[Sheepdog] guestfish manipulate a sheepdog vdi?

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:00:24 -0800,
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to move away from using qcow2 and instead use sheepdog.
> 
> I've gone through the hoops of getting sheepdog running with qemu/kvm.
> I can boot/run from a sheepdog VDI, but taking a snapshot and rebasing
> a new vdi for another instance I'm left without a way to manipulate
> the newly created vdi.
> 
> qemu-img -p convert centos6-base.qcow2 sheepdog:centos6-base
> qemu-img snapshot -c snaptest0 sheepdog:centos6-base
> qemu-img create -b sheepdog:centos6-base:1 sheepdog:test
> 
> after a virt-clone domain, and virsh edit newdomain I can boot sheepdog:test
> 
> But running this:
> guestfish -d newdomain -i < guestfish-commands.txt (this doesn't work)
> 
> does not work. seems the hooks from guestfish->qemu are different?

I took a quick look at guestfish code, and it seems that guestfish
doesn't support network block devices (e.g. nbd, rbd, and sheepdog).

I'm not familiar with guestfish, so I might be wrong.

Thanks,

Kazutaka