Some screenshots from the new guest filesystem browser

The updated guest filesystem browser should look something like this in Fedora 16:

Guestfs-browser is now in Fedora

The guest filesystem browser is now in Fedora (15+).

Thanks to Ankur Sinha for the review.

Guest filesystem browser – new build

A new build of the guest filesystem graphical browser is available here.

Guest filesystem browser update 5

Update: A Koji scratch build is available here.

You can now browse into the Registry on Windows guests:

Guest filesystem browser update 4

Grab the latest version from Koji.

Guest filesystem browser update 3

Temporarily there are some binary RPMs to try out here. These require libguestfs from Rawhide, but it can be installed on Fedora 14. Source here.

You can point it at a disk image like this:

$ guestfs-browser -a disk.img

If you want to browse libvirt guests then at the moment you probably need to run it as root (because you won’t have permission to read the guest disk images otherwise).

Previously …

Guest filesystem browser update 2

I’ve now written code to download files and directories from guests, and there are some more operations available (greyed out in the screenshot because not yet implemented). But what operations would you like to see? At the moment we won’t implement any write operations, because it just makes it too easy for naive users to corrupt guests*.

* Proper locking support will eventually fix this, once we can get agreement from all concerned.

Screenshots from new guest filesystem browser

A couple of preview screenshots from the rewritten guest filesystem browser.

Previously …

Guest filesystem browser

The guest filesystem browser lets you browse inside the filesystems of virtual machines and disk images using a simple graphical interface.

This package delivers some of the features of libguestfs and the guestfish scripting tool to users who don’t want to use the command line.

Currently it’s a very early / alpha stage, but you can download experimental RPMs for F13 here (they might not work for everyone).

Guest filesystem browser 0.0.1

Get it from git here.

Previously and screenshots …