[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#630478: Problem with size of virtual floppies

[j20110811 at js.id.au]

It's not hard to reproduce, this does it:
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img count=2880
  /usr/bin/virt-install -n dummy  -r 192 --arch=i686 --vcpus=1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=debiansqueeze  --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img,device=floppy --noreboot --pxe

~#  /usr/bin/virt-install -n dummy  -r 192 --arch=i686 --vcpus=1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=debiansqueeze  --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img,device=floppy --noreboot --pxe --debug 2>&1 | tee /tmp/virt
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Launched with command line:
/usr/bin/virt-install -n dummy -r 192 --arch=i686 --vcpus=1 --os-type=linux --os-variant=debiansqueeze --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img,device=floppy --noreboot --pxe --debug
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Requesting libvirt URI default
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Received libvirt URI qemu:///system
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Requesting virt method 'default', hv type 'default'.
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Received virt method 'hvm'
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Hypervisor name is 'kvm'
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    parse_disk: returning {'format': None, 'bus': None, 'readOnly': False, 'volInstall': None, 'path': '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img', 'device': 'floppy', 'volName': None, 'conn': <libvirt.virConnect instance at 0x1ae5908>, 'size': None, 'driverCache': None, 'shareable': False, 'sparse': True}
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Path '/var/lib/libvirt/images' is target for pool 'default'. Creating volume 'fd1440.img'.
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 ERROR    Error with storage parameters: Size must be specified for non existent volume path '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img'
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:42:23 DEBUG    Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/cli.py", line 480, in disk_prompt
     dev = VirtualDisk(**arg_dict)
   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line 437, in __init__
     self.__validate_params()
   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line 946, in __validate_params
     self.__check_if_path_managed()
   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/virtinst/VirtualDisk.py", line 864, in __check_if_path_managed
     "existent volume path '%s'" % self.path))
ValueError: Size must be specified for non existent volume path '/var/lib/libvirt/images/fd1440.img'
root at Boomer:~#


t at Boomer:~# virsh --connect qemu:///system vol-list default
Name                 Path 
-----------------------------------------
Donkey.img           /var/lib/libvirt/images/Donkey.img 
fd.img               /var/lib/libvirt/images/fd.img 
grub-floppy.img      /var/lib/libvirt/images/grub-floppy.img 
root-rh-7.3.img      /var/lib/libvirt/images/root-rh-7.3.img 
Win7.img             /var/lib/libvirt/images/Win7.img

root at Boomer:~# 
root at Boomer:~#