Fedora 16 : KVM : guestfs browser : browse filesystem in a VM which is not running.

guestfs-browser enables you to browse filesystem in a VM which is not running.

Fedora release 16 (Verne) [root@fc16 ~]# uname -ri 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 x86_64

install guestfish browser via yum

[root@fc16 ~]# yum install -y guestfs-browser

start guestfs-browser

[root@fc16 ~]# guestfs-browser

connect to a livbirt URI


select a VM in which you’d like to browse filesystem.

The following is an output of Fedora16’s VM’s filesystem.

You can view/ edit / download files

select a file -> view / download



when browsing filesystem in that VM , the following process was running.

[root@fc16 ~]# ps aux | grep -i f16 | grep -v grep root      5714  1.0  1.9 2848476 151512 pts/0  Sl+  00:47   0:05 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off -nodefconfig -nodefaults -nographic -drive file=/var/USB_HDD/Fedora/libvirt/images/jeos-f16-sda.qcow2,snapshot=on,format=qcow2,if=virtio -nodefconfig -machine accel=kvm:tcg -m 500 -no-reboot -no-hpet -device virtio-serial -serial stdio -chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfsZZJx0M/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.5043 -initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/initrd.5043 -append panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0  TERM=xterm  -drive file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-0/root.5043,snapshot=on,if=virtio,cache=unsafe

nice tool.