[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#839781: virtinst: virt-clone changes the file format from qcow to raw

[Daniel Bareiro]

Package: virtinst
Version: 1:1.0.1-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I think I've found a bug in virt-clone. When I clone a virtual machine
with a qcow disk, the cloned machine changes its disk to raw format.

However, the XML configuration file for the cloned machine indicates a
qcow type. Due to this inconsistency, a failure occurs when start the
cloned virtual machine since Libvirt expect to find a qcow disk, but it
is a raw disk.

Sequence of steps to reproduce the problem:

# virt-clone --original example --name clone1 --file /space/images/clone1.qcow


ss01:/var/lib/libvirt/images# file example.qcow2
example.qcow2: QEMU QCOW Image (v3), 2147483648 bytes

ss01:/space/images# file clone1.qcow
clone1.qcow: DOS/MBR boot sector


Thanks in advance.


Kind regards,
Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to es_AR.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtinst depends on:
ii  python-libvirt     1.2.9-1
ii  python-libxml2     2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2
ii  python-urlgrabber  3.9.1-4.1
pn  python2.7:any      <none>
pn  python:any         <none>

Versions of packages virtinst recommends:
ii  qemu-utils   1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u6
ii  virt-viewer  1.0-1

virtinst suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Ing. Daniel Bareiro

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