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+#!/bin/bash -
+# libguestfs
+# Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+# Boot and check that writes work.
+# Note this is the first boot test that we run, so it's looking for
+# all sorts of qemu/kernel/febootstrap problems.
+
+set -e
+
+rm -f test1.img
+
+truncate -s 100M test1.img
+test1_md5sum="$(md5sum test1.img | awk '{print $1}')"
+
+../../fish/guestfish <<'EOF'
+add-drive-opts test1.img format:raw
+run
+
+part-disk /dev/sda mbr
+
+mkfs ext2 /dev/sda1
+mount /dev/sda1 /
+
+write /test "This is a test"
+
+EOF
+
+# Verify that the disk has changed.
+if [ "$(md5sum test1.img | awk '{print $1}')" = "$test1_md5sum" ]; then
+ echo "***** ERROR *****"
+ echo "Write operations are not modifying an attached disk."
+ echo
+ echo "Check to see if any errors or warnings are printed above."
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+rm test1.img
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