Re: [Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:49:13PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:23:33PM -0700, David Konerding wrote: > > Yeah. It gets as far as this (which surprised me since I grabbed a recent > > qemu-kvm that should have virtio-serial support) > > > > Fri Aug 12 20:20:57 UTC 2011 > > uptime: 0.52 0.19 > > verbose daemon enabled > > linux commmand line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off > > printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=rxvt > > > > > > Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel. > > Almost certainly kernel version <= 2.6.34-ish (whichever version it > was that added virtio-serial support, definitely 2.6.32 does NOT work > and 2.6.36 DOES work). By the way, as you're using a very recent febootstrap (3.8+) then you have fine control over which kernel is used: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#environment_variables You just have to download and unpack the new kernel anywhere on your system and point these variables at it.

Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top