Bug 1183493 - RFE: virt-rescue: add a flag to autorun the suggested mount commands and chroot, suggested with --suggest
Summary: RFE: virt-rescue: add a flag to autorun the suggested mount commands and chro...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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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: 2015-01-19 08:30 UTC by Steffen Vinther Sørensen
Modified: 2017-03-23 19:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-23 19:15:45 UTC
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Description Steffen Vinther Sørensen 2015-01-19 08:30:03 UTC 
Current procedure:
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1. run virt-rescue --suggest
2. copy mount commands to clipboard
3. run virt-rescue
4. paste mount commands
5. chroot to /sysroot


Preferred procedure:
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1. run virt-rescue --suggest --autosysroot
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-01-19 14:13:07 UTC 
Yup.  Tricky to implement ...
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-03-23 19:15:45 UTC 
This has now been implemented, actually much more simply:

$ virt-rescue -a disk.img -i

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/33d2ae796119ae5dd38e2afcbf1ba4216bd99846

Fixed in libguestfs >= 1.37.1.
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