The contents of disk.xml
<disk type='network' device="disk">
<driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="writeback"/>
<source protocol="rbd"
name="volumes/volume-3cd6fc4d-3855-49ca-820c-2e0db8f45085">
<host name='68.142.237.36' port='6789'/>
</source>
<target dev="vdg" bus="virtio"/>
<auth username='client.admin'>
<secret type='ceph' uuid='c621f0e9-49fc-4ac2-82a9-34aa80122e33'/>
</auth>
</disk>
Trying to attach a volume created on CEPH RBD backend to an VM created.
Can¹t see meaningful information in QEMU log nor in libvirt logs.
I have the needed CEPH libs installed like librbd, librados.
On 5/6/14, 4:35 PM, "Eric Blake" <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 05/06/2014 02:51 AM, Vilobh Meshram wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When trying to attach a created volume to an instance using the virsh
>>utility I am running into this error :-
>>
>>
>> [] $ sudo virsh attach-device instance-00000015 disk.xml
>>
>> error: Failed to attach device from disk.xml
>>
>> error: internal error unable to execute QEMU command
>>'__com.redhat_drive_add': Device 'drive-virtio-disk21' could not be
>>initialized
>
>That's an error message from RHEL qemu, and not available from upstream
>qemu nor triggered by upstream libvirt (that is, a RHEL-specific
>downstream patch to libvirt is attempting to use a downstream qemu
>command that upstream does not have). Have you opened a support ticket
>with Red Hat?
>
>>
>>
>> For experimental purpose I have libvirt 0.10.2 and QEMU 0.12.1. The
>>volume to be attached is on a remote storage.
>
>This list is probably better suited to help if you can reproduce with
>upstream versions (libvirt 1.2.4 and qemu 2.0), or at a bare minimum,
>post the contents of disk.xml that is failing on you. It's hard to say
>whether the error is in libvirt (perhaps botched SELinux permissions
>getting in the way?) or in qemu; but since libvirt is just parroting
>qemu's error message, the investigation needs to look more at why qemu
>is throwing the message.
>
>--
>Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
>Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
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