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Bug 720801 - Unable to boot a loopback device
Unable to boot a loopback device
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 3.22
Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-12-20 02:16 UTC by Balló György
Modified: 2016-03-31 13:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Log of the broken box (3.94 KB, text/plain)
2013-12-21 19:59 UTC, Balló György 		Details

Description Balló György 2013-12-20 02:16:34 UTC 
When I mount an ISO image with GVFS disk mounter, I can see an option in Nautilus to boot it with GNOME Boxes. But in fact, GNOME Boxes unable to boot it, and shows the following error on command line:

(gnome-boxes:15402): Boxes-WARNING **: media-manager.vala:104: Failed to get information on device '/dev/loop0': Unsupported disk image format.. Ignoring..

Package versions:
libvirt 1.2.0
libvirt-glib 0.1.7
libosinfo 0.2.9
gnome-boxes 3.10.2
gvfs 1.18.3
nautilus 3.10.1

Distribution:
Arch Linux
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2013-12-21 14:23:12 UTC 
Fixes in git master.
Comment 2 Balló György 2013-12-21 19:56:43 UTC 
It still doesn't work for me with git master. Now I could create the box, but GNOME Boxes fails to connect.
Comment 3 Balló György 2013-12-21 19:59:03 UTC 
Created attachment 264735 [details]
Log of the broken box
Comment 4 Zeeshan Ali 2013-12-21 20:41:59 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> It still doesn't work for me with git master. Now I could create the box,

This was about the issue you reported about creation of the VM.

> but
> GNOME Boxes fails to connect.

Now this is a different issue and I believe is the same as bug#709047.