Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs on PPC64

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:37:52PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: This is now largely working. The most obvious issues: - hivex had some endianness bugs which affected libguestfs, and libguestfs had a similar endianness bug: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/aee6fc4863c170d08e572dbdc... https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/30c130df972756d651b33a2e0adf8f... https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/90ad0ca20e3dfddeb5e78008eb1909... https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/8e31fd84cb1c7edcd897ddaaea4077... - libguestfs had a number of issues related to ppc: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/74938b895c1ad05378a74f038... https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/7f90aa099847563114cbcca98... - PowerPC's larger page size (64K vs 4K) requires more appliance memory: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/aee17de30a5379f5160616805... - Btrfs is fairly broken, also seems to be related to larger page size. I would suggest disabling it in libguestfs/ppc64 builds: libguestfs: error: btrfs_subvolume_create: /test1: ERROR: cannot create subvolume - No space left on device FAIL: test_btrfs_filesystem_sync_0 libguestfs: error: btrfs_subvolume_create: /test1: ERROR: cannot create subvolume - No space left on device FAIL: test_btrfs_subvolume_delete_0 libguestfs: error: mkfs_btrfs: /dev/sda1: Illegal leafsize (or nodesize) 4096 (smaller than 65536) FAIL: test_mkfs_btrfs_0 Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org