[libvirt] [RFC] Fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461931

[harryxiyou]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Osier Yang <jyang at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/04/13 16:02, harryxiyou wrote:
>>
>> Hi Osier,
>>
>>  From the actual bug messages like fowllowing
>>
>> Actual results:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvol.py", line 191,
>> in _async_vol_create
>>      poolobj = self.vol.install(meter=meter)
>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/virtinst/Storage.py", line
>> 893, in install
>>      (self.name, str(e)))
>> RuntimeError: Couldn't create storage volume
>> 'virt-stor-dir-bochs.img': '/usr/bin/qemu-img exited with non-zero
>> status 1 and signal 0'
>>
>>
>> It seems that libvirt calls command 'qemu-img' to create a volume of bochs
>> but
>> it failed. So the problem may no matter with Libvirt itself. I am not
>> sure if qemu
>> supports to create a volume of bochs. Or something wrong with QEMU?
>
>
> You didn't understand meaning of the bug, the root request here is the
> capability support for storage driver (like virsh capabilities for the
> hypervisor
> drivers, e.g. what pool types it supports, what volume types each pool type
> supports, even may what operations/APIs the pool type support, ...etc).
>

Yup, i think these are more deserved for Libvirt storage driver. And
it is different
from Michal's project. Should i come up with these ideas for GSOC 2013?


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Thanks
Harry Wei