virt-tar-in - Online in the Cloud

PROGRAM:

NAME

virt-tar-in - Unpack a tarball into a virtual machine disk image.

SYNOPSIS

virt-tar-in -a disk.img data.tar /destination

virt-tar-in -d domain data.tar /destination

zcat data.tar.gz | virt-tar-in -d domain - /destination

WARNING

Using "virt-tar-in" on live virtual machines, or concurrently with other disk editing
tools, can be dangerous, potentially causing disk corruption. The virtual machine must be
shut down before you use this command, and disk images must not be edited concurrently.

DESCRIPTION

"virt-tar-in" unpacks an uncompressed tarball into a virtual machine disk image or named
libvirt domain.

The first parameter is the tar file. Use "-" to read the tar file from standard input.
The second parameter is the absolute target directory to unpack into.

EXAMPLES

Upload a home directory to a guest:

virt-tar-in -d MyGuest homes.tar /home

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-in"
command. For anything more complex than a trivial copy, you are probably better off using
guestfish directly.

OPTIONS

Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see
the full list of options.

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