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Bug 678790 - Linux distro list is stale and out of date
Summary: Linux distro list is stale and out of date
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virt-manager
Version: 6.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Cole Robinson
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 725086 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-19 17:29 UTC by John Poelstra
Modified: 2011-12-06 16:06 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 16:06:58 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1642 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE virt-manager bug fix and enhancement update 2011-12-06 00:50:37 UTC

Description John Poelstra 2011-02-19 17:29:42 UTC
Description of problem:

The GUI in virt-manager for creating new guests contains a number of Linux distributions that are extremely old and no longer supported.  This makes a long list of irrelevant entries to scroll past before getting to any of the current RHEL versions--Red Hat's flagship product.  Would we also want to remove unsupported releases to discourage their use?

Fedora 5 to 12 + RHEL 2.1 and 3 == 10 entries that could be removed.

In addition, the list does not include two of the more recent Ubuntu releases.  I'm not sure about the current state of other distros in the list.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-0.8.4-8.el6.noarch

Comment 2 Suzanne Logcher 2011-03-28 21:16:21 UTC
Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains 
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as an 
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to 
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the 
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2011-07-23 19:59:59 UTC
There's two parts here.

First is what you mention, that we shouldn't list OS that are no longer supported/receiving updates from their instituion (like fedora < 14, windows < XP, etc). We can track this info in virtinst's osdict, and longer term in libosinfo. virtinst probably should only list these "supported" options in its man page, with maybe a command line switch to list the full os dict, since otherwise the man page is just going to grow without bound. We can push this change upstream since it will improve general virt-manager usage anyways.

Second is that for RHEL6, we should only be listing OS options that _we_ support as a VM. Probably should just implement this a RHEL6 patch with a filter list for OS options. I think we should still have some checkbox in the UI or something to 'show all OS options' as a fallback. Also, need to make sure the distro detection works even if the detected OS option is currently hidden.

Comment 5 Cole Robinson 2011-07-24 00:39:57 UTC
*** Bug 725086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2011-07-24 00:41:23 UTC
Bhavna, Do you have a link to our VM OS support list?

Comment 7 Bhavna Sarathy 2011-07-25 14:20:25 UTC
Cole, this is our official guest support matrix.

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/virtualization_support.html#virt_matrix

Comment 8 Cole Robinson 2011-07-25 23:11:18 UTC
Thanks bhavna.

Upstream virt-manager knows how to do this filtering now, just need to turn it on for the RHEL build.

Comment 9 Cole Robinson 2011-07-28 15:28:33 UTC
Fixed in virt-manager-0.9.0-2.el6

Comment 11 zhe peng 2011-08-10 02:53:33 UTC
can reproduce with virt-manage-0.8.6-4.el6

verify with 
virt-manager-0.9.0-5.el6

During install new vm,have a filter list for OS options,and add have "show all OS options" to show all list,it can worked as expect. the filter list is same with virtinst man help now.
Verification passed.

Comment 12 Cole Robinson 2011-11-07 16:36:25 UTC
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Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:06:58 UTC
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-2011-1642.html


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