[virt-tools-list] Virt-manager doesn't attach Sheepdog storage VDI disk correctly

[Cole Robinson]

On 08/03/2015 04:58 AM, Dmitriy Slachshyov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently, I 've installed libvirt (version 1.2.17) and sucessfully attached
> working sheepdog storage (version 0.9.2) as a pool.
> I use virt-manager 1.2.1
> 
> Everything looks fine. I can create and remove VDI disks in the storage pool
> without any errors.
> 
> Everytime, when I try to connect my created VDI disk using virt-manager to any
> virtual machine, I see that my attached disk is not a disk from sheepdog
> storage. While connecting VDI storage disk, the disk creates on the local file
> system (newly created storage with full path $HOME/test).
> 
> So, I can't attach real VDI disk from sheepdog storage to my virtual machine.
> 
> As I see, this problem appears because the sheepdog's target path is NULL
> and/or xml-parsing isn't valid for sheepdog.
> 
> The commands at bottom of message may help you!
> 
> # virsh pool-list
>  Name                 State      Autostart
> -------------------------------------------
>  default              active     yes       
>  $MYUSER              active     yes       # suddenly created storage pool
> while connecting sheeddog's VDI disk to.
>  LVM                  active     yes       
>  sheepdog             active     yes       
> 
> # virsh pool-dumpxml sheepdog
> <pool type='sheepdog'>
>   <name>sheepdog</name>
>   <uuid>7333590b-1dcc-46e2-9af6-09c9c96af70a</uuid>
>   <capacity unit='bytes'>19414155264</capacity>
>   <allocation unit='bytes'>25198592</allocation>
>   <available unit='bytes'>19388956672</available>
>   <source>
>     <host name='192.168.100.10'/>
>     <name>sheepdog</name>
>   </source>
> </pool>
> 
> # virsh vol-list sheepdog
>  Name                 Path                                    
> --------------------------------------------
>  test                 test                                    
> 
> # dog vdi list -a 192.168.100.10
>  Name  Id  Size    Used    Shared    Creation time      VDI id    Copies  Tag
>  test  0   8.0 GB  0.0 MB  0.0 MB    2015-08-02 00:09   7c2b25    2:2
> 
> 
> Also look at the next issue:
> 
> - <disk type='file' device='disk'>             # It's automatically created by
> virt-manager
> + <disk type='network'>                        # I made it manually and it works
>     <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
> -   <source file='$HOME/test'/>
> +   <source protocol="sheepdog" name="test"/>
>     <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
>     <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
>   </disk>

Thanks for the report. Please provide virt-manager --debug when reproducing,
from app start to app shutdown

- Cole