[Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:23:33PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> Yeah.  It gets as far as this (which surprised me since I grabbed a recent
> qemu-kvm that should have virtio-serial support)
> 
> Fri Aug 12 20:20:57 UTC 2011
> uptime: 0.52 0.19
> verbose daemon enabled
> linux commmand line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off
> printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=rxvt
> 
> 
> Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel.

Almost certainly kernel version <= 2.6.34-ish (whichever version it
was that added virtio-serial support, definitely 2.6.32 does NOT work
and 2.6.36 DOES work).

I'd be able to tell for sure if I saw the complete output.

Rich.

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