[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#594966: virt-manager: Silently labels existing disk images as 'raw'

[John Pearson]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.8.4-7
Severity: normal


Virt manager allows you to attach an existing disk image to a virtual
machine, but does not allow the user to specify the file format; it
creates XML files that specify "driver='raw'" regardless of the image
format.

Previous versions omitted the 'driver' attribute, and libvirt appeared
to determine the format at run time; however the current Squeeze version
of libvirt-bin (0.8.3-1) appears to assume 'raw' files if no 'driver'
attribute is present.

Virt-manager should allow us to use existing non-raw (e.g., qcow2) images,
by (e.g.) providing a listbox of supported file formats when adding an
existing disk image to a VM, and populating the 'driver' attribute
accordingly.

Thanks,


John.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-0briar (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.28.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  librsvg2-common               2.26.3-1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python                        2.6.5-13   interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-dbus                   0.83.1-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2                 2.17.0-4   GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2                 2.28.1-1   Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc                0.4.1-2    A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2                   2.17.0-4   Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt                0.8.3-1    libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-support                1.0.9      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-urlgrabber             3.9.1-4    A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte                    1:0.24.3-1 Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  virtinst                      0.500.3-2  Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.30.3-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libvirt-bin                   0.8.3-1    the programs for the libvirt libra

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  ssh-askpass                  1:1.2.4.1-9 under X, asks user for a passphras
ii  virt-viewer                  0.2.1-1     Displaying the graphical console o

-- no debconf information