Libguestfs - Jan 2014 - Re: Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman
wrote:
> Hey everybody,
> Any news about the topic? I could not find anything relevant yet.
Don't know about the kernel bug, but in (very very) recent versions of
libguestfs it is now possible to force TCG by doing:

  export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg

which should work around this bug.

See:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#backend-settings
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/26f7fb237b713c798e23a336a3c4973513f83551
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/11ac9f702440fff5c8dad1f9756f24ca6867712c

Rich.

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On 01/31/2014 07:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>> Any news about the topic? I could not find anything relevant yet.
> 
> Don't know about the kernel bug, but in (very very) recent versions of
> libguestfs it is now possible to force TCG by doing:
> 
>   export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg
Nice, that is useful! That quickly helps isolate KVM-based issues.
> 
> which should work around this bug.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#backend-settings
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/26f7fb237b713c798e23a336a3c4973513f83551
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/11ac9f702440fff5c8dad1f9756f24ca6867712c
> 
> Rich.
> 

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Thanks, although i'm interested to run using KVM.
Paolo, any news?

Thanks,
Rom


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy
<kchamart@redhat.com>wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 07:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:02:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote:
> >> Hey everybody,
> >> Any news about the topic? I could not find anything relevant yet.
> >
> > Don't know about the kernel bug, but in (very very) recent
versions of
> > libguestfs it is now possible to force TCG by doing:
> >
> >   export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg
>
> Nice, that is useful! That quickly helps isolate KVM-based issues.
>
> >
> > which should work around this bug.
>
>
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#backend-settings
> >
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/26f7fb237b713c798e23a336a3c4973513f83551
> >
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/11ac9f702440fff5c8dad1f9756f24ca6867712c
> >
> > Rich.
> >
>
>
> --
> /kashyap
>