On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:30:37PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
HI,
On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it exited exceptionally.
Does anyone also hit the issue or know the reason?
As it says in the error message itself:
Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel.
This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit.
Usually this error is caused by either QEMU or the appliance kernel not supporting the vmchannel method that the libguestfs library chose to use. Please run 'libguestfs-test-tool' and provide the complete, unedited output to the libguestfs developers, either in a bug report or on the libguestfs redhat com mailing list.
Which version of libguestfs is this? I think you'll have no hope of getting upstream libguestfs to run on RHEL 5. There is a branch ('oldlinux') which may still work: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commits/oldlinux Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html