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Hi all, i am trying (test) to save / restore a state of a winxp virtual machine. Perhaps i am missing that i can not restore save image to LVM partition. "error: Failed to read file '/root/winxp.save': Value too large for defined data type" Below are my settings libvirt 0.9.13 qemu-kvm 1.1.1 # virsh Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal. Type:

On a windows 2003 VM, i have two LVM partitions attached I was wonder how can i use virt-ls on d: disk eg. # virt-ls -d win2003 / works fine for c: but i cant figured it out how i use this for d: -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

Can anyone help me: $ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for Sys::Virt Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json $ make /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" perl-Sys-Virt.spec.PL perl-Sys-Virt.spec make: *** [perl-Sys-Virt.spec] Segmentation fault make: *** Deleting file `perl-Sys-Virt.spec' Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System

latest archlinux has some small changes: btrfs-progs-unstable --> btrfs-progs genisoimage --> cdrkit iproute --> iproute2 module-init-tools --> kmod procps --> procps-ng udev --> systemd util-linux-ng --> util-linux and could you plz add the below packages lrzip less sed -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

How can i open a virtual disk in read-write mode ? # guestmount --rw -d winxp -m /dev/sda1 /media/ # rm -f /media/pagefile.sys rm: cannot remove ?/media/pagefile.sys?: Operation not permitted # cd /media && touch file touch: cannot touch ?file?: Permission denied # cd && fusermount -u /media I've tried with guestfish also. I have compiled libguestfs with this conf:

Something that i would like to have, is the ability to keep the download packages in a temp directory when using febootstrap. I understand that using ferora/archlinux (distros with a lot of package updates every day) can increase the size of this temp directory rapidly and at some point will have a lot of deprecate packages. But the daily use of febootstrap (or building libguestfs) makes your

NOT a problem, just a question about distro checking: the default value is REDHAT, then you check debian (or ubuntu) and then archlinux why are you using two if statements ? -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

I use my "custom" TMPDIR variable with virt-sparsify. I just type: export -p TMPDIR=/mnt/vm/tmpdir I do that for a couple reasons: either my /tmp is on a ramdisk or /tmp is on my (ssd) rootfs and i dont want to "full" my / with the temporally files. Thats said, i was thinking to "ask" OR sending a patch for adding a tmpdir OPTION for virt-sparsify like

Arch User Repository - https://aur.archlinux.org/ have changed the package location I am not a developer (and i dont know ocaml) but i've tried to build a patch eg. old location: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hivex/hivex.tar.gz new location: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hi/hivex/hivex.tar.gz AUR has a lot Flagged out-of-date packages so it would be nice if febootstrap would

I am trying to build libguestfs version libguestfs-1.18.11 in my archlinux box i am getting this error: febootstrap: error: /lib appears as both directory and ordinary file (glibc, ntfs-3g) make[2]: *** [stamp-supermin] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/downloads/dnl/PKGBUILDs/kvm/libguestfs/src/libguestfs-1.18.11/appliance' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving

Hi, have you ever considered adding checksums to http://libguestfs.org/download/ (minor request) -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer http://gr.linkedin.com/in/evaggelosbalaskas

Perhaps a stupid question, but i will give it a try: I have two machines on libvirtd session and network on usermod. Can i (somehow) cross these two machines ? machineA: ip addr add 10.10.10.101/24 dev eth0 ip route add default via 10.10.10.102 dev eth0 machineB: ip addr add 10.10.10.102/24 dev eth0 ip route add default via 10.10.10.101 dev eth0 -- Evaggelos Balaskas - Unix System Engineer

myconf ./configure \ PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 \ --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --disable-probes \ --disable-gobject \ --enable-introspection=no \ --disable-lua \ --disable-erlang \ --disable-php \ --disable-haskell \ --disable-ruby \

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to create a user with dbox format. i get this error: dovecot: Jan 28 13:45:34 Error: IMAP(ebal2): Mail storage creation failed with mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/folders/testuser dovecot: Jan 28 13:45:34 Error: child 5336 (imap) returned error 89 my conf has this entry: mail_location: dbox:/var/mail/folders/%u dovecot 1.0.10 any

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, i am trying to setup dovecot with mysql support (mysql from lampp) but i am getting this : hg clone http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/ dovecot-1.1.hg cd dovecot-1.1.hg ./autogen.sh export -p LDFLAGS="-L/opt/lampp/lib/mysql/" ./configure --with-mysql ... checking mysql.h usability... no checking mysql.h presence... no checking for

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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, I am using dovecot 1.0.13 with sieve plugin, index, control and allow nets in my userdb per user. I am trying to have the same configuration with dovecot 1.1 and MySQL. According to log files when a virtual user is connecting to dovecot, the dovecot reads from MySQL the correct values but dovecot doesnt create the dirs for INDEX, CONTROL and the

Hi, i am trying to use libguestfs (libvirt/kvm etc) into archlinux. But it seems that i am keep getting this error warning: Unable to get device geometry for /var/tmp/guestfs.NwkQVJ/root In the attached file, i've written some debug info. If someone can give me some pointer, i would appreciate it Evaggelos Balaskas Unix System Engineer - http://ebalaskas.gr. -------------- next part

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i need to create a public maildir folder for virtual users so i did this: dovecot-1.0.15: namespace public { prefix = public/ separator = / location = maildir:/var/mail/shared:INDEX=/var/mail/shared/%u/index/:CONTROL=/var/mail/shared/%u/control/ } namespace private { separator = / prefix = inbox =

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: > sorry for bothering you, but if you gimme some pointers > it would be great > > # file /vm/images/archlinux/archlinux.qcow2 > /vm/images/archlinux/archlinux.qcow2: QEMU QCOW Image (v2), 5368709120 bytes > > # ls -la /mnt/ > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 15:31 . > drwxr-xr-x 24 root