[fedora-virt] "YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA ON THIS DRIVE", but the drive is wrong.

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:56 -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 05:49:51PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 18:28 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > from earlier, i'm test installing a f11 beta x86_64 guest on a f11
> > > beta x86_64 host, and i got to the warning dialog:
> > > 
> > > Error processing drive sda.
> > > Maybe it needs to be
> > > reinitialized.  YOU WILL LOSE ALL
> > > DATA ON THIS DRIVE!
> > > 
> > >   i can see from this BZ report:
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492082
> > > 
> > > i'm assuming, from what i read there, that this is a normal event and
> > > that, for a new (blank) disk image, one should do the initialization,
> > > right?
> > 
> > Yes. It really sucks that we can't remove this warning for this case -
> > every single user who creates a virtual machine will see it. And it is a
> > wholly terrifying dialog.
> 
> Couldn't virt-install initialize an empty partition table on the disk
> image before launching the guest? It would probably make many OS
> installers happier.

See the discussion on the bug report - it's non trivial when you
consider e.g. EFI and qcow2 images.

Cheers,
Mark.