OK. So now I am trying with a 2.6.38 kernel. Surprising result: some
confusion about ext2 root filesystem. I can confirm the /var/tmp/.guestfs
has a root file that is a valid ext2 file system.
libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0x22df410
===== Test starts here =====
LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1
library version: 1.12.3
guestfs_get_append: (null)
guestfs_get_attach_method: appliance
guestfs_get_autosync: 1
guestfs_get_direct: 0
guestfs_get_memsize: 500
guestfs_get_network: 0
guestfs_get_path: /usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs
guestfs_get_pgroup: 0
guestfs_get_qemu: /home/dek/sw/qemu-kvm-0.14.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1
guestfs_get_selinux: 0
guestfs_get_trace: 0
guestfs_get_verbose: 1
host_cpu: x86_64
Launching appliance, timeout set to 120 seconds.
libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum
'/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d' x86_64
supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64,
kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)
supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] =
/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.32-gg508-generic.disabled is a directory
picked vmlinuz-2.6.32-gg508-generic.disabled because modpath
/lib/modules/2.6.32-gg508-generic.disabled exists
checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-experimental4 is a directory
picked vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-experimental4 because modpath
/lib/modules/2.6.38.8-experimental4 exists
supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting
/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting
/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting
/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting
/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
supermin helper [00016ms] visiting
/usr/local/home/dek/sw/libguestfs-1.12.3/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
supermin helper [00049ms] finished creating appliance
libguestfs: [00053ms] begin testing qemu features
libguestfs: [00065ms] finished testing qemu features
libguestfs: accept_from_daemon: 0x22df410 g->state = 1
libguestfs: [00066ms] /home/dek/sw/qemu-kvm-0.14.1/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-drive
file=/tmp/libguestfs-test-tool-sda-iWMYOJ,cache=off,format=raw,if=virtio \
-nodefconfig \
-enable-kvm \
-nodefaults \
-nographic \
-m 500 \
-no-reboot \
-no-hpet \
-device virtio-serial \
-serial stdio \
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfsMqHmAh/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 \
-device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \
-kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-88619/kernel.23376 \
-initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-88619/initrd.23376 \
-append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off
printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=rxvt '
\
-drive
file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-88619/root.23376,snapshot=on,if=virtio,cache=unsafe
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.38.8-experimental4 (root(a)redacted.com) (gcc
version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #2 SMP Mon Jun 27 14:14:51 PDT 2011
[ 0.000000] Command line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic
acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1
TERM=rxvt
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009bc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009bc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f3fd000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001f3fd000 - 000000001f400000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000feffc000 - 00000000ff000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.4 present.
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x1f3fd max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[ 0.000000] PAT not supported by CPU.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000fdbf0] fdbf0
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000001f3fd000
[ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 1f2fc000 - 1f3f0000
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000001f3fd000
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000001f3fd000
[ 0.000000] NODE_DATA [000000001f3f5000 - 000000001f3f9fff]
[ 0.000000] kvm-clock: Using msrs 12 and 11
[ 0.000000] kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:1a93a41, boot clock
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
[ 0.000000] DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
[ 0.000000] Normal empty
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009b
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0001f3fd
[ 0.000000] SFI: Simple Firmware Interface v0.81
http://simplefirmware.org
[ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
[ 0.000000] MPTABLE: OEM ID: BOCHSCPU
[ 0.000000] MPTABLE: Product ID: 0.1
[ 0.000000] MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU)
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI
0-23
[ 0.000000] Processors: 1
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009b000 -
000000000009c000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009c000 -
00000000000a0000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 -
00000000000f0000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 -
0000000000100000
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 1f400000 (gap:
1f400000:dfbfc000)
[ 0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on KVM
[ 0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:64 nr_cpumask_bits:64 nr_cpu_ids:1
nr_node_ids:1
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 28 pages/cpu @ffff88001f000000 s83648 r8192
d22848 u2097152
[ 0.000000] kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:1f013a41, primary cpu clock
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total
pages: 126124
[ 0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300
noapic acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0
guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=rxvt
[ 0.000000] Disabling memory control group subsystem
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Checking aperture...
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] Memory: 489508k/511988k available (5440k kernel code, 468k
absent, 22012k reserved, 5307k data, 840k init)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0,
CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:4352 nr_irqs:256 16
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[ 0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.000000] Detected 2666.760 MHz processor.
[ 0.000000] TSC resynchronization disabled on non-AMD processors
[ 0.020000] Calibrating delay loop (skipped) preset value.. 5333.52
BogoMIPS (lpj=26667600)
[ 0.020000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.020000] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.020000] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[ 0.020000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288
bytes)
[ 0.020000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144
bytes)
[ 0.020000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
[ 0.020000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[ 0.020000] ns_cgroup deprecated: consider using the 'clone_children'
flag without the ns_cgroup.
[ 0.020000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.020000] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.020000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.020000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.020000] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 0.020000] mce: CPU supports 10 MCE banks
[ 0.020000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.031479] Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed
[ 0.031811] ftrace: allocating 20794 entries in 82 pages
[ 0.040051] Setting APIC routing to flat
[ 0.040385] CPU0: Intel QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.14.1 stepping 03
[ 0.160050] Performance Events: unsupported p6 CPU model 2 no PMU driver,
software events only.
