
7343        nr-devices
7344
7345       This returns the number of whole block devices that were added.  This
7346       is the same as the number of devices that would be returned if you
7347       called "list-devices".
7348
7349       To find out the maximum number of devices that could be added, call
7350       "max-disks".
7351
7352   ntfs-3g-probe
7353        ntfs-3g-probe true|false device
7354
7355       This command runs the ntfs-3g.probe(8) command which probes an NTFS
7356       "device" for mountability.  (Not all NTFS volumes can be mounted read-
7357       write, and some cannot be mounted at all).
7358
7359       "rw" is a boolean flag.  Set it to true if you want to test if the
7360       volume can be mounted read-write.  Set it to false if you want to test
7361       if the volume can be mounted read-only.
7362
7363       The return value is an integer which 0 if the operation would succeed,
7364       or some non-zero value documented in the ntfs-3g.probe(8) manual page.
7365
7366       This command depends on the feature "ntfs3g".   See also "feature-
7367       available".
7368
7369   ntfscat-i
7370        ntfscat-i device inode (filename|-)
7371
7372       Download a file given its inode from a NTFS filesystem and save it as
7373       filename on the local machine.
7374
7375       This allows to download some otherwise inaccessible files such as the
7376       ones within the $Extend folder.
7377
7378       The filesystem from which to extract the file must be unmounted,
7379       otherwise the call will fail.
7380
7381       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
7382
7383   ntfsclone-in
7384        ntfsclone-in (backupfile|-) device
7385
7386       Restore the "backupfile" (from a previous call to "ntfsclone-out") to
7387       "device", overwriting any existing contents of this device.
7388
7389       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
7390
7391       This command depends on the feature "ntfs3g".   See also "feature-
7392       available".
7393
7394   ntfsclone-out
7395        ntfsclone-out device (backupfile|-) [metadataonly:true|false] [rescue:true|false] [ignorefscheck:true|false] [preservetimestamps:true|false] [force:true|false]
7396
7397       Stream the NTFS filesystem "device" to the local file "backupfile".
7398       The format used for the backup file is a special format used by the
7399       ntfsclone(8) tool.
7400
7401       If the optional "metadataonly" flag is true, then only the metadata is
7402       saved, losing all the user data (this is useful for diagnosing some
7403       filesystem problems).
7404
7405       The optional "rescue", "ignorefscheck", "preservetimestamps" and
7406       "force" flags have precise meanings detailed in the ntfsclone(8) man
7407       page.
7408
7409       Use "ntfsclone-in" to restore the file back to a libguestfs device.
7410
7411       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
7412
7413       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7414       ARGUMENTS".
7415
7416       This command depends on the feature "ntfs3g".   See also "feature-
7417       available".
7418
7419   ntfsfix
7420        ntfsfix device [clearbadsectors:true|false]
7421
7422       This command repairs some fundamental NTFS inconsistencies, resets the
7423       NTFS journal file, and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the
7424       first boot into Windows.
7425
7426       This is not an equivalent of Windows "chkdsk".  It does not scan the
7427       filesystem for inconsistencies.
7428
7429       The optional "clearbadsectors" flag clears the list of bad sectors.
7430       This is useful after cloning a disk with bad sectors to a new disk.
7431
7432       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7433       ARGUMENTS".
7434
7435       This command depends on the feature "ntfs3g".   See also "feature-
7436       available".
7437
7438   ntfsresize
7439   ntfsresize-opts
7440        ntfsresize device [size:N] [force:true|false]
7441
7442       This command resizes an NTFS filesystem, expanding or shrinking it to
7443       the size of the underlying device.
7444
7445       The optional parameters are:
7446
7447       "size"
7448           The new size (in bytes) of the filesystem.  If omitted, the
7449           filesystem is resized to fit the container (eg. partition).
7450
7451       "force"
7452           If this option is true, then force the resize of the filesystem
7453           even if the filesystem is marked as requiring a consistency check.
7454
7455           After the resize operation, the filesystem is always marked as
7456           requiring a consistency check (for safety).  You have to boot into
7457           Windows to perform this check and clear this condition.  If you
7458           don't set the "force" option then it is not possible to call
7459           "ntfsresize" multiple times on a single filesystem without booting
7460           into Windows between each resize.
7461
7462       See also ntfsresize(8).
7463
7464       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
7465       ARGUMENTS".
7466
7467       This command depends on the feature "ntfsprogs".   See also "feature-
7468       available".
7469
7470   ntfsresize-size
7471        ntfsresize-size device size
7472
7473       This command is the same as "ntfsresize" except that it allows you to
7474       specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.
7475
7476       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "ntfsresize" call
7477       instead.
7478
7479       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
7480       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
7481       use of these functions.
7482
7483       This command depends on the feature "ntfsprogs".   See also "feature-
7484       available".
7485
7486   parse-environment
7487        parse-environment
7488
7489       Parse the program’s environment and set flags in the handle
7490       accordingly.  For example if "LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1" then the ‘verbose’
7491       flag is set in the handle.
7492
7493       Most programs do not need to call this.  It is done implicitly when you
7494       call "create".
7495
7496       See "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" in guestfs(3) for a list of environment
7497       variables that can affect libguestfs handles.  See also
7498       "guestfs_create_flags" in guestfs(3), and "parse-environment-list".
7499
7500   parse-environment-list
7501        parse-environment-list 'environment ...'
7502
7503       Parse the list of strings in the argument "environment" and set flags
7504       in the handle accordingly.  For example if "LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1" is a
7505       string in the list, then the ‘verbose’ flag is set in the handle.
7506
7507       This is the same as "parse-environment" except that it parses an
7508       explicit list of strings instead of the program's environment.
7509
7510   part-add
7511        part-add device prlogex startsect endsect
7512
7513       This command adds a partition to "device".  If there is no partition
7514       table on the device, call "part-init" first.
7515
7516       The "prlogex" parameter is the type of partition.  Normally you should
7517       pass "p" or "primary" here, but MBR partition tables also support "l"
7518       (or "logical") and "e" (or "extended") partition types.
7519
7520       "startsect" and "endsect" are the start and end of the partition in
7521       sectors.  "endsect" may be negative, which means it counts backwards
7522       from the end of the disk ("-1" is the last sector).
7523
7524       Creating a partition which covers the whole disk is not so easy.  Use
7525       "part-disk" to do that.
7526
7527   part-del
7528        part-del device partnum
7529
7530       This command deletes the partition numbered "partnum" on "device".
7531
7532       Note that in the case of MBR partitioning, deleting an extended
7533       partition also deletes any logical partitions it contains.
7534
7535   part-disk
7536        part-disk device parttype
7537
7538       This command is simply a combination of "part-init" followed by "part-
7539       add" to create a single primary partition covering the whole disk.
7540
7541       "parttype" is the partition table type, usually "mbr" or "gpt", but
7542       other possible values are described in "part-init".
7543
7544   part-expand-gpt
7545        part-expand-gpt device
7546
7547       Move backup GPT data structures to the end of the disk.  This is useful
7548       in case of in-place image expand since disk space after backup GPT
7549       header is not usable.  This is equivalent to "sgdisk -e".
7550
7551       See also sgdisk(8).
7552
7553       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7554       available".
7555
7556   part-get-bootable
7557        part-get-bootable device partnum
7558
7559       This command returns true if the partition "partnum" on "device" has
7560       the bootable flag set.
7561
7562       See also "part-set-bootable".
7563
7564   part-get-disk-guid
7565        part-get-disk-guid device
7566
7567       Return the disk identifier (GUID) of a GPT-partitioned "device".
7568       Behaviour is undefined for other partition types.
7569
7570       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7571       available".
7572
7573   part-get-gpt-attributes
7574        part-get-gpt-attributes device partnum
7575
7576       Return the attribute flags of numbered GPT partition "partnum".  An
7577       error is returned for MBR partitions.
7578
7579       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7580       available".
7581
7582   part-get-gpt-guid
7583        part-get-gpt-guid device partnum
7584
7585       Return the GUID of numbered GPT partition "partnum".
7586
7587       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7588       available".
7589
7590   part-get-gpt-type
7591        part-get-gpt-type device partnum
7592
7593       Return the type GUID of numbered GPT partition "partnum". For MBR
7594       partitions, return an appropriate GUID corresponding to the MBR type.
7595       Behaviour is undefined for other partition types.
7596
7597       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7598       available".
7599
7600   part-get-mbr-id
7601        part-get-mbr-id device partnum
7602
7603       Returns the MBR type byte (also known as the ID byte) from the numbered
7604       partition "partnum".
7605
7606       Note that only MBR (old DOS-style) partitions have type bytes.  You
7607       will get undefined results for other partition table types (see "part-
7608       get-parttype").
7609
7610   part-get-mbr-part-type
7611        part-get-mbr-part-type device partnum
7612
7613       This returns the partition type of an MBR partition numbered "partnum"
7614       on device "device".
7615
7616       It returns "primary", "logical", or "extended".
7617
7618   part-get-name
7619        part-get-name device partnum
7620
7621       This gets the partition name on partition numbered "partnum" on device
7622       "device".  Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
7623
7624       The partition name can only be read on certain types of partition
7625       table.  This works on "gpt" but not on "mbr" partitions.
7626
7627   part-get-parttype
7628        part-get-parttype device
7629
7630       This command examines the partition table on "device" and returns the
7631       partition table type (format) being used.
7632
7633       Common return values include: "msdos" (a DOS/Windows style MBR
7634       partition table), "gpt" (a GPT/EFI-style partition table).  Other
7635       values are possible, although unusual.  See "part-init" for a full
7636       list.
7637
7638   part-init
7639        part-init device parttype
7640
7641       This creates an empty partition table on "device" of one of the
7642       partition types listed below.  Usually "parttype" should be either
7643       "msdos" or "gpt" (for large disks).
7644
7645       Initially there are no partitions.  Following this, you should call
7646       "part-add" for each partition required.
7647
7648       Possible values for "parttype" are:
7649
7650       efi
7651       gpt Intel EFI / GPT partition table.
7652
7653           This is recommended for >= 2 TB partitions that will be accessed
7654           from Linux and Intel-based Mac OS X.  It also has limited backwards
7655           compatibility with the "mbr" format.
7656
7657       mbr
7658       msdos
7659           The standard PC "Master Boot Record" (MBR) format used by MS-DOS
7660           and Windows.  This partition type will only work for device sizes
7661           up to 2 TB.  For large disks we recommend using "gpt".
7662
7663       Other partition table types that may work but are not supported
7664       include:
7665
7666       aix AIX disk labels.
7667
7668       amiga
7669       rdb Amiga "Rigid Disk Block" format.
7670
7671       bsd BSD disk labels.
7672
7673       dasd
7674           DASD, used on IBM mainframes.
7675
7676       dvh MIPS/SGI volumes.
7677
7678       mac Old Mac partition format.  Modern Macs use "gpt".
7679
7680       pc98
7681           NEC PC-98 format, common in Japan apparently.
7682
7683       sun Sun disk labels.
7684
7685   part-list
7686        part-list device
7687
7688       This command parses the partition table on "device" and returns the
7689       list of partitions found.
7690
7691       The fields in the returned structure are:
7692
7693       part_num
7694           Partition number, counting from 1.
7695
7696       part_start
7697           Start of the partition in bytes.  To get sectors you have to divide
7698           by the device’s sector size, see "blockdev-getss".
7699
7700       part_end
7701           End of the partition in bytes.
7702
7703       part_size
7704           Size of the partition in bytes.
7705
7706   part-resize
7707        part-resize device partnum endsect
7708
7709       This command resizes the partition numbered "partnum" on "device" by
7710       moving the end position.
7711
7712       Note that this does not modify any filesystem present in the partition.
7713       If you wish to do this, you will need to use filesystem resizing
7714       commands like "resize2fs".
7715
7716       When growing a partition you will want to grow the filesystem
7717       afterwards, but when shrinking, you need to shrink the filesystem
7718       before the partition.
7719
7720   part-set-bootable
7721        part-set-bootable device partnum true|false
7722
7723       This sets the bootable flag on partition numbered "partnum" on device
7724       "device".  Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
7725
7726       The bootable flag is used by some operating systems (notably Windows)
7727       to determine which partition to boot from.  It is by no means
7728       universally recognized.
7729
7730   part-set-disk-guid
7731        part-set-disk-guid device guid
7732
7733       Set the disk identifier (GUID) of a GPT-partitioned "device" to "guid".
7734       Return an error if the partition table of "device" isn't GPT, or if
7735       "guid" is not a valid GUID.
7736
7737       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7738       available".
7739
7740   part-set-disk-guid-random
7741        part-set-disk-guid-random device
7742
7743       Set the disk identifier (GUID) of a GPT-partitioned "device" to a
7744       randomly generated value.  Return an error if the partition table of
7745       "device" isn't GPT.
7746
7747       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7748       available".
7749
7750   part-set-gpt-attributes
7751        part-set-gpt-attributes device partnum attributes
7752
7753       Set the attribute flags of numbered GPT partition "partnum" to
7754       "attributes". Return an error if the partition table of "device" isn't
7755       GPT.
7756
7757       See
7758       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_entries
7759       for a useful list of partition attributes.
7760
7761       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7762       available".
7763
7764   part-set-gpt-guid
7765        part-set-gpt-guid device partnum guid
7766
7767       Set the GUID of numbered GPT partition "partnum" to "guid".  Return an
7768       error if the partition table of "device" isn't GPT, or if "guid" is not
7769       a valid GUID.
7770
7771       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7772       available".
7773
7774   part-set-gpt-type
7775        part-set-gpt-type device partnum guid
7776
7777       Set the type GUID of numbered GPT partition "partnum" to "guid". Return
7778       an error if the partition table of "device" isn't GPT, or if "guid" is
7779       not a valid GUID.
7780
7781       See
7782       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs
7783       for a useful list of type GUIDs.
7784
7785       This command depends on the feature "gdisk".   See also "feature-
7786       available".
7787
7788   part-set-mbr-id
7789        part-set-mbr-id device partnum idbyte
7790
7791       Sets the MBR type byte (also known as the ID byte) of the numbered
7792       partition "partnum" to "idbyte".  Note that the type bytes quoted in
7793       most documentation are in fact hexadecimal numbers, but usually
7794       documented without any leading "0x" which might be confusing.
7795
7796       Note that only MBR (old DOS-style) partitions have type bytes.  You
7797       will get undefined results for other partition table types (see "part-
7798       get-parttype").
7799
7800   part-set-name
7801        part-set-name device partnum name
7802
7803       This sets the partition name on partition numbered "partnum" on device
7804       "device".  Note that partitions are numbered from 1.
7805
7806       The partition name can only be set on certain types of partition table.
7807       This works on "gpt" but not on "mbr" partitions.
7808
7809   part-to-dev
7810        part-to-dev partition
7811
7812       This function takes a partition name (eg. "/dev/sdb1") and removes the
7813       partition number, returning the device name (eg. "/dev/sdb").
7814
7815       The named partition must exist, for example as a string returned from
7816       "list-partitions".
7817
7818       See also "part-to-partnum", "device-index".
7819
7820   part-to-partnum
7821        part-to-partnum partition
7822
7823       This function takes a partition name (eg. "/dev/sdb1") and returns the
7824       partition number (eg. 1).
7825
7826       The named partition must exist, for example as a string returned from
7827       "list-partitions".
7828
7829       See also "part-to-dev".
7830
7831   ping-daemon
7832        ping-daemon
7833
7834       This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside the
7835       libguestfs appliance.  Calling this function checks that the daemon
7836       responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon or attached
7837       block device(s) in any other way.
7838
7839   pread
7840        pread path count offset
7841
7842       This command lets you read part of a file.  It reads "count" bytes of
7843       the file, starting at "offset", from file "path".
7844
7845       This may read fewer bytes than requested.  For further details see the
7846       pread(2) system call.
7847
7848       See also "pwrite", "pread-device".
7849
7850       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
7851       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
7852
7853   pread-device
7854        pread-device device count offset
7855
7856       This command lets you read part of a block device.  It reads "count"
7857       bytes of "device", starting at "offset".
7858
7859       This may read fewer bytes than requested.  For further details see the
7860       pread(2) system call.
7861
7862       See also "pread".
7863
7864       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
7865       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
7866
7867   pvchange-uuid
7868        pvchange-uuid device
7869
7870       Generate a new random UUID for the physical volume "device".
7871
7872       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7873       available".
7874
7875   pvchange-uuid-all
7876        pvchange-uuid-all
7877
7878       Generate new random UUIDs for all physical volumes.
7879
7880       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7881       available".
7882
7883   pvcreate
7884        pvcreate device
7885
7886       This creates an LVM physical volume on the named "device", where
7887       "device" should usually be a partition name such as /dev/sda1.
7888
7889       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7890       available".
7891
7892   pvremove
7893        pvremove device
7894
7895       This wipes a physical volume "device" so that LVM will no longer
7896       recognise it.
7897
7898       The implementation uses the "pvremove" command which refuses to wipe
7899       physical volumes that contain any volume groups, so you have to remove
7900       those first.
7901
7902       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7903       available".
7904
7905   pvresize
7906        pvresize device
7907
7908       This resizes (expands or shrinks) an existing LVM physical volume to
7909       match the new size of the underlying device.
7910
7911       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7912       available".
7913
7914   pvresize-size
7915        pvresize-size device size
7916
7917       This command is the same as "pvresize" except that it allows you to
7918       specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.
7919
7920       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7921       available".
7922
7923   pvs
7924        pvs
7925
7926       List all the physical volumes detected.  This is the equivalent of the
7927       pvs(8) command.
7928
7929       This returns a list of just the device names that contain PVs (eg.
7930       /dev/sda2).
7931
7932       See also "pvs-full".
7933
7934       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7935       available".
7936
7937   pvs-full
7938        pvs-full
7939
7940       List all the physical volumes detected.  This is the equivalent of the
7941       pvs(8) command.  The "full" version includes all fields.
7942
7943       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
7944       available".
7945
7946   pvuuid
7947        pvuuid device
7948
7949       This command returns the UUID of the LVM PV "device".
7950
7951   pwrite
7952        pwrite path content offset
7953
7954       This command writes to part of a file.  It writes the data buffer
7955       "content" to the file "path" starting at offset "offset".
7956
7957       This command implements the pwrite(2) system call, and like that system
7958       call it may not write the full data requested.  The return value is the
7959       number of bytes that were actually written to the file.  This could
7960       even be 0, although short writes are unlikely for regular files in
7961       ordinary circumstances.
7962
7963       See also "pread", "pwrite-device".
7964
7965       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
7966       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
7967
7968   pwrite-device
7969        pwrite-device device content offset
7970
7971       This command writes to part of a device.  It writes the data buffer
7972       "content" to "device" starting at offset "offset".
7973
7974       This command implements the pwrite(2) system call, and like that system
7975       call it may not write the full data requested (although short writes to
7976       disk devices and partitions are probably impossible with standard Linux
7977       kernels).
7978
7979       See also "pwrite".
7980
7981       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
7982       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
7983
7984   read-file
7985        read-file path
7986
7987       This calls returns the contents of the file "path" as a buffer.
7988
7989       Unlike "cat", this function can correctly handle files that contain
7990       embedded ASCII NUL characters.
7991
7992   read-lines
7993        read-lines path
7994
7995       Return the contents of the file named "path".
7996
7997       The file contents are returned as a list of lines.  Trailing "LF" and
7998       "CRLF" character sequences are not returned.
7999
8000       Note that this function cannot correctly handle binary files
8001       (specifically, files containing "\0" character which is treated as end
8002       of string).  For those you need to use the "read-file" function and
8003       split the buffer into lines yourself.
8004
8005   readdir
8006        readdir dir
8007
8008       This returns the list of directory entries in directory "dir".
8009
8010       All entries in the directory are returned, including "." and "..".  The
8011       entries are not sorted, but returned in the same order as the
8012       underlying filesystem.
8013
8014       Also this call returns basic file type information about each file.
8015       The "ftyp" field will contain one of the following characters:
8016
8017       'b' Block special
8018
8019       'c' Char special
8020
8021       'd' Directory
8022
8023       'f' FIFO (named pipe)
8024
8025       'l' Symbolic link
8026
8027       'r' Regular file
8028
8029       's' Socket
8030
8031       'u' Unknown file type
8032
8033       '?' The readdir(3) call returned a "d_type" field with an unexpected
8034           value
8035
8036       This function is primarily intended for use by programs.  To get a
8037       simple list of names, use "ls".  To get a printable directory for human
8038       consumption, use "ll".
8039
8040       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
8041       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
8042
8043   readlink
8044        readlink path
8045
8046       This command reads the target of a symbolic link.
8047
8048   readlinklist
8049        readlinklist path 'names ...'
8050
8051       This call allows you to do a "readlink" operation on multiple files,
8052       where all files are in the directory "path".  "names" is the list of
8053       files from this directory.
8054
8055       On return you get a list of strings, with a one-to-one correspondence
8056       to the "names" list.  Each string is the value of the symbolic link.
8057
8058       If the readlink(2) operation fails on any name, then the corresponding
8059       result string is the empty string "".  However the whole operation is
8060       completed even if there were readlink(2) errors, and so you can call
8061       this function with names where you don't know if they are symbolic
8062       links already (albeit slightly less efficient).
8063
8064       This call is intended for programs that want to efficiently list a
8065       directory contents without making many round-trips.
8066
8067   realpath
8068        realpath path
8069
8070       Return the canonicalized absolute pathname of "path".  The returned
8071       path has no ".", ".." or symbolic link path elements.
8072
8073   remount
8074        remount mountpoint [rw:true|false]
8075
8076       This call allows you to change the "rw" (readonly/read-write) flag on
8077       an already mounted filesystem at "mountpoint", converting a readonly
8078       filesystem to be read-write, or vice-versa.
8079
8080       Note that at the moment you must supply the "optional" "rw" parameter.
8081       In future we may allow other flags to be adjusted.
8082
8083       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
8084       ARGUMENTS".
8085
8086   remove-drive
8087        remove-drive label
8088
8089       This function is conceptually the opposite of "add-drive-opts".  It
8090       removes the drive that was previously added with label "label".
8091
8092       Note that in order to remove drives, you have to add them with labels
8093       (see the optional "label" argument to "add-drive-opts").  If you didn't
8094       use a label, then they cannot be removed.
8095
8096       You can call this function before or after launching the handle.  If
8097       called after launch, if the backend supports it, we try to hot unplug
8098       the drive: see "HOTPLUGGING" in guestfs(3).  The disk must not be in
8099       use (eg. mounted) when you do this.  We try to detect if the disk is in
8100       use and stop you from doing this.
