Am 01.06.2010 12:59, schrieb Peter Lieven: > Hi, > > I just compiled latest git to work on Bug #585113 . > > Unfortunately, I can't start the the VMs with the device mappings > generated by our multipath > setup. > > cmdline: > /usr/bin/qemu-kvm-devel -net none -drive > file=/dev/mapper/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-88961b105-19f000e7e7d4beaa-test1,if=scsi,boot=on,cache=none,aio=native > -drive > file=/dev/mapper/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-89661b105-458000e7e804beaa-test2,if=scsi,boot=off,cache=none,aio=native > -drive > file=/dev/mapper/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-8a361b105-928000e7e834beaa-test3,if=scsi,boot=off,cache=none,aio=native > -drive > file=/dev/mapper/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-8af61b105-d10000e7e864beaa-test4,if=scsi,boot=off,cache=none,aio=native > -m 1024 -cpu qemu64,model_id='Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ > 2.27GHz' -monitor tcp:0:4005,server,nowait -vnc :5 -name 'ide-test' > -boot order=dc,menu=on -cdrom > /home/kvm/cdrom//root/KNOPPIX_V6.2.1CD-2010-01-31-DE.iso -k de -pidfile > /var/run/qemu/vm-153.pid -mem-path /hugepages -mem-prealloc -rtc > base=utc,clock=host -usb -usbdevice tablet > > error: > qemu: could not open disk image > /dev/mapper/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-88961b105-19f000e7e7d4beaa-test1: > Argument list too long Might be a problem with the colon in your file name (the error message is nonsense - I'll send a patch). It takes everything before the first colon as a protocol name. To work around this you can specify the protocol explicitly, as in -drive file=host_device:/dev/mapper/... Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html