[Libguestfs] supermin appliances and host connectivity

[Joel Uckelman]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 01:15:40PM +0200, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> > 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".
>
> Your basic problem if you need to get udev running.  Anything else
> doesn't matter, because nothing much is going to work unless udev is
> running.  So there you are: look inside that shell script and work out
> why it doesn't run, or use the udev commands directly to start udev.
>
> Rich.
>

Aha! I hadn't realized that udev depends on having /sys and /proc mounted
first. Once I do that, I can start udev and my pipe is created as
/dev/vport0p1.

Thanks for you help!
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