Bug 1325653

Summary:	RFC: virt-manager: add option for VM reinstall
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	berrange, crobinso, virt-maint
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Description Jaroslav Škarvada 2016-04-10 11:31:29 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently when you setup new VM on the first boot it asks you from where to install the VM. Unfortunately most of the devel installation images are broken (especially this is true during the devel phase), so the installation quite often fails. It seem there is no way how to restart the virt-manager installation dialog other than deletion of the VM and re-creation of the VM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-1.3.2-2.fc23.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create VM
2. In the virt-manager installation dialog set the installation source to some path with e.g. broken anaconda installer

Actual results:
Installation fail - this is expected, but there is no easy way how to restart the installation. Upon restart of the VM it shows 'no boot disk found' or similar message.

Expected results:
Button or checkbox somewhere in the virt-manager menu for 're-installation' which will show the virt-manager installation dialog again and allow to re-input the installation path/media a and restart the installation.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2016-04-11 11:48:35 UTC

there's an RFC to add an option like that for virt-install: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985201

Not sure if/how to do it in virt-manager. Install methods like pxe and import are trivial to 'reinstall' for an existing VM. CDROM is pretty simple too, just attach the media and change boot to work off cdrom (or enable the boot menu). The only interesting one is URL installs, and not sure I want to add UI and code just for that fairly limited use case. Instead I think I'm fine with pointing people at the hypothetical  virt-install --reinstall $VM --location $URL   , so duping to that other RFC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 985201 ***