Bug 466015

Summary:	unable to use VG that is active unless name matches VG name
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	berrange, crobinso, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Patrick C. F. Ernzer 2008-10-07 18:16:35 UTC

Description of problem:
On your box I have one huge VG which hosts your rootfs and has Free PE

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.4.6-3.fc10.x86_64
virt-manager-0.6.0-1.fc10.x86_64
package qemu is not installed
kvm-74-4.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open add storage pool in virt-manager
2. select type LVM
3. give a name that is different from your existing VG
3. at target path give it your existing VG (obviously there must be Free PE in the VG)
  
Actual results:
no pool with matching namelibvir: Storage error : no pool with matching name


Expected results:
clearer UI

Additional info:
it works just fine if I give as name the actual name of my VG, but I suspect other users will run into this.

Suggestions:
  - redo the dialogs so that one chooses a type first and no name in the first screen. in the second screen, if it's type LVM  offer a drop down of active VGs or the ability to create a new one
  - alternatively just document the bahavious _in the dialog_

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:38:34 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2009-11-18 13:42:25 UTC

Libvirt does have this capability, by specifying:

<source>
  <name>your_vg_name</name>
</source>

in the pool XML. This is also supported by upstream virt-manager, though I don't think it will be backported to F10, so just closing as UPSTREAM.