Hi, just a short heads up about the current status of libguestfs on Debian: Current git master builds and works fine on Debian sid. The only change you have to make is to use a custom kernel instead of the one in squeeze/sid by pointing DEBIRF_KERNEL_PACKAGE in appliance/debian/debirf.conf to something recent enough (>= 2.6.35) like: DEBIRF_KERNEL_PACKAGE=/foo/linux-image-2.6.36-rc7+_2.6.36-rc7+-20_i386.deb Otherwise libguesfsd quits early since the virtio-serial device won't be created in the guest. Cheers, -- Guido
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:07:34PM +0100, Guido G?nther wrote:> Hi, > just a short heads up about the current status of libguestfs on Debian: > > Current git master builds and works fine on Debian sid. The only change > you have to make is to use a custom kernel instead of the one in > squeeze/sid by pointing DEBIRF_KERNEL_PACKAGE in > appliance/debian/debirf.conf to something recent enough (>= 2.6.35) > like: > > DEBIRF_KERNEL_PACKAGE=/foo/linux-image-2.6.36-rc7+_2.6.36-rc7+-20_i386.deb > > Otherwise libguesfsd quits early since the virtio-serial device won't be > created in the guest.Cool, I'll give this a go later on. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:07:34PM +0100, Guido G?nther wrote:> Hi, > just a short heads up about the current status of libguestfs on Debian: > > Current git master builds and works fine on Debian sid. The only change > you have to make is to use a custom kernel instead of the one in > squeeze/sid by pointing DEBIRF_KERNEL_PACKAGE in > appliance/debian/debirf.conf to something recent enough (>= 2.6.35) > like: > > DEBIRF_KERNEL_PACKAGE=/foo/linux-image-2.6.36-rc7+_2.6.36-rc7+-20_i386.deb > > Otherwise libguesfsd quits early since the virtio-serial device won't be > created in the guest.It works, but this warning message is definitely a bug: sh: febootstrap-supermin-helper: command not found BTW, unless users upgrade from the 2.6.26 (Debian 5) *host* kernel to something more recent like 2.6.32 then they will run into this glibc bug (as I did): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563103#c8 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
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