Re: [Libguestfs] Kernel panic with virt-builder etc.
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:58:22PM +0100, Oliver Frommel wrote:
Dammit, you are fast! I just tried to figure out what's missing
from
running "init" on the host and installing the missing packages, among
them "mdadm" and others. Also I noticed that "appliance/packagelist"
includes a lot of packages that aren't available on Ubuntu, but maybe
that doesn't matter.
appliance/packagelist is normally processed by a tool called
'supermin' which ignores packages that don't exist.
Anyway, I tried your solution but still get the kernel panic in the
"make quickcheck" step.
Note that after making sure everything is up to date in the host,
you'll have to recompile the appliance:
make -C appliance clean
make -C appliance all
Anyway, a simpler alternative to all this is to download the ~70MB
precompiled appliance from
http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/
Here's how to use that:
cd /tmp
wget http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/appliance-1.24.0.tar.xz
xzcat appliance-1.24.0.tar.xz | tar xvf -
Set LIBGUESTFS_PATH to point to the appliance:
export LIBGUESTFS_PATH=/tmp/appliance
Recompile libguestfs without the appliance code:
./configure --disable-appliance --disable-daemon && make -j5
and you can run commands using the ./run script:
export VIRT_BUILDER_SOURCE=http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc
./run ./builder/virt-builder -l
./run ./builder/virt-builder debian-6
[etc]
Rich.
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