New in libguestfs 1.12: HKEY_USERS in virt-win-reg

In this series of posts I’ll be looking at what’s new in the forthcoming release of libguestfs 1.12.

In 1.12 you will be able to use virt-win-reg to list out and update Windows user preferences stored in HKEY_USERS keys.

There are two ways to use this. You can either specify a User SID like:

virt-win-reg Windows 'HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Policies'

or (as a libguestfs extension) you can specify a local user name directly:

virt-win-reg Windows 'HKEY_USERS\rjones\Control Panel'