[Libguestfs] about libguestfs 'AVAILABILITY'

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:22:26PM +0800, fu lirong wrote:
> Hi all:
>        I installed libguestfs-1.29.40  on both ubuntu 12.04 and ubuntu
> 14.04. Both of them  have the same problems,It is about the  'AVAILABILITY'
> .  I build libguestfs by tarball , everything is ok except the commond :
> make check .
> 
> on ubuntu 12.04 the error is
> 
> md_create: feature 'mdadm' is not available in this
> build of libguestfs.  Read 'AVAILABILITY' in the guestfs(3) man page for
> how to check for the availability of features. at

This happens because the program 'mdadm' is not installed.  Probably
you just need to install it with apt-get, and everything should work.

You might need to rebuild libguestfs, or not, depending on how you
build the appliance.

> feature 'lvm2' is not available in this
> build of libguestfs.  Read 'AVAILABILITY' in the guestfs(3) man page for
> how to check for the availability of features.

This is caused because the program 'lvm' is not installed.  As above,
install it with apt-get and things should work.

Rich.

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