Re: [Libguestfs] Trying to package Oz for Ubuntu

Chris / Richard, I'm trying to get a package of Oz together for Ubuntu so that I can ultimately get an imagefactory package built for Ubuntu as well. I'm stuck on libguestfs at this point and was hoping one of you might be able to point me in the right direction. I'm working on Ubuntu 12.10 and the steps I'm taking are: 1) sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev kvm libguestfs-tools python-libvirt python-pycurl python-parted python-guestfs python-libxml2 python-m2crypto genisoimage mtools openssh-client 2) check my versions of febootstrap and seabios --- >>> dpkg -s febootstrap seabios Package: febootstrap Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 1364 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com&gt; Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.17-1 Depends: e2fslibs (>= 1.42), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), aptitude, cpio Description: tool for building supermin appliances. febootstrap is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are tiny appliances [similar to virtual machines], usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when one of them is booted. Original-Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers <pkg-libvirt-maintainers(a)lists.alioth.debian.org&gt; Homepage: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap/ Package: seabios Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: misc Installed-Size: 353 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com&gt; Architecture: all Version: 1.7.0-1 Conflicts: qemu-system (<< 0.14.0) Description: Legacy BIOS implementation SeaBIOS is a legacy BIOS implementation, aimed at supporting not only emulated hosts such as QEMU, but also real hardware. . Note, however, that SeaBIOS does not handle early initialization of core chipsets, so don't even think of flashing it to your board (look at Coreboot for that). Original-Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel(a)lists.alioth.debian.org&gt; Homepage: http://www.seabios.org --- This seems compatible with the guidance for Ubuntu 12.04 on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#binaries so far. 3) sudo chmod 0644 /boot/vmlinuz* 4) git clone https://github.com/aeolus-incubator/templates.git 5) git clone https://github.com/clalancette/oz.git 6) ~/oz$ sudo python setup.py install 7) sudo oz-install -d3 templates/web_servers/Apache/fedora-16/apache_httpd_f16_bare.xml This is where I'm running into problems. Here is the output: --- libvirt bridge name is virbr0 Libvirt type is kvm Original URL http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything... resolved to http://fedora.mirrors.tds.net/pub/fedora/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/ Name: ApacheWebServer, UUID: f22c6a4a-b08d-47f0-ab5d-eeb104286ddd MAC: 52:54:00:bc:d8:de, distro: Fedora update: 16, arch: x86_64, diskimage: /var/lib/libvirt/images/ApacheWebServer.dsk nicmodel: virtio, clockoffset: utc mousetype: ps2, disk_bus: virtio, disk_dev: vda icicletmp: /var/lib/oz/icicletmp/ApacheWebServer, listen_port: 53452 Original ISO path: /var/lib/oz/isos/Fedora16x86_64-url.iso Modified ISO cache: /var/lib/oz/isos/Fedora16x86_64-url-oz.iso Output ISO path: /var/lib/libvirt/images/ApacheWebServer-url-oz.iso ISO content path: /var/lib/oz/isocontent/ApacheWebServer-url Checking for guest conflicts with ApacheWebServer Generating install media Fetching the original media Attempting to get the lock for /var/lib/oz/isos/Fedora16x86_64-url.iso Got the lock, doing the download Original install media available, using cached version Copying ISO contents for modification Setting up guestfs handle for ApacheWebServer Adding ISO image /var/lib/oz/isos/Fedora16x86_64-url.iso Launching guestfs Cleaning up after install Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/oz-install", line 143, in <module> guest.generate_install_media(force_download) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oz/RedHat.py", line 739, in generate_install_media return self._iso_generate_install_media(fetchurl, force_download) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oz/Guest.py", line 1581, in _iso_generate_install_media self._copy_iso() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oz/Guest.py", line 1278, in _copy_iso gfs.launch() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/guestfs.py", line 244, in launch return libguestfsmod.launch (self._o) RuntimeError: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs) --- It appears that update-guestfs-appliance is being run as part of the libguestfs-tools install and I select yes when it prompts to create a supermin [appliance] but I'm still getting this exception. What am I missing here?