#!/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: $!"; sub foo { my $st = shift; my $data = shift; my $nbytes = shift; return syswrite FILE, $data, $nbytes; }; eval { $vol->download($st, 0, 0); $st->recv_all(\&foo); $st->finish(); }; if ($@) { unlink $f if $@; close FILE; die $@; } close FILE or die "cannot save $f: $!";