On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:30:37PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: > HI, > > On a RHEL5 box, i tried to directly run guest which was issued by > libguestfs virt-xxx commands as below. But after some minutes, it > exited exceptionally. > > Does anyone also hit the issue or know the reason?
As it says in the error message itself: > Failed to connect to virtio-serial channel. > > This is a fatal error and the appliance will now exit. > > Usually this error is caused by either QEMU or the appliance > kernel not supporting the vmchannel method that the > libguestfs library chose to use. Please run > 'libguestfs-test-tool' and provide the complete, unedited > output to the libguestfs developers, either in a bug report > or on the libguestfs redhat com mailing list. Which version of libguestfs is this? I think you'll have no hope of getting upstream libguestfs to run on RHEL 5. There is a branch ('oldlinux') which may still work: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commits/oldlinux Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs