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

David Konerding dek at konerding.com
Fri Aug 12 21:35:02 UTC 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:00:20PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> > By download and unpack, do you mean a kernel source package, or a kernel
> > package from a later Ubuntu release such as 10.10?
>
> You could compile it from source, but it'd be easier to just take a
> compiled binary from any later Ubuntu (11.04 seems like the best bet
> since it's the one we use).  Don't forget you need the modules
> directory as well as vmlinuz.
>
>
Looks like this is moot.  Turns out my kernel team has a test kernel
(2.6.38, I feel like I'm in the 23rd century) and I'm getting my workstation
converted to that.


> Rich.
>
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