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2017 Apr 28
1
Re: [PATCH] add enable_appliance flag to specify the appliance build
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:03:58PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > On 27.04.2017 18:28, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:55:10PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > >>The flag determines the behavior of working with the appliance, and specifically > >>the choice to use the build supermin appliance or the fixed appliance. If the >
2017 Jun 20
0
Re: Appliance image. Why raw?
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 06:48:16PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > On 20.06.2017 18:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 06:34:28PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > >>On 20.06.2017 17:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >>>On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 05:04:53PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > >>>>I noticed that raw is intentionally used as image
2017 Apr 25
0
Re: [PATCH] appliance: reorder the steps to search for appliance
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:35:26PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > The patch changes the order of the steps to search for fixed/supermin > appliance in accordance with documentation: > > "If the fixed appliance is found, libguestfs skips supermin entirely > and just runs qemu with the kernel, initrd and root disk from the > fixed appliance." Does anyone rely on the
2017 Apr 28
0
Re: [PATCH] appliance: more reliable check for the supermin appliance
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 05:04:15PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > At least two control files (packages and base.tar.gz) are necessary for the > supermin appliance. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> > --- > lib/appliance.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/lib/appliance.c b/lib/appliance.c >
2017 Apr 25
0
Re: [PATCH] appliance: reorder the steps to search for appliance
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03:58:45PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > On 25.04.2017 15:11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:35:26PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > >>The patch changes the order of the steps to search for fixed/supermin > >>appliance in accordance with documentation: > >> > >>"If the fixed appliance is found,
2017 May 05
2
Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] appliance: search all types of appliances for each path separately
Eric, what do you think of Pavel's analysis and/or suggested fix below? It seems all too plausible to me unfortunately :-( On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 03:46:45PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > On 05.05.2017 12:27, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > >Looks good. I'll push this if it passes 'make check && make check-valgrind' > >which I'm currently
2017 Jun 20
0
Re: Appliance image. Why raw?
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 06:34:28PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > On 20.06.2017 17:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 05:04:53PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > >>I noticed that raw is intentionally used as image format for appliance > >>image. So I would like to ask, is there any reason to use raw as image > >>format for appliance? >
2017 Apr 25
0
Re: [PATCH] appliance: reorder the steps to search for appliance
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 06:13:37PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > On 25.04.2017 16:04, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >Can you see what: > > > > guestfish get-path > > /usr/lib64/guestfs > > >prints? Are you setting LIBGUESTFS_PATH at all? > > > > No. > > # ls /usr/lib64/guestfs > initrd kernel README.fixed root supermin.d > >
2017 Apr 27
0
Re: [PATCH] appliance: reorder the steps to search for appliance
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:54:44PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: [...] > >(2) If the fixed appliance was located somewhere else, you could do: > > > > LIBGUESTFS_PATH=/path/to/somewhere/else:/usr/lib64/guestfs > > export LIBGUESTFS_PATH > > > >and then it would look for the fixed appliance in > >/path/to/somewhere/else and use it. If the fixed
2017 Jun 20
0
Re: Appliance image. Why raw?
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 05:04:53PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > I noticed that raw is intentionally used as image format for appliance > image. So I would like to ask, is there any reason to use raw as image > format for appliance? The simple answer is because we create the appliance image (it's an ext2/3/4 filesystem) using e2fsprogs, and that library wouldn't know how to
2017 Apr 28
1
Re: [PATCH] add enable_appliance flag to specify the appliance build
And also it would be nice if there was a ./configure option to set the default path (at the moment it's hard-coded). That way you could set up the path to search in multiple directories, as appropriate for your downstream distro. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
2017 Jun 25
0
Re: [PATCH 2/2] build: add ./configure --enable-appliance-fmt-auto option
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 04:12:36PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> > --- > m4/guestfs_appliance.m4 | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/m4/guestfs_appliance.m4 b/m4/guestfs_appliance.m4 > index 81c43879f..7e8d28271 100644 > --- a/m4/guestfs_appliance.m4 > +++
2017 May 04
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Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] appliance: search all types of appliances for each path separately
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 02:20:28PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > This patch changes appliance search using paths with multiple directories. Now > all appliance checks will be done separately for each directory. For example > if the path LIBGUESTFS_PATH=/a:/b:/c, then all applainces are searched first in > /a, then in /b and then in /c. It allows to flexibly configure the libguestfs
2017 Jun 25
0
Re: [PATCH 1/2] launch: add support for autodetection of appliance image format
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 04:12:35PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > This feature allows you to use different image formats for the fixed > appliance. The raw format is used by default. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> > --- > lib/create.c | 5 +++-- > lib/guestfs-internal.h | 2 ++ > lib/launch-direct.c | 2 ++ >
2020 Feb 06
1
Re: [PATCH v2] launch: add support for autodetection of appliance image format
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 07:42:20PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > This feature allows you to use different image formats for the fixed > appliance. The raw format is used by default. I wonder if you're stil using this feature? Unfortunately because of a recent change in libvirt it is no longer possible to have a backing file where libvirt will autodetect the format. See:
2017 Jun 20
0
Re: Appliance image. Why raw?
On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:04:53 CEST Pavel Butsykin wrote: > I noticed that raw is intentionally used as image format for appliance > image. So I would like to ask, is there any reason to use raw as image > format for appliance? In addition to what Rich already said, there are a couple of points: a) a raw image is generally always faster, since it is a direct bit-by-bit representation
2016 Jun 11
2
Re: [PATCH 1/2] increase the default memory size to 768 MB
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 08:51:56PM +0300, Pavel Butsykin wrote: > The appliance memory size of 500 MB is insufficient in certain scenarios. In > partiuclar, semodule (which may be called by a guest tools uninstaller) often > triggers OOM (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/426775) > > Increase it to 768 MB. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> >
2013 Jun 11
0
Re: [PATCH] Mask some package names if appliance is build for SUSE
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 03:18:23PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> > --- > > Not compile-tested! > > appliance/packagelist.in | 13 ++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/appliance/packagelist.in b/appliance/packagelist.in > index 8a4a5ea..a00a7ad 100644 > ---
2018 Feb 09
0
ANNOUNCE: libguestfs 1.38 released
I'm pleased to announce libguestfs 1.38, a library and a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. This release represents about a year of work by many contributors. I'd like to call out in particular substantial contributions from: Cédric Bosdonnat, Pavel Butsykin, Matteo Cafasso, Tomáš Golembiovský, Nikos Skalkotos, and Pino Toscano. Virt-builder-repository
2015 Jun 15
2
Re: [PATCH v2] Improve fixed appliance documentation
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 06:47:44PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > index e2ee1b5..eebab53 100644 > --- a/src/guestfs.pod > +++ b/src/guestfs.pod > @@ -3540,6 +3540,30 @@ Finally, the child process sends asynchronous messages back to the > main program, such as kernel log messages. You can register a > callback to receive these messages. > > +=head1 FIXED APPLIANCE > +