libguestfs-test-tool(1) 				      Virtualization Support					   libguestfs-test-tool(1)

NAME

       libguestfs-test-tool - Diagnostics for libguestfs

SYNOPSIS

	libguestfs-test-tool [--options]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Display short usage information and exit.

       --qemu qemu_binary
	   If you have downloaded another qemu binary, point this option at the full path of the binary to try it.

       --qemudir qemu_source_dir
	   If you have compiled qemu from source, point this option at the source directory to try it.

       -t N
       --timeout N
	   Set the launch timeout to "N" seconds.  The default is 600 seconds (10 minutes) which does not usually need to be adjusted.

       -V
       --version
	   Display the libguestfs version number and exit.

TRYING OUT A DIFFERENT VERSION OF QEMU

       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.

TRYING OUT A DIFFERENT KERNEL

       If you are using supermin / febootstrap >= 3.8 then you can select which kernel libguestfs tries.  You do this by setting the environment
       variables "SUPERMIN_KERNEL" and/or "SUPERMIN_MODULES" ("FEBOOTSTRAP_KERNEL" and "FEBOOTSTRAP_MODULES" if still using the old febootstrap
       3.21 program).

       Refer to "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" in supermin-helper(8) for further information.

TRYING OUT A DIFFERENT VERSION OF LIBVIRT

       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.

TRYING OUT WITH 
/ WITHOUT LIBVIRT
       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

TRYING OUT DIFFERENT SELINUX SETTINGS

       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

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

EXIT STATUS

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

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

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

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHORS

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Red Hat Inc.

LICENSE

       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.

BUGS

       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:

       o   The version of libguestfs.

       o   Where you got libguestfs (eg. which Linux distro, compiled from source, etc)

       o   Describe the bug accurately and give a way to reproduce it.

       o   Run libguestfs-test-tool(1) and paste the complete, unedited output into the bug report.

libguestfs-1.22.6						    2013-08-24						   libguestfs-test-tool(1)