# Example showing how to create a disk image. require 'guestfs' output = "disk.img" g = Guestfs::Guestfs.new() # Create a raw-format sparse disk image, 512 MB in size. File.open(output, "w") { |f| f.truncate(512 * 1024 * 1024) } # Set the trace flag so that we can see each libguestfs call. g.set_trace(1) # Attach the disk image to libguestfs. g.add_drive_opts(output, :format => "raw") # Run the libguestfs back-end. g.launch(); # Get the list of devices. Because we only added one drive # above, we expect that this list should contain a single # element. devices = g.list_devices() if devices.length != 1 then raise "error: expected a single device from list-devices" end # Partition the disk as one single MBR partition. g.part_disk(devices[0], "mbr") # Get the list of partitions. We expect a single element, which # is the partition we have just created. partitions = g.list_partitions() if partitions.length != 1 then raise "error: expected a single partition from list-partitions" end # Create a filesystem on the partition. g.mkfs("ext4", partitions[0]) # Now mount the filesystem so that we can add files. g.mount(partitions[0], "/") # Create some files and directories. g.touch("/empty") message = "Hello, world\n" g.write("/hello", message) g.mkdir("/foo") # This one uploads the local file /etc/resolv.conf into # the disk image. g.upload("/etc/resolv.conf", "/foo/resolv.conf") # Because we wrote to the disk and we want to detect write # errors, call g.shutdown. You don't need to do this: # g.close will do it implicitly. g.shutdown() # Note also that handles are automatically closed if they are # reaped by the garbage collector. You only need to call close # if you want to close the handle right away. g.close()