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<p class="MsoPlainText">Yes, it is unmodified OL 8.8, and I have not (manually) compiled, or recompiled anything (including supermin or libguestfs)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[root@ol-kvm-h01 tmp]# cat /etc/*rele*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Oracle Linux Server release 8.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">NAME="Oracle Linux Server"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">VERSION="8.8"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ID="ol"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ID_LIKE="fedora"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">VARIANT="Server"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">VARIANT_ID="server"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">VERSION_ID="8.8"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">PRETTY_NAME="Oracle Linux Server 8.8"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ANSI_COLOR="0;31"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:8:server"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">HOME_URL="<a href="https://linux.oracle.com/">https://linux.oracle.com/</a>"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">BUG_REPORT_URL="<a href="https://github.com/oracle/oracle-linux">https://github.com/oracle/oracle-linux</a>"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ORACLE_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Oracle Linux 8"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ORACLE_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=8.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ORACLE_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Oracle Linux"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ORACLE_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=8.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.8 (Ootpa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Oracle Linux Server release 8.8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8:8:server
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[root@ol-kvm-h01 tmp]# uname -a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Linux ol-kvm-h01 5.15.0-105.125.6.2.2.el8uek.x86_64 #2 SMP Tue Sep 19 21:02:08 PDT 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">FYI: The KVM Host was installed/configured using the below process (I mention this since I needed to perform some additional repo/module configuration in order to get libvirt-7 installed):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">  # </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Install the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Release 4.4 package</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
  yum install oracle-ovirt-release-el8 -y<br>
     Required oVirt 4.4 Yum Channels enabled.<br>
     Installed:             oracle-ovirt-release-el8.x86_64   1.0-1.0.3.el8<br>
     Dependency Installed:  oracle-gluster-release-el8.x86_64 1.0-2.el8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">  yum clean all; yum repolist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt"><em><u><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New"">repo id                         
</span></u></em><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<span style="color:#990000">ol8_UEKR6                             <br>
</span><span style="color:#666666">ol8_UEKR7                             <br>
ol8_addons                            <br>
</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">ol8_appstream                        
</span></strong><b><span style="color:black"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ol8_baseos_latest                    
</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ol8_gluster_appstream                
</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ol8_kvm_appstream                    
</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ovirt-4.4                            
</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ovirt-4.4-extra</span></strong></span></b>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">  # </span>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Remove any unwanted repos</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><br>
  dnf config-manager --disable "ol8_UEKR6"</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">  # </span>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ensure libvirt-7 package is available</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><br>
  #   </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Disable virt:ol and enable virt:kvm_utils2 (this will make the libvirt-7 package available)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><br>
  #   </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ref:
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red"><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/oracle-linux-virtualization-manager/getstart/getstarted-manager-install.html#manager-prep-kvm"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/oracle-linux-virtualization-manager/getstart/getstarted-manager-install.html#manager-prep-kvm</span></a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">  if ! yum --showduplicates list libvirt | grep "libvirt.* 7"; then<br>
    dnf -y module disable virt:ol<br>
    dnf -y module enable  virt:kvm_utils2<br>
    yum --showduplicates list libvirt<br>
  fi</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">  # </span>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Make sure all packages are up-to-date</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><br>
  dnf update -y<br>
  reboot</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">  # </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open the Cockpit port</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
  firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=9090/tcp<br>
<br>
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</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Dennis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-NZ">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> <br>
Sent: Saturday, 30 September 2023 7:20 PM<br>
To: Clark, Dennis <dclark66@dxc.com><br>
Cc: libguestfs@redhat.com<br>
Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs kernel panic</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:30:28PM +0000, Clark, Dennis wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [root@ol-kvm-h01 work]# LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct libguestfs-test-tool<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> libguestfs: launch: version=1.44.0rhel=8,release=<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> 5.0.1.module+el8.7.0+21035+a8208c98,libvirt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> \x1b[2J[    0.000000] Linux version 5.15.0-105.125.6.2.2.el8uek.x86_64 (mockbuild at host-100-100-224-56) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9.1.0.6), GNU ld version 2.36.1-2.0.1.el8) #2 SMP Tue Sep 19 21:02:08 PDT 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">^ Looks like OEL.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [    0.843934] Run /init as init process<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">^ This messsage come from the kernel.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [    0.845792] traps: init[1] general protection fault ip:43faa8<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> sp:7ffe9b9904b0 error:0 in init[400000+a7000]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> [    0.849636] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> 0x0000000b<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Then the supermin embedded init process appears to crash.  That's<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">somewhere probably very early on in this code:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">  <a href="https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/init/init.c">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Flibguestfs%2Fsupermin%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2Finit%2Finit.c&data=05%7C01%7Cdclark66%40dxc.com%7Cb14f2c9313694dcc237d08dbc17d42ea%7C93f33571550f43cfb09fcd331338d086%7C0%7C0%7C638316515975840513%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=j55BHS3h4R%2BdR2xifxQ3iPoq%2BKdMsxKBFRV1ufOqXFM%3D&reserved=0</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Before I look further at this, is this unmodified OEL 8.7.0?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">And you didn't recompile supermin or libguestfs?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Rich.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones">
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Read my programming and virtualization blog: <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com/">
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<p class="MsoPlainText">virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.<o:p></o:p></p>
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