similar to: ANNOUNCE: 'febootstrap' is now called 'supermin'

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

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

--- 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

Here you go, from the newest version: ************************************************************ * IMPORTANT NOTICE * * When reporting bugs, include the COMPLETE, UNEDITED * output below in your bug report. * ************************************************************

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

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

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

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:

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

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'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

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

I spent the last couple of days rethinking how we go about building the appliance, and the difficulties we have porting that to other Linux distros. I've come up with a much better way that works better and faster on (so far) Fedora and Debian (probably on Ubuntu too, not tried it), and should be much simpler to port to other distros. The current way is to do: +------------------+

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

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

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 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:

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

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

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 its now also possible to use private > builds of supermin (if