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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, 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.

  it might be getting overly verbose but what about adding a simple:

  "Note:  For a freshly-created drive, this is perfectly normal."

> >   my only concern is that *my* warning refers to drive "sda"
> > whereas, if i click on the "Details" tab of this VM that i'm
> > creating, it refers to a target device of "hda".  should those two
> > device file designators not match?  because given that my host
> > hard drive has the name "sda", i'm just a wee bit reluctant to
> > click "Initialize" when it seems that virt-manager is confused
> > about what its own hard drive is.
>
> Computers suck.
>
> virt-manager says "hda" because we're giving the guest an IDE disk.
>
> anaconda says "sda" because the Linux SCSI layer is now used for IDE
> disks.
>
> IMHO "sda" and "hda" are meaningless and have no place in a GUI, but ...

  except *now* it says "vda".  :-)  i'm getting used to it.

rday
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