On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 09:05:49PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 09:49:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
There is another problem which you may hit, if you add a completely blank disk to libguestfs (this also affects libguestfs-test-tool):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/931371 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42778
I've now identified the bug, and provided a fix. The bug in fact is in SeaBIOS (not the kernel as originally thought):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/931371/comments/12
To recompile SeaBIOS with this fix on Ubuntu 12.04, do:
apt-get source seabios cd seabios-0.6.2/debian/patches
# Download the patch attached to this email into this directory.
echo 0001-Fix-alignment-bug-in-pci_bios_init_root_regions.patch >> series cd ../.. debuild -i -uc -us -b
cd .. sudo dpkg -i seabios_0.6.2-0ubuntu2_all.deb
After this, libguestfs should work normally. (Note you may also need to do the febootstrap update from the previous email and rebuild the appliance).
I had a bit of a delay on things... I did a dselect and didn't realize that it had just updated over top of the seabios package I had just rebuilt. I have, with many error messages that may or may not be specificly relevant to my test disk, seen a virt-rescue prompt for the first time ever. I am still not sure whether it has actually 'worked' as the "vda: vda1 vda2" seems to have only shown me a /dev/vda but not the partitions. Not sure why yet: a cfdisk does show that /dev/vda has the correct partition table, etc. But it is 0420 here and I'm about half past useless myself at this point. ;-) And I might just try a kpartx to see what happens.