1 NOTE: This file is automatically generated from "update-bugs.sh".
2 Last updated: 2011-07-12
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 676020 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676020
24 After using virt-resize with an ntfs partition windows is not booting
26 684486 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684486
27 Guest fails to boot after virt-resize
29 684980 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=684980
30 calling guestfs_kill_subprocess() then guestfs_close() causes a lockup in some applications
32 691659 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691659
33 libguestfs fails to run under JRuby 1.6.0
35 693064 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693064
36 Symbolic links on ntfs-3g are not followed correctly by some commands
38 693359 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693359
39 virt-cat and virt-edit don't handle case sensitive NTFS paths properly
41 701814 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701814
42 virt-win-reg fails on a libvirt guest that has no defined disk format: "format parameter is empty or contains disallowed characters"
44 709326 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709326
45 virt-inspector cannot detect ReactOS
47 719879 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719879
48 Rebase libguestfs in RHEL 6.3
50 563450 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563450
51 list-devices returns devices of different types out of order
53 696445 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696445
54 Backport virt-inspector for virt-v2v
56 547488 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547488
57 guestfish cannot tab complete filenames that contain spaces
59 670942 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670942
60 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt (MRG)
62 671082 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671082
63 libguestfs does not work with kernel-rt
65 672485 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672485
66 [RFE] virt-edit/tar/inspector do not support encrypted system
68 678231 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678231
69 virt-inspector reports unknown filesystem UUID
71 679737 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679737
72 zerofree is unavailable
74 690358 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690358
75 Better to point out in manual page that fullvirt query doesn't support Windows guest
77 692394 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692394
78 inspect-list-applications fails to detect 32 bit apps installed under WOW64 emulator on 64 bit Windows
80 709538 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709538
81 fails to build without downstream patches
83 507278 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507278
84 libguestfs fails to build on Fedora sparc64
86 554829 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554829
87 SELinux handling could be done better.
89 555803 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555803
90 guestfs_tgz_out does not detect failure of tar command
92 572337 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572337
93 libguestfs should support gptsync
95 578103 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578103
96 [RFE] Tool to Compare Windows Registry Entries
98 592910 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592910
99 'guestfish --remote run' hangs in a shell command substitution context
101 593511 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593511
102 [RFE] function to get partition name
104 596354 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596354
105 guestfish.1.html and guestfs.3.html declared "XHTML 1.0 Strict" but are not in fact well-formed XML
107 596761 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596761
108 Ctrl- causes guestfish to abort
110 602997 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602997
111 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
113 603000 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603000
114 part-get-bootable gives wrong result with an unordered part layout
116 604041 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604041
117 guestmount absolute symlinks don't work
119 624334 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624334
120 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
122 624335 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335
123 blockdev-setbsz succeeds, but does not affect blockdev-getbsz
125 627675 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627675
126 libguestfs inspector code cannot handle /dev/disk/by-id/* paths
128 634649 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634649
129 [RFE] Align a NTFS partition within qcow2 over LVM to start at offset which is a multiple of 8
131 635971 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635971
132 glob mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 does not expand
134 637251 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637251
135 virt-inspector fails to recognize data-only NTFS disk image
137 642821 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642821
138 virt-resize falls over on a disk image with a logical swap partition
140 646036 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646036
141 libguestfs fails to launch
143 660687 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660687
144 guestmount: "touch" command fails: touch: setting times of `timestamp': Invalid argument
146 677870 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677870
147 [RFE] virt-v2v show the warning info after convert rhel4u8 guest if comment a line of swap in the fstab
149 682980 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682980
150 libguestfs incorrectly detects Red Hat desktop as 'redhat-based' instead of 'redhat'
152 696451 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696451
153 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
155 696484 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696484
156 [RFE] virt-v2v show the warning info after convert rhel4u8 guest if comment a line of swap in the fstab
158 700342 NEW https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700342
159 virt-inspector resports unknown filesystem UUID
161 672491 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672491
162 RFE: guestfs_last_errno should be exposed in perl bindings
164 713678 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713678
165 Not all febootstrap messages are redirected to log callbacks
167 583974 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583974
168 mount hangs there when you lack proper permission to guest image
170 627835 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627835
171 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
173 539746 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539746
174 launch fails when run inside a Xen guest, when no non-PV kernels are installed
176 685009 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=685009
177 Got error when expanding ntfs filesystem
179 503134 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503134
180 guestfish's list splitting does not recognize internal quoting
182 541618 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541618
183 guestfish not able to mount freebsd ufs2 partitions automatically
185 661280 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661280
186 virt-rescue: panic when shutting down: "/sbin/reboot: No such file or directory"
