similar to: febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2fs_read_inode: Illegal inode number

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

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

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

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- I've recently upgraded from OEL 6.4 to OEL 6.8. Infiniband Hardware installed on the server prevents me from upgrading the OS version any higher. Kernel Version: Oracle Linux Server Red Hat Compatible Kernel (2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64) Since the upgrade, there have been problems with libguestfs-tools hanging, then timing out. I'd like to use the newest version of

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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

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 |

--- 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

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, to ease debugging issues with appliances (e.g. when used in libguestfs), using --include-packagelist will add a file containing the list of all the packages used. Thanks, Pino Toscano (3): ext2: add ext2fs_chmod and ext2fs_chown chroot: factor out file copy code Add --include-packagelist src/build.ml | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ src/chroot.ml | 29

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

--- src/febootstrap_debian.ml | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/febootstrap_debian.ml b/src/febootstrap_debian.ml index 23f3593..bb10f15 100644 --- a/src/febootstrap_debian.ml +++ b/src/febootstrap_debian.ml @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ open Febootstrap_cmdline (* Create a temporary directory for use by all the

$SUBJECT, basically. :) -- Matthew Miller • Hosted and Interactive Experience Architect Fedora Cloud Architect ☁ ☁ ☁ <mattdm@fedoraproject.org>

Hi Rich, I ran coverity against febootstrap's head and it spotted four leaks. This fixes them. The first patch plugs three. The second attempts to make the add_link function do what I'm guessing it was intended to do. As is, it was a no-op. >From 7c2ff55613598a1295e213cef36600ad61da7ed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012

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

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

Hi, First, I'd like to thank you for your nice effort of the febootstrap tool. I understand there are 2 major versions of this tool the first has the syntax of "febootstrap fedora-12 ./f12" while the second has the syntax "febootstrap --names ....." Is it correct? I also understand the second one is used only to create a minimal system. is it correct too? But what about

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,

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