Bug 591142

Summary: virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
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 2010-05-11 14:32:48 UTC 
Description of problem:

If you run virt-inspector on something which isn't a disk image (or is blank
or random) then it runs and produces no output and no error.

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

1.3.11

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. virt-inspector /dev/zero
2. echo $?
3.
  
Actual results:

Status is 0 and no error.

Expected results:

An error message.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-12 17:17:31 UTC 
Patch posted upstream:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-May/msg00059.html

$ virt-inspector /dev/zero 
No operating system could be detected inside this disk image.

This may be because the file is not a disk image, or is not a virtual machine
image, or because the OS type is not understood by virt-inspector.

If you feel this is an error, please file a bug report including as much
information about the disk image as possible.
$ echo $?
2
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-05-14 19:12:37 UTC 
libguestfs-1.2.6-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.6-1.fc13
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-05-17 12:28:01 UTC 
libguestfs-1.2.7-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.7-1.fc12
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-05-17 12:47:50 UTC 
libguestfs-1.2.7-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.7-1.el5
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-05-17 13:00:16 UTC 
libguestfs-1.2.7-2.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.7-2.fc13
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-05-21 11:33:30 UTC 
libguestfs-1.2.7-2.fc13.1 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.2.7-2.fc13.1