On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > > >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 This one is fixed, but the bug I linked above affects every qemu in Ubuntu 12.04, and not just for blanks disks as we originally thought, but for every disk. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org
