similar to: [PATCH] tests: Use ISO instead of squashfs

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From f8b2b724792262a57782a1bcde51bb88ba844716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard W.M.

Inspired by something Glauber asked me about today, I made a very simple pair of patches which add a 'virt-rescue' command to libguestfs. This uses the appliance as a "rescue appliance", so people can boot into a disk image and repair it in an unstructured, interactive way. (Specifically, Glauber's question was how to run fsck interactively - with this patch you could do

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:28:29AM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > hi Richard, > > i am trying libguestfs 1.0.64, and have below errors at "make" step: > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/home/quynh/projects/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.0.64/appliance' > mv initramfs.fedora-11.i686.img initramfs.fedora-11.i686.img.bak > mv: cannot stat `initramfs.fedora-11.i686.img':

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From aba008ae3c08242aaab3fc184d4a3e64864a1eb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard W.M.

The change to "null vmchannel" didn't get reflected in the configure script which still checks for vmchannel in qemu. This patch tidies up this part of the configure script so we don't fail, provided we have support for user mode networking (which is required for null vmchannel). This patch didn't make it into 1.0.71. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red

This patch is in preparation for allowing libguestfs to use alternate "vmchannel" implementations. Although it's not a functional change, I think it is worthwhile on its own because use of the term "vmchannel" in the names of constants is inappropriate since (a) the "-net channel" option is now properly known upstream as "guestfwd", and (b) no one can

This patch isn't quite finished. I also need to modify the virt-inspector "query mode" so that it can display the architecture. Nevertheless, text and XML output works for both Linux and Windows guests. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From 0420307349a71b7b9af58003c2591fc33b7939af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard

This seems to be the completed fix for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526717 -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part --------------

Just a note that I released version 1.0.56 yesterday. The main reason for doing a release was a large number of RHEL 5 fixes that allowed me to actually get an EPEL build out. The source is here: http://libguestfs.org/download/ and Fedora 11, 12 and EPEL 5 binaries are here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 There are some experimental, internal changes in this

[This announcement covers version 1.0.58 too since it didn't get a separate message.] We are pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.0.59. Home page: http://libguestfs.org/ Downloads: http://libguestfs.org/download Git repo: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=summary New in this release: - Support for Linux extended attributes. - Allow guestfish to be controlled

Earlier today I added this feature: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=34d2df41626f1ee4172a6d40b06d72d6ed9d6348 Unfortunately this feature doesn't work out. I forgot about kernel modules, which are contained in the initramfs, and stop working noisily if you just try to change the kernel. So I'm going to revert this patch, and perhaps think of some other way to do

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From a9f70c25326116215af71b1679d78e02defc3aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard W.M.

<eparis> rjones: libguestfs in epel for 5.4? you seen this? <eparis> Error: Missing Dependency: qemu-system-x86 >= 0.10.5 is needed by package 1:libguestfs-1.0.68-5.el5.x86_64 (epel) <eparis> I don't see that package, any idea what i've done wrong/ -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog:

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From d15195bad9e50f4d80e84c39100a217a260fc806 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Jones

At the moment the daemon code contains an incredibly hairy function called shell_quote for safely quoting strings passed to the shell. The patch replaces that with a glibc custom printf format (actually two, but very closely related), %Q and %R. %Q is like %s but it safely shell quotes the string. %R is like %Q but it prefixes the path with /sysroot. Example usage (w/o error checks):

Although 1.6.0 was only released 6 weeks ago, there have been 276 commits and 23 releases since then. It's therefore time to think about what needs to be done for 1.8. This is my personal list. Please follow up if you have other suggestions. Rich. * Implement guestfish --rw option / configuration file. http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#opening_disks_for_read_and_write * Alternate

I looked at OpenSUSE 11.3 (x86-64) and the 'zypper' package manager. Background ---------- libguestfs needs febootstrap to build the so-called supermin appliance. Since febootstrap 3.x, this requires porting febootstrap to each specific Linux package management system. We've already done this for yum (Fedora), apt (Debian/Ubuntu) and PacMan (ArchLinux). A port is reasonably

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -------------- next part -------------- >From 3ec1380eb6425b4f73024200817bd6b192d3b0b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard

So I got a lot further building libguestfs on Ubuntu, up to the point where I can boot the appliance and run some simple commands. We need to push some patches upstream, and there are still some things in Ubuntu itself which are broken. This documents how far I've got. (1) libguestfs from git, Ubuntu 9.10, all updated to the latest versions. You will of course also need to read the README