[SOLVED] Is it safe to install "libguestfs-tools" directly on PVE?

[Razva]

Hey,

Is it safe to install libguestfs-tools? It installs a lot of stuff and I don't know if/how it interferes with current PVE services.

The following additional packages will be installed:
  acl augeas-lenses binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cryptsetup-bin curl db-util db5.3-util exfat-fuse
  exfat-utils extlinux fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono gawk ghostscript gsfonts hfsplus icoutils ldmtool libafflib0v5
  libaugeas0 libbinutils libconfig9 libcups2 libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libcurl4 libdate-manip-perl libewf2 libgs9
  libgs9-common libguestfs-hfsplus libguestfs-perl libguestfs-reiserfs libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 libhfsp0 libhivex0
  libijs-0.35 libintl-perl libintl-xs-perl libjbig0 libjbig2dec0 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjson-glib-1.0-common liblcms2-2
  libldm-1.0-0 libmpfr6 libnetpbm10 libntfs-3g883 libopenjp2-7 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libparted2 libsigsegv2
  libsys-virt-perl libtiff5 libtsk13 libvirt0 libwebp6 libwin-hivex-perl libxml-xpath-perl libyajl2 libyara3
  linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 linux-image-amd64 lsscsi mdadm mtools netpbm ntfs-3g osinfo-db parted poppler-data reiserfsprogs
  scrub sgabios sleuthkit squashfs-tools supermin syslinux syslinux-common zerofree
Suggested packages:
  augeas-doc binutils-doc fonts-noto gawk-doc ghostscript-x augeas-tools cups-common libguestfs-gfs2 libguestfs-jfs
  libguestfs-nilfs libguestfs-rescue libguestfs-rsync libguestfs-zfs liblcms2-utils libparted-dev libparted-i18n
  linux-doc-4.19 debian-kernel-handbook dracut-core floppyd parted-doc poppler-utils fonts-japanese-mincho
  | fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic | fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-nanum autopsy
  mac-robber
Recommended packages:
  firmware-linux-free
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acl augeas-lenses binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cryptsetup-bin curl db-util db5.3-util exfat-fuse
  exfat-utils extlinux fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono gawk ghostscript gsfonts hfsplus icoutils ldmtool libafflib0v5
  libaugeas0 libbinutils libconfig9 libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libcurl4 libdate-manip-perl libewf2 libgs9 libgs9-common
  libguestfs-hfsplus libguestfs-perl libguestfs-reiserfs libguestfs-tools libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 libhfsp0 libhivex0
  libijs-0.35 libintl-perl libintl-xs-perl libjbig0 libjbig2dec0 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjson-glib-1.0-common liblcms2-2
  libldm-1.0-0 libmpfr6 libnetpbm10 libntfs-3g883 libopenjp2-7 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libparted2 libsigsegv2
  libsys-virt-perl libtiff5 libtsk13 libvirt0 libwebp6 libwin-hivex-perl libxml-xpath-perl libyajl2 libyara3
  linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 linux-image-amd64 lsscsi mdadm mtools netpbm ntfs-3g osinfo-db parted poppler-data reiserfsprogs
  scrub sgabios sleuthkit squashfs-tools supermin syslinux syslinux-common zerofree
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libcups2
1 upgraded, 84 newly installed, 0 to remove and 94 not upgraded.
Need to get 101 MB of archives.
After this operation, 458 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Thank you!

 

[oguz]

hi,

it's not compatible with PVE.

why do you need it?

 

[Razva]

hi,

it's not compatible with PVE.

why do you need it?

I would like to generate some cloud ready images, and for that I need virt-sysprep and virt-sparsify. I don't need any kind of compatibility with PVE, I just don't want to break it if I install the aftermentioned tools.

 

[oguz]

you can install it, it shouldn't break your install.

i'd install it with apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests libguestfs-tools.

just be aware that you can't manage proxmox guests with libvirt.

 

[rwmj]

Yes it's safe to install it. It may or may not work inside a VM if nested KVM is broken. If it fails, try setting:

export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND_SETTINGS=force_tcg

and if that doesn't work run `libguestfs-test-tool`.

 

[lidkicker]

FWIW, the suggestion from @oguz was needed for my purposes (proxmox-ve6.3-2) - otherwise you'll run into this:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  proxmox-ve pve-firmware pve-kernel-5.4

 

[empty.dates]

you can install it, it shouldn't break your install.

i'd install it with apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests libguestfs-tools.

just be aware that you can't manage proxmox guests with libvirt.

I have strange behavior on proxmox 7.1. Without libguestfs-tools installed mounted images are not available inside LXC.
Just installing this tool fix the problem - but I am not even using libguestfs-tools directly.

What I have:
proxmox 7.1 host with LXC alpine with bind-mount (mp0: /media/storage/,mp=/media/nas,mountoptions=noatime)
vhd image file located at host in /media/storage/image.vhd

What I need:
mount vhd image on host and make it content available inside LXC alipne

What I am doing:
modprobe nbd max_part=8
qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /media/storage/image.vhd
fdisk /dev/nbd0 -l
mount /dev/nbd0p1 /media/storage/vhd

It is only working if libguestfs installed and only if I execute this commands AFTER LXC started...
Is it safe to keep using this approach or it work just by a mistake?

Without libguestfs I am getting access error in LXC (vhd contain NTFS file system) and cant fix it even by chmod (FS in readonly mode).