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Package: qemu-kvm
Version: 0.11.1+dfsg-1
Severity: important
I cannot start a newly created VM using a vmdk image, probably by a permission
problem.
sc...@antani-deb:~/kvm$ ls -la
totale 17258688
drwxrwx--- 1 scorp scorp 5 5 mar 09:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 scorp scorp 82 5 mar 11:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 scorp scorp 7281442816 4 mar 17:41 antani-web.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 scorp scorp 3111321600 4 mar 17:41 bncf-client.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 scorp scorp 7280132096 4 mar 09:47 home-dev.vmdk
This is the error when I try to start the machine:
Error starting domain: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not
open disk image /media/mac/Users/scorp/Debian-Home/kvm/antani-web.vmdk
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 589, in run_domain
vm.startup()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1208, in startup
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 300, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk
image /media/mac/Users/scorp/Debian-Home/kvm/antani-web.vmdk
Permissions are being resetted by kvm/libvirt/virt-manager?
sc...@antani-deb:~/kvm$ ls -la
totale 17258688
drwxrwx--- 1 scorp scorp 5 5 mar 09:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 scorp scorp 82 5 mar 11:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7281442816 4 mar 17:41 antani-web.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 scorp scorp 3111321600 4 mar 17:41 bncf-client.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7280132096 4 mar 09:47 home-dev.vmdk
-- Package-specific info:
selected information from lshal(1):
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9550 @ 2.66GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2653.631
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow
vnmi flexpriority
bogomips : 5307.26
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9550 @ 2.66GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 2653.631
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor
ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow
vnmi flexpriority
bogomips : 5306.62
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages qemu-kvm depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii bridge-utils 1.4-5 Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii iproute 20091226-1 networking and traffic control too
ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libbluetooth3 4.60-1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii libbrlapi0.5 4.1-4 braille display access via BRLTTY
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.19.7-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpci3 1:3.1.6-1 Linux PCI Utilities (shared librar
ii libpulse0 0.9.21-1 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libsasl2-2 2.1.23.dfsg1-5 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-5 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libvdeplug2 2.2.3-3 Virtual Distributed Ethernet - Plu
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages qemu-kvm recommends:
ii linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd 2.6.26-21lenny3 Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
ii linux-image-2.6.32-trunk 2.6.32-5 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
Versions of packages qemu-kvm suggests:
pn debootstrap <none> (no description available)
ii hal 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer
pn samba <none> (no description available)
ii vde2 2.2.3-3 Virtual Distributed Ethernet
-- no debconf information
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:10:24PM +0100, Giovanni Toraldo wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Guido Günther <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > is your problem that the permissions are being changed (that's
> > intentional) or that the vm doesn't start? The latter seems to be caused
> > by the fact that the qemu user can't access the vmdk.
>
> Sorry, the problem was too simple that I get it only now.
>
> The problem is with the owner of the /var/lib/libvirtd/images folder:
>
> casseruola:/var/lib# ls -la libvirt/
> totale 4
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 55 17 mar 15:12 .
> drwxr-xr-x 40 root root 4096 17 mar 15:32 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 18 dic 2008 boot
> drwx------ 2 root root 71 17 mar 15:39 images
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 24 17 mar 15:15 network
> drwxr-xr-x 2 libvirt-qemu kvm 6 17 mar 15:17 qemu
>
> casseruola:/var/lib# chown libvirt-qemu:kvm libvirt/images/
>
> Permission denied is disappeared. The bug is probably in the debian
> install script of libvirtd-bin package.
The package sets the direcotory to 755 so I suspect this is a local
problem, so I'm closing this report. Thanks.
-- Guido
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