Bug 760775

Summary: "guestfish: multi-boot operating systems are not supported by the -i option" should be more explanatory
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 2011-12-06 22:16:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

$ guestfish -a disk.img -i
guestfish: multi-boot operating systems are not supported by the -i option

It would be better if this offered some tips, such as removing
the -i option and using 'list-filesystems'.  We need to be
careful because the same message appears with tools like
virt-cat (and needs to be changed there too).

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

1.15.9
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2011-12-07 11:48:00 UTC 
Fixed in commit 7d3848ddc046f79cc1112809bd9970eea8060018.

Updated messages:

$ ./run ./cat/virt-cat /tmp/test1.img /etc/passwd
virt-cat: no operating system was found on this disk

If using guestfish '-i' option, remove this option and instead
use the commands 'run' followed by 'list-filesystems'.
You can then mount filesystems you want by hand using the
'mount' or 'mount-ro' command.

If using guestmount '-i', remove this option and choose the
filesystem(s) you want to see by manually adding '-m' option(s).
Use 'virt-filesystems' to see what filesystems are available.

If using other virt tools, this disk image won't work
with these tools.  Use the guestfish equivalent commands
(see the virt tool manual page).

$ ./run ./cat/virt-cat -a ArchLinux -a F16x64 /etc/passwd
virt-cat: multi-boot operating systems are not supported

If using guestfish '-i' option, remove this option and instead
use the commands 'run' followed by 'list-filesystems'.
You can then mount filesystems you want by hand using the
'mount' or 'mount-ro' command.

If using guestmount '-i', remove this option and choose the
filesystem(s) you want to see by manually adding '-m' option(s).
Use 'virt-filesystems' to see what filesystems are available.

If using other virt tools, multi-boot operating systems won't work
with these tools.  Use the guestfish equivalent commands
(see the virt tool manual page).