[Libguestfs] can`t start guestfsd daemon inside guest

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:16:22AM -0800, THO HUYNH wrote:
> Although I still failed to run the guestfsd daemon inside the guest
> machine but everything worked properly. I don`t understand why. Can
> you explain?

The systemd rules start up guestfsd on-demand, ie. only when you
connect using '<command> --live' from the host.  See if guestfsd is
running when you're connected.

> By the way, I used guestmount to mount the running guest.

guestmount --live, I hope.

Rich.

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