[Libguestfs] libguestfs supermin error

[abhishek jain]

Hi Rich

I'm able to solve this.
I copied uImage to vmlinuz-3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 and I'm now able to
proceed.

Thanks a lot for the help despite being on vocations.:-)



On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:29:11PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> > supermin: kernel: SUPERMIN_KERNEL environment variable /boot/uImage
> > supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=powerpc64).
> >
> > I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.
>
> If you follow the code in src/kernel.ml you'll see that this means
> supermin was unable to get the kernel version from the supplied kernel
> file.  The code is fairly simple to follow.  I barely have internet
> access here and in any case I don't know what's in that uImage file,
> so I suggest compiling supermin yourself, running the command by hand,
> and adding printf's to src/kernel.ml in supermin to find the problem.
>
> Rich.
>
>
> >
> > If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels
> > installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for
> > supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).
> > libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see
> debug
> > messages above
> > libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance
> > libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0)
> > libguestfs: command: run: rm
> > libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsfPWXx0
> >
> >
> >
> > I think i need to enable virtio-serial in my kernel.
> > I'll you let you know the result after enabling virtio-seriel in the
> kernel
> > inn 5-10 min.
> > Well sorry to disturb you on vocations.:-(
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:25:58PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote:
> > > > Hi RIch
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Below are the details of the powerpc ubuntu system ...
> > > >
> > > > ls -l /boot/
> > > > total 10200
> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5224765 Nov 22  2013 uImage
> > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5192861 Nov 22  2013 uImage.orig
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ls -l /lib/modules/
> > > > total 4
> > > > drwxr-xr-x 3 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jun  3 07:21
> 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > uname -a
> > > > Linux t4240-ubuntu1310 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 #10 SMP Tue May 27
> > > > 10:48:24 IST 2014 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > Well, assuming the modules directory matches the kernel (uImage)
> > > you could try:
> > >
> > > export SUPERMIN_KERNEL=/boot/uImage
> > > export SUPERMIN_MODULES=/lib/modules/3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4
> > >
> > > Are these homebrew kernels?  I'm surprised that an official Ubuntu
> > > ppc kernel would have such a non-standard name.  Anyway, if homebrew
> > > you'll also need to ensure the kernel supports all the usual virtio
> > > devices (especially virtio-serial, which is required by libguestfs).
> > >
> > > Rich.
> > >
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> > >
>
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