[Libguestfs] libguestfs error

[abhishek jain]

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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