Re: [Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:34 PM, David Konerding <dek(a)konerding.com&gt; wrote: OK, I have a new 2.6.38 kernel with virtio_blk.ko. This solves the failure to find ext2 root device. Still not having any luck running the test-tool to completion. There is no /sys in the guest root image. There is also no /etc/fstab (is that expected?) There is no ethernet interface even though it looks like it can load virtio_net. febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_balloon.ko febootstrap: picked /sys/block/vdb/dev as root device febootstrap: creating /dev/root as block special 251:16 febootstrap: mounting new root on /root febootstrap: chroot /proc/uptime: No such file or directory Starting /init script ... warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory mount: mount point /sys does not exist cannot open /dev/null [ 1.518238] udevd (45): /proc/45/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/45/oom_score_adj instead. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method. SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCADDRT: No such process Failed to find sysfs mount point read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory Failed to find sysfs mount point read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory /init: line 73: /sys/block/vd*/queue/rotational: No such file or directory /dev: total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 30 Aug 15 22:12 kmsg rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 Failed to find sysfs mount point read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory Failed to find sysfs mount point read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory Failed to find sysfs mount point read_urandom: /dev/urandom: open failed: No such file or directory lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface Module Size Used by virtio_balloon 4416 0 virtio_pci 6621 0 virtio_net 13053 0 virtio_blk 5631 1 virtio_console 14773 0 virtio_rng 2308 0 virtio 4824 6 virtio_balloon,virtio_pci,virtio_net,virtio_blk,virtio_console,virtio_rng virtio_ring 5807 6 virtio_balloon,virtio_pci,virtio_net,virtio_blk,virtio_console,virtio_rng sparse_keymap 4178 0 sym53c8xx 75987 0 scsi_transport_spi 25047 1 sym53c8xx crc7 1458 0 crc_ccitt 1707 0 crc32c 3015 0 crc_itu_t 1747 0 Mon Aug 15 22:12:41 UTC 2011 uptime: 1.76 0.21 verbose daemon enabled linux commmand line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=rxvt Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel. Mostly, but there are some modifications. I think the kernel team just