Libguestfs - Feb 2014 - Re: Problem with febootstrap version while compiling guestfsd in centos6.5

Ah OK, and what about generating the libguestfs-live-service for centos ? I
know that they may compatibilities issues with the distribution of source
rpm for fedora >=16

Actually i prefer not have all our guests overburdened with the libguestfs
package while we just need the daemon.

Beside i believe that with the live-service packege, closing the guestfs
handle does not cause the daemon to exit (correct me if i am wrong)

Thank you


2014-02-25 16:15 GMT+01:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
> [Please keep replies on the list]
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:13:52PM +0100, Safa Rekik wrote:
> > Actually i am trying to use libguestfs live in centos 6.5 guest.
> >
> > I couldn't find the libguestfs-live-service for centos so i am
trying two
> > things : either compiling guestfsd from source or generating an rpm
for
> > centos with rpmbuild (didn't try it yet).
> >
> > Please tell me if i am wrong or if there is a better way to use
> libguestfs
> > live.
>
> I believe libguestfs live is disabled in the RHEL/CentOS 6 package, so
> the only way to do it is to build the whole libguestfs from source.
> Just building the daemon won't work.
>
> Rich.
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:32:32PM +0100, Safa Rekik
wrote:
> Ah OK, and what about generating the libguestfs-live-service for centos ? I
> know that they may compatibilities issues with the distribution of source
> rpm for fedora >=16
We don't want to support libguestfs-live on RHEL, and the only way to
enable it in CentOS would be to enable it in RHEL too.

FWIW RHEL 6 carries the following patch:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/f87bb94ce53e991dd29f0b4731c688413c5b7024

You could modify the libguestfs RHEL 6 spec file, remove that patch.

You'll also need to modify the spec file to add the live-service
subpackage.  As an example of what to do, see the Fedora spec file:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/plain/libguestfs.spec
and search for the string 'live-service'.

Actually I just realized that uses systemd units, not sysvinit, so
that's not totally simple to emulate on RHEL 6.
> Actually i prefer not have all our guests overburdened with the libguestfs
> package while we just need the daemon.
You can compile libguestfs on one machine, and copy the
libguestfs-live-service RPM to the guests.
> Beside i believe that with the live-service packege, closing the guestfs
> handle does not cause the daemon to exit (correct me if i am wrong)
This is correct, yes.

Rich.

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bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org

Thank you very much for your help, we will give it a try !


2014-02-27 13:24 GMT+01:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:32:32PM +0100, Safa Rekik wrote:
> > Ah OK, and what about generating the libguestfs-live-service for
centos
> ? I
> > know that they may compatibilities issues with the distribution of
source
> > rpm for fedora >=16
>
> We don't want to support libguestfs-live on RHEL, and the only way to
> enable it in CentOS would be to enable it in RHEL too.
>
> FWIW RHEL 6 carries the following patch:
>
>
>
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/f87bb94ce53e991dd29f0b4731c688413c5b7024
>
> You could modify the libguestfs RHEL 6 spec file, remove that patch.
>
> You'll also need to modify the spec file to add the live-service
> subpackage.  As an example of what to do, see the Fedora spec file:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/plain/libguestfs.spec
> and search for the string 'live-service'.
>
> Actually I just realized that uses systemd units, not sysvinit, so
> that's not totally simple to emulate on RHEL 6.
>
> > Actually i prefer not have all our guests overburdened with the
> libguestfs
> > package while we just need the daemon.
>
> You can compile libguestfs on one machine, and copy the
> libguestfs-live-service RPM to the guests.
>
> > Beside i believe that with the live-service packege, closing the
guestfs
> > handle does not cause the daemon to exit (correct me if i am wrong)
>
> This is correct, yes.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
> bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org
>


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Safa REKIK