Bug 698069 - insufficient disk space during guest installation when use qcow2 img (less than 4G)
Summary: insufficient disk space during guest installation when use qcow2 img (less th...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: python-virtinst
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Cole Robinson
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-20 05:07 UTC by zhe peng
Modified: 2011-04-20 14:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-04-20 14:11:54 UTC
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Description zhe peng 2011-04-20 05:07:47 UTC
Description of problem:
insufficient disk space during guest installation when use qcow2 img which created by qemu-img

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst-0.500.5-3.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create qcow2 image using qemu-img
#qemu-img create /tmp/test.img 4G -f  qcow2
 Formatting '/tmp/test.img', fmt=qcow2 size=4294967296 encryption=off cluster_size=0
2:# qemu-img info test.img
image: test.img
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 4.0G (4294967296 bytes)
disk size: 136K
cluster_size: 65536

2.use virt-install to install a guest
#virt-install -n test -r 1024 --hvm --accelerate -c /tmp/img/rhel61.iso --disk path=/tmp/test.img,format=qcow2 
3.during guest installation:
 Which type of installation would you like?
select "Use All Space" or "Replace Existing Linux System" and continue
 after select server type:
Actual results:
 an error dialog shown up
insufficient disk space
You need more space on the following file systems:
93M on /
only occur on 4G img file, 6G and 8G can worked well.
Expected results:
installation continue

Additional info:
if select create custom layout,and create partition manually, install will succeed.

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2011-04-20 14:11:54 UTC
Sounds like the default OS install just uses more than 4G of space, so I don't think this is a bug. Closing as NOTABUG

Unless you are saying this is specific to qcow2 or sparse images or something. If so, please reopen.


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