[Libguestfs] appliance VM won't start, can't find /init, but /init is in the image.

[David Konerding]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 03:21:25PM -0700, David Konerding wrote:
> > OK, I have a new 2.6.38 kernel with virtio_blk.ko.  This solves the
> failure
> > to find ext2 root device.
> >
> > Still not having any luck running the test-tool to completion.  There is
> no
> > /sys in the guest root image. There is also no /etc/fstab (is that
> > expected?)  There is no ethernet interface even though it looks like it
> can
> > load virtio_net.
>
> In my appliance, there is /sys, /etc/fstab (present but empty) and
> eth0.
>
> > Starting /init script ...
> > warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> > mount: mount point /sys does not exist
>
> Next step would be to add some debugging to appliance/init to show
> what commands are being executed, and what's in the filesystem.
>
> Also if you do:
>
>  $ ./run rescue/virt-rescue -a /dev/null
>
> then it may manage to get to a shell, in which case you can poke
> around in the appliance by hand.
>
>
Interesting.  yes, this booted into a pretty dysfunctional host, but I did
get a shell.  The error messages are the same.  I'll investigate some more.

Dave


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