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Description qcow is in the virt-image 5 manual and qed is missed. Version: # rpm -qa libvirt python-virtinst qemu-kvm python-virtinst-0.600.0-18.el6.noarch qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.414.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.10.2-29.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Prepare a virtual image XML descriptor file with qcow disk included. # cat image.xml <image> <name>demo</name> <domain> <boot type="hvm"> <guest> <arch>x86_64</arch> </guest> <os> <loader dev="hd"/> </os> <drive disk="mydisk" target="hda"/> <drive disk="user" target="hdb"/> </boot> <devices> <vcpu>1</vcpu> <memory>262144</memory> interface/> <graphics/> </devices> </domain> <storage> <disk id="mydisk" file="kvm-rhel6.5-x86_64-raw.img" use="system" format="raw"/> <disk id="user" file="/var/lib/libvirt/images/user.img" use="user" format="qcow" size="1000"/> </storage> </image> 2. Create a virtual machine from image.xml #virt-image image.xml Creating guest demo... Allocating 'user.img' | 1.0 GB 00:00 ERROR internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/user.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,format=qcow,cache=none: 'qcow' invalid format Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start demo otherwise, please restart your installation. 3. Check the format description in manual. #man 5 virt-image ... the format attribute giving the format of the disk file. Currently, this can be one of: "raw" "iso","qcow", "qcow2", or "vmdk". Actual results: qcow is not supported by qemu-kvm and qcow is in the virt-image manual. Expected results: According to the qemu-kvm notification, qcow format should be deteleted from virt-image 5 manual. Additional info:
Reproduce with python-virtinst-0.600.0-18.el6.noarch. Verified with package: python-virtinst-0.600.0-20.el6.noarch virt-manager-0.9.0-20.el6.x86_64 steps: 1. Prepare a virtual image XML descriptor file with qcow disk included as Comment 0. 2. Create a virtual machine from image.xml # virt-image image.xml Creating guest demo... ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/1 qemu-kvm: -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/user.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,format=qcow,cache=none: 'qcow' invalid format Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start demo otherwise, please restart your installation. 3. Check the format description in manual. # man 5 virt-image STORAGE ... · the format attribute giving the format of the disk file. Currently, this can be one of: "raw", "iso", "qcow2", or "vmdk". ... Since qcow format has been deteleted from virt-image 5 manual, so marked as verified.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1444.html