I went through this with Adam and there are two bugs: (1) isc-dhcp-client is not listed in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/guestfs/supermin.d/packages
As a result, dhclient is not loaded into the appliance, and the dhclient command fails. I thought this was strange, because upstream we have 'isc-dhcp-client' listed in packagelist.in, but then I realized that the problem is really that 'isc-dhcp-client' is a missing build dependency of libguestfs on Debian. It also needs to be a runtime dependency. Because it's not a build-time dependency, it doesn't get pulled in to the 'packages' file. It also has to be a runtime dependency so that users will have it installed on their machines. (2) The second problem is that we run 'dhclient', but for some reason this command cannot acquire an IP address unless you name a specific interface (eg 'dhclient eth0'). This was already reported for Ubuntu: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224795 The workaround is just this patch (to appliance/init): - dhclient + dhclient eth0 but I don't know why that works. I believe this to be a bug in dhclient, not in 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