[ 0.160898] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 0.161167] Total of 1 processors activated (5333.52 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.161686] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.162127] print_constraints: dummy:
[ 0.162469] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.163074] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
[ 0.164322] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.164848] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 0.165193] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.165576] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.166057] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.166485] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.166864] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.167280] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 0.168467] pci 0000:00:01.3: quirk: [io 0xb000-0xb03f] claimed by PIIX4
ACPI
[ 0.168965] pci 0000:00:01.3: quirk: [io 0xb100-0xb10f] claimed by PIIX4
SMB
[ 0.170864] pci 0000:00:01.0: PIIX/ICH IRQ router [8086:7000]
[ 0.171473] NetLabel: Initializing
[ 0.171709] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
[ 0.172013] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
[ 0.172365] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
[ 0.172774] Switching to clocksource kvm-clock
[ 0.174699] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[ 0.175040] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 0.176383] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.176729] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768
bytes)
[ 0.177329] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144
bytes)
[ 0.177878] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.178349] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 0.178807] TCP reno registered
[ 0.179024] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.179418] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.179887] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.179887] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.179887] pci 0000:00:00.0: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers
[ 0.179887] pci 0000:00:01.0: PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release
[ 0.179887] pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds
[ 0.179887] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 0.180065] Freeing initrd memory: 976k freed
[ 0.180573] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP
device found)
[ 0.181267] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 0.181672] type=2000 audit(1313186460.170:1): initialized
[ 0.192617] HugeTLB registered 2 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.194333] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.194657] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.195424] fuse init (API version 7.16)
[ 0.195797] msgmni has been set to 958
[ 0.196211] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded
(major 253)
[ 0.196722] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.197009] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.197406] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 0.197820] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 0.198454] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.219964] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 0.220670] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 0.221807] brd: module loaded
[ 0.222457] loop: module loaded
[ 0.223121] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 0.223395] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 0.223622] ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xc000 irq 14
[ 0.224054] ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xc008 irq 15
[ 0.224753] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.225021] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 0.225354] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[ 0.225682] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk(a)qualcomm.com>
[ 0.226144] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.226601] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 0.227009] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.227482] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[ 0.228324] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 0.228658] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 0.229349] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 0.229918] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as
/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
[ 0.230707] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 0.231159] rtc0: alarms up to one day, 114 bytes nvram
[ 0.231590] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.19.1-ioctl (2011-01-07) initialised:
dm-devel(a)redhat.com
[ 0.232208] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.2.0 loaded
[ 0.232579] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.233113] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.233384] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.233784] TCP cubic registered
[ 0.234107] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.234712] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.235019] Registering the dns_resolver key type
[ 0.235458] registered taskstats version 1
[ 0.235914] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2011-08-12
22:00:59 UTC (1313186459)
[ 0.236474] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.236860] EDD information not available.
[ 0.384308] Freeing unused kernel memory: 840k freed
[ 0.385874] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
[ 0.393138] Freeing unused kernel memory: 684k freed
[ 0.402678] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1776k freed
febootstrap: mounting /proc
febootstrap: uptime: 0.40 0.19
febootstrap: ext2 mini initrd starting up
febootstrap: mounting /sys
febootstrap: internal insmod libcrc32c.ko
insmod: init_module: libcrc32c.ko: Unknown symbol in module
febootstrap: internal insmod crc32c-intel.ko
insmod: init_module: crc32c-intel.ko: No such device
febootstrap: internal insmod crc-itu-t.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod crc32c.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod crc-ccitt.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod crc7.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod scsi_transport_spi.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod sym53c8xx.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod sparse-keymap.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod ideapad-laptop.ko
insmod: init_module: ideapad-laptop.ko: No such device
febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_ring.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod virtio.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod virtio-rng.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_console.ko
febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_balloon.ko
febootstrap: no ext2 root device found
Please include FULL verbose output in your bug report.
[ 0.423999] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 0.424572] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.38.8-experimental4 #2
[ 0.425087] Call Trace:
[ 0.425298] [<ffffffff81542e4d>] ? panic+0x91/0x1b0
[ 0.425757] [<ffffffff810eaaa0>] ? perf_event_exit_task+0xc0/0x210
[ 0.426266] [<ffffffff8105f2c8>] ? do_exit+0x728/0x860
[ 0.426669] [<ffffffff8105f451>] ? do_group_exit+0x51/0xc0
[ 0.427089] [<ffffffff8105f4d7>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[ 0.427515] [<ffffffff8100bf82>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 0.428127] Rebooting in 1 seconds..libguestfs: error: unexpected end of
file when reading from daemon.
See earlier debug messages.
Or you can run 'libguestfs-test-tool' and post the complete output into
a bug report or message to the libguestfs mailing list.
libguestfs: child_cleanup: 0x22df410: child process died
libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x22df410 (state 0)
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:35 PM, David Konerding <dek(a)konerding.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:00:20PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> > By download and unpack, do you mean a kernel source package, or a kernel
> > package from a later Ubuntu release such as 10.10?
>
> You could compile it from source, but it'd be easier to just take a
> compiled binary from any later Ubuntu (11.04 seems like the best bet
> since it's the one we use). Don't forget you need the modules
> directory as well as vmlinuz.
>
>
Looks like this is moot. Turns out my kernel team has a test kernel
(2.6.38, I feel like I'm in the 23rd century) and I'm getting my workstation
converted to that.
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
>
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
> software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows.
>
http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
>