Libguestfs - May 2014 - Re: libguestfs error

Glad Buddy.:-)

It worked.
Thanks a lot.

I'm having some urgent deliverable and this would really help me alot.

Thanks again.

Would love to trouble you again .






On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:30:45PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> [...]
> > checking for main in -lreadline... no
> > checking for append_history... no
> > checking for completion_matches... no
> > checking for rl_completion_matches... no
>
> OK here's your problem.
>
> You need to install libreadline-dev and rerun configure.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
> virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
> live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
> http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
>

Hi Rich

One more quiry.

When I'm trying to execute the binary on the powerpc ubuntu, it gives
/usr/bin/supermin error.However it works fine on x86 ubuntu.Below are the
logs...

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

SELinux: sh: getenforce: command not found
guestfs_get_append: (null)
guestfs_get_autosync: 1
guestfs_get_backend: direct
guestfs_get_backend_settings: []
guestfs_get_cachedir: /var/tmp
guestfs_get_direct: 0
guestfs_get_hv: /usr/bin/kvm
guestfs_get_memsize: 768
guestfs_get_network: 0
guestfs_get_path: /usr/local/lib/guestfs
guestfs_get_pgroup: 0
guestfs_get_program: libguestfs-test-tool
guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1
guestfs_get_selinux: 0
guestfs_get_smp: 1
guestfs_get_tmpdir: /tmp
guestfs_get_trace: 0
guestfs_get_verbose: 1
host_cpu: powerpc64
Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds.
libguestfs: launch: program=libguestfs-test-tool
libguestfs: launch: version=1.26.1
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: unix
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: uml
libguestfs: launch: backend registered: direct
libguestfs: launch: backend=direct
libguestfs: launch: tmpdir=/tmp/libguestfsvnUxG2
libguestfs: launch: umask=0002
libguestfs: launch: euid=1000
libguestfs: [00000ms] begin building supermin appliance
libguestfs: [00000ms] run supermin
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/supermin
libguestfs: command: run: \ --build
libguestfs: command: run: \ --verbose
libguestfs: command: run: \ --if-newer
libguestfs: command: run: \ --lock /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/lock
libguestfs: command: run: \ --copy-kernel
libguestfs: command: run: \ -f ext2
libguestfs: command: run: \ --host-cpu powerpc64
libguestfs: command: run: \ /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
libguestfs: command: run: \ -o /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/appliance.d
supermin: version: 5.1.8
supermin: package handler: debian/dpkg
supermin: acquiring lock on /var/tmp/.guestfs-1000/lock
supermin: build: /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin: build: visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.tar.gz
type gzip base image (tar)
supermin: build: visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.tar.gz
type gzip base image (tar)
supermin: build: visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/excludefiles
type uncompressed excludefiles
supermin: build: visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles type
uncompressed hostfiles
supermin: build: visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.tar.gz
type gzip base image (tar)
supermin: build: visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/packages type
uncompressed packages
supermin: build: visiting
/usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.tar.gz type gzip base image
(tar)
supermin: build: 121 packages, including dependencies
supermin: build: 7109 files
supermin: build: 7109 files, after removing unreadable files
supermin: build: 4939 files, after matching excludefiles
supermin: build: 4941 files, after adding hostfiles
supermin: build: 4944 files, after munging
supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=powerpc64).

I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.

If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels
installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for
supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).
libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see debug
messages above
libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0)
libguestfs: command: run: rm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsvnUxG2



Also while compiling libguesfs for powerpc ubuntu,it required
supermin_5.1.8-2_powerpc.deb package .

Please help regarding this.


Thanks


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:57 PM, abhishek jain <ashujain9727@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Glad Buddy.:-)
>
> It worked.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> I'm having some urgent deliverable and this would really help me alot.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Would love to trouble you again .
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:30:45PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
>> [...]
>> > checking for main in -lreadline... no
>> > checking for append_history... no
>> > checking for completion_matches... no
>> > checking for rl_completion_matches... no
>>
>> OK here's your problem.
>>
>> You need to install libreadline-dev and rerun configure.
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>> --
>> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
>> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
>> Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
>> virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
>> live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
>> http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
>>
>
>

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 03:01:47PM +0530, abhishek jain
wrote:
> /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.tar.gz type gzip base image
> (tar)
> supermin: build: 121 packages, including dependencies
> supermin: build: 7109 files
> supermin: build: 7109 files, after removing unreadable files
> supermin: build: 4939 files, after matching excludefiles
> supermin: build: 4941 files, after adding hostfiles
> supermin: build: 4944 files, after munging
> supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=powerpc64).
> 
> I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.
> 
> If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels
> installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for
> supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).
> libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see debug
> messages above
> libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
> libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0)
> libguestfs: command: run: rm
> libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsvnUxG2
This is actually a bug in supermin.  However I think it is fixed in
recent supermin.

Have a look at the patt_of_cpu function here:

https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/src/kernel.ml#L26

This was added by Hilko's patch:

https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commit/e8dd485a1737da365bc6af4afb5945817219393e

and I suspect you will need to include this patch in your version of
supermin.  You'll have to also look at the contents of /boot.

Note also that you don't need to install the supermin package in order
to use it, if you follow the instructions here:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-libguestfs-if-my-distro-doesnt-have-new-enough-qemu-supermin-kernel

Rich.

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