similar to: ANNOUNCE: supermin 5.2.0 - a tool for creating and distributing tiny appliances

I've ported the supermin appliance capabilities from libguestfs into febootstrap >= 2.5: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=febootstrap.git;a=commit;h=76b7711268a6b0c0929952ee261821825589a165 Once that has rolled out into Fedora (in about 2 weeks) I will remove the code from libguestfs and just have it use febootstrap. There should be no visible changes, but developers will need to upgrade to

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

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

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

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

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

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Previous attempt: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-April/msg00013.html > > supermin needs to download packages (eg. RPMs) when preparing the > appliance. > > After a lot of work, 'dnf download' can now be used as a replacement > for the (deprecated) 'yumdownloader'

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

Because of the confusion generated by calling something 'febootstrap' which didn't have anything to do with Fedora and didn't generate bootstrap filesystems, I have renamed 'febootstrap' as 'supermin'. I also bumped the version number up to 4.1.0. New home page: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/supermin/ Downloads: http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/ Git

Use febootstrap-supermin-helper's new -u and -g command line options to setuid, rather than doing it in libguestfs. This resolves an issue with the generation of the cached appliance checksum. The checksum was being generated by a call to febootstrap-supermin-helper through popen(). Unfortunately, a bash misfeature meant that euid would be reset to uid, and the checksum was generated for uid,

Good evening, I just tried following the steps in "Tip: Creating throwaway appliances with febootstrap"[1] on my workstation at home running Debian/unstable. I ran into problems: ,---- | $ mkdir supermin.d | $ febootstrap --names 'bash' 'coreutils' -o supermin.d | Get: 1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/main bash amd64 4.1-3 [1325 kB] | Get: 2

supermin needs to download packages (eg. RPMs) when preparing the appliance. 'dnf download' finally appears to have made parallel downloads reliable[1]. Better late than never. So I have experimentally switched Rawhide's supermin to use 'dnf download' instead of the (deprecated) 'yumdownloader' program. This only affects the 'supermin --prepare' phase, which

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:22:35PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > I just built `supermin` from source on my Fedora 22 machine, and somehow > it can't seem to detect RPM (but `supermin` from Rawhide detects it). > Exact error: > > supermin: could not detect package manager used by this system or > distro. > > which is coming from:

Matt, can you install the latest libguestfs + febootstrap packages on Rawhide and give them a spin: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=173442 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=173526 The way that the supermin appliance is constructed and booted has changed substantially and I'd like to make sure that we find any bugs early, since we are planning to put

Previous attempt: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-April/msg00013.html supermin needs to download packages (eg. RPMs) when preparing the appliance. After a lot of work, 'dnf download' can now be used as a replacement for the (deprecated) 'yumdownloader' program. This only affects the 'supermin --prepare' phase, which means it only affects people building

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

Hi, I am trying to get libguestfs-test-tool working on ubuntu. The first problem I had was that HiveX won't compile on ubuntu to due to some missing symbols (rpl-getopt, I see this has already been reported). Second problem is that if HiveX is not available, guestfish doesn't link because code refers to symbols which aren't compiled into libguestfs (I was able to work around this by

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:28:04PM +0200, Joel Uckelman wrote: > What I'm having trouble with, and the reason I'm writing you, is that > it's not clear to me how much needs to be added to a supermin > appliance built following your instructions to either (1) enable > networking, or (2) create a bidirectional pipe with the host. (Really > all we need is a pipe, networking

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:04:11PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > 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

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