libvirt users - Apr 2018 - Disable guest discovery in virt-manager

Hi all,
on CentOS7 / RHEL7 launching virt-manager causes a "discovery process"
of the various configured VMs.

This discovery is executed by inspection and overlayed disk files and it 
create a very short lived guest-xxxzzzyyy virtual machine. The end 
result is a pretty icon to the left of the virtual machine entry (ie: 
CentOS icon for a CentOS VM) and the list of installad packages inside 
the virtual disk.

That said, I would like to disable such behavior. How can I do that?
Thanks.

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 03:21:04PM +0200, Gionatan Danti
wrote:
> Hi all,
> on CentOS7 / RHEL7 launching virt-manager causes a "discovery
process" of
> the various configured VMs.
> 
> This discovery is executed by inspection and overlayed disk files and it
> create a very short lived guest-xxxzzzyyy virtual machine. The end result
is
> a pretty icon to the left of the virtual machine entry (ie: CentOS icon for
> a CentOS VM) and the list of installad packages inside the virtual disk.
> 
> That said, I would like to disable such behavior. How can I do that?
> Thanks.
Hi,

The option to enable/disable this feature was implemented recently
in upstream [1].  In order to get it into CentOS/RHEL you would have
to create a BUG for it.

As a workaround you can uninstall python-libguestfs package which is
used by virt-manager to run the introspection.  If that package is
missing importing guestfs in the python code fails and the feature
is disabled.

Pavel

[1]
<https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/commit/6b1278ccda1bf52fd51c619858dfeaffb12a4029>

Il 09-04-2018 15:47 Pavel Hrdina ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> The option to enable/disable this feature was implemented recently
> in upstream [1].  In order to get it into CentOS/RHEL you would have
> to create a BUG for it.
> 
> As a workaround you can uninstall python-libguestfs package which is
> used by virt-manager to run the introspection.  If that package is
> missing importing guestfs in the python code fails and the feature
> is disabled.
> 
> Pavel
> 
> [1]
>
<https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/commit/6b1278ccda1bf52fd51c619858dfeaffb12a4029>
Thanks, I opened a BZ case for it: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566187

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