virt-edit - Edit a file in a virtual machine
virt-edit [--options] domname file
virt-edit [--options] disk.img [disk.img ...] file
You must not use virt-edit on live virtual machines. If you do
this, you risk disk corruption in the VM. virt-edit tries to stop
you from doing this, but doesn't catch all cases.
virt-edit is a command line tool to edit file where file
exists in the named virtual machine (or disk image).
If you want to just view a file, use virt-cat(1). For more complex cases you should look at the guestfish(1) tool.
virt-edit mydomain /boot/grub/grub.conf
virt-edit mydomain /etc/passwd
Display brief help.
Display version number and exit.
If using libvirt, connect to the given URI. If omitted, then we connect to the default libvirt hypervisor.
If you specify guest block devices directly, then libvirt is not used at all.
EDITORIf set, this string is used as the editor. It may contain arguments,
eg. "emacs -nw"
If not set, vi is used.
guestfs(3), guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), the Sys::Guestfs(3) manpage, the Sys::Guestfs::Lib(3) manpage, the Sys::Virt(3) manpage, http://libguestfs.org/.
Richard W.M. Jones http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/
Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat Inc.
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