Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file for installation it's telling me "<filename> must be a file or device, not a directory". This is nonsense as the ISO is unquestionably a file.
Is this a new bug?
poc
On 03/13/17 20:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file for installation it's telling me "<filename> must be a file or device, not a directory". This is nonsense as the ISO is unquestionably a file.
Is this a new bug?
I don't use virt-manager all the often. But I just tried with an F25Workstation Live DVD and it works just fine.
virt-manager-1.4.0-5.fc25
On 03/13/2017 08:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file for installation it's telling me "<filename> must be a file or device, not a directory". This is nonsense as the ISO is unquestionably a file.
Is this a new bug?
Maybe, but tough to say without more info. Please reproduce with virt-manager --debug and mail me the full output
Thanks, Cole
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:42:37 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file for installation it's telling me "<filename> must be a file or device, not a directory". This is nonsense as the ISO is unquestionably a file.
Is this a new bug?
Had you used it in virt-manager previously? I'm pretty sure I remember hitting a bug where virt-manager would auto generate an entry for a storage pool to hold an iso I navigated to with the local filesystem browser, and once that pool existed, I could never use that iso again till I first deleted the auto generated pool.
On 03/13/2017 10:24 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:42:37 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file for installation it's telling me "<filename> must be a file or device, not a directory". This is nonsense as the ISO is unquestionably a file.
Is this a new bug?
Had you used it in virt-manager previously? I'm pretty sure I remember hitting a bug where virt-manager would auto generate an entry for a storage pool to hold an iso I navigated to with the local filesystem browser, and once that pool existed, I could never use that iso again till I first deleted the auto generated pool.
That's news to me. If you can reproduce, please file a bug with virt-manager --debug output
Thanks, Cole
On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 10:24 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:42:37 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Trying to set up a new VM using virt-manager (KVM/QEMU) , something I've done several times before now. However on specifying an ISO file for installation it's telling me "<filename> must be a file or device, not a directory". This is nonsense as the ISO is unquestionably a file.
Is this a new bug?
Had you used it in virt-manager previously? I'm pretty sure I remember hitting a bug where virt-manager would auto generate an entry for a storage pool to hold an iso I navigated to with the local filesystem browser, and once that pool existed, I could never use that iso again till I first deleted the auto generated pool.
I have had used virt-manager multiple times with other ISOs, just not with this one. I've sent the log to Cole (BTW it seems to log to ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log by default, i.e. when run without options).
poc
On 03/14/17 00:02, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I have had used virt-manager multiple times with other ISOs, just not with this one. I've sent the log to Cole (BTW it seems to log to ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log by default, i.e. when run without options).
Great.....
Looking forward to hearing the results.
BTW, can your reveal what iso you were attempting to use?
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 07:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 00:02, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I have had used virt-manager multiple times with other ISOs, just not with this one. I've sent the log to Cole (BTW it seems to log to ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log by default, i.e. when run without options).
Great.....
Looking forward to hearing the results.
BTW, can your reveal what iso you were attempting to use?
A Windows 10 ISO downloaded from Microsoft (i.e. legit) plus some shadier versions as a test. None of them worked.
poc
On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 23:56 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 07:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 00:02, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I have had used virt-manager multiple times with other ISOs, just not with this one. I've sent the log to Cole (BTW it seems to log to ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log by default, i.e. when run without options).
Great.....
Looking forward to hearing the results.
BTW, can your reveal what iso you were attempting to use?
A Windows 10 ISO downloaded from Microsoft (i.e. legit) plus some shadier versions as a test. None of them worked.
To clarify: none of them worked today. Last time I tried this was several months ago and they did work, so something has changed in the meantime. Currently using virt-manager-1.4.0-5.fc25.noarch
poc
On 03/14/17 08:01, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
A Windows 10 ISO downloaded from Microsoft (i.e. legit) plus some shadier versions as a test. None of them worked.
To clarify: none of them worked today. Last time I tried this was several months ago and they did work, so something has changed in the meantime. Currently using virt-manager-1.4.0-5.fc25.noarch
OK, thanks.
I have a "shadier" version of a Win10 DVD that I installed in VirtualBox last year. I'll give it a try later today.
On 03/14/17 08:10, Ed Greshko wrote:
I have a "shadier" version of a Win10 DVD that I installed in VirtualBox last year. I'll give it a try later today.
Later today came earlier than expected.
I am now in the process of installing Win10 under virt-manager. The ISO file was recognized just fine.
Is it possible that you have an application that recognizes the .iso as a disk image and auto-mounts it? When I right-mouse click an iso in the FIles application, it offers to mount it using Disk Image Mounter.
