Adding subject.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Puneet Bakshi <bakshi.pun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to install RPM packages (available in host system at
> some path) to the online guest VM and want this facility to be available as
> a tool.
>
> I am thinking of having a gemu guest agent (qemu-ga) running inside guest
> VM. I did not find any available command ("virsh qemu-agent-command
> <guest_vm> ...") which can do the same.
>
> I am planning to implement a command in qemu guest agent, which I can
> invoke from virsh like below.
>
> "virsh qemu-agent-command vm_01 \
> '{"execute":"guest-rpm-
> install", \
> "arguments":{"path":"/usr/local/bin/ABC.rpm"}}
>
> I am able to pass arguments from host to guest VM but how am I supposed to
> pass the whole RPM image from host to guest (which the guest agent can
> receive and install)?
>
> Basically, I want to know how can we do following in QEMU environment.
>
> 1. take some bulky file from host to guest
> 2. perform some operation on that file
> 3. get the result of that operation.
>
> Regards,
> ~Puneet
>
