On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 #rpm -qa | grep libguestfs libguestfs-1.20.8-1 libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.8-1 > getting upstream libguestfs to run on RHEL 5. There is a branch Yes. The upstream maybe be involving in libvirtd, you know, there is no libvirtd on RHEL5 > ('oldlinux') which may still work: > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commits/oldlinux I will try it.
By the way, the libguestfs src can't build one available base.img and daemon.img. #ll /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/ total 1752 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 Sep 27 14:39 base.img <----- it can't work. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1760768 Sep 27 14:39 daemon.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10772 Sep 27 14:39 hostfiles -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4608 Sep 27 14:39 init.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Sep 27 14:39 udev-rules.img > > 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 -- Regards, Zhi Yong Wu _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs