[Libguestfs] libguestfs error

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:10:49PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> Hi Rich
> 
> One more quiry.
> After installing libguestfs-test-tool on my powerpc ubuntu,I'm getting this
> following error on my system ...
> 
> 
> UnsupportedRpcVersion: Specified RPC version, 3.23, not supported by this
> endpoint.
> 
> Can you help regarding this?

I really need to see the complete, unedited output of
libguestfs-test-tool, and / or the command that produced this error.
Isolated error messages are not very useful.

Rich.


> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:18 PM, abhishek jain <ashujain9727 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rich
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > I'll test and let you know the result.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 03:01:47PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> >> > /usr/local/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.tar.gz type gzip base image
> >> > (tar)
> >> > supermin: build: 121 packages, including dependencies
> >> > supermin: build: 7109 files
> >> > supermin: build: 7109 files, after removing unreadable files
> >> > supermin: build: 4939 files, after matching excludefiles
> >> > supermin: build: 4941 files, after adding hostfiles
> >> > supermin: build: 4944 files, after munging
> >> > supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=powerpc64).
> >> >
> >> > I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.
> >> >
> >> > If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels
> >> > installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for
> >> > supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).
> >> > libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see
> >> debug
> >> > messages above
> >> > libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
> >> > libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0)
> >> > libguestfs: command: run: rm
> >> > libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsvnUxG2
> >>
> >> This is actually a bug in supermin.  However I think it is fixed in
> >> recent supermin.
> >>
> >> Have a look at the patt_of_cpu function here:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/src/kernel.ml#L26
> >>
> >> This was added by Hilko's patch:
> >>
> >>
> >> https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commit/e8dd485a1737da365bc6af4afb5945817219393e
> >>
> >> and I suspect you will need to include this patch in your version of
> >> supermin.  You'll have to also look at the contents of /boot.
> >>
> >> Note also that you don't need to install the supermin package in order
> >> to use it, if you follow the instructions here:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-libguestfs-if-my-distro-doesnt-have-new-enough-qemu-supermin-kernel
> >>
> >> Rich.
> >>
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> >
> >

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