similar to: Fedora Rawhide / libguestfs 1.23.14 now enables -cpu host, +kvmclock

$ libguestfs-test-tool ... libguestfs: launch: version=1.42.0fedora=33,release=5.fc33,libvirt ... libguestfs: build appliance libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /usr/lib/guestfs) ... It appears that this configure test is now failing:

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Previous attempt: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-April/msg00013.html > > supermin needs to download packages (eg. RPMs) when preparing the > appliance. > > After a lot of work, 'dnf download' can now be used as a replacement > for the (deprecated) 'yumdownloader'

Just a note [possibly more of a warning] that I'm intending to switch the default backend in Fedora 18+ to libvirt this week. For more information about what this means, see: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/new-in-libguestfs-use-libvirt-to-launch-the-appliance/#content Barring any bugs, the change ought to be transparent. The reasons why we're making this change in Fedora are:

Previous attempt: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-April/msg00013.html supermin needs to download packages (eg. RPMs) when preparing the appliance. After a lot of work, 'dnf download' can now be used as a replacement for the (deprecated) 'yumdownloader' program. This only affects the 'supermin --prepare' phase, which means it only affects people building

I am using a debian 9 guest, hosted on a ESXi platform with nested virtualisation enabled. On this debian 9 guest when I run libguesfs-test-tool, it fails with an error: "qemu-system-x86_64: /build/qemu-DqynNa/qemu-2.8+dfsg/target-i386/kvm.c:1805: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed." Instead when I use a wrapper script and hook it with the env

supermin needs to download packages (eg. RPMs) when preparing the appliance. 'dnf download' finally appears to have made parallel downloads reliable[1]. Better late than never. So I have experimentally switched Rawhide's supermin to use 'dnf download' instead of the (deprecated) 'yumdownloader' program. This only affects the 'supermin --prepare' phase, which

Fedora 15 (Rawhide): Development branch 1.5.x. As usual, this follows the current development versions (currently 1.5.5). Fedora 14: Development branch 1.5.x. When Fedora 14 branched from Rawhide a month back, we inadvertently branched at a development version (1.5.2). We couldn't go back to the stable branch (1.4.x) without bumping the RPM Epoch. In the meantime Fedora 14 got

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > I just built `supermin` from source on my Fedora 22 machine, and somehow > it can't seem to detect RPM (but `supermin` from Rawhide detects it). > Exact error: > > supermin: could not detect package manager used by this system or > distro. > > which is coming from:

<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi</font> <br> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I dug various posts and articles on guest time synchronization.</font> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I could not conclude why it might be better to use ntpd in a guest rather than a daemon that reads from kvmclock </font>

Hi (apologies for the previous post in html - was scrubbed in the list digest) I've dug various posts and articles on host-guest time synchronization. I could not conclude why it might be better to use ntpd in a guest rather than a daemon that reads from kvmclock and having NTP running on the host only (assuming the guest OS is a recent linux and so the clock source is set to the

NB: This requires a qemu patch by Eduardo which is currently awaiting review: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg422959.html So not to be applied yet unless that qemu change goes upstream. Rich.

Building is broken in Rawhide. I have fixed everything but we're waiting for one kernel change to go upstream. The issues were: * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710882 parted failed to parse the Linux "3.0" string Fixed upstream, and I have added the patch to the Rawhide parted package. * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710921 ftrace doesn't

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:58:43PM -0700, Zetan Drableg wrote: > [00183ms] /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm \ > -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off \ > -nodefconfig \ > -nodefaults \ > -nographic \ > -machine accel=kvm:tcg \ > -cpu host,+kvmclock \ > -m 500 \ > -no-reboot \ > -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.47903 \

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=0001-Workaround-for-usrmove-in-Fedora.patch;hb=HEAD I have added this patch (not upstream) ^^ This is a workaround for a rather misguided feature called 'usrmove' which was just dumped without notice into Rawhide, 3 days before the F17 branch, while everyone was away at FOSDEM. I still haven't got libguestfs to build

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36512 Summary: Xorg Beta 1.10.99.1 - Provided by Fedora - Rawhide Product: xorg Version: git Platform: x86-64 (AMD64) OS/Version: Linux (All) Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: medium Component: Driver/nouveau AssignedTo: nouveau at

Fedora rawhide now builds on ARM as well as 32-bit and 64-bit x86, and while the x86 builds are successful, the ARM build is failing. I was able to fix the first problem, which was reported in a Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=715424 However, there are further build errors for which I haven't found appropriate fixes. It looks like there might be a namespace

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > > I just built `supermin` from source on my Fedora 22 machine, and somehow > > it can't seem to detect RPM (but `supermin` from Rawhide detects it). > > Exact error: > > > > supermin: could not detect package manager

I just installed the Rawhide package on my CentOS 5 system. The one item that bit me is that the config file defaults to using interface "[::]" so it only listens on IPv6. (This is from a patch in the package that changes the upstream default of "*", so it only affects those using the Fedora package.) For those wanting to track the issue, here's the Bugzilla:

Hi Rich I'm noe getting the below logs after running libguestfs-test-tool.. SUPERMIN_MODULES=/lib/modules/3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 SUPERMIN_KERNEL=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin SELinux: sh: getenforce: command not found guestfs_get_append: (null) guestfs_get_autosync: 1 guestfs_get_backend: direct

If you are interested in trying the new paravirt_ops kernels, I've created some packages and uploaded them to: http://et.redhat.com/~chrisw/paravirt_ops/ There you'll find a yum repo (see yum.README for details) and an INSTALL file for getting started. With this package you can use a single kernel[1] for both native (w/out a hypervisor, or under a full virt hypervisor), domU paravirt