Bug 1021000

Summary:	virsh: filesystem paths are not taken relative to cwd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	21	CC:	berrange, clalancette, eskultet, itamar, jforbes, laine, libvirt-maint, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2013-10-18 18:04:32 UTC

Description of problem:
When I run virsh from the commandline, I expect paths to refer to local files...
But this only works when I give the full path.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-client-1.1.3-2.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
virsh change-media fedora20 hda ./Fedora-20-Beta-TC5-i386-netinst.iso → doesn't work
virsh change-media fedora20 hda `pwd`/Fedora-20-Beta-TC5-i386-netinst.iso → works

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Comment 2 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2015-05-29 15:25:35 UTC

Still present in libvirt-client-1.2.13.1-1.fc21.x86_64.

Comment 3 Erik Skultety 2015-06-01 12:04:40 UTC

The problem resides in CWD of the libvirt daemon, please see the same issue here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208763

Since libvirt-1.2.15 the documentation has been modified accordingly in a way that any path is required to be absolute, this however can't be easily fixed in the code, because if someone already has a configured VM with path set as relative (relative to '/'), by adding a check to forbid relative paths would unfortunately cause the VM definition to be lost at daemon restart.