similar to: [PATCH 0/2] Rework tmpdir and appliance cache directory code.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334 This is a slightly unsatisfactory patch which allows coredumps to be captured when they occur inside the appliance. You can capture coredumps by doing: export LIBGUESTFS_COREDUMP=/sysroot/core.%t.%p.%e or equivalently: g.set_coredump ("/sysroot/core.%t.%p.%e") or variations thereof, see the manual page. When a coredump occurs,

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:06:57AM -0500, Greg Scott wrote: > "This kernel requires an X86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. > Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU." That's strange because virt-p2v-image-builder is supposed to only build 32 bit images ... Please keep the replies on the list. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red

OK let's restart this whole architecture thing. Firstly two patches which pass the '-z' parameter to 'file' so it looks inside compressed files. (Thanks to Matt for finding this not-so-obscure option). This means the 'zfile' command is now obsolete. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical

virt-ls has felt a little unloved for a long time. With this patch series, it turns into quite a useful tool for doing forensics and monitoring of VMs, and looking for changes to files. I have added the 'virt-ls -lR' output mode (the combination of -l and -R was previously unused). In this mode you get a recursive list of files and directories, with extra stat information and optionally

This series of patches prepares the way for a later series which will add write support for Windows Registry 'hive' files to our 'hivex' mini library. About hivex: http://libguestfs.org/hivex.3.html About the Windows Registry: Forget it - there are no reliable references. However the Wikipedia page explains some of the top level concepts:

This series of patches, now up to 13 parts, contains lots of bug fixes and groundwork required before we add write support to the hivex library. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)

This series of patches aim to make adding disks from libvirt domains easy through the core API. These two new APIs allow you to add the disks from a libvirt domain. The higher level add-domain API takes the name of the libvirt domain as a string and connects to libvirt itself. The lower level add-libvirt-dom API relies on the program to connect to libvirt and pass the virDomainPtr into the API

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

Hi, Since I've never succeeded to compile libguestfs from source on Gentoosince the build process of the appliance based on debootstrap fails, I'm wondering how can I tell the compilation process to use a precompiled blob appliance? Also can I use non fedora & debian but use some minimal gentoo based appliance I have? Thanks Alex

Hi, all: When I re-configure in the source directory, and then make the build. It will use the previous urls of mirror and updates which I specified via --with-mirror and --with-updates. for example: the previous command line I used is: 1. $ ./autogen.sh --with-mirror='http://wrongurl/fedora/os/' --with-updates='http://wrongurl/fedora/updates' --with-repo='wrong_repo' 2. $

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.

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.

This patch series adds support for some simple operations on hive files, and I've now tested and verified that those operations work correctly. All except for the last patch (12/12) are ready to be committed. The last patch is WIP. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any

I downloaded the libguestfs-1.17.21.tar.gz? tarball from www.libguestfs.org I tried to compile the package but I got this error in "make" step: virt_df-domains.o: In function `add_domain': /home/feeliwood/Downloads/libguestfs-1.17.21/df/domains.c:274: undefined reference to `guestfs___for_each_disk' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [virt-df] Error 1 make[2]:

With these, I was able to compile guestfish. 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 (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v

-- 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 (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -------------- next part -------------- >From 9e193fd6b94f40b2204cb94e4f08c404b52eecd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Jones

These two patches add minimal support for LUKS-encrypted Linux guests (ie. most common whole-disk encryption schemes). Only opening LVM-on-LUKS is supported by this, not, for example, changing keys or creating new encrypted devices. It's also a little clunky to use from guestfish, but we can add more commands to fix that once we have a better handle on the problem. Rich. -- Richard Jones,

These small fixes are required to fix the build and tests on Debian (using the debootstrap/debirf appliance). There is currently another bug in the Debian tests which I'm looking into. hexdump always fails as follows: libguestfs: error: hexdump: hexdump: /test123: hexdump: /sysroot/test123: Bad file descriptor Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat

1/8 generator: Rearrange argt logically (RHBZ#642934,CVE-2010-3851). 2/8 generator: Optional arguments, add-drive-opts (RHBZ#642934,CVE-2010-3851). These two previously posted. 3/8 fish: Specify format of disks (RHBZ#642934,CVE-2010-3851). Updates to guestfish to add the --format option and to make -d copy the format from libvirt. 4/8 fuse: Specify format of disks (RHBZ#642934,CVE-2010-3851).