8101
8102   removexattr
8103        removexattr xattr path
8104
8105       This call removes the extended attribute named "xattr" of the file
8106       "path".
8107
8108       See also: "lremovexattr", attr(5).
8109
8110       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
8111       available".
8112
8113   rename
8114        rename oldpath newpath
8115
8116       Rename a file to a new place on the same filesystem.  This is the same
8117       as the Linux rename(2) system call.  In most cases you are better to
8118       use "mv" instead.
8119
8120   resize2fs
8121        resize2fs device
8122
8123       This resizes an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem to match the size of the
8124       underlying device.
8125
8126       See also "RESIZE2FS ERRORS" in guestfs(3).
8127
8128   resize2fs-M
8129        resize2fs-M device
8130
8131       This command is the same as "resize2fs", but the filesystem is resized
8132       to its minimum size.  This works like the -M option to the "resize2fs"
8133       command.
8134
8135       To get the resulting size of the filesystem you should call "tune2fs-l"
8136       and read the "Block size" and "Block count" values.  These two numbers,
8137       multiplied together, give the resulting size of the minimal filesystem
8138       in bytes.
8139
8140       See also "RESIZE2FS ERRORS" in guestfs(3).
8141
8142   resize2fs-size
8143        resize2fs-size device size
8144
8145       This command is the same as "resize2fs" except that it allows you to
8146       specify the new size (in bytes) explicitly.
8147
8148       See also "RESIZE2FS ERRORS" in guestfs(3).
8149
8150   rm
8151        rm path
8152
8153       Remove the single file "path".
8154
8155   rm-f
8156        rm-f path
8157
8158       Remove the file "path".
8159
8160       If the file doesn't exist, that error is ignored.  (Other errors, eg.
8161       I/O errors or bad paths, are not ignored)
8162
8163       This call cannot remove directories.  Use "rmdir" to remove an empty
8164       directory, or "rm-rf" to remove directories recursively.
8165
8166   rm-rf
8167        rm-rf path
8168
8169       Remove the file or directory "path", recursively removing the contents
8170       if its a directory.  This is like the "rm -rf" shell command.
8171
8172   rmdir
8173        rmdir path
8174
8175       Remove the single directory "path".
8176
8177   rmmountpoint
8178        rmmountpoint exemptpath
8179
8180       This call removes a mountpoint that was previously created with
8181       "mkmountpoint".  See "mkmountpoint" for full details.
8182
8183   rsync
8184        rsync src dest [archive:true|false] [deletedest:true|false]
8185
8186       This call may be used to copy or synchronize two directories under the
8187       same libguestfs handle.  This uses the rsync(1) program which uses a
8188       fast algorithm that avoids copying files unnecessarily.
8189
8190       "src" and "dest" are the source and destination directories.  Files are
8191       copied from "src" to "dest".
8192
8193       The optional arguments are:
8194
8195       "archive"
8196           Turns on archive mode.  This is the same as passing the --archive
8197           flag to "rsync".
8198
8199       "deletedest"
8200           Delete files at the destination that do not exist at the source.
8201
8202       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
8203       ARGUMENTS".
8204
8205       This command depends on the feature "rsync".   See also "feature-
8206       available".
8207
8208   rsync-in
8209        rsync-in remote dest [archive:true|false] [deletedest:true|false]
8210
8211       This call may be used to copy or synchronize the filesystem on the host
8212       or on a remote computer with the filesystem within libguestfs.  This
8213       uses the rsync(1) program which uses a fast algorithm that avoids
8214       copying files unnecessarily.
8215
8216       This call only works if the network is enabled.  See "set-network" or
8217       the --network option to various tools like guestfish(1).
8218
8219       Files are copied from the remote server and directory specified by
8220       "remote" to the destination directory "dest".
8221
8222       The format of the remote server string is defined by rsync(1).  Note
8223       that there is no way to supply a password or passphrase so the target
8224       must be set up not to require one.
8225
8226       The optional arguments are the same as those of "rsync".
8227
8228       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
8229       ARGUMENTS".
8230
8231       This command depends on the feature "rsync".   See also "feature-
8232       available".
8233
8234   rsync-out
8235        rsync-out src remote [archive:true|false] [deletedest:true|false]
8236
8237       This call may be used to copy or synchronize the filesystem within
8238       libguestfs with a filesystem on the host or on a remote computer.  This
8239       uses the rsync(1) program which uses a fast algorithm that avoids
8240       copying files unnecessarily.
8241
8242       This call only works if the network is enabled.  See "set-network" or
8243       the --network option to various tools like guestfish(1).
8244
8245       Files are copied from the source directory "src" to the remote server
8246       and directory specified by "remote".
8247
8248       The format of the remote server string is defined by rsync(1).  Note
8249       that there is no way to supply a password or passphrase so the target
8250       must be set up not to require one.
8251
8252       The optional arguments are the same as those of "rsync".
8253
8254       Globbing does not happen on the "src" parameter.  In programs which use
8255       the API directly you have to expand wildcards yourself (see "glob-
8256       expand").  In guestfish you can use the "glob" command (see "glob"),
8257       for example:
8258
8259        ><fs> glob rsync-out /* rsync://remote/
8260
8261       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
8262       ARGUMENTS".
8263
8264       This command depends on the feature "rsync".   See also "feature-
8265       available".
8266
8267   scrub-device
8268        scrub-device device
8269
8270       This command writes patterns over "device" to make data retrieval more
8271       difficult.
8272
8273       It is an interface to the scrub(1) program.  See that manual page for
8274       more details.
8275
8276       This command depends on the feature "scrub".   See also "feature-
8277       available".
8278
8279   scrub-file
8280        scrub-file file
8281
8282       This command writes patterns over a file to make data retrieval more
8283       difficult.
8284
8285       The file is removed after scrubbing.
8286
8287       It is an interface to the scrub(1) program.  See that manual page for
8288       more details.
8289
8290       This command depends on the feature "scrub".   See also "feature-
8291       available".
8292
8293   scrub-freespace
8294        scrub-freespace dir
8295
8296       This command creates the directory "dir" and then fills it with files
8297       until the filesystem is full, and scrubs the files as for "scrub-file",
8298       and deletes them.  The intention is to scrub any free space on the
8299       partition containing "dir".
8300
8301       It is an interface to the scrub(1) program.  See that manual page for
8302       more details.
8303
8304       This command depends on the feature "scrub".   See also "feature-
8305       available".
8306
8307   selinux-relabel
8308        selinux-relabel specfile path [force:true|false]
8309
8310       SELinux relabel parts of the filesystem.
8311
8312       The "specfile" parameter controls the policy spec file used.  You have
8313       to parse "/etc/selinux/config" to find the correct SELinux policy and
8314       then pass the spec file, usually: "/etc/selinux/" + selinuxtype +
8315       "/contexts/files/file_contexts".
8316
8317       The required "path" parameter is the top level directory where
8318       relabelling starts.  Normally you should pass "path" as "/" to relabel
8319       the whole guest filesystem.
8320
8321       The optional "force" boolean controls whether the context is reset for
8322       customizable files, and also whether the user, role and range parts of
8323       the file context is changed.
8324
8325       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
8326       ARGUMENTS".
8327
8328       This command depends on the feature "selinuxrelabel".   See also
8329       "feature-available".
8330
8331   set-append
8332   append
8333        set-append append
8334
8335       This function is used to add additional options to the libguestfs
8336       appliance kernel command line.
8337
8338       The default is "NULL" unless overridden by setting "LIBGUESTFS_APPEND"
8339       environment variable.
8340
8341       Setting "append" to "NULL" means no additional options are passed
8342       (libguestfs always adds a few of its own).
8343
8344   set-attach-method
8345   attach-method
8346        set-attach-method backend
8347
8348       Set the method that libguestfs uses to connect to the backend guestfsd
8349       daemon.
8350
8351       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3).
8352
8353       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "set-backend" call
8354       instead.
8355
8356       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8357       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8358       use of these functions.
8359
8360   set-autosync
8361   autosync
8362        set-autosync true|false
8363
8364       If "autosync" is true, this enables autosync.  Libguestfs will make a
8365       best effort attempt to make filesystems consistent and synchronized
8366       when the handle is closed (also if the program exits without closing
8367       handles).
8368
8369       This is enabled by default (since libguestfs 1.5.24, previously it was
8370       disabled by default).
8371
8372   set-backend
8373   backend
8374        set-backend backend
8375
8376       Set the method that libguestfs uses to connect to the backend guestfsd
8377       daemon.
8378
8379       This handle property was previously called the "attach method".
8380
8381       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3).
8382
8383   set-backend-setting
8384        set-backend-setting name val
8385
8386       Append "name=value" to the backend settings string list.  However if a
8387       string already exists matching "name" or beginning with "name=", then
8388       that setting is replaced.
8389
8390       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3), "BACKEND SETTINGS" in guestfs(3).
8391
8392   set-backend-settings
8393        set-backend-settings 'settings ...'
8394
8395       Set a list of zero or more settings which are passed through to the
8396       current backend.  Each setting is a string which is interpreted in a
8397       backend-specific way, or ignored if not understood by the backend.
8398
8399       The default value is an empty list, unless the environment variable
8400       "LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS" was set when the handle was created.
8401       This environment variable contains a colon-separated list of settings.
8402
8403       This call replaces all backend settings.  If you want to replace a
8404       single backend setting, see "set-backend-setting".  If you want to
8405       clear a single backend setting, see "clear-backend-setting".
8406
8407       See "BACKEND" in guestfs(3), "BACKEND SETTINGS" in guestfs(3).
8408
8409   set-cachedir
8410   cachedir
8411        set-cachedir cachedir
8412
8413       Set the directory used by the handle to store the appliance cache, when
8414       using a supermin appliance.  The appliance is cached and shared between
8415       all handles which have the same effective user ID.
8416
8417       The environment variables "LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR" and "TMPDIR" control
8418       the default value: If "LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR" is set, then that is the
8419       default.  Else if "TMPDIR" is set, then that is the default.  Else
8420       /var/tmp is the default.
8421
8422   set-direct
8423   direct
8424        set-direct true|false
8425
8426       If the direct appliance mode flag is enabled, then stdin and stdout are
8427       passed directly through to the appliance once it is launched.
8428
8429       One consequence of this is that log messages aren't caught by the
8430       library and handled by "set-log-message-callback", but go straight to
8431       stdout.
8432
8433       You probably don't want to use this unless you know what you are doing.
8434
8435       The default is disabled.
8436
8437       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "internal-get-
8438       console-socket" call instead.
8439
8440       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8441       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8442       use of these functions.
8443
8444   set-e2attrs
8445        set-e2attrs file attrs [clear:true|false]
8446
8447       This sets or clears the file attributes "attrs" associated with the
8448       inode file.
8449
8450       "attrs" is a string of characters representing file attributes.  See
8451       "get-e2attrs" for a list of possible attributes.  Not all attributes
8452       can be changed.
8453
8454       If optional boolean "clear" is not present or false, then the "attrs"
8455       listed are set in the inode.
8456
8457       If "clear" is true, then the "attrs" listed are cleared in the inode.
8458
8459       In both cases, other attributes not present in the "attrs" string are
8460       left unchanged.
8461
8462       These attributes are only present when the file is located on an
8463       ext2/3/4 filesystem.  Using this call on other filesystem types will
8464       result in an error.
