similar to: Release notes appendix for libguestfs 1.20 on Debian Wheezy

I'm just about to release libguestfs 1.20. This appendix covers issues specific to Fedora 18. Fedora 18 defaults to using the libvirt attach-method, meaning that libvirt is used to create and manage the libguestfs appliance. There are several benefits to this (see the full release notes). You can switch back to the ordinary method (directly running qemu) at any time by doing: export

I'm very pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.20. Libguestfs is a library and a comprehensive set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. For more information see http://libguestfs.org Libguestfs 1.20 represents 7 months of upstream work, dozens of major new features and bug fixes. For full details read the release notes below. You can download

In no particular order. Some of these need further investigation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I had to patch libguestfs not to use febootstrap-supermin-helper --copy-kernel option. See attachment #1. This could be avoided by providing a newer febootstrap in Wheezy. I had to patch libguestfs to make it not use the (not working) virtio-scsi in old

Ubuntu are now supplying a libguestfs package (or to be more accurate, they are just copying the Debian package) but it doesn't work out of the box. There is a bug in apt which we worked around in febootstrap 3.14, but the supplied version of febootstap is only 3.12. Hence you will get errors like this during installation: febootstrap: aptitude: error: no file was downloaded corresponding

[If you're using the upstream libguestfs with default settings, then this does NOT affect you. libvirt isn't required by libguestfs.] >From libguestfs 1.19.41, if you have selected the alternate libvirt method to launch the appliance, ie, if you have done: ./configure --with-default-attach-method=libvirt then sVirt is enabled by default. This is for enhanced security: if a

I have moved all three repositories to new locations on github: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex https://github.com/libguestfs/febootstrap You don't need to reclone them (unless you want to). You can simply edit .git/config and adjust the URL to: git at github.com:libguestfs/libguestfs.git git at github.com:libguestfs/hivex.git git at

This patch is FYI as it needs more testing, although feel free to take a look at it if you want. Background: We'd like to change libguestfs so that the appliance can support optional features. This would mean you could have (for example) a 'libguestfs' base package and a 'libguestfs-xfs' package providing optional support for XFS filesystem tools. This would only apply to

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:23:56PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: > I was interested in porting libguestfs to FreeBSD, and see that it > requires febootstrap, which I believe is specific to RedHat. febootstrap is nowadays a cross-platform appliance builder which supports currently yum+rpm (Fedora and RHEL), apt+dpkg (ie. Debian and Ubuntu), and pacman (ArchLinux). If you want to use

Hello all, I tried unsuccessfully to run libguestfs on debian squeeze (with kernel from testing) using the packages you provide here: http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/debian-packages/. The output I get from libguestfs-test tool is this: ===== Test starts here ===== LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 TMPDIR=(not set) libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0x17f32c0 library version: 1.14.0 guestfs_get_append:

This was a question asked last week on the IRC channel. I was on holiday and no one else was around at that time of the day to answer it ... < edwin> [Wed 19:27] hi < edwin> [Wed 19:28] libguestfs-test-tool says "sh: mkisofs: not found" on Debian, it is supposedly replaced by genisoimage. How do I proceed about gathering debug info on why guestfs

Hi, I am trying to get libguestfs-test-tool working on ubuntu. The first problem I had was that HiveX won't compile on ubuntu to due to some missing symbols (rpl-getopt, I see this has already been reported). Second problem is that if HiveX is not available, guestfish doesn't link because code refers to symbols which aren't compiled into libguestfs (I was able to work around this by

This error is with libguestfs 1.20. Calling guestfs_launch() with tracing on: supermin helper [00065ms] finished creating appliance libguestfs: checksum of existing appliance: 2bd6811426e14b6fb661b4d52cebd6c21a41df1a068e8acf6a7a08e3b3bd4ada libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp" libguestfs: [00071ms] begin building supermin appliance libguestfs:

The machine at et.redhat.com is going to be decommissioned soon, and so I have arranged alternate hosting for these two git repositories. As of now you should use: http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=summary (web interface) git clone git://git.annexia.org/git/febootstrap.git http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=summary (web interface) git clone

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 09:22:55AM -0300, Christopher Pereira wrote: > Just in case, here is also the output after exiting the > libguestfs-test-tool: > > ... > febootstrap: internal insmod ext2.ko > [ 0.965626] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as > /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input2 The next line here should be: febootstrap: picked /sys/block/vdb/dev as

HI, On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it exited exceptionally. Does anyone also hit the issue or know the reason? #/usr/bin/qemu-kvm -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off -nodefconfig -nodefaults -nographic -drive file=ubuntu1204_64_20G_aliaegis_20140811.vhd,snapshot=on,if=virtio -drive

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:04:11PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > Which version of libguestfs is this? I think you'll

http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ This could be interesting for people trying to compile libguestfs on platforms which don't yet support febootstrap. I suspect it may also be useful for Debian. I'm not suggesting that Debian uses a binary appliance, but instead of having update-guestfs-appliance build a supermin appliance, it could build a fixed appliance (in two steps,

When writing to a RHEV target, virt-v2v launches the libguestfs appliance with euid:egid = 36:36, which is required to write to an NFS target using root_squash. Since the update to use an febootstrap cached appliance, this causes an error on startup as the cached files are owned by root, but the cache directory is owned by 36:36. The reason for this is that execve() resets euid and egid to uid and

Rich, this wasn't operational. First of all, the image on my version of RHEV-H is kept in other directory. So I did that: 1. $ export FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL=/dev/.initramfs/live/vmlinuz0 2. $ echo $FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL /dev/.initramfs/live/vmlinuz0 3. $ libguestfs-test-tool ************************************************************ *

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:04:11PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones