[Libguestfs] supermin appliances and host connectivity

[Joel Uckelman]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:>

> > I started udev with /sbin/start_udev, as in the init script, but that
> seems
> > to have no effect ("ps aux | grep udev" gives me no output.)
>
> The fact that /sbin/start_udev doesn't work is obviously a problem.
>
> Does the script exist?  Does it run?  Does it give errors?


It exists, it runs, it fails silently. The only output from
"/sbin/start_udev || echo foo" is "foo".


>  Are you
> capturing all the errors when the init script runs?  Have you tried adding
> 'set +x' to your init script?Are you using the full start up method shown in
> libguestfs's appliance/init?
>
>
No, I have exactly the init that you had in your blog post. I'm mounting
/sys and then running /sbin/start_udev manually.


> > If I start the
> > guest with
> >
> >  qemu-kvm -kernel kernel -initrd initrd -hda root -device virtio-serial
> > -serial stdio -chardev
> > socket,path=/home/uckelman/projects/lightbox/supermin/foo,id=channel0
> > -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0
> >
> > what should I expect the device connected to the pipe on the guest side
> to
> > be called?
>
> /dev/virtio-ports/<name>
>
> See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial
>
> Rich.
>

/sys/class/virtio-ports/vport0p1 and its contents are there after I mount
/sys, so that's a good sign, I guess.
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