Re: [Libguestfs] inspect_os error with Win7 image
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 04:46:02PM -0500, Skippy VonDrake wrote:
> As far as we know, this means the registry is really corrupt
(or
> something odd has happened, such as it's been zero-padded).
It appears that the registry did have something wrong with it.
I booted the image in Xen and saw a message window pop up:
"Registry Recovery - One of the files containing the system's
Registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy
The recovery was successful."
And after I shut the VM back down, guestfs was able to load
and continue past the call to guestfs_inspect_os() with no
problems.
Is there a way I can get more data to determine exactly where
the hivex calls are failing? Maybe then a fix could be made to
still return the root devices even when the registry is a little
"off".
It's possible we could add a HIVEX_OPEN_FIXUP flag or something like
that. In this case (empty hbins) it would probably be safe, but I'd
worry about trying to "fix" more egregious registry errors,
particularly since we don't fully understand the format.
With this in mind I altered 'hivex.c', function
do_hivex_open(),
by commenting out the code around the statements:
flags |= HIVEX_OPEN_VERBOSE;
flags |= HIVEX_OPEN_DEBUG;
Effectively hard-coding them. Hoping that more info would be
generated. However that obviously wasn't enough for the
process just seemed to "hang".
You'll also need to enable libguestfs verbose messages:
guestfs_set_verbose (g, 1);
That should dump everything to stderr, and with hivex debug you really
will get a very large amount of debugging info. If it hangs again,
let us know where (please file a bug with all the verbose output until
the hang).
What else would need changing to get more details generated
from guestfs_inspect_os->hivex_open?
If you were feeling very adventurous, you could run the "visualizer"
program from:
https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/tree/master/lib/tools
That's the program I used when I was reverse-engineering the registry
format, and the source of the program has lots of useful information
about the format. However I don't think it will tell you anything
very interesting in this case.
Rich.
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