Libguestfs - Nov 2010 - Debian based appliance

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.

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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.

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