this worked, thank you! On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael <michael.auckland at gmail.com> wrote: > try to start kvm disk image with cache=writeback or writethrough. > if cache=none than will get this error. > > Runnig kvm on gluster 3.3beta1 on debian x64 sqeeze. so far so good. live > -migartion, failover works ok. > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Eric <campee at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> > > > -- > -- > Michael > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110729/79412242/attachment.htm>
