virt-manager deletes active disk images

[Barry Warsaw]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

I created a new virtual machine with a larger disk image and intended on mounting my old disk image to copy everything over. I brought up the new VM details window and clicked on Add Hardware. I went through this dialog to attempt to add the existing old disk image as a new hard drive. However, during this process it looked like virt-manager was going to try to reformat the disk, but then it said it could not create it because the path to the image already existed.

I canceled out of that and virt-manager deleted the old disk image file! Obviously this is a very serious bug because all the data on that disk image is now gone. :( I'm hoping I pushed all the branches I need to Launchpad.

[Soren Hansen (soren)]

Yikes.

 priority high

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue. Is it still reproducible with the newer virt-manager in lucid?
Could you please give exact steps that I could follow to try and reproduce the issue?

Thanks.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Hi Marc, thanks. I will test this as soon as I upgrade my host to Lucid. Should be very soon (right? :).

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

I can confirm that this is fixed in Lucid's virt-manager.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Great! Closing this bug.