Bug 508668

Summary: Loop device mounts don't work
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 2009-06-29 12:20:01 UTC
Loop device mounts inside the appliance don't work.  The reason
is just that loop device requires a filename to be specified,
where a device is being expected.

This is an example using a Fedora 11 LiveCD:

$ ./fish/guestfish --ro -a ~/Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso

Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.

Type: 'help' for help with commands
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs> run
><fs> mount /dev/sda /
><fs> ls /
EFI
GPL
LiveOS
README
isolinux
><fs> ls /LiveOS
livecd-iso-to-disk
osmin.img
squashfs.img
><fs> help mount-options 
mount-options - mount a guest disk with mount options
     mount-options <options> <device> <mountpoint>

    This is the same as the "mount" command, but it allows you to set the
    mount options as for the mount(8) *-o* flag.

><fs> mount-options loop /LiveOS/squashfs.img /isolinux
libguestfs: error: do_mount_vfs: /LiveOS/squashfs.img: expecting a device name

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-06-29 15:06:36 UTC
The following cset should fix this:
http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=a548d51b703f5385797594a37287f4532af289a2

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-06-29 19:27:27 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.54-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.54-2.fc11

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-07-02 23:26:14 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.55-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.55-1.fc11

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-07-11 09:27:11 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.58-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.0.58-2.fc11

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-07-11 17:12:33 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.54-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-07-19 10:27:43 UTC
libguestfs-1.0.58-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-03-27 10:33:17 UTC
Long fixed upstream.