#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Sys::Virt; my $c = Sys::Virt->new(uri => "qemu:///session"); my $st = $c->new_stream(); die "syntax: $0 VOL-PATH OUTPUT-FILE" unless int(@ARGV) == 2; my $volpath = shift @ARGV; my $f = shift @ARGV; my $vol = $c->get_storage_volume_by_path($volpath); open FILE, ">$f" or die "cannot create $f: $!"; eval { $vol->download($st, 0, 0); while (1) { my $nbytes = 1024; my $data; my $rv = $st->recv($data, $nbytes); last if $rv == 0; while ($rv > 0) { my $done = syswrite FILE, $data, $rv; if ($done) { $data = substr $data, $done; $rv -= $done; } } } $st->finish(); }; if ($@) { unlink $f if $@; close FILE; die $@; } close FILE or die "cannot save $f: $!";