I'm seeing a regression with: commit 79f11b35c77b3c286c84312dc9737c2ccbf67ed5 Author: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 8 14:26:02 2014 -0600 conf: track user vs. canonical name through full chain lookup Setup info: $ ls -ld /mnt/data lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Oct 24 2011 /mnt/data -> terabytedrv/data/ $ ls -l /mnt/data/devel/images/f18* -rw-r--r--. 1 qemu qemu 9316335616 Mar 30 18:36 /mnt/data/devel/images/f18-backing-img.qcow2 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6848249856 Apr 25 19:11 /mnt/data/devel/images/f18.qcow2 $ qemu-img info /mnt/data/devel/images/f18-backing-img.qcow2 image: /mnt/data/devel/images/f18-backing-img.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 9.8G (10485760000 bytes) disk size: 8.7G cluster_size: 65536 Snapshot list: ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK 1 snapshot1 0 2014-01-13 18:48:43 00:00:00.000 2 snapshot2 0 2014-01-13 18:49:39 00:00:00.000 Format specific information: compat: 0.10 $ qemu-img info /mnt/data/devel/images/f18.qcow2 image: /mnt/data/devel/images/f18.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 9.8G (10485760000 bytes) disk size: 6.4G cluster_size: 65536 backing file: f18-backing-img.qcow2 (actual path: /mnt/data/devel/images/f18-backing-img.qcow2) Format specific information: compat: 0.10 Before the patch: $ sudo virsh vol-dumpxml /mnt/data/devel/images/f18.qcow2 [full xml with backing image info] After the patch: $ sudo virsh vol-dumpxml /mnt/data/devel/images/f18.qcow2 [xml minus xml for the backing image] And these errors are on the console when the daemon starts: 2014-05-03 20:52:34.970+0000: 20600: error : virFindBackingFile:590 : Cannot access backing file './f18-backing-img.qcow2': No such file or directory 2014-05-03 20:52:34.970+0000: 20600: warning : virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal:868 : Backing file 'f18-backing-img.qcow2' of image '/mnt/data/devel/images/ztester-serial-f18.qcow2' is missing. On git head actually the vol-dumpxml explicitly fails, but I don't have the error handy. - Cole -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list