Issuing "mount" from the commandline yields:
/dev/loop0p1 on /run/media/tedroche/CentOS 7 x86_64 type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500,uhelper=udisks2)
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2017-03-13 at 23:56 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 07:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 00:02, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I have had used virt-manager multiple times with other ISOs, just not with this one. I've sent the log to Cole (BTW it seems to log to ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-manager.log by default, i.e. when run without options).
Great.....
Looking forward to hearing the results.
BTW, can your reveal what iso you were attempting to use?
A Windows 10 ISO downloaded from Microsoft (i.e. legit) plus some shadier versions as a test. None of them worked.
To clarify: none of them worked today. Last time I tried this was several months ago and they did work, so something has changed in the meantime. Currently using virt-manager-1.4.0-5.fc25.noarch
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On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 08:44 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 08:10, Ed Greshko wrote:
I have a "shadier" version of a Win10 DVD that I installed in VirtualBox last year. I'll give it a try later today.
Later today came earlier than expected.
I am now in the process of installing Win10 under virt-manager. The ISO file was recognized just fine.
I had a mail from Cole explaining what happened. It's a combination of user error and a UI bug in virt-manager. I had wanted to specify the virtio drivers for Windows, but gave the directory instead of the ISO file. However the error message from virt-manager said the problem was with the Windows ISO and didn't mention the virtio problem.
IOW it's a case of "wrong error".
I corrected my mistake and it now appears to work as before.
IMHO it would make sense for virt-manager to detect the problem as soon as the user specifies the wrong thing. Instead, you get no feedback until you try the installation, at which point it complains and your only option is to start again from the beginning (none of your config choices are remembered).
poc
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 07:02 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
Is it possible that you have an application that recognizes the .iso as a disk image and auto-mounts it? When I right-mouse click an iso in the FIles application, it offers to mount it using Disk Image Mounter.
I thought of that, but no. The actual problem is a combination of user error and poor feedback from virt-manager. See my other post for details.
poc
On 03/14/17 19:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I corrected my mistake and it now appears to work as before.
Good to hear....
FWIW, I'm on my second install of Win10. The first time I didn't allocate enough disk space to allow for updates. At the update it said I could attach a USB disk to complete the process. But that didn't go all that well as I was at one point promoted to clean up tmp files and the process started telling me I had 750MB of tmp files but it ran for over 1 hour and then told me I had 4.5GB of tmp files!
If the online tax preparation software in Taiwan didn't require Windows I would not be doing this cra.... crazy install.
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 20:02 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 19:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I corrected my mistake and it now appears to work as before.
Good to hear....
FWIW, I'm on my second install of Win10. The first time I didn't allocate enough disk space to allow for updates. At the update it said I could attach a USB disk to complete the process. But that didn't go all that well as I was at one point promoted to clean up tmp files and the process started telling me I had 750MB of tmp files but it ran for over 1 hour and then told me I had 4.5GB of tmp files!
If the online tax preparation software in Taiwan didn't require Windows I would not be doing this cra.... crazy install.
An online service that requires Windows? What fresh hell is this? Here in the UK the online tax service works in any modern browser and doesn't seem to care what platform you're on. Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "tax preparation software".
poc
On 03/14/17 21:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
An online service that requires Windows? What fresh hell is this? Here in the UK the online tax service works in any modern browser and doesn't seem to care what platform you're on. Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "tax preparation software".
It isn't an "online" service. We have do download an application (a.k.a. software) and install in on Windows. It then does upload the completed data to their server. "Worse", it looks as if they developed the software with Visual Basic. :-)
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 22:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 21:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
An online service that requires Windows? What fresh hell is this? Here in the UK the online tax service works in any modern browser and doesn't seem to care what platform you're on. Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "tax preparation software".
It isn't an "online" service. We have do download an application (a.k.a. software) and install in on Windows. It then does upload the completed data to their server. "Worse", it looks as if they developed the software with Visual Basic. :-)
Good grief.
poc
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 04:07:02PM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 22:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/14/17 21:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
An online service that requires Windows? What fresh hell is this? Here in the UK the online tax service works in any modern browser and doesn't seem to care what platform you're on. Or maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "tax preparation software".
It isn't an "online" service. We have do download an application (a.k.a. software) and install in on Windows. It then does upload the completed data to their server. "Worse", it looks as if they developed the software with Visual Basic. :-)
Good grief.
poc
and it's probably chock full of bugs and security holes.
Does it perhaps work with Wine? (Prolly not, but hey, it might!)
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