[fedora-virt] f12-beta geust install fails on f11

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Oct 22 12:47:52 UTC 2009


On 10/22/2009 01:13 AM, Dale Bewley wrote:
> Host is f11 with virt-manager-0.7.0-7.fc11.x86_64
> 
> Using the guest creation wizard, I tried to install f12-beta. I pointed at a http mirror and allowed virt-manager to detect the OS and variant, but it failed with:
> 
> Unable to complete install: 'OS variant 'fedora12-beta; does not exist in our dictionary for OS type 'linux''
> 
> I went back and selected F11, and it works fine so far of course. Would it make sense if the auto-detect could sense alpha and beta releases then punt to a default such as the most recent release of the distribution or some other common denominator? 
> 

Can you try pulling virtinst from updates testing?:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update python-virtinst

There was a relevant fix that I believe hasn't been pushed to stable
yet. Please report the results here.

Thanks,
Cole




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