On 02/23/2016 08:42 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 06:21:34PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2016 15:21:17 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> As for the particular question about lack of /etc/fstab.  Are you
>> getting some kind of error when using the guestmount -i option?  It
>> used to be (a long time ago) that libguestfs inspection[1] could not
>> handle guests that did not have /etc/fstab, but that should be fixed
>> in recent versions.
>
> Not really: /etc/fstab is currently used [1] as criteria to detect
> whether the content of a partition is the root of a Linux installation.
 
 Yup - you're totally right.  I was confusing that with the bug we used
 to have if /etc/fstab was empty (RHBZ#1113156).
 
 Something to fix with the new inspection code :-)
 
 Rich.
  
My intended use-case was to mount a container image that lacks kernel,
fstab and bootloader, not a full virtual machine. Thank you very much
for the explanation. I will try different approaches.
Have a nice day,
Fero