virt-tar-in - Unpack a tarball into a virtual machine disk image.
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
Using virt-tar-in on live virtual machines can be dangerous,
potentially causing disk corruption. The virtual machine must be shut
down before you use this command.
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.
Upload a home directory to a guest:
virt-tar-in -d MyGuest homes.tar /home
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.
Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.
guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-make-fs(1), virt-tar-out(1), http://libguestfs.org/.
Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat dot com)
Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc. http://libguestfs.org/
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