Re: [Libguestfs] Kernel panic with virt-builder etc.

I've just built libguestfs (from git) on Ubuntu 13.10 and it worked for me. Here's what I did: * Clone libguestfs from git: git clone https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs.git cd libguestfs * Create a file called 'localconfigure' containing: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- . localenv ./autogen.sh \ --prefix /usr \ --libdir /usr/lib \ --disable-static \ --enable-gtk-doc \ -C \ "$@" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Create a file called 'localenv' containing: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # NB: -*- Makefile -*- AND a shell script. # Parallel test runs out of resources starting qemu, unclear why. export SKIP_TEST_PARALLEL_MOUNT_LOCAL=1 # Fails under valgrind because cpio subprocess has a memory leak. export SKIP_TEST_FILE_ARCHITECTURE_11=1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ensure Ubuntu 13.10 is fully up to date: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get builddep libguestfs # These are required for virt-builder and not included in the current # build deps on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install flex bison curl gnupg * Fix kernel permissions stupidity: sudo chmod go+r /boot/vmlinuz* * Build libguestfs by doing: chmod +x localconfigure ./localconfigure make -C po-docs update-po make make quickcheck # check it works * Run virt-builder against the public repo: # Have to set the environment variable because the ./run script # by default changes the virt-builder source: export VIRT_BUILDER_SOURCE=http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc ./run ./builder/virt-builder -l * Demonstration showing virt-builder building a Debian 6 image (template is cached, but this is all running inside a VM which is why it's slower than it would be on baremetal): $ ./run ./builder/virt-builder --version virt-builder 1.25.6 $ ./run ./builder/virt-builder --print-cache centos-6 no debian-6 cached debian-7 no fedora-18 no fedora-19 no scientificlinux-6 no ubuntu-10.04 no ubuntu-12.04 no ubuntu-13.10 no $ ./run ./builder/virt-builder debian-6 --size 10G [ 0.0] Downloading: http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/debian-6.xz [ 1.0] Creating disk image: debian-6.img [ 1.0] Uncompressing: http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/debian-6.xz [ 19.0] Running virt-resize to expand the disk to 10.0G [ 104.0] Opening the new disk [ 129.0] Setting a random seed [ 129.0] Random root password: Q64PFtMoQ5oMN4iS [did you mean to use --root-password?] [ 129.0] Finishing off Output: debian-6.img Total usable space: 9.6G Free space: 9.0G (93%) HTH, 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://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/