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Description of problem: using cache=writeback or cache=writethrough in --disk option will get an error on xenfv of virt-install Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-virtinst-0.400.3-12.el5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run command line: #virt-install -n demo -r 1024 --disk path=/tmp/demo.img,size=5,device=disk,cache=writeback --hvm -c /dev/cdrom or run command line: #virt-install -n demo -r 1024 --disk path=/tmp/demo.img,size=5,device=disk,cache=writethrough --hvm -c /dev/cdrom Actual results: ERROR POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Error creating domain: Block device type "qemu" is invalid.') Domain installation may not have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start demo'; otherwise, please restart your installation. ERROR POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Error creating domain: Block device type "qemu" is invalid.') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 895, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 757, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/sbin/virt-install", line 819, in do_install dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 541, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 633, in _do_install self.domain = self.conn.createLinux(install_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1277, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Error creating domain: Block device type "qemu" is invalid.') Expected results: install will be successful Additional info:
this issue only occurred on xenfv, not happened on xenpv or kvm
Thanks, fixed upstream: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=python-virtinst.git;a=commit;h=63476238e7099779c79bdf50134df8a1fb313b55 However given that this is pretty low impact, and cache modes don't even apply to xen anyways, I don't think this is worth fixing at this point in RHEL5. Closing WONTFIX