Bug 1061040

Summary:	RFE: Enable ZFS support
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2014-02-04 09:54:36 UTC

Description of problem:

libguestfs doesn't really support ZFS.  virt-rescue offers
the zfs commands like zpool, although I couldn't actually get
them to work.  However we really need to do two things:

 - Start up ZFS in the init script.
 - Support ZFS concepts in the APIs.

We currently support LVM2, btrfs, LDM & MD, which all have similar
concepts to ZFS.

Luckily since Matt added btrfs support for "mountables" it should
be fairly easy to model ZFS in the API.

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

libguestfs 1.25.32.

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Obtain the test image FreeBSD_ZFS-test.qcow2 (ask me for it).
2. Try to open it in guestfish etc.

Actual results:

vfs-type shows the first partition has type "zfs_member", but
there's nothing else we can do with it.

Expected results:

list-filesystems should show the ZFS filesystem, and there should
be other APIs to handle ZFS concepts.

Additional info:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-February/thread.html#00007

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2025-10-17 00:10:07 UTC

This product has been discontinued or is no longer tracked in Red Hat Bugzilla.

Comment 2 Alasdair Kergon 2025-10-17 12:52:13 UTC

Reopening because Virtualization Tools has not been discontinued.