similar to: [PATCH febootstrap] Pull in febootstrap-supermin-helper (C version) from libguestfs.

Hi Rich, I got an error: > supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d > supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img > supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img > supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles > supermin helper [00012ms] visiting

Use febootstrap-supermin-helper's new -u and -g command line options to setuid, rather than doing it in libguestfs. This resolves an issue with the generation of the cached appliance checksum. The checksum was being generated by a call to febootstrap-supermin-helper through popen(). Unfortunately, a bash misfeature meant that euid would be reset to uid, and the checksum was generated for uid,

Bash automatically resets euid to uid when it executes. This can mean that the effective user id of a program at the point it calls febootstrap-supermin-helper can be lost if any part of execution chain involved bash. This in turn can result in: * the generation of an incorrect checksum, which contains the uid. * the generation of supermin files with differing owners The -u and -g options allow

Because of the confusion generated by calling something 'febootstrap' which didn't have anything to do with Fedora and didn't generate bootstrap filesystems, I have renamed 'febootstrap' as 'supermin'. I also bumped the version number up to 4.1.0. New home page: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/supermin/ Downloads: http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/ Git

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw

Rich, So, I tried to build the simple supermin app. from your blog. I can confirm that I did get to the shell when I invoked qemu-kvm. I used the standard qemu-kvm cmdline (but appended a serial console). This boots fine. ######################################################## [root at moon appliance-test]# qemu-kvm -kernel kernel -append "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200" -initrd

Good evening, I just tried following the steps in "Tip: Creating throwaway appliances with febootstrap"[1] on my workstation at home running Debian/unstable. I ran into problems: ,---- | $ mkdir supermin.d | $ febootstrap --names 'bash' 'coreutils' -o supermin.d | Get: 1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main bash amd64 4.1-3 [1325 kB] | Get: 2

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:41:47AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > Use basename of external helper instead of 'no' for external supermin > helpers. This gives a clear error messages what binary is actually > missing, and it is now possible to install the missing package without > recompiling libguestfs. In addition its now also possible to use private > builds of supermin (if

Use basename of external helper instead of 'no' for external supermin helpers. This gives a clear error messages what binary is actually missing, and it is now possible to install the missing package without recompiling libguestfs. In addition its now also possible to use private builds of supermin (if they are in PATH) with a given libguestfs binary package. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering

This patch series adds support for outputing an ext2-based appliance from febootstrap-supermin-helper. The usage is very simple, you just add '-f ext2' flag and the name of the appliance file that you want to write to. The implementation uses libext2fs, which is a very low level way to create ext2 filesystems from scratch. We'd like to use libguestfs, but that's an obvious

On Fri, May 31, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:41:47AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Use basename of external helper instead of 'no' for external supermin > > helpers. This gives a clear error messages what binary is actually > > missing, and it is now possible to install the missing package without > > recompiling libguestfs. In addition

hi list, I try to get libguestfs running on SLES11SP1 .... or at least basic guestfish functionality and run into a serious problem: febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f ext2 /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d x86_64 /tmp/guestfs.MUqge5/kernel /tmp/guestfs.MUqge5/initrd /tmp/guestfs.MUqge5/root supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel =

Here you go, from the newest version: ************************************************************ * IMPORTANT NOTICE * * When reporting bugs, include the COMPLETE, UNEDITED * output below in your bug report. * ************************************************************

objcopy needs "output-target" and "binary-architecture" parameters which makes it necessary to keep a list of known architectures. The bin2s.pl script generates input for the GNU assembler which should produce an object file that is equivalent to that produced by objcopy. I have successfully tested the change on an amd64 Debian/unstable system. --- helper/Makefile.am |

The machine at et.redhat.com is going to be decommissioned soon, and so I have arranged alternate hosting for these two git repositories. As of now you should use: http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=summary (web interface) git clone git://git.annexia.org/git/febootstrap.git http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=summary (web interface) git clone

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: +------------------+

I have moved all three repositories to new locations on github: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex https://github.com/libguestfs/febootstrap You don't need to reclone them (unless you want to). You can simply edit .git/config and adjust the URL to: git at github.com:libguestfs/libguestfs.git git at github.com:libguestfs/hivex.git git at

This is an automatic message generated by the builder on builder-ubuntu for febootstrap. Log files from the build follow below. Linux builder-ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Tue Dec 7 22:00:01 GMT 2010 ----- + git pull --rebase git://git.annexia.org/git/febootstrap.git master >From git://git.annexia.org/git/febootstrap * branch

--- test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod b/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod index c4284684f8c4ca3dfba0cb734d9cc46f0330b5b9..8999286848d79225c43c8fead674b998be93d4b3 100644 --- a/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod +++ b/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ variables

I've ported the supermin appliance capabilities from libguestfs into febootstrap >= 2.5: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=febootstrap.git;a=commit;h=76b7711268a6b0c0929952ee261821825589a165 Once that has rolled out into Fedora (in about 2 weeks) I will remove the code from libguestfs and just have it use febootstrap. There should be no visible changes, but developers will need to upgrade to