Volume wiping uses external tool to wipe the storage. This will not work with purely remote storage as native gluster or RBD. Add a check to report better error when wiping a remote volume. Before: $ virsh vol-wipe --pool glusterpool qcow3 error: Failed to wipe vol qcow3 error: Failed to open storage volume with path 'gluster://gluster-node-1/gv0/qcow3': No such file or directory After: $ virsh vol-wipe --pool glusterpool qcow3 error: Failed to wipe vol qcow3 error: Operation not supported: Volume wiping is not supported on non-local storage --- src/storage/storage_driver.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/storage/storage_driver.c b/src/storage/storage_driver.c index ae86c69..7303dbf 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_driver.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_driver.c @@ -2226,6 +2226,12 @@ storageVolWipeInternal(virStorageVolDefPtr def, VIR_DEBUG("Wiping volume with path '%s' and algorithm %u", def->target.path, algorithm); + if (!virStorageVolIsLocalStorage(def)) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", + _("Volume wiping is not supported on non-local storage")); + goto cleanup; + } + fd = open(def->target.path, O_RDWR); if (fd == -1) { virReportSystemError(errno, -- 2.0.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list