Bug 242662

Summary:	Difficult to use existing virtual machines (rfe)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alex Hudson (Fedora Address) <fedora>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	triage, xen-maint
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Alex Hudson (Fedora Address) 2007-06-05 11:35:14 UTC

Description of problem:

This is a request for an enhancement. At the moment, if you have existing
virtual machines (e.g., a Qemu disk) it is difficult to bring it into
virt-manager - the "New machine" wizard insists on having install media
available, even though you can specify a harddisk image file which contains a
pre-existing installation.

Work-around: give it any CD, and tell it to install from that. Before the
machine can boot, shut it down, remove the CD. You can then start the virtual
machine, which seems to run correctly.

I recognise there may be issues with bringing virtual machines created by other
software into the virt-manager system, but it seems worth at least giving people
the option to try - even if in some instances it won't work.

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-07-25 02:12:39 UTC

change QA contact

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:49:19 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:25:42 UTC

Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug. 

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.