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

[Cole Robinson]

On 08/15/2015 02:21 AM, Dmitriy Slachshyov wrote:
> On Tue, 11/08/2015 at 10:02 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Can you provide XML for a _working_ volume after it's been defined?
> No, unfortunately I can't to get working XML. Every time when I try to
> create a volume from XML-file through the `virsh vol-create` command, I
> get another XML-output when I type `virsh vol-dumlxml` after successful
> creation of volume.
> 
> As I guess, the reason is in the libvirt only!
> 
>> The example XML from the link you provide, which is what we have in 
>> our
>> testsuite, has some confusing bits:
>>
>> - If specifies <key> but that's a readonly field. So I'm interested 
>> to see
>> what libvirt outputs for a working volume
> I'am also interested to see that! I am not a maintainer of sheepdog
> 
> 
>> - The volume path is 'sheepdog:myvol'. Is 'sheepdog:' just a protocol
>> specified, like http://, or does it reference the pool name?
>> - Also, from looking at the libvirt code, it seems <target><path> is 
>> readonly
>> as well, so whatever virt-manager specifies is just thrown out. So 
>> I'm curious
>> to see what libvirt spits out for a working volume
>>
>> Also please put all this in a bug report. Starting tomorrow I'm 
> 
> How can I put a request to a bug report?
> 

Please file a virt-manager upstream bug as described here:
https://virt-manager.org/bugs/

I'll get to it when I can

>> offline for
>> two weeks, I want to make sure this info doesn't get lost in the mail 
>> shuffle
>> when I come back
> 
> 
> Look at attached output as a possible evidence:
> 

Thanks, that info looks interesting, but I guess I'll probably need to set up
a sheepdog server to figure out the root issue, I think libvirt needs a bug fix.

Thanks,
Cole