i'm having difficulty running KVM virtual machines off of a glusterFS volume mounted using the glusterFS client. i am running centOS 6, 64-bit. i am using virt-install to create my images but encountering the following error: qemu: could not open disk image /mnt/myreplicatestvolume/testvm.img: Invalid argument (see below for a more lengthy version of the error) i have found an example of someone else having this issue as well but no solution was offered ( http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2011-February/006731.html). i also found the following FAQ entry that states that NFS should be used to store VM images ( http://www.gluster.org/faq/index.php?sid=36929&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=3&id=5&artlang=en ) i would prefer to use the glusterFS client for the automatic fail-over that it offers. is this possible? i am creating the VM as follows: sudo virt-install --name testvm --ram 4096 --os-type='linux' --os-variant=rhel5.4 --disk path=/mnt/myreplicatestvolume/testvm.img,size=50 --network bridge:br0 --accelerate --vnc --mac=54:52:00:A1:B2:C3 --location http://server/centos/5.4/os/x86_64/ -x "ks=http://server/kscfg/testvm.cfg"; --uuid=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 --vcpus=4 full text of error: Starting install... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 3.7 MB 00:00 ... Retrieving file initrd.img... | 14 MB 00:00 ... ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 qemu: could not open disk image /mnt/myreplicatestvolume/testvm.img: Invalid argument Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start testvm'; otherwise, please restart your installation. ERROR internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 qemu: could not open disk image /mnt/myreplicatestvolume/testvm.img: Invalid argument Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 1054, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 936, in main start_time, guest.start_install) File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 978, in do_install dom = install_func(conscb, progresscb, wait=(not wait)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 973, in start_install return self._do_install(consolecb, meter, removeOld, wait) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1038, in _do_install "install") File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtinst/Guest.py", line 1009, in _create_guest dom = self.conn.createLinux(start_xml, 0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1270, in createLinux if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainCreateLinux() failed', conn=self) libvirtError: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 qemu: could not open disk image /mnt/myreplicatestvolume/testvm.img: Invalid argument -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110729/522ce841/attachment.htm>
