On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:50:47PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > But out of interest, how are you creating this appliance? I thought > > we'd ripped out support for old-style appliances from the rest of the > > toolchain ... > > I use mkinitrd to pull in all tools and run guestfsd instead of > /sysroot/sbin/init. This allows me to build the package automated as > unprivileged user in the buildsystem. Creating a loop file requires > root, which is cumbersome in the openSuSE buildservice. > > In src/appliance I noticed that initramfs.<arch>.img etc. is obsolete, > will it be removed for 1.20?
No we shouldn't remove this, I guess I'll have to make this work. There are quite a lot of assumptions in the libvirt backend that appliance != NULL, but we can fix them ... On a cursory look, the ordinary (appliance) backend handles appliance == NULL fine. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
