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* The kickstart install process is able to use package group entries to automatically install all packages
in a specified 'group'. Functionality has now been added to both pykickstart and the anaconda install
system to also support group exclusions, such as -@conflicts.
pykickstart users should upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these issue and adds these
enhancements.
1.168. python-virtinst
1.168.1. RHBA-2010:0282: bug fix and enhancement update
An updated python-virtinst package that fixes bugs and adds enhancements is now available.
python-virtinst is a module that helps build and install libvirt based virtual machines.
This updated package addresses the following issues:
* When installing a KVM Windows guest with virt-install, QEMU would not immediately recognise
the installation. An error message would appear, despite a successful installation. A minor delay has
been added to allow the correct information to be gathered, and the incorrect error message no longer
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appears.
(BZ#498237
* An unsupported --prompt option was listed in the --help output for virt-image. When virt-image --
prompt was run, an error message would print. The --prompt option has been removed from the --help
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output.
(BZ#503721
* cow, qcow and qcow2 were not listed in the virt-convert format whitelist, although they were
supported. An unknown disk format error would print for each format when virt-convert was run from a
VMware virtual machine to a virt-image. cow, qcow and qcow2 are now listed.
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BZ#506927
)
* virt-install would fail when re-installing a virtual system using an .img file that had been moved or
deleted, instead of re-creating the guest image. The error was found to be spurious characters in the
image paths ('/'). Code has been corrected in python-virtinst to prevent this error.
* By default, virtual disks are not opened with O_DIRECT. This meant data would sometimes be
cached twice: once inside the virtual machine, and once outside. Users had to manually add <driver
name='qemu' cache='none'/> to the virtual machine definition to prevent double caching. The default
cache mode of QEMU and KVM guests is now set to "none", which prevents inconsistent disc states.
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(BZ#512072
)
* The --disk option of virt-install was not compatible with the --prompt option, and caused error
messages to print when they were used together. The interaction between these two options has been
adjusted, and --disk can now be used with --prompt successfully.
* When --wait is specified as 0, virt-install should begin the installation process and exit the console.
However, a syntax error in the code caused virt-install --wait to perform as if it was not specified, and
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555311
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=498237
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=503721
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=506927
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=511925
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=512072
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=516129
)
)
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(BZ#555311
).
(BZ#511925
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(BZ#516129
)
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