[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#503007: Bug#503007: virtinst tries to create a temporal file in inexistent directory /var/lib/xen and dies

[Guido Günther]

fixed 503007 0.400.0-4
thanks

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:21:33PM -0200, Nahuel Greco wrote:
> 0.400.0-3 has another kind of errors:
> 
> morron:/tmp# virt-install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 34, in <module>
>     import virtinst
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/__init__.py", line
> 28, in <module>
>     from Guest import Guest, VirtualNetworkInterface, XenGuest, \
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/virtinst/Guest.py", line 326
>     if os.getuid() == 0:
>                        ^
This is fixed now, thanks.

> TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
> morron:/tmp#
> 
> After fixing that and a couple of other TabError's, I found that
> running virt-install without parameters as before gave me no
> interactive creation of the virtual machine:
> 
> morron:/tmp# virt-install
> ERROR    A name is required for the virtual machine.
> morron:/tmp#
Yes. 0.400.0 dropped most of the interactive code. You can use --name,
--ram, etc. Looking at the code your problem is inded fixed in 0.400
since it uses .virtinst/boot if /var/lib/xen doesn't exist.
 -- Guido