On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 03:53:37PM +0000, Maximilian Kirschner wrote:
> Is it possible that this error occcurs because my root partition is encryped
> with LUKS. If the virtual file system tries to mount the /root of my host
> system, this will not work.
> Is this the case? Does libguestfs mount the /root of the host system?
> And if so, do you know a workaround for systems with encrypted disks?

It's not to do with LUKS.  Just about everyone uses LUKS and
libguestfs works fine.  It's a bug in the Ubuntu package, try:

> 
>     I'm afraid looks like however libguestfs was built, it is
>     severly broken.  You might want to file an Ubuntu bug if it's
>     the official package, or else try rebuilding the dpkg from
>     source and see if that works.

Rich.

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