On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:27:01PM -0700, Thomas S Hatch wrote: [...] That appears to be a regular glibc (or at least the size of the glibc is roughly consistent with what I'd expect). We could go this route, but with recent changes to qemu we are very limited in the size of the initrd[1]. I think uncompressing the small number of *.ko.gz files is the easier option right now ... Rich. [1] Thread of doom: http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg39172.html -- 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