Bug 769390
| Summary: | Switching to spice causes failure to start VM with old machine value, error message isn't that useful | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dan Williams <dcbw> |
| Component: | qemu | Assignee: | Fedora Virtualization Maintainers <virt-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | amit.shah, berrange, cfergeau, crobinso, dougsland, dpierce, dwmw2, gcosta, hbrock, itamar, jaswinder, jforbes, knoel, scottt.tw, virt-maint |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-02-11 22:24:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Dan Williams
2011-12-20 17:18:00 UTC
This is kind of a difficult problem. we can't automatically change the machine value since it can have many other subtle side effects, changing low level hw details that make windows require reactivation for example. granted linux doesn't really care, but then again virt-manager doesn't know what OS your guest is running. the ideal way this would work is: - qemu has a verbose capabilities reporting system, communicating what devices/features it supports possibly dependent on the 'machine' type - libvirt consumes this and forwards it through it's capabilities API - virt-manager consumes this, sees that the qemu binary supports virtio-serial + spice but not your old machine version, disables the spice option in the UI with possibly some useful tooltip unfortunately none of that exists (though its the end goal for me at least). there are various other BZs tracking that work. reassigning this bug to qemu for a better error message at least if machine type doesn't support a particular hw option. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Well this was never fixed, and at this point the effort of adding that fix isn't too compelling given that we are dealing with very old machine types here. So just closing as WONTFIX |