Bug 952908 - virt-manager fails to open VirtualBox image file (.VDI)
Summary: virt-manager fails to open VirtualBox image file (.VDI)
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: virt-manager
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
medium
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cole Robinson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-04-17 00:28 UTC by Moez Roy
Modified: 2014-07-06 19:31 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-02-09 00:29:55 UTC
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2013-04-17 00:32 UTC, Moez Roy 		no flags Details
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Description Moez Roy 2013-04-17 00:28:13 UTC 
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Opening a VirtualBox .VDI file / image fails.

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Comment 1 Moez Roy 2013-04-17 00:29:24 UTC 
Created attachment 736574 [details]
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Comment 2 Moez Roy 2013-04-17 00:30:34 UTC 
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Comment 3 Moez Roy 2013-04-17 00:31:47 UTC 
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Comment 4 Moez Roy 2013-04-17 00:32:43 UTC 
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Comment 5 Moez Roy 2013-04-17 00:35:30 UTC 
Created attachment 736578 [details]
see the last portion of the log file
Comment 6 Martin Kletzander 2013-04-18 10:52:24 UTC 
The problem is that virt-manager doesn't detect the VDI format properly.  This can be seen from the log output where the machine is being generated with:

<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>

You can workaround this with clicking "Customize configuration before install" and select "VDI" as a format of the disk image.  The support for probing VDI files is not yet implemented, though.
Comment 7 Giuseppe Scrivano 2013-08-14 21:37:15 UTC 
given that a workaround is present for this problem, I have set the priority to "Medium".
Comment 8 Cole Robinson 2013-12-09 20:14:45 UTC 
Do not just reassign this bug to RHEL. For one thing I don't think VDI support is even compiled into RHEL6.

If you are a RHEL customer and want to report an issue, please go through the appropriate support channels.
Comment 9 Michael Mercier 2014-02-05 08:13:36 UTC 
There is the same problem with qcow2 disk. The same workaround is working.
Comment 10 Cole Robinson 2014-02-09 00:29:55 UTC 
Upstream now will always use libvirt's storage APIs to detect an images format
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