Bug 1288201

Summary: virt-builder writes temporary files to /tmp
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Pino Toscano <ptoscano>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2015-12-03 19:40:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

Although virt-builder obeys $TMPDIR, by default (if TMPDIR is not
set) it will try to write temporary files to /tmp.  Since the
temporary image files are very large, it ought to write them
to /var/tmp.  Otherwise people suffering from tmp-on-tmpfs
brokenness will have problems.

(Reported by adamw on IRC).

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

libguestfs 1.30 and above.

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. With restricted space in /tmp run virt-builder.
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2015-12-04 10:09:34 UTC 
Fixed with
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/a090a48f44e8d0c6e3410855b087cc936b1ee1ad
which is libguestfs >= 1.31.29.