path: root/BUGS

NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
Last updated: 2011-11-09

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

679737 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679737
  zerofree is unavailable

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

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

596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761
  Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort

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

634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649
  [RFE] Write a tool to align the partition(s) in a Windows XP image to a multiple of 8 sectors

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

741183 NEW 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

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

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.

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

748370 ON_QA https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748370
  guestfish fails to read disk images after os upgrade

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These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.

672491 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672491
  RFE: guestfs_last_errno should be exposed in perl bindings

684980 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684980
  calling guestfs_kill_subprocess() then guestfs_close() causes a lockup in some applications

695881 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695881
  virt-make-fs generates qemu-img command line containing decimal point: "qemu-img: Invalid image size specified!"

727178 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727178
  error: luks_open: cryptsetup: error while loading shared libraries: libfipscheck.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

627835 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835
  libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks

729887 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729887
  appliance crashes running aug_init with flags=4

678231 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678231
  virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID

685009 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685009
  Got error when expanding ntfs filesystem

690358 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690358
  Better to point out in manual page that fullvirt query doesn't support Windows guest

692394 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692394
  inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows

693306 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693306
  sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter

603000 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000
  part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout

666578 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666578
  libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2

682980 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682980
  libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'

688062 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688062
  fish: add luks-open mapped device to tab completion list

730248 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730248
  'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context

End of BUGS file.