[CentOS-virt] libguestfs-tools not working

Fri Feb 6 01:23:52 UTC 2015
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>

On 02/05/2015 04:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> In CentOS 6 with KVM, I have libguestfs-tools installed, but the
> "virt-xxx" tools like "virt-df" just give, "libguestfs: error: cannot
> find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on
> LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /usr/lib64/guestfs)". What am I missing?
>
> All the guests boot and run OK. I just can't get these tools to work.
>
> libguestfs-tools-1.20.11-11.el6.x86_64
> libguestfs-tools-c-1.20.11-11.el6.x86_64
>
> $ ls -lR /usr/lib64/guestfs
> /usr/lib64/guestfs:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Dec  3 13:16 supermin.d
>
> /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d:
> total 7020
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5171200 Oct 17 11:50 base.img
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1858048 Oct 17 11:50 daemon.img
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  139401 Oct 17 11:50 hostfiles
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    4608 Oct 17 11:50 init.img
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root    2048 Oct 17 11:50 udev-rules.img

Well, I still don't know what the real cause was, but rebooting has
fixed it. And no, restarting the libvirtd service had no effect.

If anyone has any ideas about what might have happened, I'd still
like to hear them.

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