8465
8466       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
8467       ARGUMENTS".
8468
8469   set-e2generation
8470        set-e2generation file generation
8471
8472       This sets the ext2 file generation of a file.
8473
8474       See "get-e2generation".
8475
8476   set-e2label
8477        set-e2label device label
8478
8479       This sets the ext2/3/4 filesystem label of the filesystem on "device"
8480       to "label".  Filesystem labels are limited to 16 characters.
8481
8482       You can use either "tune2fs-l" or "get-e2label" to return the existing
8483       label on a filesystem.
8484
8485       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "set-label" call
8486       instead.
8487
8488       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8489       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8490       use of these functions.
8491
8492   set-e2uuid
8493        set-e2uuid device uuid
8494
8495       This sets the ext2/3/4 filesystem UUID of the filesystem on "device" to
8496       "uuid".  The format of the UUID and alternatives such as "clear",
8497       "random" and "time" are described in the tune2fs(8) manpage.
8498
8499       You can use "vfs-uuid" to return the existing UUID of a filesystem.
8500
8501       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "set-uuid" call
8502       instead.
8503
8504       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8505       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8506       use of these functions.
8507
8508   set-hv
8509   hv
8510        set-hv hv
8511
8512       Set the hypervisor binary that we will use.  The hypervisor depends on
8513       the backend, but is usually the location of the qemu/KVM hypervisor.
8514       For the uml backend, it is the location of the "linux" or "vmlinux"
8515       binary.
8516
8517       The default is chosen when the library was compiled by the configure
8518       script.
8519
8520       You can also override this by setting the "LIBGUESTFS_HV" environment
8521       variable.
8522
8523       Note that you should call this function as early as possible after
8524       creating the handle.  This is because some pre-launch operations depend
8525       on testing qemu features (by running "qemu -help").  If the qemu binary
8526       changes, we don't retest features, and so you might see inconsistent
8527       results.  Using the environment variable "LIBGUESTFS_HV" is safest of
8528       all since that picks the qemu binary at the same time as the handle is
8529       created.
8530
8531   set-identifier
8532   identifier
8533        set-identifier identifier
8534
8535       This is an informative string which the caller may optionally set in
8536       the handle.  It is printed in various places, allowing the current
8537       handle to be identified in debugging output.
8538
8539       One important place is when tracing is enabled.  If the identifier
8540       string is not an empty string, then trace messages change from this:
8541
8542        libguestfs: trace: get_tmpdir
8543        libguestfs: trace: get_tmpdir = "/tmp"
8544
8545       to this:
8546
8547        libguestfs: trace: ID: get_tmpdir
8548        libguestfs: trace: ID: get_tmpdir = "/tmp"
8549
8550       where "ID" is the identifier string set by this call.
8551
8552       The identifier must only contain alphanumeric ASCII characters,
8553       underscore and minus sign.  The default is the empty string.
8554
8555       See also "set-program", "set-trace", "get-identifier".
8556
8557   set-label
8558        set-label mountable label
8559
8560       Set the filesystem label on "mountable" to "label".
8561
8562       Only some filesystem types support labels, and libguestfs supports
8563       setting labels on only a subset of these.
8564
8565       ext2, ext3, ext4
8566           Labels are limited to 16 bytes.
8567
8568       NTFS
8569           Labels are limited to 128 unicode characters.
8570
8571       XFS The label is limited to 12 bytes.  The filesystem must not be
8572           mounted when trying to set the label.
8573
8574       btrfs
8575           The label is limited to 255 bytes and some characters are not
8576           allowed.  Setting the label on a btrfs subvolume will set the label
8577           on its parent filesystem.  The filesystem must not be mounted when
8578           trying to set the label.
8579
8580       fat The label is limited to 11 bytes.
8581
8582       swap
8583           The label is limited to 16 bytes.
8584
8585       If there is no support for changing the label for the type of the
8586       specified filesystem, set_label will fail and set errno as ENOTSUP.
8587
8588       To read the label on a filesystem, call "vfs-label".
8589
8590   set-libvirt-requested-credential
8591        set-libvirt-requested-credential index cred
8592
8593       After requesting the "index"'th credential from the user, call this
8594       function to pass the answer back to libvirt.
8595
8596       See "LIBVIRT AUTHENTICATION" in guestfs(3) for documentation and
8597       example code.
8598
8599   set-libvirt-supported-credentials
8600        set-libvirt-supported-credentials 'creds ...'
8601
8602       Call this function before setting an event handler for
8603       "GUESTFS_EVENT_LIBVIRT_AUTH", to supply the list of credential types
8604       that the program knows how to process.
8605
8606       The "creds" list must be a non-empty list of strings.  Possible strings
8607       are:
8608
8609       "username"
8610       "authname"
8611       "language"
8612       "cnonce"
8613       "passphrase"
8614       "echoprompt"
8615       "noechoprompt"
8616       "realm"
8617       "external"
8618
8619       See libvirt documentation for the meaning of these credential types.
8620
8621       See "LIBVIRT AUTHENTICATION" in guestfs(3) for documentation and
8622       example code.
8623
8624   set-memsize
8625   memsize
8626        set-memsize memsize
8627
8628       This sets the memory size in megabytes allocated to the hypervisor.
8629       This only has any effect if called before "launch".
8630
8631       You can also change this by setting the environment variable
8632       "LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE" before the handle is created.
8633
8634       For more information on the architecture of libguestfs, see guestfs(3).
8635
8636   set-network
8637   network
8638        set-network true|false
8639
8640       If "network" is true, then the network is enabled in the libguestfs
8641       appliance.  The default is false.
8642
8643       This affects whether commands are able to access the network (see
8644       "RUNNING COMMANDS" in guestfs(3)).
8645
8646       You must call this before calling "launch", otherwise it has no effect.
8647
8648   set-path
8649   path
8650        set-path searchpath
8651
8652       Set the path that libguestfs searches for kernel and initrd.img.
8653
8654       The default is "$libdir/guestfs" unless overridden by setting
8655       "LIBGUESTFS_PATH" environment variable.
8656
8657       Setting "path" to "NULL" restores the default path.
8658
8659   set-pgroup
8660   pgroup
8661        set-pgroup true|false
8662
8663       If "pgroup" is true, child processes are placed into their own process
8664       group.
8665
8666       The practical upshot of this is that signals like "SIGINT" (from users
8667       pressing "^C") won't be received by the child process.
8668
8669       The default for this flag is false, because usually you want "^C" to
8670       kill the subprocess.  Guestfish sets this flag to true when used
8671       interactively, so that "^C" can cancel long-running commands gracefully
8672       (see "user-cancel").
8673
8674   set-program
8675   program
8676        set-program program
8677
8678       Set the program name.  This is an informative string which the main
8679       program may optionally set in the handle.
8680
8681       When the handle is created, the program name in the handle is set to
8682       the basename from "argv[0]".  The program name can never be "NULL".
8683
8684   set-qemu
8685   qemu
8686        set-qemu hv
8687
8688       Set the hypervisor binary (usually qemu) that we will use.
8689
8690       The default is chosen when the library was compiled by the configure
8691       script.
8692
8693       You can also override this by setting the "LIBGUESTFS_HV" environment
8694       variable.
8695
8696       Setting "hv" to "NULL" restores the default qemu binary.
8697
8698       Note that you should call this function as early as possible after
8699       creating the handle.  This is because some pre-launch operations depend
8700       on testing qemu features (by running "qemu -help").  If the qemu binary
8701       changes, we don't retest features, and so you might see inconsistent
8702       results.  Using the environment variable "LIBGUESTFS_HV" is safest of
8703       all since that picks the qemu binary at the same time as the handle is
8704       created.
8705
8706       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "set-hv" call
8707       instead.
8708
8709       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8710       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8711       use of these functions.
8712
8713   set-recovery-proc
8714   recovery-proc
8715        set-recovery-proc true|false
8716
8717       If this is called with the parameter "false" then "launch" does not
8718       create a recovery process.  The purpose of the recovery process is to
8719       stop runaway hypervisor processes in the case where the main program
8720       aborts abruptly.
8721
8722       This only has any effect if called before "launch", and the default is
8723       true.
8724
8725       About the only time when you would want to disable this is if the main
8726       process will fork itself into the background ("daemonize" itself).  In
8727       this case the recovery process thinks that the main program has
8728       disappeared and so kills the hypervisor, which is not very helpful.
8729
8730   set-selinux
8731   selinux
8732        set-selinux true|false
8733
8734       This sets the selinux flag that is passed to the appliance at boot
8735       time.  The default is "selinux=0" (disabled).
8736
8737       Note that if SELinux is enabled, it is always in Permissive mode
8738       ("enforcing=0").
8739
8740       For more information on the architecture of libguestfs, see guestfs(3).
8741
8742       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "selinux-relabel"
8743       call instead.
8744
8745       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8746       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8747       use of these functions.
8748
8749   set-smp
8750   smp
8751        set-smp smp
8752
8753       Change the number of virtual CPUs assigned to the appliance.  The
8754       default is 1.  Increasing this may improve performance, though often it
8755       has no effect.
8756
8757       This function must be called before "launch".
8758
8759   set-tmpdir
8760   tmpdir
8761        set-tmpdir tmpdir
8762
8763       Set the directory used by the handle to store temporary files.
8764
8765       The environment variables "LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR" and "TMPDIR" control the
8766       default value: If "LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR" is set, then that is the default.
8767       Else if "TMPDIR" is set, then that is the default.  Else /tmp is the
8768       default.
8769
8770   set-trace
8771   trace
8772        set-trace true|false
8773
8774       If the command trace flag is set to 1, then libguestfs calls,
8775       parameters and return values are traced.
8776
8777       If you want to trace C API calls into libguestfs (and other libraries)
8778       then possibly a better way is to use the external ltrace(1) command.
8779
8780       Command traces are disabled unless the environment variable
8781       "LIBGUESTFS_TRACE" is defined and set to 1.
8782
8783       Trace messages are normally sent to "stderr", unless you register a
8784       callback to send them somewhere else (see "set-event-callback").
8785
8786   set-uuid
8787        set-uuid device uuid
8788
8789       Set the filesystem UUID on "device" to "uuid".  If this fails and the
8790       errno is ENOTSUP, means that there is no support for changing the UUID
8791       for the type of the specified filesystem.
8792
8793       Only some filesystem types support setting UUIDs.
8794
8795       To read the UUID on a filesystem, call "vfs-uuid".
8796
8797   set-uuid-random
8798        set-uuid-random device
8799
8800       Set the filesystem UUID on "device" to a random UUID.  If this fails
8801       and the errno is ENOTSUP, means that there is no support for changing
8802       the UUID for the type of the specified filesystem.
8803
8804       Only some filesystem types support setting UUIDs.
8805
8806       To read the UUID on a filesystem, call "vfs-uuid".
8807
8808   set-verbose
8809   verbose
8810        set-verbose true|false
8811
8812       If "verbose" is true, this turns on verbose messages.
8813
8814       Verbose messages are disabled unless the environment variable
8815       "LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG" is defined and set to 1.
8816
8817       Verbose messages are normally sent to "stderr", unless you register a
8818       callback to send them somewhere else (see "set-event-callback").
8819
8820   setcon
8821        setcon context
8822
8823       This sets the SELinux security context of the daemon to the string
8824       "context".
8825
8826       See the documentation about SELINUX in guestfs(3).
8827
8828       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "selinux-relabel"
8829       call instead.
