<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I've got a feature request, i<span style="font-size: 12pt;">t would be nice to have some friendly info in the case you don't have enough disk space on the default locations for virt-builder and supermin to run.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div>I was using virt-builder on the official Fedora AMI on EC2 which includes an awesome 2G root block device and, <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">since RAM is at a premium in the smaller instance types, tmpfs is not used.</span></div><div>http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#clouds<br></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">However, EC2 also includes direct-attached "Instance Storage" scratch space such as 160G magnetic on m1.small or 32G ssd on m3.large (details at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) which cloud-init automatically mounts at /mnt.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">All you get output wise is :</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">virt-builder: libguestfs error: /usr/bin/supermin-helper exited with error status 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Even w<span style="font-size: 12pt;">ith LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG and LIBGUESTFS_TRACE supermin isn't super helpful but you can see lines such as:</span></div><div><div>libguestfs: trace: get_cachedir = "/var/tmp"</div><div><div>/usr/bin/supermin-helper: ext2fs_read_inode: Illegal inode number</div><div><br></div></div></div><div>This works fine:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica,
Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">export TMPDIR=/mnt</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">virt-builder --cache /mnt fedora-20<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">More output attached. I love virt-builder btw.</div></div></body></html>