libguestfs/BUGS

NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
Last updated: 2012-04-10

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.

676020 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676020
  After using virt-resize with an ntfs partition windows is not booting

684486 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684486
  Guest fails to boot after virt-resize

691659 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691659
  libguestfs fails to run under JRuby 1.6.0

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

701814 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701814
  virt-win-reg fails on a libvirt guest that has no defined disk format: "format parameter is empty or contains disallowed characters"

709326 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709326
  virt-inspector cannot detect ReactOS

728224 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728224
  configure can't find qemu on PPC

737261 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737261
  libguestfs grub-install API needs grub1

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

745606 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745606
  libguestfs: error: part_list: could not parse row from output of parted print command

761565 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761565
  Missing deps on netpbm-progs and icoutils

767852 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767852
  dependency on fuse suggested

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

782167 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782167
  libguestfs doesn't recognize Windows Dynamic disks in some configurations, eg. spanned

785603 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785603
  copy-out can't find root directory

786187 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786187
  list-filesystems error mentions "list-devices"

789504 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789504
  virt-df (other tools?) should not give up if a guest disk is missing

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

798979 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798979
  Ubuntu install CDs from oneiric onwards are not recognized: "multi-boot operating systems are not supported"

801117 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801117
  libguestfs cannot get icon for Windows 8 preview

803533 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803533
  guestfish: write error

808193 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808193
  g.launch() crashes on RHEL 5

810613 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810613
  Memory leak in virt-df

563450 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563450
  list-devices returns devices of different types out of order

696445 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696445
  Backport virt-inspector for virt-v2v

806176 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806176
  libguestfs doesn't use the external tools (wrestool ...) to get icon even these tools are installed

811112 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811112
  [RFE][virt-sysprep] hostname can not be changed on rhel system

811117 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811117
  [RFE][virt-sysprep] net-hwaddr not removed from "ifcfg-*" files on rhel

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

672485 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
  [RFE] virt-edit/tar/inspector do not support encrypted system

745282 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=745282
  [RFE] Support to use virt-filesystems with remote libvirt systems

801640 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801640
  [RFE] the error reported by resize2fs-M need to be more clear

803643 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803643
  inspect-is-multipart return false when inspection results should be true

803650 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803650
  inspect-is-live return false when inspection results should be true

803657 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803657
  [RFE] inspect-is-netinst : support more distributions

805417 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805417
  RFE: support inspection of installation ISOs of WinVista, Win7, Win2008 & Win2008r2

806179 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806179
  RFE: support inspection of icon for more Windows guests

507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278
  libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64

554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829
  SELinux handling could be done better.

555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803
  guestfs_tgz_out does not detect failure of tar command

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

592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910
  'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context

593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511
  [RFE] function to get partition name

596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354
  guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML

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

624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334
  blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz

624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335
  blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz

627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675
  libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths

635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971
  glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand

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

646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036
  libguestfs fails to launch

660687 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660687
  guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument

696451 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696451
  libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2

696484 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696484
  [RFE] virt-v2v show the warning info after convert rhel4u8 guest if comment a line of swap in the fstab

700342 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700342
  virt-inspector resports unknown filesystem UUID

802389 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802389
  event handlers for 'close' event doesn't work in remote mode

713678 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713678
  Not all febootstrap messages are redirected to log callbacks

721160 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721160
  Missing btrfs support

755729 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755729
  Error message for resize2fs-M needs tweaking

583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974
  mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image

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

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

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

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Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed.
You can help by testing the fixes.

691389 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691389
  Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)

750889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750889
  Python code incompatible with Python v3.

784647 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784647
  Libguestfs uses deprecated net-tools

657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499
  checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail

719879 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719879
  Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.3

729076 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729076
  libguestfs confuses Hp_recovery partition with Windows root filesystem

749828 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749828
  p2v does not support raid devices

809401 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809401
  inspection doesn't recognize Fedora 17+ (because of grub2 and UsrMove)

647174 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647174
  RHEL6: virt-clone should remove old udev rules when changing MAC address

741183 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741183
  [RFE] Write a tool to align the partition(s) in a Windows XP image to a multiple of 8 sectors

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These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.

731742 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731742
  libguestfs should escape special/non-printing characters in debug output

760221 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760221
  RFE: Support inspection of cciss devices

769359 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769359
  virt-resize on RHEL 6 kernel fails to re-read the partition table

785305 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785305
  ocaml (bytecode) bindings segfault in 'add_drive_opts'

788642 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=788642
  virt-edit doesn't preserve file permissions

790958 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=790958
  multiprovider build error: RuntimeError: link: /tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel /tmp/.guestfs-0/kernel.10139: File exists

797760 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797760
  virt-resize on Windows XP in sysprep state causes "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" BSOD

798197 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798197
  virt-resize confuses format and output_format variables; using --output-format sets the input format

798980 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798980
  Libguestfs live support should be disabled in RHEL 6 packages

799695 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799695
  guestfs.h failes to compile with c++ compiler

801788 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801788
  libguestfs holds open file descriptors when handle is launched

803699 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803699
  libguestfs inspection fails on Windows XP: libguestfs: error: hivex: could not locate HKLMSYSTEMMountedDevices

789960 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789960
  guestfsd crash when try to mount non-exist disk

799798 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799798
  set_autosync: this function can only be called in the config state at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Sys/VirtConvert/GuestfsHandle.pm line 107

807557 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807557
  virt-sysprep: wrong params are passed to virt-inspector

807905 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807905
  mkfs blocksize option breaks when creating btrfs

679737 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679737
  libguestfs: improve error message when zerofree is not available in the appliance

785668 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785668
  aug-defnode: daemon crash

795322 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795322
  add_ro should return error if not running in a config state

796520 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796520
  [RFE] Prevent user from running some appliance configure commands after appliance boot up

801273 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801273
  Document for set-pgroup need to be updated

End of BUGS file.