Bug 532746

Summary: virt-inst asks to Re-Initialize sda drive while creating a VM(despite creating a _new_ vm image
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart>
Component: python-virtinstAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: berrange, clalance, crobinso, jforbes, virt-maint
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Description Kashyap Chamarthy 2009-11-03 17:17:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
virt-inst asks to Re-Initialize sda drive while creating a VM(despite creating a _new_ vm image) 

"Error processing drive sda Maybe it needs to be reinitialized. YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA ON THIS DRIVE"

I can also confirm that the disk image is a _new_ one ( and _not_ an existing disk image which has old data from a previous guest)
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domname=testbox
location=http://10.65.x.x/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/
vmimage="/export/libvirtimages/$domname.img"

echo "Creating domain $domname" 

echo "Image is here  $vmimage"
echo "Location of the OS sources $location"

virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
    --network=bridge:br0 \
    --extra-args="ks=http://10.65.y.y/ks-with-brtfs.ks console=tty0
console=ttyS0,9600" \
    --name $domname \
    --file=$vmimage \
    --file-size=8 \
    --ram 1024 \
    --accelerate \
    --nonsparse \
    --location=$location \
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Note: here also tried with --force (which says "yes" for all prompts) with virt-install. does not improve the result


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst: 0.400.3
host: F11(x64) 
guest: F11(x64)


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use virt-install as in description. After picking the image(and a few details from kickstart, it asks to Re-initialize the drive. (though this proceeds if we /do/ click on Re-initialize the drive)



Actual results:
A warning is thrown : "Error processing drive sda Maybe it needs to be reinitialized. YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA ON THIS DRIVE"

Expected results:
No warning should be thrown. (or atleast virt-inst _should_ proceed silently when --force is used.

I have not tried with the latest python-virtinst(0.500.0) from rahwide as I currently don't have an installed "host" with rawhide/f12beta. 

any clue on what I'm missing here?
Comment 1 Kashyap Chamarthy 2009-11-03 17:22:31 UTC 
Kickstart I used..
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install
text
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw somepassword
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Asia/Kolkata
bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" icantbelieveitsnotbtr
clearpart --linux
part /boot --fstype ext3     --size=100
part /     --fstype ext3     --size=1500
part /export --fstype btrfs   --size=2000
%packages
@core
@editors
@text-internet
%end
%post
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And I haven't seen any info from the logs (/var/log/libvirt/qemu/testbox.log)
Comment 2 Chris Lalancette 2009-11-04 08:54:38 UTC 
Yes, this is a known issue.  I'm actually going to close this as a dup of BZ 492082, which has gone on for quite some time.

Chris Lalancette

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 492082 ***