188 666578 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666578
189 libguestfs: unknown filesystem label SWAP-sda2
191 688062 ASSIGNED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688062
192 fish: add luks-open mapped device to tab completion list
194 --------------------------------------------------
195 Bugs in MODIFIED, POST or ON_QA state are fixed.
196 You can help by testing the fixes.
198 691389 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691389
199 Extended attributes don't work over guestmount (FUSE)
201 501882 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501882
202 /tmp/libguestfs temporary directory is not cleaned up
204 507810 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507810
205 guestfish -i / virt-inspector cannot handle spaces in filenames
207 576879 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576879
208 libguestfs protocol loses synchronization if you 'upload' before mounting disks
210 584228 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584228
211 tgz-in/tar-in command hang when run with a vfat img
213 585221 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585221
214 resize2fs should support shrinking filesystems
216 585222 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585222
217 pvresize should support shrinking PVs
219 585223 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585223
220 ntfsresize should support shrinking filesystems
222 591142 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591142
223 virt-inspector should give an error for unrecognized disk images
225 591155 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591155
226 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if a disk image is not writable
228 591250 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591250
229 virt-tar prints "tar_in: tar subcommand failed on directory" if the archive is compressed or not in the right format
231 592883 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=592883
232 can not edit files on images mounted with guestmount cmd
234 501889 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501889
235 write-file does not support strings containing ASCII NUL
237 582484 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582484
238 some guestfish sub commands can not handle special files properly
240 588651 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588651
241 guestfish 'strings-e' cmd does not give proper error message or hint
243 657499 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657499
244 checksum: wrong check sum type causes umount to fail
246 501893 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501893
247 String parameters should be checked for != NULL
249 501894 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501894
250 Some String parameters should be OptString
252 521674 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521674
253 Perl modules are unversioned, but should carry version numbers
255 597118 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597118
256 A warning should be given in the help of mke2journal-L for the length of label
258 597135 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597135
259 guestfish write-file cmd does not check "size" parameter
261 597145 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597145
262 guestfish 'help' command should indicate error in exit status with an unknown command
264 599464 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599464
265 mkfs-b does not support vfat/ntfs
267 602592 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602592
268 [RFE] expose guestfs_close in perl bindings
270 619334 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619334
271 RFE: Enable coredump capture in the appliance
273 633096 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633096
274 virt-resize calculates block device size incorrectly, doesn't work with qcow2 target
276 633766 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633766
277 virt-resize --shrink fails
279 634246 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634246
280 guestfs_part_get_parttype returns "loop" when run against a partition, LV or filesystem
282 635969 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=635969
283 glob echo mkfs ext2 /dev/vd[b-t]1 prints garbage
285 638899 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638899
286 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from C inspection APIs
288 638901 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638901
289 Appliance filename should not contain repository name
291 639405 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639405
292 Interrupted cached appliance creation leaves libguestfs unusable
294 639986 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639986
295 virt-df --csv does not properly quote " in libvirt domain names
297 640961 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640961
298 Document that grub-install might be needed for old Linux guests after virt-resize
300 642826 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642826
301 virt-resize converts any other image format to raw without notifying user, instructions do not account for this
303 642929 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642929
304 C inspection code should ignore /dev/fd* in /etc/fstab
306 642930 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642930
307 virt-inspector (Sys::Guestfs::Lib) should use C inspection APIs
309 642932 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642932
310 guestmount options should match guestfish options
312 642933 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642933
313 guestfs_list_filesystems should be used in all possible places
315 642934 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642934
316 No way to specify disk format when adding a disk to libguestfs
318 643624 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643624
319 libguestfs tools documentation should describe how to quote guest domain names from shell
321 646432 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646432
322 /dev/mapper paths should not be returned from guestfs_mountpoints
324 646821 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646821
325 virt-df should have --uuid option
327 646822 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=646822
328 libguestfs trace mode should not print long binary strings
330 652796 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652796
331 ruby bindings not installed by 'make install', hence omitted from the binary distribution
333 655554 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655554
334 Whole disk paths are not made canonical by virt-inspector
336 663407 MODIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663407
337 readlink and readlinklist returns /sysroot/ in some paths
339 --------------------------------------------------
340 These bugs are in the VERIFIED state.
342 695881 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695881
343 virt-make-fs generates qemu-img command line containing decimal point: "qemu-img: Invalid image size specified!"
345 693306 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693306
346 sfdisk's python interface only accepts lists of type 'list' for the lines parameter
348 579664 VERIFIED https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579664
349 guestfish doesn't report error when there is not enough space for image allocation