[Libguestfs] Libguestfs + e2fsprogs

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:50:35PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your response.
> 
> You mean path : /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/
> So I can include my binary (viz : e2fsck/resize2fs) which is compiled in some
> other path as well using file :  hostfiles ?

If there are particular files that you want to copy to the appliance
you might do something like:

# cat > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/zz-extra-files <<EOF
/path/to/my/file1
/path/to/my/file2
/path/to/my/other*
EOF

However this might not help to include standard utilities like
resize2fs.  supermin will normally copy the host file
(eg. /usr/sbin/resize2fs) to the appliance, and that will probably be
the old version of the utility, unless you can update it on the host.

Very much depends what exactly you are trying to do.

Rich.

> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:52:34PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     >
>     > I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with libguestfs
>     1.28.
>     > Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the one compiled
>     on the
>     > server separately ?
> 
>     Supermin just uses whatever version of e2fsprogs is installed
>     on the host and copies it into the guest.
> 
>     If you cannot upgrade that, you can add arbitrary files into the
>     appliance by listing them in a file under
>     /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/  See:
> 
>     https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES
> 
>     libguestfs 1.28 is very old indeed (released 8 years ago).
>     Is there no option to upgrade it?
> 
>     Rich.
> 
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> 
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