Libguestfs - Jun 2012 - Error mounting ubuntu cirros image?

# wget
https://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img
# mkdir mnt
# guestmount --rw -a cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img -i mnt
libguestfs: error: mount_options: mount_options_stub: /dev/root: No such file or
directory
guestmount: some filesystems could not be mounted (ignored)
fuse: bad mount point `mnt': Input/output error

Debug output attached.

cheers,
P?draig.
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:11:28AM +0100, P?draig Brady
wrote:
> # wget
https://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img
> # mkdir mnt
> # guestmount --rw -a cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img -i mnt
> libguestfs: error: mount_options: mount_options_stub: /dev/root: No such
file or directory
> guestmount: some filesystems could not be mounted (ignored)
> fuse: bad mount point `mnt': Input/output error
> 
> Debug output attached.
I added Cirros and /dev/root support in 1.17.12, so the first stable
version that supports it would be 1.18.  Earlier versions of
libguestfs won't recognize this.  It looks like you've got F15 which
has some quite old version of libguestfs.

This sort of thing is easily solved with mount-local ...

Rich.

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