edit raw files without starting the VM

[tincboy]

Is it possible to read or edit raw files used by a VM while it's stoped?

 

[tom]

basically yes.

 

[tincboy]

basically yes.

Thanks, Any guide or tutorial?

 

[dietmar]

# man qm
# man ctid.conf

 

[tincboy]

# man qm
# man ctid.conf

Sorry that I'm too newbie, did you consider my VMs are KVM based not OpenVZ based?
I didn't find anything usefull in man qm, sorry.

 

[dietmar]

Sorry that I'm too newbie, did you consider my VMs are KVM based not OpenVZ based?
I didn't find anything usefull in man qm, sorry.

Sorry -i miss understood your question - please ignore my last post.

 

[dietmar]

Sorry that I'm too newbie, did you consider my VMs are KVM based not OpenVZ based?

What kind of VM are you talking about?

For OpenVZ, you can access the files under /var/lib/vz/private/<vmid>/

 

[tincboy]

My VMs are KVM based and the disk format is RAW file, I'm not using OpenVZ

 

[m.ardito]

one quick way could be boot the vm from a virtual iso livecd, and access the disks from there...
another could be mounting those raw files as devices, but i don't know how...

Marco

 

[tincboy]

one quick way could be boot the vm from a virtual iso livecd, and access the disks from there...
another could be mounting those raw files as devices, but i don't know how...

Marco

Which live OS you suggest? consider I need to edit files so read only file system is not OK.
No one knows a quicker way?

 

[bsnipes]

I haven't tried this but came across the link a couple of weeks ago:

http://libguestfs.org/

** Standard disclaimer to make a backup of the disk images first **

Brian

 

[m.ardito]

i usually use the latest ubuntu desktop, which automatically mounts most fs around, including ntfs, rw.
used also sysresccd, though.

Marco