Several people managing Windows virtual machines have told me that libguestfs/virt-cat isn’t enough for them. They’d like to be able to get at Windows Registry entries in the guest.
A typical example is the imaginary [as of now] virt-win-reg command that lets you interrogate the Registry in a guest:
$ virt-win-reg MyWinGuest ‘\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion’
“ProductName”=”Microsoft Windows Server [...]
Using libguestfs we can dump out the Windows registry as plain files. Here’s how.
You will need Petter Nordahl-Hagen’s Windows registry tools (Fedora package chntpw).
On NT-derived versions of Windows, the registry is stored in several binary files under the path /WINDOWS/system32/config. This document explains what’s in what file and Wikipedia explains how the registry [...]
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