[fedora-virt] Re: virt-inspector calling guestfs_umount_all() before launch()?

[Charles Duffy]

Charles Duffy wrote:
> This is virt-inspector-1.0.34-1.3 on CentOS 5:
>
> $ virt-inspector --ro-fish --xml da.qcow2
> qemu: loading initrd (0x33a576d bytes) at 0x0000000014c4a000
> umount_all: guestfs_umount_all: call launch() before using this 
> function at /usr/bin/virt-inspector line 375.
Running with LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1, it appears that this happened due to 
the guest trying to do ext3 journal recovery against a read-only image.

If telling libguestfs to run in read-only mode implied passing the 
-snapshot flag to qemu, and passing the snapshot=on option to each 
-drive, this should allow changes to be *temporarily* created (stored to 
unlinked copy-on-write files for the duration of the run), mooting 
issues of this kind.