Hello all, I 've compiled libguestfs 1.16.5 on arch linux and the tests fail. This is the output I get when I run libguestfs-test-tool: LIBGUESTFS_DEBUG=1 TMPDIR=(not set) libguestfs: new guestfs handle 0xcf4310 library version: 1.16.5 guestfs_get_append: (null) guestfs_get_attach_method: appliance guestfs_get_autosync: 1 guestfs_get_direct: 0 guestfs_get_memsize: 500 guestfs_get_network: 0 guestfs_get_path: /usr/lib/guestfs guestfs_get_pgroup: 0 guestfs_get_qemu: /usr/bin/qemu-kvm guestfs_get_recovery_proc: 1 guestfs_get_selinux: 0 guestfs_get_smp: 1 guestfs_get_trace: 0 guestfs_get_verbose: 1 host_cpu: x86_64 Launching appliance, timeout set to 600 seconds. libguestfs: [00000ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f checksum '/usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d' 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/3.2.6-2-ARCH is a directory picked vmlinuz-linux because modpath /lib/modules/3.2.6-2-ARCH 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 [00062ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img supermin helper [00062ms] adding kernel modules supermin helper [00229ms] finished creating appliance libguestfs: [00235ms] begin building supermin appliance libguestfs: [00235ms] run febootstrap-supermin-helper libguestfs: [00235ms] febootstrap-supermin-helper --verbose -f ext2 /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d x86_64 /var/tmp/guestfs.iFiYfq/kernel /var/tmp/guestfs.iFiYfq/initrd /var/tmp/guestfs.iFiYfq/root supermin helper [00000ms] whitelist = (not specified), host_cpu = x86_64, kernel = /var/tmp/guestfs.iFiYfq/kernel, initrd = /var/tmp/guestfs.iFiYfq/initrd, appliance = /var/tmp/guestfs.iFiYfq/root supermin helper [00000ms] inputs[0] = /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d checking modpath /lib/modules/3.2.6-2-ARCH is a directory picked vmlinuz-linux because modpath /lib/modules/3.2.6-2-ARCH exists supermin helper [00000ms] finished creating kernel supermin helper [00740ms] finished mke2fs supermin helper [00740ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d supermin helper [00740ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/base.img supermin helper [00891ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/daemon.img supermin helper [00893ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/hostfiles supermin helper [26662ms] visiting /usr/lib/guestfs/supermin.d/init.img supermin helper [26665ms] adding kernel modules supermin helper [37998ms] closing ext2 filesystem supermin helper [37998ms] finished creating appliance libguestfs: [38235ms] finished building supermin appliance libguestfs: [38237ms] begin testing qemu features libguestfs: [38343ms] finished testing qemu features libguestfs: accept_from_daemon: 0xcf4310 g->state = 1 [38344ms] /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \ -global virtio-blk-pci.scsi=off \ -drive file=/tmp/libguestfs-test-tool-sda-RpHepM,format=raw,if=virtio \ -nodefconfig \ -machine accel=kvm:tcg \ -nodefaults \ -nographic \ -m 500 \ -no-reboot \ -no-hpet \ -device virtio-serial \ -serial stdio \ -chardev socket,path=/tmp/libguestfs5oN1U5/guestfsd.sock,id=channel0 \ -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 \ -kernel /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.11353 \ -initrd /var/tmp/.guestfs-0/initrd.11353 \ -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm ' \ -drive file=/var/tmp/.guestfs-0/root.11353,snapshot=on,if=virtio,cache=unsafefebootstrap: mounting /proc febootstrap: uptime: 0.31 0.13 febootstrap: ext2 mini initrd starting up: 3.13 zlib febootstrap: mounting /sys febootstrap: internal insmod libcrc32c.ko.gz insmod: init_module: libcrc32c.ko.gz: Unknown symbol in module febootstrap: internal insmod crc-ccitt.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod crc7.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod crc16.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod crc8.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod crc-itu-t.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod crc32c.