GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 764927
Import of .vdi file stuck
Last modified: 2018-01-11 10:43:51 UTC
Steps to reproduce: - click new - select a file - select a vritual box .vdi image - select memory Expected result: - the virtual machine to be created Actual result: - the spinner spins forever with 'Importing' - can't start other virtual machines after the import was stuck Restarting the app does not solve the issue, the import is still there. The image seems to exist in ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images
Works fine here. I created an empty disk image using: qemu-img create -f vdi /tmp/tmp.vdi 1M The new VM doesn't boot of course for obvious reasons but import itself works. Are you sure the import is stuck forever and not just taking a long time? In any case, can you check if importing command works on your system: qemu-img convert -O qcow2 image.vdi image.qcow2
Using the command line tool conversion worked in less then 5 minutes. But when I try to add the qcow2 image to box the importing spinner spins for ever again, the image is rather large it has 63G. I see the file in ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images and it looks like it has a matching size.
(In reply to calinuswork from comment #2) > Using the command line tool conversion worked in less then 5 minutes. > > But when I try to add the qcow2 image to box the importing spinner spins for > ever again, the image is rather large it has 63G. > > I see the file in ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images and it looks like it has > a matching size. Interesting. Is the image and ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images on different filesystems? Can you please try the converstion again but this time choose the target file to be in ~/.local?
It works, is the same file system Btrfs and the same partition, running on OpenSuse Thumbelweed
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