Bug 2318414

Summary:	Cloned Debian VM does not start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Katzer <jokatzer>
Component:	gnome-boxes	Assignee:	Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	41	CC:	awilliam, cfergeau, feborges, gnome-sig, marcandre.lureau, suraj.ghimire7
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Description Joachim Katzer 2024-10-13 15:21:34 UTC

After creating a clone of VM (Debian-12), the clone does not start because it can't mount its virtual hard disks.

The original VM has a virtio device: 
  <target dev="vda" bus="virtio"/>
  <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x04" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>

But the clone gets mistakenly a SATA device:
  <target dev="sda" bus="sata"/>
  <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/>

In Debian the system partition is configured as: /dev/vda5 /mnt/btr_pool ...

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clone a VM (in GNOME-Boxes)
2. Select the clone and start it
3. Check if it is starting
Actual Results:  
A Debian-12 clone does not start, because of the different device configuration.
A Fedora Silverblue clone does start despite of the different device configuration.

Expected Results:  
A clone of a VM should have the same device configuration as the original and should boot without errors (provided the original could do it).

Comment 1 Joachim Katzer 2024-10-13 15:24:01 UTC

Host System is: Fedora 41 Beta Silverblue with layered packages boxes and virt-manager.

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2024-10-14 15:52:33 UTC

Thanks for the report! Since GNOME devs tend to prefer upstream tickets, I've filed https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues/1108 for you - if you could look out for any follow up there it'd be great.