Your problem is nothing to do with libguestfs, but anyway.
libguestfs depends on a working qemu, which is broken in Ubuntu 12.04.
See this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-April/thread.html#00028
and this bug comment:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seabios/+bug/931371/comments/12
We don't have anyone maintaining libguestfs in Ubuntu, so what you are
getting is just random packages pulled out of Debian. Not
surprisingly that often doesn't work. I do my best to help out, but
it's not my primary development platform, and I don't have permissions
to commit the required fixes to qemu/seabios in Ubuntu.
Rich.
I'm not sure this is correct anymore. According to the thread at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-April/thread.html#00028
Precise is shipping with febootstrap 3.12, but I'm showing that I do
have 3.14 installed with the release version of 12.04:
# febootstrap --version
febootstrap 3.14
The other link is talking about an issue with blank disk images, which I
don't have, so I'm not sure it is relevant either.
Now, I *did* get the toolbar I was talking about when opening a guest on
a different machine (also running 12.04, so it must be something
workstation-specific. Any idea what would cause the viewer to only show
the console and not have the tool bar which allows you to view machine
information? I can give some more virt-manager debug output if needed.
Trey Nolen
