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It looks to me that the windows 2008 image I am attempting to convert is not being detected as windows but is being updated as a Linux system. When PXE booted the server with the p2v image I ended up with this error: Failed to launch guestfs appliance. Try running again with LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 for more information The system image transferred and I was able to create an XML file to boot it under

Hello, I am looking into porting libguestfs to Archlinux, as I understand it I need to add a stanza to the if/else statement in the appliance/make.sh.into handle the image creation for ArchLinux. But I am wondering, the image used in the binary libguestfs is much larger than the one in the fedora libguestfs, and they appear to be packaged as initramfs images. So my question is this, should I

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As part of the oVirt Node[1] project, I'm going to P.O.C. a version of the node using febootstrap 2.x instead of livecd-creator. The main reasons in doing this is for allowing a r/w root filesystem without some hacky overlayfs and just to see if it can be done. On IRC, rwmjones mentioned a few issues he ran into with febootstrap 2.x where some rpms had %post scripts which aren't really

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 =

I have febootstrap ported to and working on Arch, but there are a few packages missing from the main Arch repos, and the packages need to be in the main repos for the febootstrap sequence to work. So I have a few quick questions, first, how well does the supermin app work, without augeas, are zfs, gfs and hfs used only for mounting those filesystems inside the vm image, and I noticed that there is

Hi All, I am trying to run guestfish inside an Ubuntu instance running in VirtualBox. I'm running into problems, and my first question, is this setup even possible? I compiled and installed libguestfs-1.8.4. Running libguestfs-test-tool fails with the following output. Would appreciate any advice, Chris new guestfs handle 0x8b77958 ===== Test starts here ===== LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 library

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

This patch is FYI as it needs more testing, although feel free to take a look at it if you want. Background: We'd like to change libguestfs so that the appliance can support optional features. This would mean you could have (for example) a 'libguestfs' base package and a 'libguestfs-xfs' package providing optional support for XFS filesystem tools. This would only apply to

Hi all, As title, thanks a lot. My test host configurations: Linux desktop 3.0.0-14-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 20:28:43 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The test tool output as following: xxx at desktop:~$ sudo libguestfs-test-tool [sudo] password for xxx: ===== Test starts here ===== LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 TMPDIR=(not set) libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0x16cd0f0 library version:

Hi, i am trying to use libguestfs (libvirt/kvm etc) into archlinux. But it seems that i am keep getting this error warning: Unable to get device geometry for /var/tmp/guestfs.NwkQVJ/root In the attached file, i've written some debug info. If someone can give me some pointer, i would appreciate it Evaggelos Balaskas Unix System Engineer - http://ebalaskas.gr. -------------- next part

Hello-- I've been trying to build libguestfs 1.2.14 with the appliance enabled on an older type of system at my company. Getting all the required dependencies installed has been an arduous process, but I've finally hit an obstacle I don't know how to get around. The final output of "make": + febootstrap-run initramfs -- /sbin/depmod -a ABOUT-NLS BUGS COPYING COPYING.LIB

This error is with libguestfs 1.20. Calling guestfs_launch() with tracing on: supermin helper [00065ms] finished creating appliance libguestfs: checksum of existing appliance: 2bd6811426e14b6fb661b4d52cebd6c21a41df1a068e8acf6a7a08e3b3bd4ada libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp" libguestfs: [00071ms] begin building supermin appliance 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

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

Hi, I am trying to get libguestfs-test-tool working on ubuntu. The first problem I had was that HiveX won't compile on ubuntu to due to some missing symbols (rpl-getopt, I see this has already been reported). Second problem is that if HiveX is not available, guestfish doesn't link because code refers to symbols which aren't compiled into libguestfs (I was able to work around this by

To allow easier downstream tweaks to the virt-rescue welcome message, just output the content of the /etc/issue file in the appliance. Thus, a new extras.tar.gz file appeared in supermin.d containing the etc/issue file and future tweaks like this one. --- appliance/Makefile.am | 11 +++++++++++ appliance/init | 11 ++--------- appliance/issue | 9 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 22

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

Hello all, I 've compiled libguestfs 1.16.5 on arch linux and the tests fail. This is the output I get when I run libguestfs-test-tool: LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 TMPDIR=(not set) libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0xcf4310 library version: 1.16.5 guestfs_get_append: (null) guestfs_get_attach_method: appliance guestfs_get_autosync: 1 guestfs_get_direct: 0 guestfs_get_memsize: 500 guestfs_get_network: 0

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