On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:09:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Unfortunately we found out today that Ubuntu 12.04's libguestfs
package is largely broken. For more information, see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-April/msg00028.html
There is no solution to the kernel bug that affects Ubuntu (only).
Is this what you are talking about?
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root@kdev:/KdevArchive1/vmpool1# guestfish
Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.
Type: 'help' for help on commands
'man' to read the manual
'quit' to quit the shell
<fs> sparse /KdevArchive1/vmpool1/Mourne.sda 30G
<fs> run
warning: Unable to get device geometry for
/var/tmp/guestfs.7NJVau/root
febootstrap-supermin-helper: ext2: parent directory not found: /lib: File not found by
ext2_lookup
libguestfs: error: external command failed, see earlier error messages
<fs>
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