[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#699701: virt-manager: virtmanager provides storage format "vdi" but that doesn't work

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.4-2
Severity: normal



Hi.

I was trying to use a VirtualBox image as imported disk in virt-manager.
It offers a "vdi" type as storage format in the VM.

But when I try to start the VM it says:
Error starting domain: internal error unknown disk format 'vdi' for /tmp/test.vdi

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 117, in tmpcb
    callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1090, in startup
    self._backend.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 620, in create
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error unknown disk format 'vdi' for /tmp/test.vdi


AFAIK, libvirt shouldn't have support for vdi, at least it's not listed here:
http://libvirt.org/storage.html#StorageBackendDir


Any ideas?

Cheers,
Chris.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2             3.2.5-1+build1
ii  librsvg2-common    2.36.1-1
ii  python             2.7.3-3
ii  python-dbus        1.1.1-1
ii  python-glade2      2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-gnome2      2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gtk-vnc     0.5.1-2
ii  python-gtk2        2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-ipy         1:0.75-1
ii  python-libvirt     0.9.12-6
ii  python-support     1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4
ii  python-vte         1:0.28.2-5
ii  virtinst           0.600.3-3

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme         3.4.0-2
ii  libvirt-bin              0.9.12-6
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.12-5

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gnome-keyring        3.4.1-5
ii  python-gnomekeyring  2.32.0+dfsg-2+b1
ii  python-guestfs       1:1.18.11-1
pn  ssh-askpass          <none>
pn  virt-viewer          <none>

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