8830
8831       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8832       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8833       use of these functions.
8834
8835       This command depends on the feature "selinux".   See also "feature-
8836       available".
8837
8838   setxattr
8839        setxattr xattr val vallen path
8840
8841       This call sets the extended attribute named "xattr" of the file "path"
8842       to the value "val" (of length "vallen").  The value is arbitrary 8 bit
8843       data.
8844
8845       See also: "lsetxattr", attr(5).
8846
8847       This command depends on the feature "linuxxattrs".   See also "feature-
8848       available".
8849
8850   sfdisk
8851        sfdisk device cyls heads sectors 'lines ...'
8852
8853       This is a direct interface to the sfdisk(8) program for creating
8854       partitions on block devices.
8855
8856       "device" should be a block device, for example /dev/sda.
8857
8858       "cyls", "heads" and "sectors" are the number of cylinders, heads and
8859       sectors on the device, which are passed directly to sfdisk as the -C,
8860       -H and -S parameters.  If you pass 0 for any of these, then the
8861       corresponding parameter is omitted.  Usually for ‘large’ disks, you can
8862       just pass 0 for these, but for small (floppy-sized) disks, sfdisk (or
8863       rather, the kernel) cannot work out the right geometry and you will
8864       need to tell it.
8865
8866       "lines" is a list of lines that we feed to "sfdisk".  For more
8867       information refer to the sfdisk(8) manpage.
8868
8869       To create a single partition occupying the whole disk, you would pass
8870       "lines" as a single element list, when the single element being the
8871       string "," (comma).
8872
8873       See also: "sfdisk-l", "sfdisk-N", "part-init"
8874
8875       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "part-add" call
8876       instead.
8877
8878       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8879       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8880       use of these functions.
8881
8882   sfdiskM
8883        sfdiskM device 'lines ...'
8884
8885       This is a simplified interface to the "sfdisk" command, where partition
8886       sizes are specified in megabytes only (rounded to the nearest cylinder)
8887       and you don't need to specify the cyls, heads and sectors parameters
8888       which were rarely if ever used anyway.
8889
8890       See also: "sfdisk", the sfdisk(8) manpage and "part-disk"
8891
8892       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "part-add" call
8893       instead.
8894
8895       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8896       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8897       use of these functions.
8898
8899   sfdisk-N
8900        sfdisk-N device partnum cyls heads sectors line
8901
8902       This runs sfdisk(8) option to modify just the single partition "n"
8903       (note: "n" counts from 1).
8904
8905       For other parameters, see "sfdisk".  You should usually pass 0 for the
8906       cyls/heads/sectors parameters.
8907
8908       See also: "part-add"
8909
8910       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "part-add" call
8911       instead.
8912
8913       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8914       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8915       use of these functions.
8916
8917   sfdisk-disk-geometry
8918        sfdisk-disk-geometry device
8919
8920       This displays the disk geometry of "device" read from the partition
8921       table.  Especially in the case where the underlying block device has
8922       been resized, this can be different from the kernel’s idea of the
8923       geometry (see "sfdisk-kernel-geometry").
8924
8925       The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to be parsed.
8926
8927   sfdisk-kernel-geometry
8928        sfdisk-kernel-geometry device
8929
8930       This displays the kernel’s idea of the geometry of "device".
8931
8932       The result is in human-readable format, and not designed to be parsed.
8933
8934   sfdisk-l
8935        sfdisk-l device
8936
8937       This displays the partition table on "device", in the human-readable
8938       output of the sfdisk(8) command.  It is not intended to be parsed.
8939
8940       See also: "part-list"
8941
8942       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "part-list" call
8943       instead.
8944
8945       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
8946       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
8947       use of these functions.
8948
8949   sh
8950        sh command
8951
8952       This call runs a command from the guest filesystem via the guest’s
8953       /bin/sh.
8954
8955       This is like "command", but passes the command to:
8956
8957        /bin/sh -c "command"
8958
8959       Depending on the guest’s shell, this usually results in wildcards being
8960       expanded, shell expressions being interpolated and so on.
8961
8962       All the provisos about "command" apply to this call.
8963
8964   sh-lines
8965        sh-lines command
8966
8967       This is the same as "sh", but splits the result into a list of lines.
8968
8969       See also: "command-lines"
8970
8971   shutdown
8972        shutdown
8973
8974       This is the opposite of "launch".  It performs an orderly shutdown of
8975       the backend process(es).  If the autosync flag is set (which is the
8976       default) then the disk image is synchronized.
8977
8978       If the subprocess exits with an error then this function will return an
8979       error, which should not be ignored (it may indicate that the disk image
8980       could not be written out properly).
8981
8982       It is safe to call this multiple times.  Extra calls are ignored.
8983
8984       This call does not close or free up the handle.  You still need to call
8985       "close" afterwards.
8986
8987       "close" will call this if you don't do it explicitly, but note that any
8988       errors are ignored in that case.
8989
8990   sleep
8991        sleep secs
8992
8993       Sleep for "secs" seconds.
8994
8995   stat
8996        stat path
8997
8998       Returns file information for the given "path".
8999
9000       This is the same as the stat(2) system call.
9001
9002       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "statns" call
9003       instead.
9004
9005       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9006       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9007       use of these functions.
9008
9009   statns
9010        statns path
9011
9012       Returns file information for the given "path".
9013
9014       This is the same as the stat(2) system call.
9015
9016   statvfs
9017        statvfs path
9018
9019       Returns file system statistics for any mounted file system.  "path"
9020       should be a file or directory in the mounted file system (typically it
9021       is the mount point itself, but it doesn't need to be).
9022
9023       This is the same as the statvfs(2) system call.
9024
9025   strings
9026        strings path
9027
9028       This runs the strings(1) command on a file and returns the list of
9029       printable strings found.
9030
9031       The "strings" command has, in the past, had problems with parsing
9032       untrusted files.  These are mitigated in the current version of
9033       libguestfs, but see "CVE-2014-8484" in guestfs(3).
9034
9035       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9036       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9037
9038   strings-e
9039        strings-e encoding path
9040
9041       This is like the "strings" command, but allows you to specify the
9042       encoding of strings that are looked for in the source file "path".
9043
9044       Allowed encodings are:
9045
9046       s   Single 7-bit-byte characters like ASCII and the ASCII-compatible
9047           parts of ISO-8859-X (this is what "strings" uses).
9048
9049       S   Single 8-bit-byte characters.
9050
9051       b   16-bit big endian strings such as those encoded in UTF-16BE or
9052           UCS-2BE.
9053
9054       l (lower case letter L)
9055           16-bit little endian such as UTF-16LE and UCS-2LE.  This is useful
9056           for examining binaries in Windows guests.
9057
9058       B   32-bit big endian such as UCS-4BE.
9059
9060       L   32-bit little endian such as UCS-4LE.
9061
9062       The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.
9063
9064       The "strings" command has, in the past, had problems with parsing
9065       untrusted files.  These are mitigated in the current version of
9066       libguestfs, but see "CVE-2014-8484" in guestfs(3).
9067
9068       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9069       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9070
9071   swapoff-device
9072        swapoff-device device
9073
9074       This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap device or partition
9075       named "device".  See "swapon-device".
9076
9077   swapoff-file
9078        swapoff-file file
9079
9080       This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap on file.
9081
9082   swapoff-label
9083        swapoff-label label
9084
9085       This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap on labeled swap
9086       partition.
9087
9088   swapoff-uuid
9089        swapoff-uuid uuid
9090
9091       This command disables the libguestfs appliance swap partition with the
9092       given UUID.
9093
9094       This command depends on the feature "linuxfsuuid".   See also "feature-
9095       available".
9096
9097   swapon-device
9098        swapon-device device
9099
9100       This command enables the libguestfs appliance to use the swap device or
9101       partition named "device".  The increased memory is made available for
9102       all commands, for example those run using "command" or "sh".
9103
9104       Note that you should not swap to existing guest swap partitions unless
9105       you know what you are doing.  They may contain hibernation information,
9106       or other information that the guest doesn't want you to trash.  You
9107       also risk leaking information about the host to the guest this way.
9108       Instead, attach a new host device to the guest and swap on that.
9109
9110   swapon-file
9111        swapon-file file
9112
9113       This command enables swap to a file.  See "swapon-device" for other
9114       notes.
9115
9116   swapon-label
9117        swapon-label label
9118
9119       This command enables swap to a labeled swap partition.  See "swapon-
9120       device" for other notes.
9121
9122   swapon-uuid
9123        swapon-uuid uuid
9124
9125       This command enables swap to a swap partition with the given UUID.  See
9126       "swapon-device" for other notes.
9127
9128       This command depends on the feature "linuxfsuuid".   See also "feature-
9129       available".
9130
9131   sync
9132        sync
9133
9134       This syncs the disk, so that any writes are flushed through to the
9135       underlying disk image.
9136
9137       You should always call this if you have modified a disk image, before
9138       closing the handle.
9139
9140   syslinux
9141        syslinux device [directory:..]
9142
9143       Install the SYSLINUX bootloader on "device".
9144
9145       The device parameter must be either a whole disk formatted as a FAT
9146       filesystem, or a partition formatted as a FAT filesystem.  In the
9147       latter case, the partition should be marked as "active" ("part-set-
9148       bootable") and a Master Boot Record must be installed (eg. using
9149       "pwrite-device") on the first sector of the whole disk.  The SYSLINUX
9150       package comes with some suitable Master Boot Records.  See the
9151       syslinux(1) man page for further information.
9152
9153       The optional arguments are:
9154
9155       directory
9156           Install SYSLINUX in the named subdirectory, instead of in the root
9157           directory of the FAT filesystem.
9158
9159       Additional configuration can be supplied to SYSLINUX by placing a file
9160       called syslinux.cfg on the FAT filesystem, either in the root
9161       directory, or under directory if that optional argument is being used.
9162       For further information about the contents of this file, see
9163       syslinux(1).
9164
9165       See also "extlinux".
9166
9167       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9168       ARGUMENTS".
9169
9170       This command depends on the feature "syslinux".   See also "feature-
9171       available".
9172
9173   tail
9174        tail path
9175
9176       This command returns up to the last 10 lines of a file as a list of
9177       strings.
9178
9179       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9180       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9181
9182   tail-n
9183        tail-n nrlines path
9184
9185       If the parameter "nrlines" is a positive number, this returns the last
9186       "nrlines" lines of the file "path".
9187
9188       If the parameter "nrlines" is a negative number, this returns lines
9189       from the file "path", starting with the "-nrlines"th line.
9190
9191       If the parameter "nrlines" is zero, this returns an empty list.
9192
9193       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9194       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9195
9196   tar-in
9197   tar-in-opts
9198        tar-in (tarfile|-) directory [compress:..] [xattrs:true|false] [selinux:true|false] [acls:true|false]
9199
9200       This command uploads and unpacks local file "tarfile" into directory.
9201
9202       The optional "compress" flag controls compression.  If not given, then
9203       the input should be an uncompressed tar file.  Otherwise one of the
9204       following strings may be given to select the compression type of the
9205       input file: "compress", "gzip", "bzip2", "xz", "lzop".  (Note that not
9206       all builds of libguestfs will support all of these compression types).
9207
9208       The other optional arguments are:
9209
9210       "xattrs"
9211           If set to true, extended attributes are restored from the tar file.
9212
9213       "selinux"
9214           If set to true, SELinux contexts are restored from the tar file.
9215
9216       "acls"
9217           If set to true, POSIX ACLs are restored from the tar file.
9218
9219       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9220
9221       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9222       ARGUMENTS".
