Description of problem: virt-install with '--disk /path/to/CAPS' gets converted to lowercase and fails (but '--disk path=/path/to/CAPS' doesn't): $ virt-install --connect=qemu:///session -n aos-native-install -r 1024 -l http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os/ --initrd-inject=/home/oliver/tmp-repos/aos/spin-kickstarts/fedora-aos.ks --extra-args "ks=file:/fedora-aos.ks" --disk /home/oliver/VirtualMachines/images/test-aos-native-install.img WARNING: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-Q7tyry/pkcs11: No such file or directory File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 995, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 980, in main guest = build_guest_instance(conn, options) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 516, in build_guest_instance options.disksize, options.sparse) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 162, in get_disks get_disk(disk[idx], size[idx], sparse, guest, is_file_path) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 137, in get_disk dev, size = cli.parse_disk(guest, diskopts) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/cli.py", line 1558, in parse_disk format=fmt) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line 649, in __init__ self.__validate_params() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line 1249, in __validate_params traceback.print_stack() ERROR Error with storage parameters: No read access to directory '/home/oliver/virtualmachines/images' This is fixed by commit 36c0e33c0ec1b725726679f6c904374578e25eba (and the following a2534dbca30fc86b26fe7df7765fda182d859fa2 looks related). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-virtinst-0.600.0-5.fc16.noarch
Fixed upstream: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=python-virtinst.git;a=commit;h=a2534dbca30fc86b26fe7df7765fda182d859fa2
python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc16
Package python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-1163/python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.