[Please keep replies on the list] On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:13:52PM +0100, Safa Rekik wrote: > Actually i am trying to use libguestfs live in centos 6.5 guest. > > I couldn't find the libguestfs-live-service for centos so i am trying two > things : either compiling guestfsd from source or generating an rpm for > centos with rpmbuild (didn't try it yet). > > Please tell me if i am wrong or if there is a better way to use libguestfs > live. I believe libguestfs live is disabled in the RHEL/CentOS 6 package, so the only way to do it is to build the whole libguestfs from source. Just building the daemon won't work. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:32:32PM +0100, Safa Rekik wrote: > Ah OK, and what about generating the libguestfs-live-service for centos ? I > know that they may compatibilities issues with the distribution of source > rpm for fedora >=16 We don't want to support libguestfs-live on RHEL, and the only way to enable it in CentOS would be to enable it in RHEL too. FWIW RHEL 6 carries the following patch: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/f87bb94ce53e991dd29f0b473... You could modify the libguestfs RHEL 6 spec file, remove that patch. You'll also need to modify the spec file to add the live-service subpackage. As an example of what to do, see the Fedora spec file: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/libguestfs.git/plain/libguestfs.spec and search for the string 'live-service'. Actually I just realized that uses systemd units, not sysvinit, so that's not totally simple to emulate on RHEL 6. > Actually i prefer not have all our guests overburdened with the libguestfs > package while we just need the daemon. You can compile libguestfs on one machine, and copy the libguestfs-live-service RPM to the guests. > Beside i believe that with the live-service packege, closing the guestfs > handle does not cause the daemon to exit (correct me if i am wrong) This is correct, yes. 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