Hi, I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with libguestfs 1.28. Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the one compiled on the server separately ?

Hi, Thank you for your response. You mean path : /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/ So I can include my binary (viz : e2fsck/resize2fs) which is compiled in some other path as well using file :  hostfiles ?

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:52:34PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > Hi, > > > I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with libguestfs 1.28. > Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the one compiled on the > server separately ? Supermin just uses whatever version of e2fsprogs is installed on the host and copies it into the guest. If you cannot upgrade that, you can add arbitrary files into the appliance by listing them in a file under /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/  See: https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES libguestfs 1.28 is very old indeed (released 8 years ago). Is there no option to upgrade it? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ ~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- Regards, Jevin  Gala Virtualizor support - Softaculous Ltd.

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Hi, Using latest libguestfs won't be possible since I want NTFS support too. And I don't want to compile libguestfs separately for CentOS 7 Unless I can comfortably use the libguestfs which I compiled on CentOS 8 and use it for CentOS 7. Symlink also won't help ? /usr/sbin/resize2fs -> /my-dir/my-resize2fs  Latest resize2fs is helping in solving my issue but not the stock one present in CentOS 7

On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:19 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:50:35PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > Hi, > > > Thank you for your response. > > You mean path : /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/ > So I can include my binary (viz : e2fsck/resize2fs) which is compiled in some > other path as well using file :  hostfiles ? If there are particular files that you want to copy to the appliance you might do something like: # cat > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/zz-extra-files <<EOF /path/to/my/file1 /path/to/my/file2 /path/to/my/other* EOF However this might not help to include standard utilities like resize2fs.  supermin will normally copy the host file (eg. /usr/sbin/resize2fs) to the appliance, and that will probably be the old version of the utility, unless you can update it on the host. Very much depends what exactly you are trying to do. Rich. > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >     On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:52:34PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: >     > Hi, >     > >     > >     > I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with libguestfs >     1.28. >     > Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the one compiled >     on the >     > server separately ? > >     Supermin just uses whatever version of e2fsprogs is installed >     on the host and copies it into the guest. > >     If you cannot upgrade that, you can add arbitrary files into the >     appliance by listing them in a file under >     /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/  See: > >     https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES > >     libguestfs 1.28 is very old indeed (released 8 years ago). >     Is there no option to upgrade it? > >     Rich. > >     -- >     Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com / >     ~rjones >     Read my programming and virtualization blog: http:// rwmj.wordpress.com >     virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many >     powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. >     http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top > > > > > -- > Regards, > Jevin  Gala > > Virtualizor support - Softaculous Ltd. > _______________________________________________ > Libguestfs mailing list > Libguestfs(a)redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ ~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW

Thank you for the information. But I wanted to keep system binary separate and let my custom binary be picked up by libguestfs. If there is no other way then I will need to replace system binary.

On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:37 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 08:26:26PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > Hi, > > Using latest libguestfs won't be possible since I want NTFS support too. > And I don't want to compile libguestfs separately for CentOS 7 Unless I can > comfortably use the libguestfs which I compiled on CentOS 8 and use it for > CentOS 7. > > Symlink also won't help ? > /usr/sbin/resize2fs -> /my-dir/my-resize2fs  > > Latest resize2fs is helping in solving my issue but not the stock one present > in CentOS 7 To use a newer e2fsprogs what you want is _not_ a newer libguestfs, but a newer e2fsprogs.  So you might try compiling the e2fsprogs source RPM from CentOS 8 on CentOS 7, ie. rpmbuild --rebuild e2fsprogs-1.45.6-1.el8.src.rpm Source packages can be found under here: https://vault.centos.org/8-stream/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/ Once that is installed on your host, supermin will pick it up. Rich. > > On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:19 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >     On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:50:35PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: >     > Hi, >     > >     > >     > Thank you for your response. >     > >     > You mean path : /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/ >     > So I can include my binary (viz : e2fsck/resize2fs) which is compiled in >     some >     > other path as well using file :  hostfiles ? > >     If there are particular files that you want to copy to the appliance >     you might do something like: > >     # cat > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/zz-extra-files <<EOF >     /path/to/my/file1 >     /path/to/my/file2 >     /path/to/my/other* >     EOF > >     However this might not help to include standard utilities like >     resize2fs.  supermin will normally copy the host file >     (eg. /usr/sbin/resize2fs) to the appliance, and that will probably be >     the old version of the utility, unless you can update it on the host. > >     Very much depends what exactly you are trying to do. > >     Rich. > >     > >     > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM Richard W.M. Jones < rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; >     wrote: >     > >     >     On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:52:34PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: >     >     > Hi, >     >     > >     >     > >     >     > I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with >     libguestfs >     >     1.28. >     >     > Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the one >     compiled >     >     on the >     >     > server separately ? >     > >     >     Supermin just uses whatever version of e2fsprogs is installed >     >     on the host and copies it into the guest. >     > >     >     If you cannot upgrade that, you can add arbitrary files into the >     >     appliance by listing them in a file under >     >     /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/  See: >     > >     >     https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES >     > >     >     libguestfs 1.28 is very old indeed (released 8 years ago). >     >     Is there no option to upgrade it? >     > >     >     Rich. >     > >     >     -- >     >     Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http:// people.redhat.com >     / >     >     ~rjones >     >     Read my programming and virtualization blog: http:// >     rwmj.wordpress.com >     >     virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many >     >     powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. >     >     http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top >     > >     > >     > >     > >     > -- >     > Regards, >     > Jevin  Gala >     > >     > Virtualizor support - Softaculous Ltd. > >     > _______________________________________________ >     > Libguestfs mailing list >     > Libguestfs(a)redhat.com >     > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs > > >     -- >     Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com / >     ~rjones >     Read my programming and virtualization blog: http:// rwmj.wordpress.com >     Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and >     build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. >     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW > > -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ ~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top