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vm-builder package

vmbuilder does not know xenial or wily suites

Bug #1590687 reported by Diftraku
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vm-builder (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

When trying to bootstrap a KVM virtual machine using vmbuilder, selecting the suite "xenial" results in Python raising a VMBuilder.exception.VMBuilderUserError where the error message statest "Invalid suite: "xenial". Valid suites are: dapper gutsy hardy intrepid jaunty karmic lucid maverick natty oneiric precise quantal raring saucy trusty"

As an aside, looking at the changelog on the package browser, shows the last update was on 4th of March back in 2014. The related community documentation at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/CreateGuests is quite outdated (being written for 8.10/8.04) with some links being dead.

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Ubuntu release: $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04

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Package version: $ apt-cache policy ubuntu-vm-builder
ubuntu-vm-builder:
  Installed: 0.12.4+bzr489-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.12.4+bzr489-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.12.4+bzr489-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Expected: The vmbuilder starts bootstrapping a VM with xenial
Result: vmbuilder complains of "xenial" being an invalid suite, listing all releases so far up to "trusty".

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in vm-builder (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Joshua Powers (powersj)
Changed in vm-builder (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

I'm working through confirmed, but too-long-idle bugs and this is one of them.
vm-builder in particular is not only "only universe" - it also is somewhat discontinued and considering usage mostly replaced by "uvtool".

That said the bug is still valid (if one comes up with a fix to be sponsored), but looking at the time this is idle we need to face it that it is not in the focus of the Ubuntu server team, so I'm unsubscribing it to properly reflect that.

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