9223
9224   tar-out
9225   tar-out-opts
9226        tar-out directory (tarfile|-) [compress:..] [numericowner:true|false] [excludes:..] [xattrs:true|false] [selinux:true|false] [acls:true|false]
9227
9228       This command packs the contents of directory and downloads it to local
9229       file "tarfile".
9230
9231       The optional "compress" flag controls compression.  If not given, then
9232       the output will be an uncompressed tar file.  Otherwise one of the
9233       following strings may be given to select the compression type of the
9234       output file: "compress", "gzip", "bzip2", "xz", "lzop".  (Note that not
9235       all builds of libguestfs will support all of these compression types).
9236
9237       The other optional arguments are:
9238
9239       "excludes"
9240           A list of wildcards.  Files are excluded if they match any of the
9241           wildcards.
9242
9243       "numericowner"
9244           If set to true, the output tar file will contain UID/GID numbers
9245           instead of user/group names.
9246
9247       "xattrs"
9248           If set to true, extended attributes are saved in the output tar.
9249
9250       "selinux"
9251           If set to true, SELinux contexts are saved in the output tar.
9252
9253       "acls"
9254           If set to true, POSIX ACLs are saved in the output tar.
9255
9256       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9257
9258       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9259       ARGUMENTS".
9260
9261   tgz-in
9262        tgz-in (tarball|-) directory
9263
9264       This command uploads and unpacks local file "tarball" (a gzip
9265       compressed tar file) into directory.
9266
9267       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9268
9269       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "tar-in" call
9270       instead.
9271
9272       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9273       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9274       use of these functions.
9275
9276   tgz-out
9277        tgz-out directory (tarball|-)
9278
9279       This command packs the contents of directory and downloads it to local
9280       file "tarball".
9281
9282       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9283
9284       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "tar-out" call
9285       instead.
9286
9287       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9288       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9289       use of these functions.
9290
9291   touch
9292        touch path
9293
9294       Touch acts like the touch(1) command.  It can be used to update the
9295       timestamps on a file, or, if the file does not exist, to create a new
9296       zero-length file.
9297
9298       This command only works on regular files, and will fail on other file
9299       types such as directories, symbolic links, block special etc.
9300
9301   truncate
9302        truncate path
9303
9304       This command truncates "path" to a zero-length file.  The file must
9305       exist already.
9306
9307   truncate-size
9308        truncate-size path size
9309
9310       This command truncates "path" to size "size" bytes.  The file must
9311       exist already.
9312
9313       If the current file size is less than "size" then the file is extended
9314       to the required size with zero bytes.  This creates a sparse file (ie.
9315       disk blocks are not allocated for the file until you write to it).  To
9316       create a non-sparse file of zeroes, use "fallocate64" instead.
9317
9318   tune2fs
9319        tune2fs device [force:true|false] [maxmountcount:N] [mountcount:N] [errorbehavior:..] [group:N] [intervalbetweenchecks:N] [reservedblockspercentage:N] [lastmounteddirectory:..] [reservedblockscount:N] [user:N]
9320
9321       This call allows you to adjust various filesystem parameters of an
9322       ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem called "device".
9323
9324       The optional parameters are:
9325
9326       "force"
9327           Force tune2fs to complete the operation even in the face of errors.
9328           This is the same as the tune2fs "-f" option.
9329
9330       "maxmountcount"
9331           Set the number of mounts after which the filesystem is checked by
9332           e2fsck(8).  If this is 0 then the number of mounts is disregarded.
9333           This is the same as the tune2fs "-c" option.
9334
9335       "mountcount"
9336           Set the number of times the filesystem has been mounted.  This is
9337           the same as the tune2fs "-C" option.
9338
9339       "errorbehavior"
9340           Change the behavior of the kernel code when errors are detected.
9341           Possible values currently are: "continue", "remount-ro", "panic".
9342           In practice these options don't really make any difference,
9343           particularly for write errors.
9344
9345           This is the same as the tune2fs "-e" option.
9346
9347       "group"
9348           Set the group which can use reserved filesystem blocks.  This is
9349           the same as the tune2fs "-g" option except that it can only be
9350           specified as a number.
9351
9352       "intervalbetweenchecks"
9353           Adjust the maximal time between two filesystem checks (in seconds).
9354           If the option is passed as 0 then time-dependent checking is
9355           disabled.
9356
9357           This is the same as the tune2fs "-i" option.
9358
9359       "reservedblockspercentage"
9360           Set the percentage of the filesystem which may only be allocated by
9361           privileged processes.  This is the same as the tune2fs "-m" option.
9362
9363       "lastmounteddirectory"
9364           Set the last mounted directory.  This is the same as the tune2fs
9365           "-M" option.
9366
9367       "reservedblockscount" Set the number of reserved filesystem blocks.
9368       This is the same as the tune2fs "-r" option.
9369       "user"
9370           Set the user who can use the reserved filesystem blocks.  This is
9371           the same as the tune2fs "-u" option except that it can only be
9372           specified as a number.
9373
9374       To get the current values of filesystem parameters, see "tune2fs-l".
9375       For precise details of how tune2fs works, see the tune2fs(8) man page.
9376
9377       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9378       ARGUMENTS".
9379
9380   tune2fs-l
9381        tune2fs-l device
9382
9383       This returns the contents of the ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem
9384       superblock on "device".
9385
9386       It is the same as running "tune2fs -l device".  See tune2fs(8) manpage
9387       for more details.  The list of fields returned isn't clearly defined,
9388       and depends on both the version of "tune2fs" that libguestfs was built
9389       against, and the filesystem itself.
9390
9391   txz-in
9392        txz-in (tarball|-) directory
9393
9394       This command uploads and unpacks local file "tarball" (an xz compressed
9395       tar file) into directory.
9396
9397       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9398
9399       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "tar-in" call
9400       instead.
9401
9402       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9403       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9404       use of these functions.
9405
9406       This command depends on the feature "xz".   See also "feature-
9407       available".
9408
9409   txz-out
9410        txz-out directory (tarball|-)
9411
9412       This command packs the contents of directory and downloads it to local
9413       file "tarball" (as an xz compressed tar archive).
9414
9415       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9416
9417       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "tar-out" call
9418       instead.
9419
9420       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9421       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9422       use of these functions.
9423
9424       This command depends on the feature "xz".   See also "feature-
9425       available".
9426
9427   umask
9428        umask mask
9429
9430       This function sets the mask used for creating new files and device
9431       nodes to "mask & 0777".
9432
9433       Typical umask values would be 022 which creates new files with
9434       permissions like "-rw-r--r--" or "-rwxr-xr-x", and 002 which creates
9435       new files with permissions like "-rw-rw-r--" or "-rwxrwxr-x".
9436
9437       The default umask is 022.  This is important because it means that
9438       directories and device nodes will be created with 0644 or 0755 mode
9439       even if you specify 0777.
9440
9441       See also "get-umask", umask(2), "mknod", "mkdir".
9442
9443       This call returns the previous umask.
9444
9445   umount
9446   unmount
9447   umount-opts
9448        umount pathordevice [force:true|false] [lazyunmount:true|false]
9449
9450       This unmounts the given filesystem.  The filesystem may be specified
9451       either by its mountpoint (path) or the device which contains the
9452       filesystem.
9453
9454       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9455       ARGUMENTS".
9456
9457   umount-all
9458   unmount-all
9459        umount-all
9460
9461       This unmounts all mounted filesystems.
9462
9463       Some internal mounts are not unmounted by this call.
9464
9465   umount-local
9466        umount-local [retry:true|false]
9467
9468       If libguestfs is exporting the filesystem on a local mountpoint, then
9469       this unmounts it.
9470
9471       See "MOUNT LOCAL" in guestfs(3) for full documentation.
9472
9473       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9474       ARGUMENTS".
9475
9476   upload
9477        upload (filename|-) remotefilename
9478
9479       Upload local file filename to remotefilename on the filesystem.
9480
9481       filename can also be a named pipe.
9482
9483       See also "download".
9484
9485       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9486
9487   upload-offset
9488        upload-offset (filename|-) remotefilename offset
9489
9490       Upload local file filename to remotefilename on the filesystem.
9491
9492       remotefilename is overwritten starting at the byte "offset" specified.
9493       The intention is to overwrite parts of existing files or devices,
9494       although if a non-existent file is specified then it is created with a
9495       "hole" before "offset".  The size of the data written is implicit in
9496       the size of the source filename.
9497
9498       Note that there is no limit on the amount of data that can be uploaded
9499       with this call, unlike with "pwrite", and this call always writes the
9500       full amount unless an error occurs.
9501
9502       See also "upload", "pwrite".
9503
9504       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9505
9506   user-cancel
9507        user-cancel
9508
9509       This function cancels the current upload or download operation.
9510
9511       Unlike most other libguestfs calls, this function is signal safe and
9512       thread safe.  You can call it from a signal handler or from another
9513       thread, without needing to do any locking.
9514
9515       The transfer that was in progress (if there is one) will stop shortly
9516       afterwards, and will return an error.  The errno (see
9517       "guestfs_last_errno") is set to "EINTR", so you can test for this to
9518       find out if the operation was cancelled or failed because of another
9519       error.
9520
9521       No cleanup is performed: for example, if a file was being uploaded then
9522       after cancellation there may be a partially uploaded file.  It is the
9523       caller’s responsibility to clean up if necessary.
9524
9525       There are two common places that you might call "user-cancel":
9526
9527       In an interactive text-based program, you might call it from a "SIGINT"
9528       signal handler so that pressing "^C" cancels the current operation.
9529       (You also need to call "guestfs_set_pgroup" so that child processes
9530       don't receive the "^C" signal).
9531
9532       In a graphical program, when the main thread is displaying a progress
9533       bar with a cancel button, wire up the cancel button to call this
9534       function.
9535
9536   utimens
9537        utimens path atsecs atnsecs mtsecs mtnsecs
9538
9539       This command sets the timestamps of a file with nanosecond precision.
9540
9541       "atsecs, atnsecs" are the last access time (atime) in secs and
9542       nanoseconds from the epoch.
9543
9544       "mtsecs, mtnsecs" are the last modification time (mtime) in secs and
9545       nanoseconds from the epoch.
9546
9547       If the *nsecs field contains the special value "-1" then the
9548       corresponding timestamp is set to the current time.  (The *secs field
9549       is ignored in this case).
9550
9551       If the *nsecs field contains the special value "-2" then the
9552       corresponding timestamp is left unchanged.  (The *secs field is ignored
9553       in this case).
9554
9555   utsname
9556        utsname
9557
9558       This returns the kernel version of the appliance, where this is
9559       available.  This information is only useful for debugging.  Nothing in
9560       the returned structure is defined by the API.
9561
9562   version
9563        version
9564
9565       Return the libguestfs version number that the program is linked
9566       against.
9567
9568       Note that because of dynamic linking this is not necessarily the
9569       version of libguestfs that you compiled against.  You can compile the
9570       program, and then at runtime dynamically link against a completely
9571       different libguestfs.so library.
9572
9573       This call was added in version 1.0.58.  In previous versions of
9574       libguestfs there was no way to get the version number.  From C code you
9575       can use dynamic linker functions to find out if this symbol exists (if
9576       it doesn't, then it’s an earlier version).
