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inspector: Update documentation to cover <icon> element.

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Richard W.M. Jones
2011-06-30 11:36:38 +01:00
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@@ -285,6 +285,27 @@ Note that this only covers permanent local filesystem mappings, not
things like network shares. Furthermore NTFS volume mount points may
not be listed here.
=head2 E<lt>iconE<gt>
Virt-inspector is sometimes able to extract an icon or logo for the
guest. The icon is returned as base64-encoded PNG data. Note that
the icon can be very large and high quality.
<operatingsystems>
<operatingsystem>
...
<icon>
iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGAAAABg[.......]
[... many lines of base64 data ...]
</icon>
To display the icon, you have to extract it and convert the base64
data back to a binary file. Use an XPath query or simply an editor to
extract the data, then use the coreutils L<base64(1)> program to do
the conversion back to a PNG file:
base64 -i -d < icon.data > icon.png
=head2 INSPECTING INSTALL DISKS, LIVE CDs
Virt-inspector can detect some operating system installers on
@@ -353,6 +374,7 @@ versions of virt-inspector with different names:
L<guestfs(3)>,
L<guestfish(1)>,
L<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/>,
L<base64(1)>,
L<http://libguestfs.org/>.
=head1 AUTHORS