Bug 592053
| Summary: | New package needed: libguestfs-winsupport | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones> |
| Component: | libguestfs-winsupport | Assignee: | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | jzheng, llim, notting, syeghiay |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | libguestfs-winsupport-1.0-3.el6 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-11-11 14:47:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 592052, 599300 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
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Description
Richard W.M. Jones
2010-05-13 18:37:55 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. To QA ... Some tips on how to test this.
Firstly, 'libguestfs-test-tool' must run with and without
libguestfs-winsupport installed.
If the package 'libguestfs' is installed but 'libguestfs-winsupport' is
NOT installed, then NTFS won't work. Example:
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$ guestfish
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> sparse /tmp/test.img 500M
><fs> run
><fs> part-disk /dev/vda mbr
><fs> mkfs ntfs /dev/vda1
libguestfs: error: mkfs: ntfs: /dev/vda1: mkfs.ntfs: No such file or directory
><fs> available ntfs3g
libguestfs: error: available: ntfs3g: group not available
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However if both 'libguestfs' and 'libguestfs-winsupport' packages
are installed, then NTFS will work inside libguestfs. Example:
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$ guestfish
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> sparse /tmp/test.img 500M
><fs> run
><fs> part-disk /dev/vda mbr
><fs> mkfs ntfs /dev/vda1
><fs> mount /dev/vda1 /
><fs> ll /
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 May 18 12:59 .
dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root 0 May 18 12:57 ..
><fs> touch /hello
><fs> ll /
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 May 18 12:59 .
dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root 0 May 18 12:57 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May 18 12:59 hello
><fs> available ntfs3g
><fs> exit
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Finally, any NTFS- or Windows-guest-specific tests that NAY have
been devising should fail if libguestfs-winsupport is not installed,
and succeed if libguestfs-winsupport is installed. The same would
apply to any Windows guest V2V testing.
Here are some packages that I have tested on RHEL 6 against libguestfs 1.2.7 (see bug 592052): http://oirase.annexia.org/rpms/libguestfs-winsupport/ Candidate package built in brew: http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2463693 bug 599300 states a dependency problem for this package. When should this package be installed - what group should it live in? Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. |