[Libguestfs] CoreOS support

[Keresztes Péter-Zoltán]

I have tried to compile the newer libguesfs on these systems but they have failed because of the version of some package which requires version 1.0 and debian wheezy has lower then that. And that version of the package was available on debian siv only. Unfortunately the choice of OS is not up to us we have to use whatever the proxmox is building their service on.

Anyways thanks for the help

On Sep 9, 2014, at 10:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:21:05PM +0300, Keresztes Péter-Zoltán wrote:
>> Unfortunately this is a prebuilt proxmox server which is running on
>> debian wheezy and I cannot even install the latest version of
>> libguesfs because of this.
> 
> That is unfortunate.  However libguestfs works because it uses the
> kernel drivers for all these filesystems (we don't implement anything
> ourselves), and thus it relies on the kernel drivers working.  If the
> kernel doesn't work, libguestfs won't work.
> 
> If you are able to compile things on this server then you could
> compile supermin 5 & libguestfs on the server, and point it to an
> updated kernel image.  This is all possible w/o root:
> 
> http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-compile-and-install-libguestfs-if-my-distro-doesnt-have-new-enough-qemu-supermin-kernel
> 
> Note you will need supermin 5 / libguestfs >= 1.26 for this to work,
> and the version of libguestfs you were using was too old, and will
> *not* work as described in the FAQ.
> 
> Rich.
> 
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