On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:30:40PM +0800, fu lirong wrote:

Hi ,all :

thanks for helping me ! I am using libguestfs-1.28.1 on ubuntu 12.04 to manage vm disk created by KVM. I downloaded libguestfs-1.28.1.tar.gz ,and then executed (1) ./autogen.sh (2) ./configure (3) make (4) make check there is the error.

/usr/Libvmi/libguestfs-1.28.1/run --test guest-aux/make-fedora-img.pl md_create: feature 'mdadm' is not available in this build of libguestfs. Read 'AVAILABILITY' in the guestfs(3) man page for how to check for the availability of features. at /usr/Libvmi/libguestfs-1.28.1/tests/guests/guest-aux/make-fedora-img.pl line 103. /usr/Libvmi/libguestfs-1.28.1/run: command failed with exit code 2 make[2]: *** [stamp-fedora-md.img] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/Libvmi/libguestfs-1.28.1/tests/guests'

You're doing quite well. This is likely an actual bug in the libguestfs test suite, since we always run it with mdadm available. Before we go on, does this command succeed? make quickcheck

my questions are: (1) I googled the problem. In guestfs(3) man page ,It seems like that I don't install FUSE. In fact ,I have no idea about so many packages in libguestfs such v2v , src ,tools,tests and so on ,and I want to know where to find such kind information.

FUSE should be optional.

(2) I find that guestfsd is the daemon in guest, so ,do I have to modify the guest(such as run guestfsd in guest)?

No. See this diagram: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#architecture The guest is not running, and does not need to run guestfsd.

(3) I just start the example : Inspect a disk image and display operating systems it may contain. so I copy the code under /libguestfs-1.28.1/prog.c , then I executed

(1) cc prog.c -o prog `pkg-config libguestfs --cflags --libs` , (2)./prog /var/lib/libvirt/images/vm.img

libguestfs: error: aug_init: aug_init: / (flags 48): Syntax error in lens definition: /usr/share/guestfs/guestfs_lvm_conf.aug:28.25-.40:Could not load module Quote for Quote.do_dquote /usr/share/guestfs/guestfs_lvm_conf.aug:28.25-.40:Undefined variable Quote.do_dquote /usr/share/guestfs/guestfs_lvm_conf.aug:29.31-.44:Could not load module Rx for Rx.relinteger /usr/share/guestfs/guestfs_lvm_conf.aug:29.31-.44:Undefined variable Rx.relinteger /usr/share/guestfs/guestfs_lvm_conf.aug:32.20-.23:Undefined variable int /usr/share/guestfs/guestfs_lvm_conf.aug:40.17-.29:Undefined variable flat_literal

thanks for your patience, I Appreciate it so much .

Pino ^^ This is a libguestfs bug isn't it? But may be happening because Lirong is using Ubuntu 12.04 or the old libguestfs 1.28.1 version? Lirong: Could you share some information about what your program does? I'm guessing it calls guestfs_inspect_os() ? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top