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Description of problem: As the document says: If "inspect_get_format" returns "installer" (this is an install disk), then this returns true if the disk is a network installer, ie. not a self-contained install CD but one which is likely to require network access to complete the install. But it returns false actually. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libguestfs-1.16.10-1.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. download a not a self-contained install CD, such as boot.iso for RHEL 2. Inspect the DVD iso as following: # guestfish $ add-ro boot.iso $ run $ inspect-os /dev/vda $ inspect-get-format /dev/vda installer $ inspect-is-netinst /dev/vda false Actual results: $ inspect-is-netinst /dev/vda false Expected results: $ inspect-is-netinst /dev/vda true Additional info: Following distros tested: +---------------------------------------------------------+ | RHEL5.8 | RHEL6.2 |ubuntu11.10|Debian-6.0.4| +----------------+---------------+-----------+------------+ | i386 | x86_64 | i386 | x86_64 | x86_64 | x86_64 | +------+---------+------+--------+-----------+------------+ | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | FAIL | PASS | +------+---------+------+--------+-----------+------------+
qa_ack+. Seems now it only work with the images which has the content of "not_complete" in $ISO/.disk/cd_type file. Future feature to support more distributions.
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No upstream fix for this. Likely we'll change the upstream code to use libosinfo for CD/installer detection, and that will happen in time for RHEL 7. Setting RHEL 6.5 flags just in case we rebase.
Upstream I have started to integrate libosinfo database information: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/90e7981082a2685b235724a6dd9b737cb90fe553 However the current libosinfo database does not contain information about whether a disk is a network install disk, meaning that this bug is not directly fixed yet. In any case it's a RHEL 7 issue.
After a quick glance, it seems there's no way to detect RHEL/CentOS or Ubuntu netinst CDs just by looking at their file contents (unlike Debian CDs which have that information in /.disk/cd_type). Maybe RHEL installation disk images could start getting a similar file indicating their type...
(In reply to Pino Toscano from comment #8) > After a quick glance, it seems there's no way to detect RHEL/CentOS or > Ubuntu netinst CDs just by looking at their file contents (unlike Debian CDs > which have that information in /.disk/cd_type). It's likely to be possible using the ISO volume information. The libosinfo project has been collecting this info in their database, and libguestfs is *supposed* to be able to use it. See: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/src/osinfo.c (This might not be working, I've not tried it in a while and it's another reason why we could do with having regression tests for real inspection)
I'm closing this bug as WONTFIX because: (a) Not reported or affecting any customers (b) Other tools (libosinfo) give the same or better information (c) Has been around for years without attracting enough interest to fix