Description of problem: as subject. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.4-4.el6.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using virt-manager to connect host B on host A (Remote tunnel over SSH ) 2. Create a new guest on host B with host A's virt-manager 3. # ll /var/lib/libvirt/boot/boot.iso -rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 195035136 Jun 17 00:47 /var/lib/libvirt/boot/boot.iso Actual results: Error setting install media location. Checking installer location failed: Could not find media '/var/lib/libvirt/boot/boot.iso'. Expected results: It can be booted up. Additional info:
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If you are trying to use an ISO on Host A to install a guest on Host B, that isn't possible. ISO media must be available on the remote host. If the ISO is on Host B, it needs to be in a libvirt storage pool. Try moving the ISO to /var/lib/libvirt/images or make /var/lib/libvirt/boot a storage pool using virt-manager.
As a thought, would it be practical to make this work? Asking because solutions exist whereby a person using a web browser can manage remote servers, and then boot those servers using a virtual CD image (iso) on the local users pc. ie Remote management of IBM blade servers using Firefox. A java applet in Firefox communicates with the blade enclosure "controller" software, and pipes (?) the iso file to the remote server. The remote server sees it as locally attached CD/DVD. I've personally used this approach before, and it generally works pretty well with decent LAN connectivity to the servers. (ie when located at the same physical site) Having the same kind of thing work through virt-manager would be useful.
Yeah I guess that's a valid RFC, no idea how we would solve it though.
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This is unlikely for 6.1, moving to 6.2
We could use new libvirt volume upload API for this.
I think libvirt would support this in a way, but exposing this in the UI in a reasonably informative way is still up in the air. Deferring to 6.3 for now.
Not urgent, and given reduced capacity for virt-manager/virtinst, just moving this to the upstream tracker.
While this is a cool idea, I don't think it's ever going to be implemented. Really the only way I can imagine it would work is to upload the ISO to the remote host, and if we are dealing with say a DVD that means a lot of data. I'm fine with just saying 'upload the media on your own, or use a URL install' unless users start suddenly clamoring for it.