Description of problem: Following test day instructions: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Virtualization_URL_Guest_Install, virt-install part % sudo virt-install --name test-day-vm --ram 2048 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/test-day-vm.img,size=10 \ --location http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/20/x86_64/os/ Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... | 2.2 kB 00:00:00 !!! Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 9.8 MB 00:00:06 !!! ERROR 'NoneType' object is not iterable Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start test-day-vm otherwise, please restart your installation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20.noarch virt-install-0.10.0-4.git79196cdf.fc20.noarch How reproducible: Not very. I think it must have been some temporary network error which derailed the installation. Worked on the second try.
Yeah a bunch of the f20 mirrors are incomplete, so when you use download.fedoraproject.org it will bounce you around to a whole bunch of different mirrors. If one is busted it can mess up the install. Can you look in ~/.cache/virt-manager/virt-install.log, search for that error message and paste the full traceback here?
[Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:04:27 virt-install 23245] DEBUG (urlfetcher:92) Fetching URI: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/20/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img [Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:04:28 virt-install 23245] ERROR (cli:264) 'NoneType' object is not iterable [Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:04:28 virt-install 23245] DEBUG (cli:266) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-install", line 716, in start_install dom = guest.start_install(meter=meter, noboot=options.noreboot) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 369, in start_install self._prepare_install(meter, dry) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 262, in _prepare_install util.make_scratchdir(self.conn, self.type)) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/installer.py", line 212, in prepare self._prepare(guest, meter, scratchdir) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/distroinstaller.py", line 422, in _prepare self._prepare_kernel_url(guest, fetcher) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/distroinstaller.py", line 327, in _prepare_kernel_url kernel, initrd, args = store.acquireKernel(guest) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable [Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:04:28 virt-install 23245] DEBUG (cli:277) Domain installation does not appear to have been successful.
Fixed upstream now
virt-manager-0.10.0-5.git1ffcc0cc.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.10.0-5.git1ffcc0cc.fc20
Package virt-manager-0.10.0-5.git1ffcc0cc.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing virt-manager-0.10.0-5.git1ffcc0cc.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-21095/virt-manager-0.10.0-5.git1ffcc0cc.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
virt-manager-0.10.0-5.git1ffcc0cc.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.