How do I edit configuration files within Virtual Machine images without booting the Guest ?

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Issue

  • Customer requests virt-edit -e support in RHEL6.
  • guestfish is too slow for the number of images that are being edited/cloned.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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