On 03/31/2014 10:58 AM, Juerg Haefliger wrote: >> > I would have first looked at libguestfs suite, virt-edit maybe. It has >> > tools specifically designed to interact with VM filesystems. >> >> I did, and I dont want to install 187 more rpms to get this >> functionality ( which is the size of that dep tree ) > > Why is that relevant for a test environment? I am kind of hoping we can use this wider than the testing env only, it would allow us to ship generic images to be used outside a cloud like environ that handles such metadata/acl setup. Another part of the libguestfs problem is that the way its built into CentOS-6, it has a hard dep on qemu-kvm, which in turn conflicts with qemu-xen; Again this might be an artificial conflict and perhaps needs investigating, but for now, there is no way to install libguestfs on a machine running xen4centos. In this specific test case, we can install libguestfs, make the changes we need, then install xen4centos before the reboot, but the qemu-ndb hack seemed far less intrusive. btw, speaking to the upstream ( rich jones ) about this, there are moves to unbundle chunks of stuff away, most of the hard deps for libguestfs come from features that are otherwise well isolated; but those changes are still being executed upstream, no idea when its going to make it into CentOS and other distro's. - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc