Virt-copy-in

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Overview

Command-line utility used to copy files or directories from the host to a guest (virt-copy-in) and from a guest to the host (girt-copy-out), respectively.


virt-copy-in should be used only on turned off virtual machines that are not used by other disk editing tool. Using virt-copy-in on an active guest image or an image that is being edited by cause disk corruption in the virtual machine.

Install

yum install libguestfs-tools