[Libguestfs] Error mounting ubuntu cirros image?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:11:28AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> # wget https://launchpad.net/cirros/trunk/0.3.0/+download/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img
> # mkdir mnt
> # guestmount --rw -a cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img -i mnt
> libguestfs: error: mount_options: mount_options_stub: /dev/root: No such file or directory
> guestmount: some filesystems could not be mounted (ignored)
> fuse: bad mount point `mnt': Input/output error
> 
> Debug output attached.

I added Cirros and /dev/root support in 1.17.12, so the first stable
version that supports it would be 1.18.  Earlier versions of
libguestfs won't recognize this.  It looks like you've got F15 which
has some quite old version of libguestfs.

This sort of thing is easily solved with mount-local ...

Rich.

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