virt-manager on 16.04 as host does not allow creation of 16.04 or 15.10 virtual machines

Bug #1531722 reported by Lyn Perrine
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libosinfo (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Iain Lane

Bug Description

To reproduce install virt-manager on an installatoin of 16.04 ubuntu xenial and apply the latest updates. Then download another option of ubuntu 16.04 as a guest. The try to attach the iso image of 16.04 and select 16.04 as the vm type in the virt-manager. Then I get a python error that it treis to create a vm and ends up recursorly calling itself in a long time.

rror setting up default devices:maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object with informatoin about it in an attached file not sure if apport attaches this by itself though.

Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release: 16.04

virt-manager:
  Installed: 1:1.2.1-4ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:1.2.1-4ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.2.1-4ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I expected this to allow me to create a vm of xenial on top of my xenial host like I was able to do for many times in wily with virt-manager 1.1.0 even if xenial was not listed as an option. However selecting 15.04 lets me get past the create vm dialog.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: virt-manager 1:1.2.1-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-2.11-generic 4.3.0
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Wed Jan 6 21:46:50 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-28 (40 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151127)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: virt-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Lyn Perrine (walterorlin) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in virt-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Phill Whiteside (phillw) wrote :

You cannot install 15.10, either...

Phill Whiteside (phillw)
summary: - virt-manager on 16.04 as host does not allow creation of 16.04 virtual
- machines
+ virt-manager on 16.04 as host does not allow creation of 16.04 or 15.10
+ virtual machines
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Cheers, looks like there's a buggy ubuntu.xml in libosinfo

affects: virt-manager (Ubuntu) → libosinfo (Ubuntu)
Changed in libosinfo (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Iain Lane (laney)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package libosinfo - 0.2.12-2ubuntu2

---------------
libosinfo (0.2.12-2ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/update-ubuntu-info.patch:
    + Derive from the previous release, not the same one. (LP: #1531722)
    + Fix short name typos

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:24:06 +0000

Changed in libosinfo (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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