On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:09:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Unfortunately we found out today that Ubuntu 12.04's libguestfs > package is largely broken. For more information, see: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-April/msg00028.html > > There is no solution to the kernel bug that affects Ubuntu (only). Is this what you are talking about? -------------------------------- root@kdev:/KdevArchive1/vmpool1# guestfish Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems. Type: 'help' for help on commands 'man' to read the manual 'quit' to quit the shell ><fs> sparse /KdevArchive1/vmpool1/Mourne.sda 30G ><fs> run warning: Unable to get device geometry for /var/tmp/guestfs.7NJVau/root febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib: File not found by ext2_lookup libguestfs: error: external command failed, see earlier error messages ><fs> --------------------------------