[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#510340: virt-manager: Cannot mount CD image when VM is running.

[Robert LeBlanc]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.6.0-6
Severity: important

I have a little problem with attaching a CD image or physical CD. When the VM is powered on I get this error 
message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 1664, in connect_cdrom
    self.vm.connect_cdrom_device(type, source, target)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 846, in connect_cdrom_device
    self._change_cdrom(result, origdisk)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 817, in _change_cdrom
    self.attach_device(newdev)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 778, in attach_device
    self.vm.attachDevice(xml)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 212, in attachDevice
    if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainAttachDevice() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error Cannot determine QEMU argv syntax (null)

I can attach the CD before the VM is powered on and it works fine. I was not able to do this before updating to the 
virt-manager packages in SID.

The problem is on a KVM (72+dfsg-4) VM although virt-manager says the hypervisor is qemu (0.9.1-8).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.22.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.7-16         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.6.4-7        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.16.6-1       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.12.11-4      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.20.5-3       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-common           2.22.2-2lenny1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python-dbus               0.82.4-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  python-glade2             2.12.1-6       GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2             2.22.0-1       Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk-vnc            0.3.7-4        A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (Pyth
ii  python-gtk2               2.12.1-6       Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libvirt            0.4.6-10       libvirt Python bindings
ii  python-urlgrabber         3.1.0-4        A high-level cross-protocol url-gr
ii  python-vte                1:0.16.14-4    Python bindings for the VTE widget
ii  python2.5                 2.5.2-14       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  virtinst                  0.400.0-7      Programs to create and clone virtu

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  hal                           0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libvirt-bin                   0.4.6-10   the programs for the libvirt libra

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  virt-viewer                   0.0.3-2    Displaying the graphical console o

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