similar to: virt-resize: ntfsresize: location outside device

This is a set of bugfixes and enhancements to allow virt-resize to really expand Linux and Windows guests. Previously there were lots of bugs. This version has been tested on a variety of guests successfully. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages.

Building 1.9.53 fails for me with ocaml 3.10.2 and 3.12.1, likely due to commit a0722c7ad846960be54978a31ebe73b76e119203: [ 318s] ocamlfind ocamlopt -g -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVYZX -package str -I ../src/.libs -I ../ocaml \ [ 318s] mlguestfs.cmxa -linkpkg ../fish/guestfish-progress.o progress-c.o resize_gettext.cmx resize_utils.cmx progress.cmx resize.cmx -cclib -lncurses -o virt-resize

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:28:42AM -0500, Dan The Man wrote: > Tried resizing a standard UFS partition on a freebsd guest, booting > from it resulted in "missing boot loader". We can't currently resize BSD guests; patches welcome ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com

Hello, I expanded a KVM image of 4gb to 10 gb .... My Host machine is RHEL 6.1 and Guest is RHEL 5.5 Command i used is: virt-resize --expand /dev/sda1 RHEL5.5-64bit.img RHEL5.5-10gb Commands successfully gets executed... Old disk works fine i mean it boots properly but the new disk stucks at GRUB... Has any one seen this behavior... What should i do to debug this problem.. --

This short patch series fixes various problems with the Java bindings, including enabling support for functions that return hash tables (returned as Map<String,String>). With this, the Java bindings are improved although still not perfect. The last remaining issue is to implement support for functions that take optional arguments. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

Hello,I receive strange error ><fs> part-init /dev/vda bsd ><fs> part-add /dev/vda primary 64 -1 libguestfs: error: part_add: do_part_add: parted: /dev/vda: parted: invalid token: primary Error: Expecting a file system type. but ><fs> part-init /dev/vda msdos ><fs> part-add /dev/vda primary 64 -1 runs ok Log attached. -- Nikita A Menkovich

This patch series implements user cancellation. What this means is that the "user" (or any library caller) can cancel certain long-running operations. Currently it is only possible to cancel upload and download operations (ie. anything in the generator which uses FileIn and FileOut). The mechanism in the protocol to implement cancellation already exists, and it is already used to

NOTE: This is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL and can eat babies ... Modify the guest libvirt XML to add the virtio-serial channel: <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/tmp/socket'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.libguestfs.channel.0'/> </channel> In the guest, compile guestfsd and run it like this: sudo

The more I look at this patch, the less I like it. I would summarise why I think it's wrong here, but it's better if you look at the message I posted on the gnulib mailing list here first: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-11/msg00434.html Directly accessing errno on Windows is wrong: you won't see the true reasons for an error by doing that. However depending on

As discussed previously: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-July/msg00003.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-July/msg00024.html To do: (1) Implement progress notifications for many more daemon operations. (2) OCaml bindings to the callback. (3) Perl bindings to the callback. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

The current guestfs_find API call contains an undocumented limit: It needs to marshall the whole list of filenames into a single protocol message. Unfortunately just about any Linux guest breaks this limit if you try 'guestfs_find ("/")' so this isn't much use. These patches add a new API call (find0) which breaks this limit by using a FileOut parameter. It's slightly

These two patches implement the first (and hardest) part of the fix for CVE-2010-3851. This adds a way to specify the format when adding a drive, avoiding qemu's auto-detection. In order to avoid an explosion of different add_drive_* functions (we have 4 already), we have implemented a way to specify optional arguments to functions, so all we need is a single new 'add_drive_opts'

-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

NOT a problem, just a question about distro checking: the default value is REDHAT, then you check debian (or ubuntu) and then archlinux why are you using two if statements ? -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

While creating my first guestfish script I noticed an inconsistency in the guestfish(1) man page. The option tgz-out references "tar_out", which does not exist, instead its called "tar-out". The same is true for tgz-in/tar_in. After a quick grep in the code its not clear to me how to resolve this issue. Olaf

These patches are a distillation of the good patches from the previous large / for-discussion-only error handling patch. See: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2009-November/msg00298.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine.

Hi, The libguestfs homepage says that libguestfs and guestfish are available in EPEL, but I can't find any evidence of them there. I haven't made much use of EPEL so I might be missing something. Any suggestions? Thanks, Aron

Hi Richard, I am a user of LibguestFS. I have a problem in using LibguestFS to get the OS type of the virtual machine with Xenserver virtual environment. But when I use the command in Linux likes the figure1. I know that this disk file could add in libguestfish. My code is in the figure2. I can't get the OS info from GuestFs. Could you give me some suggests? James

--- lib/hivex.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/hivex.c b/lib/hivex.c index 13d7556..8a774de 100644 --- a/lib/hivex.c +++ b/lib/hivex.c @@ -543,6 +543,9 @@ hivex_close (hive_h *h) free (h->filename); free (h); + if (h->msglvl >= 1) + fprintf (stderr, "hivex_close\n"); + return r; } -- 1.7.2.1

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