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Hi, While trying to ./configure libguestfs on gentoo fails since it requires feboostrap or deboostrap Can this be made optional and not as necessary requirement, since there are still many useful uses for libguestfs besides bootstrapping, which can be used on distros like gentoo. Thanks Alex

Thanks: Miles Wolbe --- appliance/packagelist.in | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/appliance/packagelist.in b/appliance/packagelist.in index d2a065f..77bd464 100644 --- a/appliance/packagelist.in +++ b/appliance/packagelist.in @@ -288,5 +288,10 @@ kpartx dnl (virt-dib) tools optionally used for elements debootstrap +dnl exFAT is not usually available in free software

I spent the last couple of days rethinking how we go about building the appliance, and the difficulties we have porting that to other Linux distros. I've come up with a much better way that works better and faster on (so far) Fedora and Debian (probably on Ubuntu too, not tried it), and should be much simpler to port to other distros. The current way is to do: +------------------+

Systems such as Debian (and thus Ubuntu) operate with 64-bit programs in /lib, with /lib64 a symlink to it: as a result, they apply a patch to their glibc adjusting the default search path of the 64-bit dynamic loader (only used if the library is not found in ld.so.cache) to look in /lib, and instruct the 32-bit one to look in /lib32. Because fakechroot is implemented via LD_PRELOAD, it ends up

I've been working on this the past few days and thought I would put it out there to see if anyone else has interest in it. It really has nothing to do with the Digium appliance, I've just been looking for some mass produced solid state hardware to run small branch offices off of for awhile now and I think I've finally landed on something I like. Basically I've taken an HP thin

Hi, I try to use the INCLUDE statement in pxellinux config file but it complains with: "unknown keyword in config file" Here is my config file --------------------- default gentoo timeout 50 prompt 1 display pxelinux.cfg/default.menu label grub localboot 0 include pxelinux.cfg/gentoo -------------------- Thanks Alex

--- appliance/excludefiles.in | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/appliance/excludefiles.in b/appliance/excludefiles.in index 9a48db7..c53a913 100644 --- a/appliance/excludefiles.in +++ b/appliance/excludefiles.in @@ -32,12 +32,7 @@ dnl The right kernel modules are added back by supermin. -/usr/share/i18n/* -/usr/share/pkgconfig/* --/var/log/*.log*

Currently when the appliance is booted we see warning messages like these ones: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:26] Failed to replace specifiers: /run/log/journal/%m [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:28] Failed to replace specifiers: /run/log/journal/%m [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:29] Failed to replace specifiers: /run/log/journal/%m They are apparently harmless, but are caused because

Some compilers do not manage to figure out that the members of it are set only when search_appliance() in the end returns 1, which is already checked. Help them a bit by resetting the appliance_files struct on our own, so they will not report that 'appliance.kernel', and the others are used as uninitialized. --- lib/appliance.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> --- Untested in this environment. appliance/init | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init index b25ea26..cc8c978 100755 --- a/appliance/init +++ b/appliance/init @@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ for f in /sys/block/{h,s,ub,v}d*/queue/scheduler; do echo noop > $f; done # Update the system clock. hwclock -u -s

Since v1: - Don't remove the whole of /var/log - Cleanups and fixes to appliance/Makefile.am

Brings the size of the appliance down to 95 MB [xz-compressed], which is the same as for libguestfs 1.28. --- appliance/excludefiles.in | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/appliance/excludefiles.in b/appliance/excludefiles.in index d3c66cc..a63eca9 100644 --- a/appliance/excludefiles.in +++ b/appliance/excludefiles.in @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ dnl The right kernel modules are added

Provide /var/lock as symlink to /run/lock, as it might be used by applications. --- appliance/init | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init index b25ea26..aac3f5a 100755 --- a/appliance/init +++ b/appliance/init @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ mount -t sysfs /sys /sys mkdir -p /run mount -t tmpfs -o "nosuid,size=20%,mode=0755" tmpfs /run mkdir -p

Currently if /tmp (on the host) is a symlink, then the symlink is copied into the appliance, probably pointing to a non-existent directory, and everything goes downhill from there. Avoid this by making sure that /tmp and /var/tmp are real directories. --- appliance/init | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init index 3c5ef1b..3973f18 100755 ---

Running ldconfig adds about 100ms to the boot time. I would prefer that we understood which libraries need ldconfig to be run, and fix that. We could also consider running ldconfig in parallel, but since it might be required by just about any binary that the init script runs it's not clear what benefit that gives. This reverts commit 66aa98265dd215dcd4c717e7ef6845fbac859e54. ---

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165785 Since the --boot option is relatively new (added 2013-12), I suspect this will break older versions of systemd. However it should be fine for all currently supported versions of Fedora. Rich.

Workaround for Ubuntu which uses this script to try to start a systemd service. That won't work because systemd is not used inside the appliance. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/supermin/+bug/1824236 Thanks: Ioanna Alifieraki --- appliance/init | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init index 4f2b55822..b1c4d09ea

Hi! Bernardo, I'm really interested in using that one. Where I can download it from? Thanks, Seung ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:56:04 -0700 >From: "Bernardo Elayda" <belayda at gmail.com> >Subject: [LLVMdev] LLVM 2.3 available as a VMware appliance >To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu > > Hi! > > Would there be any interest

NB: This requires a qemu patch by Eduardo which is currently awaiting review: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg422959.html So not to be applied yet unless that qemu change goes upstream. Rich.

Hi all, I've been having a problem when trying to convert an Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) format appliance to the "virt-image" format. This is how I try to convert the appliance: $ virt-convert --arch=i686 -i ovf appliance.ova The result is: ERROR Couldn't import file "appliance.ova": must be string without null bytes or None, not str This happens on a