Hi Rich I'm able to solve this. I copied uImage to vmlinuz-3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 and I'm now able to proceed.
Thanks a lot for the help despite being on vocations.:-) On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:29:11PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: > > supermin: kernel: SUPERMIN_KERNEL environment variable /boot/uImage > > supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=powerpc64). > > > > I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules. > > If you follow the code in src/kernel.ml you'll see that this means > supermin was unable to get the kernel version from the supplied kernel > file. The code is fairly simple to follow. I barely have internet > access here and in any case I don't know what's in that uImage file, > so I suggest compiling supermin yourself, running the command by hand, > and adding printf's to src/kernel.ml in supermin to find the problem. > > Rich. > > > > > > If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels > > installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for > > supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it). > > libguestfs: error: /usr/bin/supermin exited with error status 1, see > debug > > messages above > > libguestfs-test-tool: failed to launch appliance > > libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x10016848 (state 0) > > libguestfs: command: run: rm > > libguestfs: command: run: \ -rf /tmp/libguestfsfPWXx0 > > > > > > > > I think i need to enable virtio-serial in my kernel. > > I'll you let you know the result after enabling virtio-seriel in the > kernel > > inn 5-10 min. > > Well sorry to disturb you on vocations.:-( > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:25:58PM +0530, abhishek jain wrote: > > > > Hi RIch > > > > > > > > > > > > Below are the details of the powerpc ubuntu system ... > > > > > > > > ls -l /boot/ > > > > total 10200 > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5224765 Nov 22 2013 uImage > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5192861 Nov 22 2013 uImage.orig > > > > > > > > > > > > ls -l /lib/modules/ > > > > total 4 > > > > drwxr-xr-x 3 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jun 3 07:21 > 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 > > > > > > > > > > > > uname -a > > > > Linux t4240-ubuntu1310 3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 #10 SMP Tue May 27 > > > > 10:48:24 IST 2014 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux > > > > > > Well, assuming the modules directory matches the kernel (uImage) > > > you could try: > > > > > > export SUPERMIN_KERNEL=/boot/uImage > > > export SUPERMIN_MODULES=/lib/modules/3.8.13-rt9-QorIQ-SDK-V1.4 > > > > > > Are these homebrew kernels? I'm surprised that an official Ubuntu > > > ppc kernel would have such a non-standard name. Anyway, if homebrew > > > you'll also need to ensure the kernel supports all the usual virtio > > > devices (especially virtio-serial, which is required by libguestfs). > > > > > > Rich. > > > > > > -- > > > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > > > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > > > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > > > virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many > > > powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. > > > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top > > > > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch > http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html >
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