Bug 798980

Summary:	Libguestfs live support should be disabled in RHEL 6 packages
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3	CC:	leiwang, mbooth, moli, qguan, qwan, rjones
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	libguestfs-1.16.6-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	No Documentation needed	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	889537 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-06-20 07:00:56 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	889537

Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-03-01 12:43:04 UTC

Description of problem:

For a while, libguestfs upstream has supported access to
guestfsd installed and running in Linux guests.  This lets
you modify live guests, which is normally not possible with
libguestfs.
(See: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/libguestfs-live/#content )

However this feature isn't well tested and we shouldn't let
RHEL 6 users use it right now.

Therefore it should be disabled in the RHEL 6 packages that
we ship.

Comment 2 Mohua Li 2012-03-15 05:49:54 UTC

libguestfs-1.16.10-1.el6.x86_64, basic function for default mode "appliance" is ok, so fixed,  

><fs> set-attach-method unix:/tmp/guestfs
><fs> run
libguestfs: error: launch: In RHEL 6, only the 'appliance' method is supported.
In particular, "libguestfs live" is not supported.

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-04-26 12:22:12 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
No Documentation needed

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 07:00:56 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0774.html