[PLUG] QEMU Win 7 Install Error

[Dick Steffens]

On 07/10/2018 05:14 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens