[Thincrust-devel] Errors w/ qcow output from appliance-tools

[Perry N. Myers]

Perry N. Myers wrote:
> David,
> 
> Here's some info on the problem that I've been having.
> 
> I used the attached kickstart (foo.ks) and ran:
> appliance-creator --config foo.ks --name foo -f qcow -d -v
> 
> The output includes the following:
>> writing image XML to /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo.xml
>> converting /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo-sda.raw image to 
>> /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo-sda.qcow
>> qemu-img: Could not open 
>> '/var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo-sda.qcow'
>> Unable to convert disk format to qcow, using raw disk image
>> moving disks to final location
>> moving /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo.xml to 
>> /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/out
>> moving /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo-sda.raw to 
>> /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/out
>> moving /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/tmp-N65fLE/foo-sda.qcow to 
>> /var/tmp/imgcreate-223Oxs/out
>> done
> 
> Full output is on:
> http://ovirt.pastebin.com/d1d01f7cb
> 
> foo.ks is very basic.  Just the min stuff needed to create an appliance 
> really using base-pkgs.
> 
> These are the versions I am using:
> appliance-tools-002-3.fc9.noarch
> appliance-os-001-3.fc9.noarch
> 
> I've tried this on multiple Fedora 9 hosts and had the same results.
> 
> Let me know if your investigation using this kickstart/commandline 
> reveals anything.

Follow up.  This is very odd...

The kickstart has this in it:
part /      --ondisk=sda --fstype=ext3 --size=2000

If I toggle to size 10000 it works fine

2000, 5000, 9000, 11000, 16000, 20000 failed
10000 succeeds

Why would this work with a size of 10000 but nothing else???

Perry