1 NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
2 Last updated: 2010-11-30 15:00:42
4 This contains a local list of the bugs that are open against
5 libguestfs. Bugs are tracked in the Red Hat Bugzilla database
6 at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and to report a new bug you
7 should follow this link:
9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools
11 When reporting a new bug, please check:
13 - That the bug has not been reported already.
14 - That you are testing a recent version.
15 - Describe the bug accurately, and give a way to reproduce it.
16 - Include the version of libguestfs, distro version and any other
18 - Attach the complete output of "libguestfs-test-tool".
20 --------------------------------------------------
21 Bugs in NEW or ASSIGNED state are open and waiting for someone to fix.
23 563450 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563450
24 list-devices returns devices of different types out of order
26 627835 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835
27 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
29 547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488
30 guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces
32 627833 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627833
33 get-e2uuid should use blkid instead of "tune2fs -l" to get filesystem UUID
35 633174 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633174
36 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
38 643991 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643991
39 CVE-2010-3851 libguestfs: missing disk format specifier when adding a disk [fedora-all]
41 657472 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657472
42 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
44 657502 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657502
45 virt-inspector depends on EPEL package perl-String-ShellQuote but does not require it
47 501884 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501884
48 virt-inspector still configured, even if there are missing deps
50 501886 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501886
51 exec: chroot not found
53 507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278
54 libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64
56 547479 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547479
57 NTFS partitions sometimes fail to mount if mounted read/write
59 554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829
60 SELinux handling could be done better.
62 555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803
63 virt-tar error: tgz_out error in chunked encoding
65 572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337
66 libguestfs should support gptsync
68 578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103
69 [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries
71 592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910
72 'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context
74 593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511
75 [RFE] function to get partition name
77 596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354
78 guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML
80 596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761
81 Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort
83 598772 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598772
84 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
86 600144 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600144
87 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
89 602997 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602997
90 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
92 603000 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000
93 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
95 604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041
96 guestmount absolute symlinks don't work
98 612308 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612308
99 qemu -net / vlan option deprecated. Use -netdev instead.
101 615223 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615223
102 vfs-type could not read just-created filesystem
104 617436 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617436
105 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
107 617440 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617440
108 guestfish: fails to tilde expand '~' when the $HOME env is unset
110 619345 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619345
111 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
113 624035 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624035
114 guestfish "upload /file foo" command hangs or gives a protocol error
116 624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334
117 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
119 624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335
120 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
122 627468 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627468
123 [RFE]It's better to emphasize "libguestfs-winsupport" in V2V manpage or error output
125 627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675
126 libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths
128 627832 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627832
129 [RFE] guestfish should print outputs in a suitable base (eg. octal for modes)
131 634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649
132 [RFE] Align a NTFS partition within qcow2 over LVM to start at offset which is a multiple of 8
134 635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971
135 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand
137 637244 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637244
138 virt-inspector has noisy start when inspecting 64-bit disk image from 32-bit host
140 637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251
141 virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image
143 637252 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637252
144 virt-resize has no 32-bit support
146 642821 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642821
147 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition
149 646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036
150 libguestfs fails to launch
152 646361 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646361
153 Fix appliance building Fedora-on-Debian (on systems with default library search paths differing from the appliance's)
155 501882 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882
156 /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up
158 576879 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576879
159 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
161 583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974
162 mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image
164 584228 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584228
165 tgz-in/tar-in command hang when run with a vfat img
167 502074 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502074
168 running commands segfault randomly, with 32 bit host and guest, when host is a Xen or VMWare guest
170 539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746
171 launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed
173 503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134
174 guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting
176 541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618
177 guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically
179 613593 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613593
180 Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.1
182 639601 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639601
183 "virt-ls" command failed to parse domain name "#"
185 639602 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639602
186 ""virt-list-filesystems" fails to parse the command line argument if the domain name is "#".
188 --------------------------------------------------
189 Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed.
190 You can help by testing the fixes.
192 507810 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810
193 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
195 585221 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221
196 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
198 585222 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222
199 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
201 585223 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223
202 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
204 591142 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591142
205 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
207 591155 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591155
208 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
210 591250 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591250
211 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
213 592883 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592883
214 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
216 501889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501889
217 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
219 582484 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582484
220 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
222 588651 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588651
223 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
225 657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499
226 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
228 501893 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501893
229 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
231 501894 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501894
232 Some String parameters should be OptString
234 521674 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674
235 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
237 597118 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597118
238 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
240 597135 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597135
241 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
243 597145 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597145
244 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
246 599464 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464
247 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
249 599503 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599503
250 document that mkmountpoint and umount-all cannot be mixed
252 602592 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602592
253 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
255 619334 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334
256 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
258 633096 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096
259 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
261 633766 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766
262 virt-resize --shrink fails
264 634246 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634246
265 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
267 635969 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635969
268 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
270 638899 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899
271 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
273 638901 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638901
274 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
276 639405 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639405
277 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
279 639986 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986
280 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
282 640961 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640961
283 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
285 642826 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642826
286 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
288 642929 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642929
289 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
291 642930 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642930
292 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
294 642932 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642932
295 guestmount options should match guestfish options
297 642933 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642933
298 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
300 642934 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642934
301 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
303 643624 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643624
304 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
306 646432 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646432
307 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
309 646821 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646821
310 virt-df should have --uuid option
312 646822 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646822
313 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
315 652796 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652796
316 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
318 655554 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655554
319 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
321 --------------------------------------------------
322 These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.
324 579664 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579664
325 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation
327 636454 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636454
328 [RFE] Need a way to determine if a particular block device is a logical volume