Hi Gene,
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 19:39 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
F12 beta was available so I downloaded the DVD iso ... that was a waste of bandwidth since it was identical to F12-Beta RC2.
Anyway, I had already installed a couple of copies of RC2 into qemu-kvm guests so it was time to install this on bare-metal.
My test system already had F12-rawhide installed with all current updates but, afterall, this is a test of the install ... so I did another install ... my test system supports four, separate bootable systems (combinations of /boot partitions and LVM logical volumes for root).
OK, boot it up and start configuring it, updating (I did a DVD-only install), etc. Well, one of the things this system does is run qemu-kvm so I had selected Virtualization during the install. My guest disk images are all on a separate logical volume which I mount on /.var/lib/libvirt/images but the system definition/configuration files are separate. When I went to copy them from the old system I found the was no place to copy them to ... /etc/libvirt/ was missing. Further checking showed that the libvirt rpm was not installed ... this is easy enought to fix but it should not have happened ... it should have been installed when I selected virtualization.
Oops, indeed. I've filed this here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/530015
Thanks for finding this, it's a very serious issue that could have crept by unnoticed.
Cheers, Mark.