Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/6] storage: fs: Don't attempt directory creation if it already exists

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:02:39PM +0800, tzheng wrote: > Hi,Cole > > After this patch is included in libvirt on rhel7.2,virt-manager can not > create dir pool with existing directory. > There is no default pool created in a fresh rhel7.2 system,so if I try to > create default pool,the below error shows: > Error creating pool: Could not build storage pool: failed to create > directory '/var/lib/libvirt/images': File exists > > Do you think it's acceptable for this change since the > directory(/var/lib/libvirt/images) is created by libvirt,if users want to > create pool with /var/lib/libvirt/images,they need to delete images > directory firstly,if so I think maybe some notes in doc is preferred,thanks > very much. This part of the code was then changed by https://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=c8661a1a7ee8ef11010 Are you 100% sure it's this patch which causes the issue you describe?

GNOME Boxes is having very similar issues, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752417

Christophe