Re: [Libguestfs] grub-install with guestfish

[Sending the question to the proper mailing list] On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:50:13AM +0100, slim tabka wrote: > Hello Mr Richard Jones, > > First of all, thank you for the amazing tools that you are creating. > I'm new to the virtualization and libguestfs ,so I'm hoping you can help me > to at least understand what's the problem I'm having exactly or to know if > there's a way to resolve it , and any suggestion or advice is much > appreciated. > > I have a problem while trying to create a vm (the method I'm using is to > copy the filesystem of a template in a newly created lvm device and I > modify the fstab file and grub.conf with the uuid of the newely created > device) but the vm get stuck in booting from hard disk , while using xen I > switched the vm to a pv guest and used pygrub and now the vm is working > properly , the problem is with kvm (installed on ubuntu 14.04) the vm > (centos guest) is always stuck in the booting and didn't find a tool like > pygrub on kvm , the only way to make the vm work is to manually install > grub through a livecd, I thought of using guestfish and use grub-install / > /dev/sda but when I try to start the vm it is stuck in grub2.0.2 shell. > It seems that with grub-install with guestfish it installed grub2 but in > the man page of guestfish it's said that it only install grub1.

> So is it because kvm is installed on ubuntu that's why grub-install > installs grub2?? and if the host is centos , wil I have problems with > ubuntu guests while tring to install grub ??? So why even if I modified the > /boot/grub/grub.conf inside the guest it still don't want to boot?? if the > host is kvm on ubuntu will I have problems with centos guest and if the > host is centos will I have problems with ubuntu guest?? > I'm really confused wth all this , I don't know if I'm missing something. > > I'm not sure if I was clear enough , and if needed I can provide you more > infos , but it's been a while that I'm stuck so any suggestion will be more > than welcome , so thank you for your time and I hope I'm not bothering you. > > Slim TABKA -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs