virt-manager fails to create a filesystem passthrough with the Proxy driver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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virt-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In the "Add New Virtual Hardware" dialog virt-manager let's you create a filesystem passthrough with the "Proxy" type. That's very useful for safely sharing data owned by a user. However the process fails to complete with an error:
Error adding device: unsupported configuration: unknown fs driver type 'proxy'
The traceback of the error is:
Error adding device: unsupported configuration: unknown fs driver type 'proxy'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
return self._redefine_
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
return self.vmm.
File "/usr/lib/
if ret is None:raise libvirtError(
libvirtError: unsupported configuration: unknown fs driver type 'proxy'
This seems wrong because "virtfs-
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.