Bug 1055452 - libguestfs: error: invalid backend: appliance
Summary: libguestfs: error: invalid backend: appliance
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Reported: 2014-01-20 09:58 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2014-01-23 12:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-01-20 10:52:19 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-20 09:58:47 UTC 
Description of problem:

(Reported by Markus Stockhausen)

"appliance" is supposed to be a deprecated alias for
"direct".  Somehow in Fedora 20 this got broken:

$ LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=appliance libguestfs-test-tool
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libguestfs: error: invalid backend: appliance
libguestfs-test-tool: failed parsing environment variables.
Check earlier messages, and the output of the 'printenv' command.

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

libguestfs 1.24, 1.25

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=appliance libguestfs-test-tool
or:
LIBGUESTFS_ATTACH_METHOD=appliance libguestfs-test-tool
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-20 10:03:46 UTC 
Works in 1.22 branch.
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-20 10:52:19 UTC 
Upstream fix:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/69267d8762b586deab6b930131e1d677ba85df8d
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/ecd31806a491c735878e9e54540a5c11ca1adce9
Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-01-23 12:16:33 UTC 
This is fixed in libguestfs >= 1.24.5.
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