Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (was: Re: appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.)

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:32:30PM -0700, David Konerding wrote: It's possible (but a pain) to do all of this in your local directory. You don't really need hivex. If you don't have it then Windows guest inspection features will be disabled. You can run febootstrap from a locally compiled git copy. You just have to add two extra paths to $PATH before compiling libguestfs: PATH=/path/to/febootstrap/src:/path/to/febootstrap/helper:$PATH export PATH (Note the path changed slightly in febootstrap >= 3.10) Qemu is very easy to compile from upstream git. You can run qemu from a locally compiled git copy. You need to write a tiny shell script wrapper, and set an environment variable, see: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#qemu_wrappers http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_qemu You can download a recent Ubuntu kernel from an Ubuntu .deb (make sure it's at least >= 2.6.36). You can unpack this by hand (dpkg-deb) and set some environment variables up so that libguestfs can find it: http://libguestfs.org/febootstrap-supermin-helper.8.html#febootstrap_kernel Finally you can run libguestfs itself from the locally compiled git copy without needing to install libguestfs. Use the './run' script in the top level directory. For instructions, read the README file. http://libguestfs.org/README.txt All the changes are in git (in febootstrap.git and libguestfs.git) except those two patches. The two extra patches you need were attached to that email, or you can get them from here: http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/ubuntu1004-packages/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top