similar to: [PATCH] Add virtio-scsi support to febootstrap.

v1 -> v2: - If we split out the init program into a separate init/ directory, that makes it much easier to build against an alternate libc. I tried to build against uClibc, but uClibc requires an entire build chain, which looked like it was going to be a massive ballache. Rich.

v1 -> v2: - I fixed the end condition of the loop in parse_root_uuid. - Retested. Didn't change the busy wait loop into a function or macro, as per discussion on IRC. Rich.

Require the root= parameter is passed to specify which root (apppliance) to mount. Libguestfs has done this since 2012. The other two patches are small code refactorings in the init program. Rich.

After supermin has finished running, the initramfs files sit around occupying swappable memory but serving no further purpose. This saves a little memory, at the cost of about 1ms of extra boot time. --- init/init.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c index 733d66e..5ac53e9 100644 ---

--- helper/init.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/helper/init.c b/helper/init.c index 0ca3135..2b5dacf 100644 --- a/helper/init.c +++ b/helper/init.c @@ -163,8 +163,10 @@ main () chdir ("/"); - /* Run /init from ext2 filesystem. */ + mount_proc (); print_uptime (); + + /* Run /init from ext2 filesystem. */ execl

Various patches to make supermin quieter. By outputting fewer messages on the fast path, we use the slow emulated UART less, and this improves boot times. Also remove some kernel modules that we cannot or should not be using, which also improves boot times. Rich.

--- configure.ac | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index da03c9f..7606bca 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ dnl For ArchLinux handler. AC_CHECK_PROG(PACMAN,[pacman],[pacman],[no]) dnl Required programs, libraries. -AC_PATH_PROG([INSMODSTATIC],[insmod.static],[no])

Instead of specifying a device name (eg. root=/dev/sdb), this permits specifying an ext4 volume UUID (root=UUID=12345678-...). This allows the appliance to be robust against the non-determinism of SCSI device enumeration. --- init/init.c | 226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c

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

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

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:02:36PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: > Hi again Rich, > > I'm trying to use febootstrap to install either rawhide or f13, > but my attempts are failing. > > $ sudo febootstrap fedora-13 /mnt/jubjub-f > ... > Running rpm_check_debug > ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: > libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by procmail-3.22-25.fc12.x86_64

On those systems "$(OCAMLFIND) $(OCAMLBEST)" was resolved as "ocamlfind byte" which did not work. --- Makefile.am | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 109d2c8..4dc6f12 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -56,18 +56,18 @@ SOURCES_ML = $(filter %.ml,$(SOURCES)) BOBJECTS =

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 =

hi, i am not quite sure about the below error: [ 1320.506848] INFO: task init:1 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 1320.510069] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. The below commands guestmount, virt-* either hangs or taking a gazillion time to finish (not correctly). I've attached a file with two cases In both cases, in tmp folder

I'm confused! What use cases is the new febootstrap primarily intended for? I'm mainly trying to figure out if I'm trying to put a square peg into a round hole. What I'm looking into is using linux containers (LXC) either using libvirt or lxc-tools) to create jails for a web hosting type environment. I can see that in the long run btrfs has some nice features to help with this

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:09:10AM -0700, Dwayne Fontenot <dwayne.fontenot at att.net> wrote: > > open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 > fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=80626448, ...}) = 0 > mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x30041000 > mmap2(NULL, 245760, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0x2330) = 0x30241000 >

Hello, I am new to febootstrap. I am struggling to install fedora 14 on disk.img (formatted with ext4fs) mounted on /mnt/temp . How to use febootstrap to do this ? Does it require any yum configuration ? I searched the web for documentation on this , but nothing is clearly mentioned. Please anyone tell me how to do this. I am doing this on Fedora 14 host. -- Onkar

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

Hello, I am try to compile guestfsd using this link<http://thr3ads.net/libguestfs/2012/09/2100168-Re-compile-guestfsd>. I am using libguestfs-1.24.4.tar.gz After running ./configure with disable options i get a message claiming a febootstrap >=3.2. I already installed febootstrap-3.21-4.el6x86_64.rpm for centos6.5. In the rpm description i found a note telling that this rpm will

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