Bug 604041

Summary:	guestmount absolute symlinks don't work
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 2010-06-15 09:09:40 UTC

Description of problem:

A guestmounted filesystem.  Note the bogus symlink:

$ ll mnt/
total 1834729
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root         24 Jun 10  2009 autoexec.bat
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root         10 Jun 10  2009 config.sys
lrwxrwxrwx. 2 root root         60 Jul 14  2009 Documents and Settings -> /sysroot//Users
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  804986880 Mar 29 13:08 hiberfil.sys
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 1073741824 Mar 29 13:08 pagefile.sys
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Jul 14  2009 PerfLogs
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Jul 14  2009 ProgramData
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Dec 14 19:03 Program Files
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Dec 14 18:40 Recovery
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root          0 Dec 14 18:41 $Recycle.Bin
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Dec 15 09:32 System Volume Information
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       4096 Dec 14 18:41 Users
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      16384 Dec 15 09:34 Windows

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

guestmount 1.3.20

How reproducible:

Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. guestmount a filesystem that has an absolute symlink
2. note the symlink points to the wrong place
3.
  
Additional info:

We should rewrite absolute symlinks as relative ones in the
FUSE layer.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-04-28 09:11:09 UTC

See also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091856#c1

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2025-10-17 00:09:52 UTC

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

Comment 3 Alasdair Kergon 2025-10-17 12:52:13 UTC

Reopening because Virtualization Tools has not been discontinued.