Sorry for the unclear description of the bug.
The manpage says:
-o, --overwrite
Force overwrite of destination directory if it already exist.
[default: False]
But apparently vmbuilder does not overwrite it. It tries to delete it (which
fails with mountpoints) and then recreates it, that's a different action.
Why go through the hassle of deleting and recreating it if you can just dump in
any file by any name, since you got the permission from the admin that
everything in there can be overwritten?
Another point: If I know what files are going to be created (*.qcow2 by
default), then I expect to be able to create some files in there if I know that
the names do not conflict. Currently these files will be lost for no reason
that I see.
I just see no reason for removing the directory beforehand, as this can cause
errors like I have gotten. And it counteracts the use of mountpoints whereever
you want.
The reason that I do not use /srv/kvm/mysql/mysql is that /srv/kvm is a big
filesystem already containing severall VM disk images which are following
/srv/kvm/*/*.qcow2. Adding a subdirectory here would require me to migrate all
other VMs to ensure that the same mask works for all VM disk images.
To avoid that I currently install the VMs to a subdirectory and move the files
afterwards, which requires me to edit the domain config, of course. I consider
that unnecessary, if vmbuilder would accept "-o" as "just dump anything you
want into that directory. if something does not work (due to permissions or
other issues), blame the admin and let him clean up the mess."
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vmbuilder should accept an empty destination directory
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