Package: virtinst Version: 1:1.0.1-5 Severity: important I am running virt-install on a jessie system and I tried to start an installation on a remote libvirt/KVM with this command:
$ virt-install \ --connect=qemu+ssh://root@some-host/system \ --ram 2048 --accelerate \ --disk size=28 \ --cdrom=/usr/local/share/iso/debian-8.7.1-amd64-netinst.iso \ --name new_guest_name --network network:ovsbr1 \ --vcpus 2 --cpu kvm64 --os-type=Linux \ --os-variant=debiansqueeze ERROR Error: --disk size=28: Couldn't create default storage pool '/var/lib/libvirt/images': Could not define storage pool: operation failed: Storage source conflict with pool: 'images' I tried doing this through virt-manager GUI and got a similar error. Then I created the volume manually with "qemu-img create ...", located it in the virt-manager GUI and it started the install successfully. The libvirt/KVM environment is running Debian stretch, it has two storage pools, one for ISOs under /usr/local/share/iso and the default storage pool under /var/lib/libvirt/images where the guest disk images should be: # ls -ld /var/lib/libvirt/images drwx--x--x 3 libvirt-qemu root 4096 Mar 23 10:50 /var/lib/libvirt/images On this particular system, I created a different LV for /var/lib/libvirt/images
