virt-manager is unable to create an image in a storage pool with "storagePoolLookupByName" errors

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Issue

  • virt-manager is unable to create an image in a storage pool with "storagePoolLookupByName" errors
  • When connected to two libvirt hosts, creating storage as part of a new VM definition with "attach existing storage" fails
  • The following error is displayed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 96, in cb_wrapper
    callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createvol.py", line 243, in _async_vol_create
    newpool = newconn.storagePoolLookupByName(self.parent_pool.get_name())
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'storagePoolLookupByName'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • libvirt-0.10.2-18.el6_4.14.x86_64
  • virt-manager connected to two virtualization hosts

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