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

[David Konerding]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:49:13PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 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).
>
> By the way, as you're using a very recent febootstrap (3.8+) then you
> have fine control over which kernel is used:
>
> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#environment_variables
>
> You just have to download and unpack the new kernel anywhere on your
> system and point these variables at it.
>
>
By download and unpack, do you mean a kernel source package, or a kernel
package from a later Ubuntu release such as 10.10?

> Rich.
>
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