4:12 p.m.
Hi,
Maybe this is just a newbie question. I am trying to inspect VMware images
with guestfish.
I am running Fedora 15 in a VSphere VM. Once Fedora is installed I do:
yum update
yum install '*guestf*'
Then I run guesfish on a copy of a Fedora 15 disk.
guestfish -rw -I -a Fedora15-2-disk1.vmdk
with the following result:
libguestfs: error: unexpected end of file when reading from daemon.
This usually means the libguestfs appliance failed to start up. Please
enable debugging (LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1) and rerun the command, then look at
the debug messages output prior to this error.
Or you can run 'libguestfs-test-tool' and post the complete output into
a bug report or message to the libguestfs mailing list.
Below is the debug trace. My understaningd is KVM or any hypervisor software
is not required by the libguestfs architecture.
It seems like the most telling message is:
qemu-kvm: -drive file=Fedora15-2-disk1.vmdk,cache=off,if=virtio: could not
open disk image Fedora15-2-disk1.vmdk: Operation not permitted
I presume I am performing a very basic function which is expected to work.
Thanks in advance
Derek
libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0x2123650
libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum
'/usr/lib64/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/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 is a directory
picked vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 because modpath
/lib/modules/2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 exists
checking modpath /lib/modules/2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 is a directory
picked vmlinuz-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 because modpath
/lib/modules/2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64 exists
supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
supermin helper [00025ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
supermin helper [00093ms] finished creating appliance
libguestfs: [00095ms] begin testing qemu features
libguestfs: [00107ms] finished testing qemu features
libguestfs: accept_from_daemon: 0x2123650 g->state = 1
libguestfs: is_openable: /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
libguestfs: [00122ms] /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \\n -drive
file=Fedora15-2-disk1.vmdk,cache=off,if=virtio \\n -nodefconfig \\n
-nodefaults \\n -nographic \\n -m 500 \\n -no-reboot \\n
-no-hpet \\n -device virtio-serial \\n -serial stdio \\n -chardev
socket,path=/tmp/libguestfsH4wsQ8/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 \\n -device
virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \\n -kernel
/var/tmp/.guestfs-500/kernel.2427 \\n -initrd
/var/tmp/.guestfs-500/initrd.2427 \\n -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0
udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory
selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm ' \\n -drive
file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-500/root.2427,snapshot=on,if=virtio,cache=unsafe
open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
qemu-kvm: -drive file=Fedora15-2-disk1.vmdk,cache=off,if=virtio: could not
open disk image Fedora15-2-disk1.vmdk: Operation not permitted
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: 0x2123650: child process died
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x2123650 (state 0)