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Bug 1564981 - [RHEL 7.6] libguestfs doesn't inspect installer ISOs anymore
Summary: [RHEL 7.6] libguestfs doesn't inspect installer ISOs anymore
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-7-en-US
Version: 7.6
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jiri Herrmann
QA Contact:
Jiri Herrmann
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-09 06:05 UTC by YongkuiGuo
Modified: 2019-04-28 06:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:
*libguestfs* can no longer inspect ISO installer files The *libguestfs* library does no longer support inspecting ISO installer files, for example using the *guestfish* or *virt-inspector* utilities. Use the "osinfo-detect" command for inspecting ISO files instead. This command can be obtained from the _libosinfo_ package.
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Last Closed: 2019-04-28 06:02:36 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1551055 0 high CLOSED Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 7.6 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

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Description YongkuiGuo 2018-04-09 06:05:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

The list returned was empty after executing the inspect-os command with libguestfs-1.38 on rhel7.5 host.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.38.0-1.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-156.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
libvirt-3.9.0-14.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%


Steps:

1. On rhel7.5 host
#guestfish -a RHEL-Server-7.4-x86_64-latest.iso
><fs> run
><fs> list-filesystems
/dev/sda1: iso9660
/dev/sda2: vfat
><fs> inspect-os
><fs>

Actual results:
The returned result of inspect-os was empty.


Expected results:
The inspect-os command should be able to return the disk list.


Additional info:
The virt-inspector also cannot display the operating system info.
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2018-04-09 07:35:42 UTC 
Yes we upstream removed the ability to inspect ISOs.  Unfortunately
I forgot to document this in the release notes, but the commit is:

  https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/65cfecb0f5344ec92d3f0d3c2ec0538b6b2726e2

This is a regression but not one we're likely to want to fix.  It's
much better if given an ISO to use the libosinfo command:

  osinfo-detect --type=media RHEL-Server-7.4-x86_64-latest.iso
Comment 3 YongkuiGuo 2018-04-09 09:04:06 UTC 
Got it. Thanks rjones.
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