[PLUG] QEMU Win 7 Install Error

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:

>> Error continue install: Cannot access storage file 
>> '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7-80GB.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:133): No such 
>> file or directory
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 2339, in 
>> _check_install_status
>>     virtinst_guest.continue_install()
>>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 524, in 
>> continue_install
>>     start_xml, final_xml, is_initial, False)
>>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 420, in 
>> _create_guest
>>     dom.create()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1035, in create
>>     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
>> libvirtError: Cannot access storage file 
>> '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7-80GB.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:133): No such 
>> file or directory

> /var/lib/libvirt/images exists but is empty. Am I supposed to create 
> win7-80GB.qcow2 and run the install again? And should it be a file or a 
> directory?
>
> Has anyone run into this before? It's mostly Greek to me.

Dick,

   It looks more like a Python error traceback than a Greek one. I would
'touch win7-80GB.qcow2' and try it again. Make sure the permissions match
those of the parent directories. This ensures the file exists and won't harm
a retry.

Regards,

Rich