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Bug 873582 - The usage of manual doc and error message about 'sparse' should be consistent in virt-install
Summary: The usage of manual doc and error message about 'sparse' should be consistent...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: python-virtinst
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: virt-mgr-maint
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks: 1210572
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-11-06 08:54 UTC by Cui Lei
Modified: 2015-04-10 06:06 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1210572 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2014-01-28 17:08:00 UTC
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Description Cui Lei 2012-11-06 08:54:43 UTC 
Description
The usage of manual doc and error message about 'sparse' are different in virt-install
For the usage about 'sparse' of manual doc in virt-install:
...
         sparse
             whether to skip fully allocating newly created storage. Value is ’true’ or ’false’. Default is ’true’ (do not fully allocate).
...
But when use '--nonsparse' with '--disk' parameters,
Error message would be pop up as:
ERROR    Cannot mix --file, --nonsparse, or --file-size with --disk options. Use --disk PATH[,size=SIZE][,sparse=yes|no]

The two usages should be consistent, sparse=yes|no or sparse=true|false.

Version
python-virtinst-0.600.0-12.el6.noarch
libvirt-0.10.2-7.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check manual doc of virt-install about sparse, check the usage explanation.
2. Use "--nonsparse" with "--disk" at the same time
virt-install -n demo2 -r 512 -l http://tree.englab.nay.redhat.com/pub/rhel/released/RHEL-6/6.3/Server/x86_64/os/ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/demo2.img,size=5 --nonsparse
check the error message.
3. Compare the usage of manual doc and error message about 'sparse'
    
Actual results：
The usage were inconsistent,
In manual doc, which should used as "--disk ...,sparse=false,..."
But in error message, which hint Use "...--disk PATH[,size=SIZE][,sparse=yes|no]"

Expected results:
The usage should be consistent

Additional info:
Both of the usage "sparse=no" and "sparse=false" did not work.
There is a bug for this issue:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873545
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