[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/2] virt-builder OpenSUSE images

[Pino Toscano]

On Tuesday 08 September 2015 12:16:37 Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi Cédric,
> 
> On Tuesday 08 September 2015 09:40:21 Cédric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > Here are two patches to get opensuse images in virt-builder.
> > 
> > Cédric Bosdonnat (2):
> >   Allow curl to follow redirects.
> >   builder: add opensuse images sources
> > 
> >  builder/Makefile.am      |  3 ++-
> >  builder/downloader.ml    |  4 ++--
> >  builder/opensuse.conf.in |  3 +++
> >  builder/opensuse.gpg     | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  configure.ac             |  1 +
> >  5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 builder/opensuse.conf.in
> >  create mode 100644 builder/opensuse.gpg
> 
> Really nice work! Both patches LGTM.
> 
> The only problem is that patch #2 does not apply cleanly after my
> SimpleStreams work for virt-builder, so can you please rebase it?
> I just pushed patch #1, which applies fine.
> 
> I gave the images a try, and a couple of notes so far are:
> - mllib/passwords.ml:default_crypto does not know about opensuse, so
>   assumes md5 for shadow (there's a warning when setting up passwords);
>   should be easy to fix

This has been fixed with
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/1b4c1d74d36c942417ea946a561a1964b20a1191

> - none of the images then boot, reporting that /sbin/init cannot be
>   executed, with error -28.

Apparently, even though -28 is -ENOSPC on Linux, it seems like the
issue was the too limited RAM for the guest. The default for qemu is
128 MiB, and bumping it to 512 M made it run.

So, looking forward to see the rebased patch!

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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