[Fedora-xen] qemu: could not open hard disk image

[John Summerfield]

John Summerfield wrote:
> What does this mean?
> [root at potoroo qemu]# cat recovery.log
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -M pc -m 128 -smp 1 -monitor pty -boot c -hda 
> /var/lib/xen/images/recovery.img -hdb /var/lib/xen/images/rto.img:c -net 
> nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:22:5a:10,vlan=0 -net tap,fd=13,script=,vlan=0 -usb 
> -vnc 0.0.0.0:0
> qemu: could not open hard disk image '/var/lib/xen/images/rto.img:c'
> [root at potoroo qemu]#
> 
> [root at potoroo qemu]# ls -l /var/lib/xen/images/rto.img:c
> -rwx------ 1 root root 11999994368 Jan  9 17:03 
> /var/lib/xen/images/rto.img:c
> [root at potoroo qemu]# file /var/lib/xen/images/rto.img:c
> /var/lib/xen/images/rto.img:c: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID 
> "NTFS    ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 
> 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80)
> [root at potoroo qemu]#
> 
> No selinux messages.
> 
> This filesystem is an image of a Windows partition, backed up with 
> ntfsclone, restored, resized, cloned again (trying to eliminate alleged 
> bad hardware sectors, a legacy of earlier problems). I expect /dev/hdb 
> to be a "superfloppy" format drive which I can then manipulate into a 
> partition on another virtual drive.

I have not seen a reply to this; on the basis I really _must_ get 
something moving, I tried using /var/lib/xen/images/rto.img and that 
works fine.

Is something being too clever and misvalidating file names?


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John

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