Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 811395
virt-inspector to detect ia64 Windows 2k3 install media
Last modified: 2012-11-30 08:19:36 EST
Description of problem: I have a Win2k3 ISO image, which is for ia64 architecture en_windows_server_2003_enterprise_64bit.iso virt-inspector fails to detect it # guestfish -a ./win2k3/ga/en_windows_server_2003_enterprise_64bit.iso Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for editing virtual machine filesystems. Type: 'help' for help on commands 'man' to read the manual 'quit' to quit the shell ><fs> run 100% ⟦▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓⟧ 00:00 ><fs> mount /dev/vda / ><fs> ls /ia64 ... txtsetup.sif ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libguestfs-1.17.19-1.fc17.i686 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.# virt-inspector ./win2k3/ga/en_windows_server_2003_enterprise_64bit.iso 2. 3. Actual results: <?xml version="1.0"?> <operatingsystems/> Expected results: <?xml version="1.0"?> <operatingsystems> <operatingsystem> <root>/dev/sda</root> <name>windows</name> <arch>ia64</arch> ... </operatingsystem> </operatingsystems> Additional info:
Currently detection of ISO media is broken. The plan is to fix this using isoinfo plus some sort of libosinfo mapping which isn't yet worked out. To this end there is this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805417 plus we added isoinfo functions to libguestfs: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/a43f35f5bb7c40b000083cd8be5cb1f28595a3f1
This bug was misfiled under the wrong 'Product' so it wasn't really on my radar. Since we added support for the libosinfo database, this should just work. The libosinfo database does contain some ia64 ISO image data, and there seems to be at least one entry for a Win2k3 ia64 ISO. Of course I have no idea or way of testing if it works. So I guess this should either be marked fixed, or the component changed to libosinfo. What do you think?
The libosinfo data will be for the iso I mentioned in the first comment, so lets assume this is fixed
Closed per comment 3.