I've not filed a bug report for this, but I just noticed a small typo when reading the man page, so I have made a patch to fix it. Paul Maunders commit e6fe8f5e44e285bf8c1bb2aebc6f94ad2e04e635 Author: Paul Maunders <paul@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 24 07:40:50 2012 +0100 Fixed a small typo in the man page diff --git a/man/en/virt-install.pod.in b/man/en/virt-install.pod.in index ba7d5e5..3d4536d 100644 --- a/man/en/virt-install.pod.in +++ b/man/en/virt-install.pod.in @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ L<http://libvirt.org/storage.html> for possible values. This is often mapped to the B<driver_type> value as well. With libvirt 0.8.3 and later, this option should be specified if reusing -and existing disk image, since libvirt does not autodetect storage format +an existing disk image, since libvirt does not autodetect storage format as it is a potential security issue. For example, if reusing an existing qcow2 image, you will want to specify format=qcow2, otherwise the hypervisor may not be able to read your disk image.