libguestfs/BUGS

NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
Last updated: 2021-09-07

This contains a local list of the bugs that are open against
libguestfs.  Bugs are tracked in the Red Hat Bugzilla database
at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and to report a new bug you
should follow this link:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a new bug, please check:

 - That the bug has not been reported already.
 - That you are testing a recent version.
 - Describe the bug accurately, and give a way to reproduce it.
 - Include the version of libguestfs, distro version and any other
   relevant information.
 - Attach the complete output of "libguestfs-test-tool".

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Bugs in NEW or ASSIGNED state are open and waiting for someone to fix.

547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488
  guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces

572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337
  libguestfs should support gptsync

578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103
  [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries

604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041
  guestmount absolute symlinks don't work

637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251
  virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image

693064 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693064
  Symbolic links on ntfs-3g are not followed correctly by some commands

745576 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745576
  libguestfs (or qemu?) hangs if sparse file runs out of disk space

770075 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770075
  FEBOOTSTRAP_MODULES fails if modules directory is not under /lib

770076 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770076
  FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL causes appliance build to fail

785603 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785603
  copy-out "No such file or directory"

790837 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790837
  Use of atexit to clean up handles is wrong in multithreaded programs

813290 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813290
  mdadm (md-detail) test occasionally fails with 'md device /dev/md125 does not appear to be active.'

824021 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824021
  inspection cannot recognize guest which uses btrfs subvolumes for root

824782 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824782
  [RFE] virt-resize: support mac partition layouts

832602 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832602
  "error in chunked encoding" when trying to extract (tar-out) a truncated ISO image

833362 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833362
  virt-make-fs test fails on ppc64 because filesystem block size is 64k

845234 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845234
  RFE: virt-ls on Windows guest doesn't support drive letters

848464 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848464
  gobject javascript bindings cannot use 64 bit integers

848926 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848926
  virt-v2v should verify that the RHEV-M domain is an export storage domain

857763 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857763
  libguestfs 'file-architecture' returns 'ARM' for arm binaries

866994 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866994
  tgz-out causes memory leak in guestfsd

887826 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887826
  RFE: virt-sparsify cannot handle multi-disk virtual machines (eg. if they use LVM, MD, LDM, etc)

891909 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891909
  Can't make install with non-standard prefix as non-root

895898 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895898
  RFE: Allow interface to be specified with libvirt attach-method

895946 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895946
  Got incorrect block count number when resize ntfs file system via "ntfsresize_opts"

903987 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903987
  Command "acl-set-file" is inconvenient to use

910115 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910115
  RFE: support ntfsresize --bad-sectors option in virt-resize

910117 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910117
  virt-v2v removes serial console from securetty list

910269 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910269
  Tracker: Bugs in other packages that stop libguestfs working

917706 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917706
  guestfs_umount_local is not thread safe

920617 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920617
  RFE: virt-inspector (or another tool) should produce OVF output for oVirt / RHEV

921604 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921604
  RFE: virt-v2v: add option to specify spice or VNC and whether to add USB connections

963232 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963232
  RFE: v2v: a --no-cleanup would be useful for debugging of disk images that guestfs has issues converting

973138 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973138
  RFE: sh & debug sh should be able to capture all output and error return code

986242 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986242
  golang bindings cannot be compiled if golang-guestfs package is installed

987829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=987829
  virt-resize error: "lvm_set_filter: vgchange: Couldn't find device with uuid .. Refusing activation of partial LV"

988100 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988100
  RFE: journal reader in guestfish

991641 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991641
  virt-sysprep fs-uuids plugin doesn't update UUIDs in fstab, elsewhere

991830 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991830
  virt-resize throws ambiguous error when /dev/mapper/VG-LV path is used

1025942 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025942
  Parallel virt-df and virt-alignment-scan tests sometimes deadlock

1027526 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027526
  RFE: Labels for logical partitions lost in Windows 2003 after virt-resize for primary partition

1029134 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029134
  Broken links in virt-builder web man page

1033573 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033573
  libguestfs inspection does not recognize NAS4Free OS installed on QCOW2 image

1040912 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040912
  [ARM] mount-local / FUSE support does not seem to work at all

1056047 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056047
  virt-df generates no output for Solaris 11 x86_64 guest.

1057873 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057873
  libguestfs df/ subdirectory tests fail occasionally

1060423 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060423
  Support setting xattrs via FUSE

1061040 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061040
  RFE: Enable ZFS support

1069966 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069966
  RFE: let virt-builder etc build ARM guests on x86 host

1075594 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075594
  RFE: python-libguestfs should be available on pypi

1079734 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079734
  Tiny Core Linux is not recognized by libguestfs inspection

1092583 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092583
  guestfish removes query string from URI

1097272 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097272
  Ruby bindings should use RB_GC_GUARD (instead of volatile) for enhanced safety

1099475 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099475
  sfdisk: BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy

1100138 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100138
  some operation cause "lvremove" can not find the object

1102241 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102241
  [RFE] libguestfs should detect OSTree (project-atomic) qcow2 disk image

1102619 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102619
  lvm-clear-filter failed when has two same name but different uuid's VG

1108171 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108171
  RFE: virt-builder should be able to build PXE images for baremetal installation

1113153 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113153
  RFE: Inspection should support systemd mount units

1114012 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114012
  "yum install guestfish" on fresh Fedora 20 results in broken libguestfs

1118305 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118305
  RFE: Ability to set iSCSI-Initiator-IQN for iSCSI connections

1129110 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129110
  Libguestfs NTFS not setting ACLs

1130506 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130506
  RFE: virt-sparsify in copying mode should support qemu detect-zeroes

1134726 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1134726
  [RFE] virt-builder should support args with the --run command

1139785 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139785
  virt-sysprep should change UUID fields in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files

1144137 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144137
  virt-inspector fails on Minix 3 guest

1144138 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144138
  virt-inspector fails on FreeBSD 9.3 guest

503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134
  guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting

539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746
  launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed

541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618
  guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically

619334 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334
  RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance

691389 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691389
  SELinux labels don't work over guestmount (FUSE)

(72 bugs)

End of BUGS file.