[fedora-virt] KVM high available

Thomas Sjolshagen thomas at sjolshagen.net
Tue Jan 18 16:38:20 UTC 2011


 On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:29:30 +0100, Dor Laor <dlaor at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/18/2011 02:06 PM, iarly selbir wrote:
>> I configured a Gluster volume to work as my backend storage instead 
>> gfs
>> but I can't finish the setup of a vm, after click em
>> finish(virt-manager) it show me this error:
>>
>> Unable to complete install 'libvirt.libvirtError internal error 
>> unable
>> to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image
>> /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.img
>>
 [snip]
>>
>> The file test.img is created but the domain is not, If I umount
>> /var/lib/libvirt/images (mount point to my gluster volume) all works 
>> fine.
>>
>> Does anyone experienced with this?
>
> Seems like there is some sort of an access/permission issue.
> Since your disk should be shared, make sure that it's there in the
> libvirt xml and the file is writable.
>
 [snip]

 Try:
 # getselinux

 If the result is "1" or "Enabled", then you have SELinux enabled and 
 you need to label the directory you've mounted over 
 /var/lib/libvirt/images with "# restorecon -rv /var/lib/libvirt/" for 
 instance.


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