the maintainer is currently Ubuntu, but they stuck at version 5.2.1, which was released in Jan 2021. would Pop! compile a more updated version (say 5.3.1)?
zstd formated Kernel has conflicts with the 5.2.1, causing issues with libguestfs, but it’s fixed upstream on 5.3.1+.
This is related to: https://lemm.ee/post/11764643
Install latest Pop OS with say kernel 6.5.6…
Install libguestfs-tools
running virt-sparsify gives the following error
Invalid ELF header magic: != \x7fELF insmod: init_module:virtio_snd.ko.zst: Invalid module format supermin: waiting another 1024000000 ns for root UUID to appear This usually means your kernel doesn't support virtio, or supermin was unable to load some kernel modules (see module loading messages above).Below is my error from running libguestfs-test-tool (edit: with sudo)
'insmod: init_module: snd-timer.ko.zst: Invalid module format supermin: internal insmod snd-pcm.ko.zst [ 0.828428] Invalid ELF header magic: != \x7fELF insmod: init_module: snd-pcm.ko.zst: Invalid module format supermin: internal insmod virtio_snd.ko.zst [ 0.829673] Invalid ELF header magic: != \x7fELF insmod: init_module: virtio_snd.ko.zst: Invalid module format supermin: waiting another 1024000000 ns for root UUID to appear This usually means your kernel doesn't support virtio, or supermin was unable to load some kernel modules (see module loading messages above). supermin: waiting another 2048000000 ns for root UUID to appear supermin: waiting another 4096000000 ns for root UUID to appearhttps://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71746