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod crc32c-intel.ko.gz insmod: init_module: crc32c-intel.ko.gz: No such device febootstrap: internal insmod crc-t10dif.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod mbcache.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod scsi_mod.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod cdrom.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod sr_mod.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod libata.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod ata_piix.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod scsi_transport_spi.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod sym53c8xx.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod sd_mod.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod rfkill.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod sparse-keymap.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod ideapad-laptop.ko.gz insmod: init_module: ideapad-laptop.ko.gz: No such device febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_ring.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_mmio.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_net.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio-rng.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_blk.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_console.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_pci.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod virtio_balloon.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod jbd2.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod ext4.ko.gz febootstrap: internal insmod ext2.ko.gz febootstrap: picked /sys/block/vdb/dev as root device febootstrap: creating /dev/root as block special 254:16 febootstrap: mounting new root on /root febootstrap: chroot /proc/uptime: No such file or directory Starting /init script ... rm: cannot remove `/proc': Is a directory mkdir: cannot create directory `/proc': File exists rm: cannot remove `/sys': Is a directory mkdir: cannot create directory `/sys': File exists /init: line 40: /sbin/udevadm: No such file or directory /init: line 41: /sbin/udevadm: No such file or directory SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCADDRT: No such process mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found No volume groups found /dev: total 0 c--------- 1 root root 10, 235 Feb 23 18:17 autofs c--------- 1 root root 10, 234 Feb 23 18:17 btrfs-control drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 23 18:17 char crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Feb 23 18:17 console lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 23 18:17 core -> /proc/kcore drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 23 18:17 cpu crw------- 1 root root 10, 62 Feb 23 18:17 cpu_dma_latency lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 23 18:17 fd -> /proc/self/fd crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 Feb 23 18:17 full crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 229 Feb 23 18:17 fuse drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 23 18:17 input crw------- 1 root root 1, 11 Feb 23 18:17 kmsg c--------- 1 root root 10, 237 Feb 23 18:17 loop-control brw-r--r-- 1 root disk 7, 0 Feb 23 18:17 loop0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 23 18:17 mapper crw------- 1 root root 10, 227 Feb 23 18:17 mcelog crw------- 1 root root 1, 1 Feb 23 18:17 mem drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Feb 23 18:17 net crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Feb 23 18:17 network_latency crw------- 1 root root 10, 60 Feb 23 18:17 network_throughput crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Feb 23 18:17 null crw------- 1 root root 1, 4 Feb 23 18:17 port c--------- 1 root root 108, 0 Feb 23 18:17 ppp crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 Feb 23 18:17 psaux crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 2 Feb 23 18:17 ptmx crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 Feb 23 18:17 