9577
9578       The call returns a structure with four elements.  The first three
9579       ("major", "minor" and "release") are numbers and correspond to the
9580       usual version triplet.  The fourth element ("extra") is a string and is
9581       normally empty, but may be used for distro-specific information.
9582
9583       To construct the original version string:
9584       "$major.$minor.$release$extra"
9585
9586       See also: "LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS" in guestfs(3).
9587
9588       Note: Don't use this call to test for availability of features.  In
9589       enterprise distributions we backport features from later versions into
9590       earlier versions, making this an unreliable way to test for features.
9591       Use "available" or "feature-available" instead.
9592
9593   vfs-label
9594        vfs-label mountable
9595
9596       This returns the label of the filesystem on "mountable".
9597
9598       If the filesystem is unlabeled, this returns the empty string.
9599
9600       To find a filesystem from the label, use "findfs-label".
9601
9602   vfs-minimum-size
9603        vfs-minimum-size mountable
9604
9605       Get the minimum size of filesystem in bytes.  This is the minimum
9606       possible size for filesystem shrinking.
9607
9608       If getting minimum size of specified filesystem is not supported, this
9609       will fail and set errno as ENOTSUP.
9610
9611       See also ntfsresize(8), resize2fs(8), btrfs(8), xfs_info(8).
9612
9613   vfs-type
9614        vfs-type mountable
9615
9616       This command gets the filesystem type corresponding to the filesystem
9617       on "mountable".
9618
9619       For most filesystems, the result is the name of the Linux VFS module
9620       which would be used to mount this filesystem if you mounted it without
9621       specifying the filesystem type.  For example a string such as "ext3" or
9622       "ntfs".
9623
9624   vfs-uuid
9625   get-uuid
9626        vfs-uuid mountable
9627
9628       This returns the filesystem UUID of the filesystem on "mountable".
9629
9630       If the filesystem does not have a UUID, this returns the empty string.
9631
9632       To find a filesystem from the UUID, use "findfs-uuid".
9633
9634   vg-activate
9635        vg-activate true|false 'volgroups ...'
9636
9637       This command activates or (if "activate" is false) deactivates all
9638       logical volumes in the listed volume groups "volgroups".
9639
9640       This command is the same as running "vgchange -a y|n volgroups..."
9641
9642       Note that if "volgroups" is an empty list then all volume groups are
9643       activated or deactivated.
9644
9645       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9646       available".
9647
9648   vg-activate-all
9649        vg-activate-all true|false
9650
9651       This command activates or (if "activate" is false) deactivates all
9652       logical volumes in all volume groups.
9653
9654       This command is the same as running "vgchange -a y|n"
9655
9656       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9657       available".
9658
9659   vgchange-uuid
9660        vgchange-uuid vg
9661
9662       Generate a new random UUID for the volume group "vg".
9663
9664       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9665       available".
9666
9667   vgchange-uuid-all
9668        vgchange-uuid-all
9669
9670       Generate new random UUIDs for all volume groups.
9671
9672       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9673       available".
9674
9675   vgcreate
9676        vgcreate volgroup 'physvols ...'
9677
9678       This creates an LVM volume group called "volgroup" from the non-empty
9679       list of physical volumes "physvols".
9680
9681       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9682       available".
9683
9684   vglvuuids
9685        vglvuuids vgname
9686
9687       Given a VG called "vgname", this returns the UUIDs of all the logical
9688       volumes created in this volume group.
9689
9690       You can use this along with "lvs" and "lvuuid" calls to associate
9691       logical volumes and volume groups.
9692
9693       See also "vgpvuuids".
9694
9695   vgmeta
9696        vgmeta vgname
9697
9698       "vgname" is an LVM volume group.  This command examines the volume
9699       group and returns its metadata.
9700
9701       Note that the metadata is an internal structure used by LVM, subject to
9702       change at any time, and is provided for information only.
9703
9704       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9705       available".
9706
9707   vgpvuuids
9708        vgpvuuids vgname
9709
9710       Given a VG called "vgname", this returns the UUIDs of all the physical
9711       volumes that this volume group resides on.
9712
9713       You can use this along with "pvs" and "pvuuid" calls to associate
9714       physical volumes and volume groups.
9715
9716       See also "vglvuuids".
9717
9718   vgremove
9719        vgremove vgname
9720
9721       Remove an LVM volume group "vgname", (for example "VG").
9722
9723       This also forcibly removes all logical volumes in the volume group (if
9724       any).
9725
9726       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9727       available".
9728
9729   vgrename
9730        vgrename volgroup newvolgroup
9731
9732       Rename a volume group "volgroup" with the new name "newvolgroup".
9733
9734   vgs
9735        vgs
9736
9737       List all the volumes groups detected.  This is the equivalent of the
9738       vgs(8) command.
9739
9740       This returns a list of just the volume group names that were detected
9741       (eg. "VolGroup00").
9742
9743       See also "vgs-full".
9744
9745       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9746       available".
9747
9748   vgs-full
9749        vgs-full
9750
9751       List all the volumes groups detected.  This is the equivalent of the
9752       vgs(8) command.  The "full" version includes all fields.
9753
9754       This command depends on the feature "lvm2".   See also "feature-
9755       available".
9756
9757   vgscan
9758        vgscan
9759
9760       This rescans all block devices and rebuilds the list of LVM physical
9761       volumes, volume groups and logical volumes.
9762
9763       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "lvm-scan" call
9764       instead.
9765
9766       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9767       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9768       use of these functions.
9769
9770   vguuid
9771        vguuid vgname
9772
9773       This command returns the UUID of the LVM VG named "vgname".
9774
9775   wc-c
9776        wc-c path
9777
9778       This command counts the characters in a file, using the "wc -c"
9779       external command.
9780
9781   wc-l
9782        wc-l path
9783
9784       This command counts the lines in a file, using the "wc -l" external
9785       command.
9786
9787   wc-w
9788        wc-w path
9789
9790       This command counts the words in a file, using the "wc -w" external
9791       command.
9792
9793   wipefs
9794        wipefs device
9795
9796       This command erases filesystem or RAID signatures from the specified
9797       "device" to make the filesystem invisible to libblkid.
9798
9799       This does not erase the filesystem itself nor any other data from the
9800       "device".
9801
9802       Compare with "zero" which zeroes the first few blocks of a device.
9803
9804       This command depends on the feature "wipefs".   See also "feature-
9805       available".
9806
9807   write
9808        write path content
9809
9810       This call creates a file called "path".  The content of the file is the
9811       string "content" (which can contain any 8 bit data).
9812
9813       See also "write-append".
9814
9815   write-append
9816        write-append path content
9817
9818       This call appends "content" to the end of file "path".  If "path" does
9819       not exist, then a new file is created.
9820
9821       See also "write".
9822
9823   write-file
9824        write-file path content size
9825
9826       This call creates a file called "path".  The contents of the file is
9827       the string "content" (which can contain any 8 bit data), with length
9828       "size".
9829
9830       As a special case, if "size" is 0 then the length is calculated using
9831       "strlen" (so in this case the content cannot contain embedded ASCII
9832       NULs).
9833
9834       NB. Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL characters
9835       does not work, even if the length is specified.
9836
9837       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9838       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9839
9840       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "write" call
9841       instead.
9842
9843       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9844       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9845       use of these functions.
9846
9847   xfs-admin
9848        xfs-admin device [extunwritten:true|false] [imgfile:true|false] [v2log:true|false] [projid32bit:true|false] [lazycounter:true|false] [label:..] [uuid:..]
9849
9850       Change the parameters of the XFS filesystem on "device".
9851
9852       Devices that are mounted cannot be modified.  Administrators must
9853       unmount filesystems before this call can modify parameters.
9854
9855       Some of the parameters of a mounted filesystem can be examined and
9856       modified using the "xfs-info" and "xfs-growfs" calls.
9857
9858       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9859       ARGUMENTS".
9860
9861       This command depends on the feature "xfs".   See also "feature-
9862       available".
9863
9864   xfs-growfs
9865        xfs-growfs path [datasec:true|false] [logsec:true|false] [rtsec:true|false] [datasize:N] [logsize:N] [rtsize:N] [rtextsize:N] [maxpct:N]
9866
9867       Grow the XFS filesystem mounted at "path".
9868
9869       The returned struct contains geometry information.  Missing fields are
9870       returned as "-1" (for numeric fields) or empty string.
9871
9872       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9873       ARGUMENTS".
9874
9875       This command depends on the feature "xfs".   See also "feature-
9876       available".
9877
9878   xfs-info
9879        xfs-info pathordevice
9880
9881       "pathordevice" is a mounted XFS filesystem or a device containing an
9882       XFS filesystem.  This command returns the geometry of the filesystem.
9883
9884       The returned struct contains geometry information.  Missing fields are
9885       returned as "-1" (for numeric fields) or empty string.
9886
9887       This command depends on the feature "xfs".   See also "feature-
9888       available".
9889
9890   xfs-repair
9891        xfs-repair device [forcelogzero:true|false] [nomodify:true|false] [noprefetch:true|false] [forcegeometry:true|false] [maxmem:N] [ihashsize:N] [bhashsize:N] [agstride:N] [logdev:..] [rtdev:..]
9892
9893       Repair corrupt or damaged XFS filesystem on "device".
9894
9895       The filesystem is specified using the "device" argument which should be
9896       the device name of the disk partition or volume containing the
9897       filesystem.  If given the name of a block device, "xfs_repair" will
9898       attempt to find the raw device associated with the specified block
9899       device and will use the raw device instead.
9900
9901       Regardless, the filesystem to be repaired must be unmounted, otherwise,
9902       the resulting filesystem may be inconsistent or corrupt.
9903
9904       The returned status indicates whether filesystem corruption was
9905       detected (returns 1) or was not detected (returns 0).
9906
9907       This command has one or more optional arguments.  See "OPTIONAL
9908       ARGUMENTS".
9909
9910       This command depends on the feature "xfs".   See also "feature-
9911       available".
9912
9913   yara-destroy
9914        yara-destroy
9915
9916       Destroy previously loaded Yara rules in order to free libguestfs
9917       resources.
9918
9919       This command depends on the feature "libyara".   See also "feature-
9920       available".
9921
9922   yara-load
9923        yara-load (filename|-)
9924
9925       Upload a set of Yara rules from local file filename.
9926
9927       Yara rules allow to categorize files based on textual or binary
9928       patterns within their content.  See "yara-scan" to see how to scan
9929       files with the loaded rules.
9930
9931       Rules can be in binary format, as when compiled with yarac command, or
9932       in source code format. In the latter case, the rules will be first
9933       compiled and then loaded.
9934
9935       Rules in source code format cannot include external files. In such
9936       cases, it is recommended to compile them first.
9937
9938       Previously loaded rules will be destroyed.
9939
9940       Use "-" instead of a filename to read/write from stdin/stdout.
9941
9942       This command depends on the feature "libyara".   See also "feature-
9943       available".
9944
9945   yara-scan
9946        yara-scan path
9947
9948       Scan a file with the previously loaded Yara rules.
9949
9950       For each matching rule, a "yara_detection" structure is returned.
9951
9952       The "yara_detection" structure contains the following fields.
9953
9954       "yara_name"
9955           Path of the file matching a Yara rule.
9956
9957       "yara_rule"
9958           Identifier of the Yara rule which matched against the given file.
9959
9960       This command depends on the feature "libyara".   See also "feature-
9961       available".
