When connecting to libvirtd with a remote virtmanager.... When you go to create a new virtual machine, you are asked to supply the path to the ISO (If you choose to use ISO installation) However, that path does not accept the path name I provide it. It says the path does not exist. In reality, the path exists both on the client where I'm running virt-manager and the server, where I'm connecting to the libvirtd. It is an NFS mount (via autofs) on both the client and virtualization host. This remote virt-manager connection has worked fine for managing hosts. Just before and after I hit 'Forward' after typing in the ISO path, I see this in /var/log/messages on the virtualization host: Jun 5 10:32:04 nada1 libvirtd: 10:32:04.788: error : Domain not found Jun 5 10:32:10 nada1 libvirtd: 10:32:10.215: error : Domain not found pkg versions on both client (my fedora 11 desktop) and server: virt-manager-0.7.0-4.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.2-8.fc11.x86_64 This is fedora11 preview, with yum update run a few times on both sides to get the latest packages. Therefore, /etc/fedora-release says: Fedora release 11 (Leonidas) Detailed instructions to re-produce: * Set up the libvirt on the server to accept remote connections. * On the client, start virt-manager * File -> Add Connection * Hypvervisor: QEMU/KVM * Connection: Remove Password or Kerberos * Hostname: <name of virtualization host> * Enter the authenticatoin details set up on the virtualization host when prompted for authentication name/password * Click 'New' * Provide a name for the machine * Keep 'Local install media (ISO image or CDROM) checked * Provide a full path to the ISO file. In my case, it is: /data/mirrors/redhat/fedora/releases/test/11-Preview/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-11-Preview-x86_64-DVD.iso * OS Type: Fedora 11 * Version: Fedora 11 * Click Forward * Notice the "Error setting install media location." message. It reports that it could not find the media. When I ssh in to the virtualzation host (as root and with -X so graphics are re-directed), and then use the virt-manager on the virtualization host directly, the path I provide is accepted and I can continue on. While researching to see if others reported this, I came across two similar bugs. They don't seem to be the problem here though. 493692 (but I have selinux disabled on both the host and the guest) 493743 (but I seem to have trouble sooner than they do in that bug) I'm in a position to be able to try out new packages if necessary.
Thanks for the report This is similar to #502204 - we should use the storage pool interface everywhere we are attaching an ISO/image file to a guest
Fixed upstream: http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/c18281683490 Moving to POST.
*** Bug 505429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there any progress on getting this patch packaged in the current fedora 11 release?
virt-manager-0.7.0-6.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.7.0-6.fc11?_csrf_token=8d215225cd9b1943cd947603a037c8db9ad28548
virt-manager-0.7.0-6.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-manager'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-9871
This should be fixed by virt-manager-0.7.0-7.fc11 now in stable. Closing.