Bug 532493 - guestfish doesn't accept target parameter with space in it
Summary: guestfish doesn't accept target parameter with space in it
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 507810
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-02 16:18 UTC by Ray Van Dolson
Modified: 2010-03-16 17:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-11-02 17:01:55 UTC
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Description Ray Van Dolson 2009-11-02 16:18:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Passing a target filename with a space in it to guestfish fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
guestfish-1.0.72-1.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run guestfish <params> -i <file name with spaces.vmdk>
2. Observe errors
  
Actual results:
$ guestfish --ro -i "New Virtual Machine-flat.vmdk"
open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory
Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support
New: No such file or directory


Expected results:
No errors.

Additional info:
Also fails with backslashes in front of the spaces (no double quotes used).

Comment 1 Ray Van Dolson 2009-11-02 16:37:50 UTC
Hmm, perhaps you already had filed a bug for this :)

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2009-11-02 17:01:55 UTC
Sorry about that ... it does indeed appear to be a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 507810 ***


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