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Bug 592053 - New package needed: libguestfs-winsupport
Summary: New package needed: libguestfs-winsupport
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libguestfs-winsupport
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
QA Contact:
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Depends On: 592052 599300
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-13 18:37 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2010-11-11 14:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libguestfs-winsupport-1.0-3.el6
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-11 14:47:08 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-13 18:37:55 UTC 
Description of problem:

This package will contain parts of the libguestfs appliance for
handling Windows guests, for V2V of Windows.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2010-05-13 19:06:37 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-18 12:59:56 UTC 
To QA ... Some tips on how to test this.

Firstly, 'libguestfs-test-tool' must run with and without
libguestfs-winsupport installed.

If the package 'libguestfs' is installed but 'libguestfs-winsupport' is
NOT installed, then NTFS won't work.  Example:

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$ guestfish 

Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.

Type: 'help' for help with commands
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs> sparse /tmp/test.img 500M
><fs> run
><fs> part-disk /dev/vda mbr
><fs> mkfs ntfs /dev/vda1 
libguestfs: error: mkfs: ntfs: /dev/vda1: mkfs.ntfs: No such file or directory
><fs> available ntfs3g
libguestfs: error: available: ntfs3g: group not available
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However if both 'libguestfs' and 'libguestfs-winsupport' packages
are installed, then NTFS will work inside libguestfs.  Example:

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$ guestfish 

Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.

Type: 'help' for help with commands
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs> sparse /tmp/test.img 500M
><fs> run
><fs> part-disk /dev/vda mbr
><fs> mkfs ntfs /dev/vda1 
><fs> mount /dev/vda1 /
><fs> ll /
total 4
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4096 May 18 12:59 .
dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root    0 May 18 12:57 ..
><fs> touch /hello
><fs> ll /
total 4
drwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4096 May 18 12:59 .
dr-xr-xr-x 20 root root    0 May 18 12:57 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 May 18 12:59 hello
><fs> available ntfs3g
><fs> exit
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Finally, any NTFS- or Windows-guest-specific tests that NAY have
been devising should fail if libguestfs-winsupport is not installed,
and succeed if libguestfs-winsupport is installed.  The same would
apply to any Windows guest V2V testing.
Comment 5 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-18 13:03:13 UTC 
Here are some packages that I have tested on RHEL 6
against libguestfs 1.2.7 (see bug 592052):

http://oirase.annexia.org/rpms/libguestfs-winsupport/
Comment 6 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-21 15:02:46 UTC 
Candidate package built in brew:
http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2463693
Comment 7 Jinxin Zheng 2010-06-03 04:56:37 UTC 
bug 599300 states a dependency problem for this package.
Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-30 20:14:42 UTC 
When should this package be installed - what group should it live in?
Comment 14 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-11 14:47:08 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.
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