[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 01:03:06PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> cannot open /dev/null
> Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
> Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access
> method.
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> SIOCADDRT: No such process
>   Failed to find sysfs mount point
>   read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory
>   Failed to find sysfs mount point
>   read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory

Perhaps udev is missing?

> /init: line 73: /sys/block/vd*/queue/rotational: No such file or directory
> ls: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open shared

libacl missing.

> object file: No such file or directory
> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> /dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue 0 0
> /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
>   Failed to find sysfs mount point
>   read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory
>   Failed to find sysfs mount point
>   read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory
>   Failed to find sysfs mount point
>   read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory

Does it get any further than this?

Rich.

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