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Hi, I tried to use libguestfs APIs from my host (Linux) to read guest files (Windows VM). I need to do this continuously on just a few files in case they change. Using guestfs_cat(), I am able to read the files of the guest VM from the host, but I cannot read a modified file without doing guestfs_shutdown(), guestfs_close() and then relaunching the image. A modified file seems not to be visible until the shutdown/relaunch combination. Now I'm trying rsync, will that work? I only need to read, and the amount of data is relatively small, about 50 MByte.

Harshal Patel
– Harshal Patel

2015-02-07 00:33:23 +00:00
Commented Feb 7, 2015 at 0:33

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