6:58 a.m.
Dammit, you are fast! I just tried to figure out what's missing from
running "init" on the host and installing the missing packages, among
them "mdadm" and others. Also I noticed that "appliance/packagelist"
includes a lot of packages that aren't available on Ubuntu, but maybe
that doesn't matter.
Anyway, I tried your solution but still get the kernel panic in the
"make quickcheck" step.
Also, compiling with "make -C po-docs update-po" before "make"
didn't
work. The "make" step complained about some missing pod files in the
"ja" and "uk" locales.
I wonder why it worked for you but not for me. Maybe you have installed
some required packages that I don't have. Will investigate further.
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:
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. localenv
./autogen.sh \
--prefix /usr \
--libdir /usr/lib \
--disable-static \
--enable-gtk-doc \
-C \
"$@"
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* Create a file called 'localenv' containing:
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# 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
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* 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.