similar to: Plans for libguestfs

[First attempt to send this using git send-email didn't work because of SMTP routing problems] Hilko, This is my experimental patch to remove update-guestfs-appliance from Debian. With this patch, libguestfs builds with a supermin [version 5] appliance in /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d: $ ll -h /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/ total 884K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94K Mar 15 12:18 base.tar.gz

Hi, things are progressing slowly, but I feel that eventually I'll be getting there: supermin can be built on all Linux-based architectures that are part of Debian/unstable[1] -- (except for sparc, but I'll ignore that for now.) libguestfs on the other hand currently fails launching the appliance (necessary for running tests) on everything but x86 and mips. Apparently, qemu-system-arm

Hilko, This is an experimental patch showing how to split libguestfs into subpackages, so the main libguestfs0 doesn't depend on everything. Splitting packages only works for packages which are in the appliance (ie. in appliance/packagelist or supermin.d/packages). In this patch, only zfs-fuse [which previously caused trouble for users: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053911] has been

--- src/Makefile.am | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am index 7f99b8a..932881b 100644 --- a/src/Makefile.am +++ b/src/Makefile.am @@ -104,17 +104,18 @@ supermin_CFLAGS = \ BOBJECTS = $(SOURCES_ML:.ml=.cmo) XOBJECTS = $(SOURCES_ML:.ml=.cmx) +OCAMLPACKAGES = -package unix,str +OCAMLFLAGS = -warn-error CDEFLMPSUVXYZ + if

Here's what I needed to build and run 1.20 on Debian/unstable. Perhaps the libcap2 dependency in the packagelist should only be added if libcap has actually been used in building guestfsd...

I'm pleased to announce libguestfs 1.26, a library and set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. This release took more than 6 months of work by a considerable number of people, and has many new features (see release notes below). You can get libguestfs 1.26 here: Main website: http://libguestfs.org/ Source:

Here are three patches that fix issues with out-of-tree building and one that uses Ruby's own autoconf stuff for determining how Ruby bindings should be built. Cheers, -Hilko

--- src/chroot.ml | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/chroot.ml b/src/chroot.ml index b5c1e53..9e522d9 100644 --- a/src/chroot.ml +++ b/src/chroot.ml @@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ let build_chroot debug files outputdir = List.iter ( fun file -> try - let path = file.ft_source_path in + let path = if file_exists file.ft_source_path +

While trying to run libguestfs tests after building with "--enable-appliance --with-supermin-extra-options=--use-installed", I ran into a peculiar error message in the c-api test: ,---- | libguestfs: error: strings: /abssymlink: strings: error while loading | shared libraries: libbfd-2.24-multiarch.so: cannot open shared object | file: No such file or directory `---- The problem here

Hello, I'm having trouble connecting to rbd images. It seems like somewhere the name is getting chewed up. I wonder if this is related to my previous troubles [1] [2] with rbd images. I'm trying to add an rbd image, but when I launch the guestfs object I get an error: >> libguestfs: trace: launch = -1 (error) I'm adding a single RBD >> libguestfs: trace: add_drive

I'd like to get this out next week, so any patches that need to go in, need to be posted ASAP. Here is a list of the changes so far: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network

--- src/kernel.ml | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/kernel.ml b/src/kernel.ml index ed5aea3..436b1b0 100644 --- a/src/kernel.ml +++ b/src/kernel.ml @@ -23,6 +23,19 @@ open Utils open Ext2fs open Fnmatch +let patt_of_cpu host_cpu = + let models = + match host_cpu with + | "mips" |

After the last round of patches to febootstrap, the image-based test in libguestfs still failed. It turned out that this happens because Debian started replacing /var/run and /var/lock with symlinks that point to a tmpfs mounted to /run. The symlinks were copied to the appliance but /run/lock did not exist, so pvcreate refused to run (script 'images/guest-aux/make-debian-img.sh'). After I

Did install from source of libguestfs-1.20.1 on Ubuntu-12.10. And libguestfs-test-tool complains about not finding libcap.so.2 uptime: 2.26 1.00 guestfsd: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [ 2.277795] Unregister pv shared memory for cpu 0 [ 2.278324] kvm: exiting hardware virtualization [ 2.278763] sd 2:0:1:0:

--- builder/Makefile.am | 18 +++++++++++++- configure.ac | 2 ++ mllib/Makefile.am | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- ocaml/Makefile.am | 28 +++++++++++++++------- ocaml/examples/Makefile.am | 13 ++++++++++ resize/Makefile.am | 18 +++++++++++++- sparsify/Makefile.am | 18 +++++++++++++- sysprep/Makefile.am | 18

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 03:01:47PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: > /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.tar.gz type gzip base image > (tar) > supermin: build: 121 packages, including dependencies > supermin: build: 7109 files > supermin: build: 7109 files, after removing unreadable files > supermin: build: 4939 files, after matching excludefiles > supermin: build: 4941

Well you can all read the thread here for the technical details: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-08/threads.html#00133 but the bottom line for anyone who wasn't in that discussion or on IRC last week is that we have to change the way that the appliance is built in libguestfs so that we don't depend (as much) on the qemu -initrd option. The bad thing is this is loads of

There had been a virtual package "diff" that depended on diffutils, but that's gone in wheezy/sid, too. --- appliance/packagelist.in | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/appliance/packagelist.in b/appliance/packagelist.in index b26ef23..4830962 100644 --- a/appliance/packagelist.in +++ b/appliance/packagelist.in @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ btrfs-progs

The previous behavior caused the build to abort when trying to build the sysprep documentation -- without much of a hint of what went wrong. --- run.in | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/run.in b/run.in index 7545f0b..9f92306 100755 --- a/run.in +++ b/run.in @@ -66,9 +66,10 @@ chcon --reference=/tmp tmp 2>/dev/null ||: if [ "x at

I'm trying to install libguestfs on Debian squeeze installed from http://people.debian.org/~bengen/libguestfs/ It does not work. Here are the details: I was able to install libguestfs-tools and its dependencies. However, aptitude removed the following two packages: qemu and qemu-system. I'm not sure if it's okay or not. If I try to install those packages back, I get the