On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 09:00:15PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > Thank you for the information. > But I wanted to keep system binary separate and let my custom binary be picked > up by libguestfs. > If there is no other way then I will need to replace system binary.
I don't think there's any easy way around this. Rich. > On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:37 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 08:26:26PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using latest libguestfs won't be possible since I want NTFS support too. > > And I don't want to compile libguestfs separately for CentOS 7 Unless I > can > > comfortably use the libguestfs which I compiled on CentOS 8 and use it > for > > CentOS 7. > > > > Symlink also won't help ? > > /usr/sbin/resize2fs -> /my-dir/my-resize2fs > > > > Latest resize2fs is helping in solving my issue but not the stock one > present > > in CentOS 7 > > To use a newer e2fsprogs what you want is _not_ a newer libguestfs, > but a newer e2fsprogs. So you might try compiling the e2fsprogs > source RPM from CentOS 8 on CentOS 7, ie. > rpmbuild --rebuild e2fsprogs-1.45.6-1.el8.src.rpm > > Source packages can be found under here: > https://vault.centos.org/8-stream/BaseOS/Source/SPackages/ > > Once that is installed on your host, supermin will pick it up. > > Rich. > > > > > > On Tue, 13 Sep, 2022, 8:19 pm Richard W.M. Jones, <rjo...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 07:50:35PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > Thank you for your response. > > > > > > You mean path : /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d/ > > > So I can include my binary (viz : e2fsck/resize2fs) which is > compiled in > > some > > > other path as well using file : hostfiles ? > > > > If there are particular files that you want to copy to the appliance > > you might do something like: > > > > # cat > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/zz-extra-files <<EOF > > /path/to/my/file1 > > /path/to/my/file2 > > /path/to/my/other* > > EOF > > > > However this might not help to include standard utilities like > > resize2fs. supermin will normally copy the host file > > (eg. /usr/sbin/resize2fs) to the appliance, and that will probably > be > > the old version of the utility, unless you can update it on the > host. > > > > Very much depends what exactly you are trying to do. > > > > Rich. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM Richard W.M. Jones < > rjo...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 06:52:34PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I wanted to use a higher version of e2fsprogs (1.45) with > > libguestfs > > > 1.28. > > > > Can I get some information on how I can proceed or use the > one > > compiled > > > on the > > > > server separately ? > > > > > > Supermin just uses whatever version of e2fsprogs is installed > > > on the host and copies it into the guest. > > > > > > If you cannot upgrade that, you can add arbitrary files into > the > > > appliance by listing them in a file under > > > /usr/lib64/supermin.d/guestfs/ See: > > > > > > https://libguestfs.org/supermin.1.html#SUPERMIN-APPLIANCES > > > > > > libguestfs 1.28 is very old indeed (released 8 years ago). > > > Is there no option to upgrade it? > > > > > > Rich. > > > > > > -- > > > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http:// > people.redhat.com > > / > > > ~rjones > > > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http:// > > rwmj.wordpress.com > > > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with > many > > > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, > etc. > > > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Jevin Gala > > > > > > Virtualizor support - Softaculous Ltd. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Libguestfs mailing list > > > Libguestfs@redhat.com > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs > > > > > > -- > > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com > / > > ~rjones > > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http:// > rwmj.wordpress.com > > Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and > > build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW > > > > > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ > ~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top > > -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
