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This also changes the name of the "vmchannel" buffer to just "buf", reflecting the fact that it's just used as a temporary buffer, and that the word vmchannel is overloaded. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages.

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 set of 10 patches removes the need for any vmchannel implementation, although we can still choose to use vmchannel if we want. In this so-called "null vmchannel" configuration, the appliance connects directly to a port on the library. The exact method is described in patch 9/10. This method still requires SLIRP (user mode networking) so it is not a panacea, because recent

This is a pretty uncontroversial patch which just allows the selinux=? and enforcing=? flags on the kernel command line to be controlled. Currently libguestfs unconditionally passes selinux=0. By default this patch does the same thing, but allows programs to enable SELinux in the kernel and/or set it to enforcing mode. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat

This attempts to implement the idea proposed in https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-April/msg00087.html The idea is that an externally managed QEMU (manual, or via libvirt) can boot the appliance kernel/initrd. libguestfs can then be just told of the UNIX domain socket associated with the guest daemon. An example based on guestfish. 1. Step one, find the appliance kernel/initrd

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:30:37PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> HI, >> >> On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by >> libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it >> exited exceptionally. >> >> Does anyone also hit the

This is continuing/summarising a rather long discussion that happened on IRC ... We talked to some SELinux experts about what was required to make SELinux work with libguestfs, and it seems reasonably simple to load the policy from the guest filesystem. All that needs to be done is to mount the guest disks up and then run: sh "/usr/sbin/load_policy -i" That command also mounts up

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

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 06:33:53PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: >> > Which version of libguestfs is this? I think you'll have no hope of >> #rpm -qa | grep libguestfs >> libguestfs-1.20.8-1

-- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -------------- next part -------------- >From d5fad33b4eaa39722ea1dc96de9446ffc4805e01 Mon Sep 17

I'm pleased to announce the release of libguestfs 1.0.67. Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. Home page: http://libguestfs.org/ Source: http://libguestfs.org/download/ Binaries: http://libguestfs.org/FAQ.html#binaries Fedora builds aren't ready yet because of the current Koji outage. (These release notes cover all the significant

Hi, I am using libguestfs 1.12.0 and I am facing a problem with it . I am using guestfs python bindings to "launch" a vdi image file . It works fine except immediately after a VM is stopped(which uses the same vdi file) i.e in normal conditions launch command works but when a vm (which uses the same vdi file) is started - stopped , a call to "launch" command hangs the

-- 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.

Using the quiet option (when not in verbose mode) improves boot speeds by rather a lot, by avoiding sending messages over the slow emulated UART. Rich.

[Let's keep this on the mailing list] On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Zetan Drableg wrote: > Hi Richard, > I created qemu-wrapper: > #!/bin/bash -x > > exec gdbserver :1234 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm "$@" gdbserver will end up debugging the qemu process, not the guest inside. This is not useful. You need to do something like: exec /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -s

Not quite sure what happened to the waitpid()s which were along that path, but at some point they seem to have got deleted. This is a fix for: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518747 I haven't been able to run the tests yet however, because currently Rawhide is broken (ntfsprogs has missing dependencies). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat

Hi, I have some issues with libguestfs. I download the libguestfs-0.18.3 source code and read the README file. it requested qemu >= 0.13, my qemu version is qemu-1.0.1 requested kernel version >= 2.6.34, my kernel version is 3.1.4 the most of requirement for compiling I reached. but I completed compiltion and executed command. the guestfish hang there. the following was my operating steps:

We've split off virt-v2v components into a separate repository: http://gitorious.org/virt-v2v/ (Previously they were part of the libguestfs repository). So virt-v2v stuff will disappear from the libguestfs repository shortly. You can get it from the link above instead. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual

On Jan 23, 2014, at 4:47 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:22:43AM -0800, Tim Fall wrote: >> Running libguestft-test-tool yields: >> >> >> ************************************************************ >> * IMPORTANT NOTICE >> * >> * When reporting bugs, include the

Long shot question, but I''m running out of ideas... I''m running puppet-0.25.2 on Fedora boxes to manage a simple Java service started through an /etc/init.d script. I can start, stop, restart, and examine the service status using the standard /sbin/ service command. Works like a champ. The issue is that when I use puppet to start the service, the service fails to run.