Bug 571854
| Summary: | No way to create a new VM with an image stored in a non-default location? | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Zack Cerza <zcerza> |
| Component: | virt-manager | Assignee: | Cole Robinson <crobinso> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | berrange, crobinso, hbrock, jforbes, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Regression |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-05-10 20:30:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Yes, I agree this UI is wonky. There is another bug tracking a simplification to the storage broswer that would allow creating a file image in an arbitrary location, and we will handle all the storage workings behind the scenes. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 557107 *** |
Description of problem: I have been using ~/Virt/ to store my VM images. It appears virt-manager has changed, because I went to create a new VM and seem to be unable to choose both a custom location and a custom size for my VM. In the "New VM" window, I can either choose the "Create a disk image on the computer's hard drive" option, which lets me choose a size but not a location, or I can choose the "Select managed or other existing storage" option, which presents a large window titled "Locate or create storage volume". That window has an immutable list of "Storage Pools" with a single item ("default"). If I press the "New Volume" button, I'm presented with another dialog that won't allow me to create the image in any non-default location - I know this not because it specifies that, but because the free space shown is around what I think my root fs has - under 1GB. /home is on a different partition and has plenty of room. If I press the "Browse Local" button, I'm presented with a file chooser titled "Locate Existing Storage". If I use that to browse to ~/Virt, it tries very hard to make me choose one of the existing images - but I don't want that, I want to create a new image for my new VM. If I Ctrl-click to deselect the existing image, and type in the name I want to use, and click "Open", everything but the "New VM" dialog closes. If I click "Forward" there, I see that the size of my possibly-to-be-created image is "1.0Gb". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.2-1.fc12.noarch