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libguestfs-test-tool - Diagnostics for libguestfs

 libguestfs-test-tool [--options]

libguestfs-test-tool is a test program shipped with libguestfs to allow you to check basic libguestfs functionality is working. This is needed because libguestfs occasionally breaks for reasons beyond our control: usually because of changes in the underlying qemu or kernel packages, or the host environment.

If you suspect a problem in libguestfs, then just run:

 libguestfs-test-tool

It will print lots of diagnostic messages.

If it runs to completion successfully, you will see this near the end:

 ===== TEST FINISHED OK =====

and the test tool will exit with code 0.

If it fails (and/or exits with non-zero error code), please paste the complete, unedited output of the test tool into a bug report. More information about reporting bugs can be found on the http://libguestfs.org/ website.

Display short usage information and exit.
If you have downloaded another qemu binary, point this option at the full path of the binary to try it.
If you have compiled qemu from source, point this option at the source directory to try it.
Set the launch timeout to "N" seconds. The default is 600 seconds (10 minutes) which does not usually need to be adjusted.
Display the libguestfs version number and exit.

If you have compiled another version of qemu from source and would like to try that, then you can use the --qemudir option to point to the qemu source directory.

If you have downloaded a qemu binary from somewhere, use the --qemu option to point to the binary.

Note when using these options, you can ignore the business of qemu wrapper scripts ("QEMU WRAPPERS" in guestfs(3)), since libguestfs-test-tool writes a wrapper script for you if one is needed.

You can tell supermin to try a different kernel. You do this by setting the environment variables "SUPERMIN_KERNEL", "SUPERMIN_KERNEL_VERSION" and/or "SUPERMIN_MODULES".

Refer to "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" in supermin(1) for further information.

To find out which backend is the default in your libguestfs package, do:

 unset LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND
 guestfish get-backend

If you are using the libvirt backend, then you can try out a different (eg. upstream) version of libvirt by running these commands (not as root):

 killall libvirtd lt-libvirtd
 ~/path/to/libvirt/run libguestfs-test-tool

The first command kills any session "libvirtd" process(es) that may be running on the machine. The second command uses libvirt’s "run" script (in the top-level libvirt build directory) to set some environment variables so that the alternate version of libvirt is used to run the program.

To find out which backend is the default in your libguestfs package, do:

 unset LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND
 guestfish get-backend

If you are using the libvirt backend, you can try without (ie. libguestfs directly launching qemu) by doing:

 export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct

Or if you are using the default (direct) backend, then you can try libvirt:

 export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=libvirt

or with libvirt and a specific libvirt URI:

 export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=libvirt:qemu:///session

To find out which backend is the default in your libguestfs package, do:

 unset LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND
 guestfish get-backend

To find out if SELinux is being used, do:

 getenforce

If you are using libvirt, SELinux and sVirt, then you can try to see if changing SELinux to "permissive" mode makes any difference. Use this command as root:

 setenforce Permissive

If this makes a difference, look in the audit logs for recent failures ("AVCs"):

 ausearch -m avc -ts recent

You can convert AVCs into suggested SELinux policy rules using tools like audit2allow(1). For more information, see the "Security Enhanced Linux User Guide".

To reenable SELinux and sVirt, do:

 setenforce Enforcing

Refer to "APPLIANCE BOOT PROCESS" in guestfs(3) to understand the messages produced by libguestfs-test-tool and/or possible errors.

libguestfs-test-tool returns 0 if the tests completed without error, or 1 if there was an error.

For the full list of environment variables which may affect libguestfs, please see the guestfs(3) manual page.

guestfs(3), http://libguestfs.org/, http://qemu.org/.

Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

Copyright (C) 2009-2020 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.

To get a list of bugs against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

To report a new bug against libguestfs, use this link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=Virtualization+Tools

When reporting a bug, please supply:

  • The version of libguestfs.
  • Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)
  • Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.
  • Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.
2022-11-28 libguestfs-1.48.6