random crw------- 1 root root 10, 59 Feb 23 18:17 rfkill crw------- 1 root root 254, 0 Feb 23 18:17 rtc0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 231 Feb 23 18:17 snapshot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Feb 23 18:17 snd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 23 18:17 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 23 18:17 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 23 18:17 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 5, 0 Feb 23 18:17 tty crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 Feb 23 18:17 tty0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Feb 23 18:17 tty1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 10 Feb 23 18:17 tty10 crw------- 1 root root 4, 11 Feb 23 18:17 tty11 crw------- 1 root root 4, 12 Feb 23 18:17 tty12 crw------- 1 root root 4, 13 Feb 23 18:17 tty13 crw------- 1 root root 4, 14 Feb 23 18:17 tty14 crw------- 1 root root 4, 15 Feb 23 18:17 tty15 crw------- 1 root root 4, 16 Feb 23 18:17 tty16 crw------- 1 root root 4, 17 Feb 23 18:17 tty17 crw------- 1 root root 4, 18 Feb 23 18:17 tty18 crw------- 1 root root 4, 19 Feb 23 18:17 tty19 crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 Feb 23 18:17 tty2 crw------- 1 root root 4, 20 Feb 23 18:17 tty20 crw------- 1 root root 4, 21 Feb 23 18:17 tty21 crw------- 1 root root 4, 22 Feb 23 18:17 tty22 crw------- 1 root root 4, 23 Feb 23 18:17 tty23 crw------- 1 root root 4, 24 Feb 23 18:17 tty24 crw------- 1 root root 4, 25 Feb 23 18:17 tty25 crw------- 1 root root 4, 26 Feb 23 18:17 tty26 crw------- 1 root root 4, 27 Feb 23 18:17 tty27 crw------- 1 root root 4, 28 Feb 23 18:17 tty28 crw------- 1 root root 4, 29 Feb 23 18:17 tty29 crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 Feb 23 18:17 tty3 crw------- 1 root root 4, 30 Feb 23 18:17 tty30 crw------- 1 root root 4, 31 Feb 23 18:17 tty31 crw------- 1 root root 4, 32 Feb 23 18:17 tty32 crw------- 1 root root 4, 33 Feb 23 18:17 tty33 crw------- 1 root root 4, 34 Feb 23 18:17 tty34 crw------- 1 root root 4, 35 Feb 23 18:17 tty35 crw------- 1 root root 4, 36 Feb 23 18:17 tty36 crw------- 1 root root 4, 37 Feb 23 18:17 tty37 crw------- 1 root root 4, 38 Feb 23 18:17 tty38 crw------- 1 root root 4, 39 Feb 23 18:17 tty39 crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Feb 23 18:17 tty4 crw------- 1 root root 4, 40 Feb 23 18:17 tty40 crw------- 1 root root 4, 41 Feb 23 18:17 tty41 crw------- 1 root root 4, 42 Feb 23 18:17 tty42 crw------- 1 root root 4, 43 Feb 23 18:17 tty43 crw------- 1 root root 4, 44 Feb 23 18:17 tty44 crw------- 1 root root 4, 45 Feb 23 18:17 tty45 crw------- 1 root root 4, 46 Feb 23 18:17 tty46 crw------- 1 root root 4, 47 Feb 23 18:17 tty47 crw------- 1 root root 4, 48 Feb 23 18:17 tty48 crw------- 1 root root 4, 49 Feb 23 18:17 tty49 crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 Feb 23 18:17 tty5 crw------- 1 root root 4, 50 Feb 23 18:17 tty50 crw------- 1 root root 4, 51 Feb 23 18:17 tty51 crw------- 1 root root 4, 52 Feb 23 18:17 tty52 crw------- 1 root root 4, 53 Feb 23 18:17 tty53 crw------- 1 root root 4, 54 Feb 23 18:17 tty54 crw------- 1 root root 4, 55 Feb 23 18:17 tty55 crw------- 1 root root 4, 56 Feb 23 18:17 tty56 crw------- 1 root root 4, 57 Feb 23 18:17 tty57 crw------- 1 root root 4, 58 Feb 23 18:17 tty58 crw------- 1 root root 4, 59 Feb 23 18:17 tty59 crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 Feb 23 18:17 tty6 crw------- 1 root root 4, 60 Feb 23 18:17 tty60 crw------- 1 root root 4, 61 Feb 23 18:17 tty61 crw------- 1 root root 4, 62 Feb 23 18:17 tty62 crw------- 1 root root 4, 63 Feb 23 18:17 tty63 crw------- 1 root root 4, 7 Feb 23 18:17 tty7 crw------- 1 root root 4, 8 Feb 23 18:17 tty8 crw------- 1 root root 4, 9 Feb 23 18:17 tty9 crw------- 1 root root 4, 64 Feb 23 18:17 ttyS0 crw------- 1 root root 4, 65 Feb 23 18:17 ttyS1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 66 Feb 23 18:17 ttyS2 crw------- 1 root root 4, 67 Feb 23 18:17 ttyS3 c--------- 1 root root 10, 223 Feb 23 18:17 uinput crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 Feb 23 18:17 urandom crw------- 1 root root 7, 0 Feb 23 18:17 vcs crw------- 1 root root 7, 1 Feb 23 18:17 vcs1 crw------- 1 root root 7, 128 Feb 23 18:17 vcsa crw------- 1 root root 7, 129 Feb 23 18:17 vcsa1 brw------- 1 root root 254, 0 Feb 23 18:17 vda brw------- 1 root root 254, 16 Feb 23 18:17 vdb crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 Feb 23 18:17 vga_arbiter crw------- 1 root root 252, 1 Feb 23 18:17 vport0p1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 Feb 23 18:17 zero /dev/char: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 23 18:17 10:236 -> ../mapper/control /dev/cpu: total 0 c--------- 1 root root 10, 184 Feb 23 18:17 microcode /dev/input: total 0 crw------- 1 root root 13, 63 Feb 23 18:17 mice /dev/mapper: total 0 crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Feb 23 18:17 control /dev/net: total 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200 Feb 23 18:17 tun /dev/snd: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Feb 23 18:17 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Feb 23 18:17 timer rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 /dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 /dev /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=245292k,nr_inodes=61323,mode=755 0 0 No volume groups found No volume groups found lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436 metric 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface Module Size Used by dm_mod 71260 0 ext2 63387 1 ext4 417116 0 jbd2 71243 1 ext4 virtio_balloon 3764 0 virtio_pci 6671 0 virtio_console 14591 0 virtio_blk 5786 1 virtio_rng 1870 0 virtio_net 12496 0 virtio_mmio 4196 0 virtio 3682 7 virtio_mmio,virtio_net,virtio_rng,virtio_blk,virtio_console,virtio_pci,virtio_balloon virtio_ring 4406 7 virtio_mmio,virtio_net,virtio_rng,virtio_blk,virtio_console,virtio_pci,virtio_balloon sparse_keymap 3120 0 rfkill 15498 0 sd_mod 28307 0 sym53c8xx 71263 0 scsi_transport_spi 20564 1 sym53c8xx ata_piix 21830 0 libata 166654 1 ata_piix sr_mod 14951 0 cdrom 36681 1 sr_mod scsi_mod 133443 5 sr_mod,libata,scsi_transport_spi,sym53c8xx,sd_mod mbcache 5881 2 ext4,ext2 crc_t10dif 1332 0 crc32c 2888 0 crc_itu_t 1363 0 crc8 1186 0 crc16 1359 1 ext4 crc7 1073 0 crc_ccitt 1363 0 Thu Feb 23 18:17:55 UTC 2012 uptime: 2.63 1.21 verbose daemon enabled linux commmand line: panic=1 console=ttyS0 udevtimeout=300 no_timer_check acpi=off printk.time=1 cgroup_disable=memory selinux=0 guestfs_verbose=1 TERM=xterm Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel. This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit. Usually this error is caused by either QEMU or the appliance kernel not supporting the vmchannel method that the libguestfs library chose to use. Please run 'libguestfs-test-tool' and provide the complete, unedited output to the libguestfs developers, either in a bug report or on the libguestfs redhat com mailing list. /dev/virtio-ports/org.libguestfs.channel.0: No such file or directory /init: line 146: /sbin/reboot: No such file or directory [ 2.688514] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! [ 2.689399] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.2.6-2-ARCH #1 [ 2.690241] Call Trace: [ 2.690742] [<ffffffff81452925>] panic+0xa0/0x1b6 [ 2.691509] [<ffffffff8106a740>] do_exit+0x880/0x8e0 [ 2.692255] [<ffffffff811672a1>] ? rw_verify_area+0x61/0xf0 [ 2.693104] [<ffffffff8106aaf4>] do_group_exit+0x44/0xa0 [ 2.693911] [<ffffffff8106ab67>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [ 2.694721] [<ffffffff8145d382>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 2.695655] Rebooting in 1 seconds..libguestfs: error: unexpected end of file when reading from daemon. See earlier debug messages. Or you can run 'libguestfs-test-tool' and post the complete output into a bug report or message to the libguestfs mailing list. libguestfs: child_cleanup: 0xcf4310: child process died libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0xcf4310 (state 0) Any Hints? Thank you in advance, Nikos Skalkotos