[Libguestfs] libguestfs and zfs-fuse

[Andre Goree]

On 02/04/2014 4:54 am, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:14:09PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Andre Goree wrote:
>> > Ahhh, understood.  I do have have an image I can provide that was
>> > installed onto and MBR layout (seemed the easiest for libguestfs to
>> > understand, GPT is preferred if libguestfs works well with it, but
>> > that's another matter I can look into later).  Standby let me clean
>> > it up a bit and I'll get it to you -- I'll put it on my box and send
>> > ya a link offlist.
>> 
>> Yes it would be useful to have this image.  Either MBR or GPT
>> should work equally well.
> 
> FYI Andre sent me a disk image:
> 
> $ qemu-img info FreeBSD_ZFS-test.qcow2
> image: FreeBSD_ZFS-test.qcow2
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 1.0G (1073741824 bytes)
> disk size: 1.0G
> cluster_size: 65536
> 
> $ guestfish --ro -a FreeBSD_ZFS-test.qcow2
> 
> Welcome to guestfish, the guest filesystem shell for
> editing virtual machine filesystems and disk images.
> 
> Type: 'help' for help on commands
>       'man' to read the manual
>       'quit' to quit the shell
> 
>> <fs> run
>> <fs> list-filesystems
>> <fs> list-partitions
> /dev/sda1
>> <fs> file /dev/sda1
> ; partition 4: ID=0xa5, active, starthead 0, startsector 0, 50000 
> sectors
>> <fs> vfs-type /dev/sda1
> zfs_member
> 
> I tried opening it with virt-rescue, but for some reason the zfs-fuse
> daemon would not start, and hence other commands such as zpool didn't
> work.  I opened a bug to look at enabling ZFS:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061040
> 
> Rich.

Thanks Rich.

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