Following is the output of test tool # libguestfs-test-tool ===== Test starts here ===== LIBGUESTFS_QEMU=/tmp/qemu.wrapper LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 new guestfs handle 0x116ac80 library version: 1.9.10 guestfs_get_append: (null) guestfs_get_autosync: 1 guestfs_get_memsize: 500 guestfs_get_path: /usr/lib64/guestfs guestfs_get_qemu: /tmp/qemu.wrapper guestfs_get_verbose: 1 Launching appliance, timeout set to 120 seconds. [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/2.6.18-194.el5 is a directory picked vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 because modpath /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5 exists supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel supermin helper [00001ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d supermin helper [00001ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img supermin helper [00001ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img supermin helper [00001ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles supermin helper [00055ms] visiting /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img supermin helper [00208ms] finished creating appliance [00215ms] begin testing qemu features [00236ms] finished testing qemu features [00236ms] /tmp/qemu.wrapper \ -drive file=/tmp/libguestfs-test-tool-sda-uJh9of,cache=off,format=raw,if=virtio \ -drive file=/tmp/libguestfs-test-tool-iso-AZrF4K,snapshot=on,format=raw,if=virtio \ -nodefaults \ -nographic \ -m 500 \ -no-reboot \ -no-hpet \ -device virtio-serial \ -serial stdio \ -chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfs2dlHJJ/sock,id=channel0 \ -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \ -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.13124accept_from_daemon: 0x116ac80 g->state = 1 \ -initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/initrd.13124 \ -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 noapic acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm ' \ -drive file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-0/root.13124,snapshot=on,if=virtio,cache=writeback qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin' recv_from_daemon: 0x116ac80 g->state = 1, size_rtn = 0x7fff807f395c, buf_rtn = 0x7fff807f3920 libguestfs: error: unexpected end of file when reading from daemon child_cleanup: 0x116ac80: child process died libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance closing guestfs handle 0x116ac80 (state 0) On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>wrote:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:39:24PM +0530, vipul borikar wrote:
I installed the qemu from source and wrote a wrapper script is given in doc.
# virt-list-partitions vm01.scilab
qemu: could not load PC BIOS 'bios.bin'
... and libguestfs-test-tool output is ...? Please read the README file all the way to the end. It explains how to test this and how to collect enough information to diagnose problems.
http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/rhel5-packages/README.txt
Rich.
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