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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
