On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 01:58:22PM +0100, Oliver Frommel wrote: > Dammit, you are fast! I just tried to figure out what's missing from > running "init" on the host and installing the missing packages, among > them "mdadm" and others. Also I noticed that "appliance/packagelist" > includes a lot of packages that aren't available on Ubuntu, but maybe > that doesn't matter.
appliance/packagelist is normally processed by a tool called 'supermin' which ignores packages that don't exist. > Anyway, I tried your solution but still get the kernel panic in the > "make quickcheck" step. Note that after making sure everything is up to date in the host, you'll have to recompile the appliance: make -C appliance clean make -C appliance all Anyway, a simpler alternative to all this is to download the ~70MB precompiled appliance from http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/ Here's how to use that: cd /tmp wget http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/appliance-1.24.0.tar.xz xzcat appliance-1.24.0.tar.xz | tar xvf - Set LIBGUESTFS_PATH to point to the appliance: export LIBGUESTFS_PATH=/tmp/appliance Recompile libguestfs without the appliance code: ./configure --disable-appliance --disable-daemon && make -j5 and you can run commands using the ./run script: export VIRT_BUILDER_SOURCE=http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/index.asc ./run ./builder/virt-builder -l ./run ./builder/virt-builder debian-6 [etc] 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 _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
