[Bug 1548411] Re: Installing Ubuntu as KVM guest is not possible because the installer fails to detect Virtual Disk correctly

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

It works if the disk is backed by / pass-through an actual DASD drive.
One can change partitioning table to msdos or gpt by using preseed keys in the paramfile.

However, msdos & gpt partitioning tables fail on the disks backed by /
pass-through an actual DASD drive.

So at the moment, one cannot have a partition table that works in all
configs, on all virtualisation types with support for automatic recipes
throughout.

I believe this is actually an upstream bug in parted, and it should be
able to created dasd partition tables on virtio hard-drives in KVM which
are backed by simple qcow2 file.

Let me email further details.

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Title:
  Installing Ubuntu as KVM guest is not possible because the installer
  fails to detect Virtual Disk correctly

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Michael Roesch - 2016-02-18 11:09:27 ==
  Installer version: 421
  Kernel: 4.4.0.4

  When trying to partition a KVM Virtual Disk, in my case based on a
  qcow2 image file, the partitioner is detecting the disk to be a DASD

  Virtual disk 1 (vda) - 10.7 GB Virtio Block Device
  >     #1    10.7 GB    f  ext4          /
  >            8.7 kB       FREE SPACE

  It then uses fdasd to partition it. This fails with the error:

  "fdasd: Unsupported disk type -- Disk geometry does not match a DASD
  device of type 3390."

  I have attached the syslog and partman log files, as well as my guest
  definition file.

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