[fedora-virt] Bug or what?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:02:29PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> If I try to install a new virtual machine (I'm running on
> fedora 15 with all update, but no virt-preview) using
> the virt-manager and going through the new VM wizard
> pages, I get errors if I take a path it apparently
> doesn't like:
> 
> If I tell it to use existing or other storage and
> browse local and pick a qcow2 image file I manually
> created outside of virt-manager thusly:
> 
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 testf16b.img 20G
> 
> qemu-img info testf16b.img 
> image: testf16b.img
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 20G (21474836480 bytes)
> disk size: 140K
> cluster_size: 65536
> 
> When I advance to actually creating the virtual machine,
> it tells me there is no disk space. Looking at the hardware
> info it says: Storage size 0.19 MB
> 
> If, on the other hand, when I get to the storage def
> page, I use virt-manager to create a new qcow2 image
> file via the gui dialog, then when I go to start the
> actual install, the hardware info page does indeed
> know that the image is a 20G virtual disk.
> 
> If this is a bug, what would I report it against?
> If it isn't a bug, how the heck do I install a new
> virtual machine pointing to an arbitrary disk image
> file?

I would say this is a bug in virt-manager.  In any case, file it
against that component, and it will get moved to the right component.

Rich.

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