I'm trying to use virt-sysprep on an Ubuntu 13.10 vm running on OpenStack. I've followed the command "gotchas" from the FAQ and still not had any luck.

What are you trying to do?

Attempting to use virt-sysprep on a qcow2 image made with virt-install

What commands?

I've run virt-sysprep (with both -d and -a options) and gotten the following error:

Fatal error: exception Guestfs.Error("guestfs_launch failed.
This usually means the libguestfs appliance failed to start or crashed.
See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#debugging-libguestfs
or run 'libguestfs-test-tool' and post the *complete* output into a
bug report 

I then went through the FAQ and followed the recommended steps.

Running libguestft-test-tool yields:


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PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
SELinux: sh: 1: getenforce: not found
library version: 1.22.4
guestfs_get_append: (null)
guestfs_get_backend: direct
guestfs_get_autosync: 1
guestfs_get_cachedir: /var/tmp
guestfs_get_direct: 0
guestfs_get_memsize: 500
guestfs_get_network: 0
guestfs_get_path: /usr/lib/guestfs
guestfs_get_pgroup: 0
guestfs_get_program: libguestfs-test-tool
guestfs_get_qemu: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1
guestfs_get_selinux: 0
guestfs_get_smp: 1
guestfs_get_tmpdir: /tmp
guestfs_get_trace: 0
guestfs_get_verbose: 1
host_cpu: x86_64
Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds.
libguestfs: launch: backend=direct
libguestfs: launch: tmpdir=/tmp/libguestfsH1o0hZ
libguestfs: launch: umask=0022
libguestfs: launch: euid=0
libguestfs: command: run: supermin-helper
libguestfs: command: run: \ --verbose
libguestfs: command: run: \ -f checksum
libguestfs: command: run: \ /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
libguestfs: command: run: \ x86_64
supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel = (null), initrd = (null), appliance = (null)
supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
checking modpath /lib/modules/3.11.0-15-generic is a directory
picked vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic because modpath /lib/modules/3.11.0-15-generic exists
supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img
supermin helper [00000ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles
supermin helper [00024ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img
supermin helper [00024ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/udev-rules.img
supermin helper [00024ms] adding kernel modules
supermin helper [00036ms] finished creating appliance
libguestfs: checksum of existing appliance: 9b64713489581d48f30dd83cc66458a1ef2d1a86dbc27d385cac945d7491f121
libguestfs: [00040ms] begin testing qemu features
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
libguestfs: command: run: \ -nographic
libguestfs: command: run: \ -help
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
libguestfs: command: run: \ -nographic
libguestfs: command: run: \ -version
libguestfs: qemu version 1.5
libguestfs: command: run: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
libguestfs: command: run: \ -nographic
libguestfs: command: run: \ -machine accel=kvm:tcg
libguestfs: command: run: \ -device ?
libguestfs: [00145ms] finished testing qemu features
[00145ms] /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off \
    -nodefconfig \
    -nodefaults \
    -nographic \
    -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
    -drive file=/tmp/libguestfs-test-tool-sda-r1GMFw,cache=none,format=raw,id=hd0,if=none \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=hd0 \
    -drive file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-0/root.2492,snapshot=on,id=appliance,if=none,cache=unsafe \
    -device scsi-hd,drive=appliance \
    -machine accel=kvm:tcg \
    -m 500 \
    -no-reboot \
    -no-hpet \
    -device virtio-serial \
    -serial stdio \
    -device sga \
    -chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfsH1o0hZ/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 \
    -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \
    -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.2492 \
    -initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/initrd.2492 \
    -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=600 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory root=/dev/sdb selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm'\x1b[1;256r\x1b[256;256H\x1b[6n
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SGABIOS $Id: sgabios.S 8 2010-04-22 00:03:40Z nlaredo $ (buildd@allspice) Sun Jun  9 17:23:53 UTC 2013
Term: 80x24
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SeaBIOS (version 1.7.3-20130708_231806-aatxe)
Booting from ROM...
\x1b[2J[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
libguestfs: error: appliance closed the connection unexpectedly, see earlier error messages
libguestfs: child_cleanup: 0x19a9580: child process died
libguestfs: sending SIGTERM to process 2502
libguestfs: error: guestfs_launch failed, see earlier error messages
libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x19a9580 (state 0)
libguestfs: command: run: rm
libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsH1o0hZ

Version information:

libguestfs-tools:
  Installed: 1:1.22.4-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:1.22.4-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.22.4-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.22.4-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages
virtinst:
  Installed: 0.600.4-2ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 0.600.4-2ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.600.4-2ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.600.4-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
seabios:
  Installed: 1.7.3-1
  Candidate: 1.7.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.3-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status