Bug 589130

Summary: USB disk not marked as removable
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component: qemuAssignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 14CC: amit.shah, berrange, clalance, crobinso, dwmw2, ehabkost, itamar, jaswinder, jforbes, knoel, scottt.tw, tburke, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Kamil Páral 2010-05-05 13:07:08 UTC
Description of problem:
I recently needed to simulate a USB stick so that anaconda can load an updates.img contents from it. I added USB disk in virt-manager to my virtual machine and mounted the image, but anaconda didn't show it. According to hansg this is a virt bug.

(14:52:38) hansg: kparal, if the delay=0 thingie does not work, can you bot F-13 again in a virtual machine with the usb disk connected, and the do cat /sys/block/sda/capability, and tell me the output
(14:54:43) kparal: hansg: # cat /sys/block/sda/capability 
(14:54:43) kparal: 52
(14:55:54) hansg: kparal, ok that is the issue, that is GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO + GENHD_FL_UP + GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY
(14:56:19) hansg: So it does not include GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE, hence we do not show it in the list of devices to choice from where your updates.img is located.
(14:56:50) hansg: [hans@localhost ~]$ cat /sys/block/sdb/capability 
(14:56:51) hansg: 53
(14:57:11) hansg: This is with a real usb stick on real hardware, and the 1 difference is GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE
(14:57:25) hansg: So I'm going to call this a virt bug.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-client-0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64
virt-viewer-0.2.0-1.fc12.x86_64
virt-manager-0.8.2-3.fc12.noarch
libvirt-0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64
virt-top-1.0.4-1.fc12.1.x86_64
python-virtinst-0.500.1-2.fc12.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Kamil Páral 2010-05-05 13:07:46 UTC
Created attachment 411592 [details]
virtual machine descriptor

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2010-05-05 14:00:18 UTC
Reproduced this. The device is definitely appearing as a USB MSD device in the guest. The 'removeable' flag in the kernel appears to be set based on the result of  SCSI INQUIRY command, so it would seem that QEMU is not returning suitable data for this command with USB MSD devices.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 15:34:36 UTC
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Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2010-11-04 09:18:02 UTC
This is still an issue for Fedora 14.

gpxe-roms-qemu-1.0.1-1.fc14.noarch
libvirt-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.8.3-2.fc14.x86_64
python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc14.noarch
qemu-common-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64
qemu-img-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64
qemu-system-x86-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64
virt-manager-0.8.5-1.fc14.noarch
virt-top-1.0.4-3.fc13.x86_64
virt-viewer-0.2.1-1.fc13.x86_64

Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2010-12-09 17:23:50 UTC
This has been filed upstream as https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/686613 for additional tracking.

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2012-05-20 22:07:28 UTC
F14 is end-of-life now. If anyone is still affected by this bug with newer qemu versions, I'd recommend following up in the (still open) upstream bug report mentioned in Comment #5