[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#716672: virtinst: virt-clone changes image format from qcow2 to raw

[Roy Meulekamp]

Package: virtinst
Version: 0.600.1-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When I use virt-clone to clone a guest machine with an image file in the qcow2 format, it changes the format to raw in the XML file of the clone. The cloned image file itself is still qcow2 as it is suppossed.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create a guest with qcow2 image file
2) Clone with virt-clone -o <guest name> --auto-clone
3) Start the clone; The harddisk is not bootable
    virsh dumpxml <clone name> show type='raw' instead of type='qcow2' => changing this manually solves the boot problem

When Google'd, the bug is also in Red Hat's bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795400

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.48 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtinst depends on:
ii  python             2.7.3-4
ii  python-libvirt     0.9.12-11+deb7u1
ii  python-libxml2     2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  python-support     1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4

Versions of packages virtinst recommends:
pn  qemu         <none>
pn  virt-viewer  <none>

virtinst suggests no packages.

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