Adding a scsi disk to a qemu based disk fails with the following error: nable to complete install: 'Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/addhardware.py", line 513, in add_device self.vm.add_device(xml) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 724, in add_device self.get_connection().define_domain(newxml) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 446, in define_domain self.vmm.defineXML(xml) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 601, in defineXML if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainDefineXML() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: virDomainDefineXML() failed Invalid harddisk device name: sda
Qemu guests can't seem to handle sd* disks, so I committed a patch to disable the scsi disk option for non-xen hvm guests: http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel?cs=1eeb1546b21b
Non-Xen based QEMU can handle SCSI disks since QEMU 0.9.1. It is simply libvirt is not up2date enough to support it. Rather than disabling it in virt-manager we should add SCSI support to libvirt.
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This particular error is fixed in F9, but won't be backported to F8. So, closing as CURRENTRELEASE.