[Lguest] Request for help in setting up lguest

[Rusty Russell]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:47:47 +0530, anupnaik <anupnaik at cse.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> Hello Sir,
>              I am Anup Naik. I am studying in Indian Institute of 
> Technology Bombay, India. I have encountered some problem in setting up 
> lguest. I would be grateful to you if you can help me out.
> 
> The following are the steps(list of commands) which I followed in 
> setting up lguest
...
> 17. dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfile bs=1M count=2048
> 18. cd /newkernel/linux-source-<version>
> 19. sudo Documentation/lguest/lguest 64 vmlinux --tunnet=192.168.19.1 
> --block=/home/anup/rootfile root=/dev/vda

Hi Anup!

        You have an empty file as your root filesystem, which is why
it cannot be mounted!  Try making an ext2 or ext3 filesystem in there,
or perhaps a complete image of some common distribution.

Cheers,
Rusty.