[fedora-virt] Eye Candy for Virt-Manager

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:42:31AM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> On 05/15/2014 04:09 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > You could try this before starting virt-manager as a workaround, but
> > basically it's a permissions / authentication issue so it still might
> > not work depending on your exact configuration:
> > 
> > export LIBGUESTFS_BACKEND=direct
> 
> Thanks, that did it but apparently the inspection only works with raw
> images; it didn't show any icon for all of the qcow2 based ones :(

That must be something to do with permissions (perhaps on the backing
files if they have them).  libguestfs can deal with qcow2 files just
fine.  You'll have to run with the --debug option to find out what's
really happening.

Rich.

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