Bug 1055452

Summary: libguestfs: error: invalid backend: appliance
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-20 09:58:47 UTC
Description of problem:

(Reported by Markus Stockhausen)

"appliance" is supposed to be a deprecated alias for
"direct".  Somehow in Fedora 20 this got broken:

$ LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=appliance libguestfs-test-tool
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libguestfs: error: invalid backend: appliance
libguestfs-test-tool: failed parsing environment variables.
Check earlier messages, and the output of the 'printenv' command.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.24, 1.25

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=appliance libguestfs-test-tool
or:
LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=appliance libguestfs-test-tool

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-20 10:03:46 UTC
Works in 1.22 branch.

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-23 12:16:33 UTC
This is fixed in libguestfs >= 1.24.5.