[virt-tools-list] command line chroot in a VM

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 12:08:27PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
> 
> >From the host, I would like to perform a batch operation on the guests.
> For example:
> 
>  # virsh list
>  1 001 
>  2 002
>  3 003
> 
> All guests are KVM, Debian Lenny
> 
> I want to 
> 
>  for GUEST in $(virsh list | awk '{<blah blah>}')
>  do 
>   ????? ${GUEST} apt-get update
>   ????? ${GUEST} apt-get upgrade
>  done
> 
> And then I just have to *read* and answer "yes" or "no" to the apt
> questions.
> 
> The host is a Debian Lenny, but I can backport some packages if needed.
> 
> What would be your suggestions?
> - libguestfs? (I see an unstable debian package existing)
> - ...?

This is basically a job for Func[1] or a proper configuration management
tool like Puppet[2]

Daniel

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/func/
[2] http://www.puppetlabs.com/

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