On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 01:53:24PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I'm just about to release libguestfs 1.20. This appendix covers > issues specific to Fedora 18. > > Fedora 18 defaults to using the libvirt attach-method, meaning that > libvirt is used to create and manage the libguestfs appliance. There > are several benefits to this (see the full release notes). You can > switch back to the ordinary method (directly running qemu) at any time > by doing: > export LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=appliance > > There is a bug in libvirt (or perhaps libnl, or somewhere else) which > causes libvirtd to segfault occasionally: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875741 > > You will need selinux-policy >= 3.11.1-63.fc18 and > libvirt >= 0.10.2.1-3.fc18 in order to use SELinux in Enforcing mode > giving you the full benefit of sVirt protection. I have tested this > and it all works well for me, but please open bugs if you find any > problems.
[This just in ...] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886915 If you are using Xen as your primary hypervisor on Fedora 18, then libguestfs may fail with an error: unsupported flag 0x2 in function xendaemoncreatexml Try one of the following solutions: export LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=libvirt:qemu:///session or: export LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=appliance Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