9962
9963   zegrep
9964        zegrep regex path
9965
9966       This calls the external "zegrep" program and returns the matching
9967       lines.
9968
9969       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9970       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9971
9972       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
9973
9974       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9975       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9976       use of these functions.
9977
9978   zegrepi
9979        zegrepi regex path
9980
9981       This calls the external "zegrep -i" program and returns the matching
9982       lines.
9983
9984       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
9985       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
9986
9987       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
9988
9989       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
9990       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
9991       use of these functions.
9992
9993   zero
9994        zero device
9995
9996       This command writes zeroes over the first few blocks of "device".
9997
9998       How many blocks are zeroed isn't specified (but it’s not enough to
9999       securely wipe the device).  It should be sufficient to remove any
10000       partition tables, filesystem superblocks and so on.
10001
10002       If blocks are already zero, then this command avoids writing zeroes.
10003       This prevents the underlying device from becoming non-sparse or growing
10004       unnecessarily.
10005
10006       See also: "zero-device", "scrub-device", "is-zero-device"
10007
10008   zero-device
10009        zero-device device
10010
10011       This command writes zeroes over the entire "device".  Compare with
10012       "zero" which just zeroes the first few blocks of a device.
10013
10014       If blocks are already zero, then this command avoids writing zeroes.
10015       This prevents the underlying device from becoming non-sparse or growing
10016       unnecessarily.
10017
10018   zero-free-space
10019        zero-free-space directory
10020
10021       Zero the free space in the filesystem mounted on directory.  The
10022       filesystem must be mounted read-write.
10023
10024       The filesystem contents are not affected, but any free space in the
10025       filesystem is freed.
10026
10027       Free space is not "trimmed".  You may want to call "fstrim" either as
10028       an alternative to this, or after calling this, depending on your
10029       requirements.
10030
10031   zerofree
10032        zerofree device
10033
10034       This runs the zerofree program on "device".  This program claims to
10035       zero unused inodes and disk blocks on an ext2/3 filesystem, thus making
10036       it possible to compress the filesystem more effectively.
10037
10038       You should not run this program if the filesystem is mounted.
10039
10040       It is possible that using this program can damage the filesystem or
10041       data on the filesystem.
10042
10043       This command depends on the feature "zerofree".   See also "feature-
10044       available".
10045
10046   zfgrep
10047        zfgrep pattern path
10048
10049       This calls the external "zfgrep" program and returns the matching
10050       lines.
10051
10052       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
10053       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
10054
10055       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
10056
10057       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
10058       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
10059       use of these functions.
10060
10061   zfgrepi
10062        zfgrepi pattern path
10063
10064       This calls the external "zfgrep -i" program and returns the matching
10065       lines.
10066
10067       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
10068       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
10069
10070       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
10071
10072       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
10073       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
10074       use of these functions.
10075
10076   zfile
10077        zfile meth path
10078
10079       This command runs file after first decompressing "path" using "method".
10080
10081       "method" must be one of "gzip", "compress" or "bzip2".
10082
10083       Since 1.0.63, use "file" instead which can now process compressed
10084       files.
10085
10086       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "file" call instead.
10087
10088       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
10089       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
10090       use of these functions.
10091
10092   zgrep
10093        zgrep regex path
10094
10095       This calls the external "zgrep" program and returns the matching lines.
10096
10097       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
10098       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
10099
10100       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
10101
10102       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
10103       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
10104       use of these functions.
10105
10106   zgrepi
10107        zgrepi regex path
10108
10109       This calls the external "zgrep -i" program and returns the matching
10110       lines.
10111
10112       Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere
10113       between 2MB and 4MB.  See "PROTOCOL LIMITS" in guestfs(3).
10114
10115       This function is deprecated.  In new code, use the "grep" call instead.
10116
10117       Deprecated functions will not be removed from the API, but the fact
10118       that they are deprecated indicates that there are problems with correct
10119       use of these functions.
10120

EXIT STATUS

10122       guestfish returns 0 if the commands completed without error, or 1 if
10123       there was an error.
10124

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

10126       EDITOR
10127           The "edit" command uses $EDITOR as the editor.  If not set, it uses
10128           "vi".
10129
10130       GUESTFISH_DISPLAY_IMAGE
10131           The "display" command uses $GUESTFISH_DISPLAY_IMAGE to display
10132           images.  If not set, it uses display(1).
10133
10134       GUESTFISH_INIT
10135           Printed when guestfish starts.  See "PROMPT".
10136
10137       GUESTFISH_OUTPUT
10138           Printed before guestfish output.  See "PROMPT".
10139
10140       GUESTFISH_PID
10141           Used with the --remote option to specify the remote guestfish
10142           process to control.  See section "REMOTE CONTROL GUESTFISH OVER A
10143           SOCKET".
10144
10145       GUESTFISH_PS1
10146           Set the command prompt.  See "PROMPT".
10147
10148       GUESTFISH_RESTORE
10149           Printed before guestfish exits.  See "PROMPT".
10150
10151       HEXEDITOR
10152           The "hexedit" command uses $HEXEDITOR as the external hex editor.
10153           If not specified, the external hexedit(1) program is used.
10154
10155       HOME
10156           If compiled with GNU readline support, various files in the home
10157           directory can be used.  See "FILES".
10158
10159       LIBGUESTFS_APPEND
10160           Pass additional options to the guest kernel.
10161
10162       LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD
10163           This is the old way to set "LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND".
10164
10165       LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND
10166           Choose the default way to create the appliance.  See
10167           "guestfs_set_backend" in guestfs(3).
10168
10169       LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS
10170           A colon-separated list of backend-specific settings.  See "BACKEND"
10171           in guestfs(3), "BACKEND SETTINGS" in guestfs(3).
10172
10173       LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR
10174           The location where libguestfs will cache its appliance, when using
10175           a supermin appliance.  The appliance is cached and shared between
10176           all handles which have the same effective user ID.
10177
10178           If "LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR" is not set, then "TMPDIR" is used.  If
10179           "TMPDIR" is not set, then /var/tmp is used.
10180
10181           See also "LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR", "set-cachedir".
10182
10183       LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG
10184           Set "LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1" to enable verbose messages.  This has the
10185           same effect as using the -v option.
10186
10187       LIBGUESTFS_HV
10188           Set the default hypervisor (usually qemu) binary that libguestfs
10189           uses.  If not set, then the qemu which was found at compile time by
10190           the configure script is used.
10191
10192       LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE
10193           Set the memory allocated to the qemu process, in megabytes.  For
10194           example:
10195
10196            LIBGUESTFS_MEMSIZE=700
10197
10198       LIBGUESTFS_PATH
10199           Set the path that guestfish uses to search for kernel and
10200           initrd.img.  See the discussion of paths in guestfs(3).
10201
10202       LIBGUESTFS_QEMU
10203           This is the old way to set "LIBGUESTFS_HV".
10204
10205       LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR
10206           The location where libguestfs will store temporary files used by
10207           each handle.
10208
10209           If "LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR" is not set, then "TMPDIR" is used.  If
10210           "TMPDIR" is not set, then /tmp is used.
10211
10212           See also "LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR", "set-tmpdir".
10213
10214       LIBGUESTFS_TRACE
10215           Set "LIBGUESTFS_TRACE=1" to enable command traces.
10216
10217       PAGER
10218           The "more" command uses $PAGER as the pager.  If not set, it uses
10219           "more".
10220
10221       PATH
10222           Libguestfs and guestfish may run some external programs, and rely
10223           on $PATH being set to a reasonable value.  If using the libvirt
10224           backend, libvirt will not work at all unless $PATH contains the
10225           path of qemu/KVM.
10226
10227       SUPERMIN_KERNEL
10228       SUPERMIN_KERNEL_VERSION
10229       SUPERMIN_MODULES
10230           These three environment variables allow the kernel that libguestfs
10231           uses in the appliance to be selected.  If $SUPERMIN_KERNEL is not
10232           set, then the most recent host kernel is chosen.  For more
10233           information about kernel selection, see supermin(1).
10234
10235       TMPDIR
10236           See "LIBGUESTFS_CACHEDIR", "LIBGUESTFS_TMPDIR".
10237
10238       XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
10239           This directory represents a user-specific directory for storing
10240           non-essential runtime files.
10241
10242           If it is set, then is used to store temporary sockets.  Otherwise,
10243           /tmp is used.
10244
10245           See also "get-sockdir",
10246           http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec/.
10247

FILES

10249       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libguestfs/libguestfs-tools.conf
10250       $HOME/.libguestfs-tools.rc
10251       $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/libguestfs/libguestfs-tools.conf
10252       /etc/libguestfs-tools.conf
10253           This configuration file controls the default read-only or read-
10254           write mode (--ro or --rw).
10255
10256           See libguestfs-tools.conf(5).
10257
10258       $HOME/.guestfish
10259           If compiled with GNU readline support, then the command history is
10260           saved in this file.
10261
10262       $HOME/.inputrc
10263       /etc/inputrc
10264           If compiled with GNU readline support, then these files can be used
10265           to configure readline.  For further information, please see
10266           "INITIALIZATION FILE" in readline(3).
10267
10268           To write rules which only apply to guestfish, use:
10269
10270            $if guestfish
10271            ...
10272            $endif
10273
10274           Variables that you can set in inputrc that change the behaviour of
10275           guestfish in useful ways include:
10276
10277           completion-ignore-case (default: on)
10278               By default, guestfish will ignore case when tab-completing
10279               paths on the disk.  Use:
10280
10281                set completion-ignore-case off
10282
10283               to make guestfish case sensitive.
10284
10285       test1.img
10286       test2.img (etc)
10287           When using the -N or --new option, the prepared disk or filesystem
10288           will be created in the file test1.img in the current directory.
10289           The second use of -N will use test2.img and so on.  Any existing
10290           file with the same name will be overwritten.  You can use a
10291           different filename by using the "filename=" prefix.
10292

SEE ALSO

10294       guestfs(3), http://libguestfs.org/, virt-alignment-scan(1),
10295       virt-builder(1), virt-builder-repository(1), virt-cat(1),
10296       virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-customize(1), virt-df(1),
10297       virt-diff(1), virt-edit(1), virt-filesystems(1), virt-inspector(1),
10298       virt-list-filesystems(1), virt-list-partitions(1), virt-log(1),
10299       virt-ls(1), virt-make-fs(1), virt-p2v(1), virt-rescue(1),
10300       virt-resize(1), virt-sparsify(1), virt-sysprep(1), virt-tail(1),
10301       virt-tar(1), virt-tar-in(1), virt-tar-out(1), virt-v2v(1),
10302       virt-win-reg(1), libguestfs-tools.conf(5), display(1), hexedit(1),
10303       supermin(1).
10304

AUTHORS

10306       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")
10307
10309       Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Red Hat Inc.
10310

LICENSE

10312       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
10313       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
10314       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
10315       option) any later version.
10316
10317       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
10318       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
10319       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
10320       General Public License for more details.
10321
10322       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
10323       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
10324       51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
10325

BUGS

10327       To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link:
10328       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
10329
10330       To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link:
10331       https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
10332
10333       When reporting a bug, please supply:
10334
10335       ·   The version of libguestfs.
10336
10337       ·   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from
10338           source, etc)
10339
10340       ·   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
10341
10342       ·   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output
10343           into the bug report.
10344
10345
10346
10347libguestfs-1.40.1                 2019-01-17                      guestfish(1)
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