On 03/04/2012 10:16 PM, THO HUYNH wrote:

> hi Mr Rich.
> I did it :)
> I can mount, modify the file system on the running guest and the guest update properly :)
> Although I still failed to run the guestfsd daemon inside the guest machine but everything worked properly. I don`t understand why. Can you explain?
> By the way, I used guestmount to mount the running guest.


guestmount can run guestfsd inside the small guest automatically.

Thanks
-Wanlong Gao

> Thanks :)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> *To:* THO HUYNH <feeliwood@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "libguestfs@redhat.com" <libguestfs@redhat.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, 4 March 2012, 17:09
> *Subject:* Re: can`t start guestfsd daemon inside guest
>
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 06:13:48PM -0800, THO HUYNH wrote:
>> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind'path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/FedoraMini16.libguestfs' /> <target type='virtio'name='org.libguestfs.channel.0'/> </channel>  </devices>
>
>> but whenever I restart the guest with virt-manager, the clause that
>> I added was deleted.  could you help me please !!!
>
> As you've pasted it above, the clause is wrong.  It is missing
> spaces in important places (eg. mode='bind'path should be mode='bind' path)
>
> Start with this simple example:
>
>      <channel type='unix'>
>        <source mode='bind' path='/tmp/socket'/>
>        <target type='virtio' name='org.libguestfs.channel.0'/>
>      </channel>
>
> Make sure you copy it accurately.
>
> Use 'virsh edit <Guest>' to edit the guest XML, and
> 'virsh domxml <Guest>' to check that the clause you tried to
> add is present.
>
> Rich.
>
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