On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 19:30 +0530, santwana wrote: > Hi All, > > I am facing issues while installing SLES11 SP1 GA guest using autotest > on the latest kernel(2.6.38-rc3). The installation is failing with the > error: > INFO | ERROR > kvm.raw.virtio_blk.smp2.SLES.11.1.64.virtio_net.unattended_install.cdrom > kvm.raw.virtio_blk.smp2.SLES.11.1.64.virtio_net.unattended_install.cdrom > timestamp=1296721316 localtime=Feb 03 13:51:56 Command <mount > -o > loop,rw /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/sles-11-1-64/autoyast.vfd > /home/vhost-net/autotest/client/tmp/tmpl56sOd_kvm.raw.virtio_blk.smp2.SLES.11.1.64.virtio_net.unattended_install.cdrom/floppy_S1bWxF> > failed, rc=32, Command returned non-zero exit status [context: > preprocessing --> Creating unattended install floppy image > /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/sles-11-1-64/autoyast.vfd] > * Command: > mount -o > loop,rw /tmp/kvm_autotest_root/images/sles-11-1-64/autoyast.vfd > > /home/vhost-net/autotest/client/tmp/tmpl56sOd_kvm.raw.virtio_blk.smp2.SLES > .11.1.64.virtio_net.unattended_install.cdrom/floppy_S1bWxF > Exit status: 32 > Duration: 0.0478329658508 > > stderr: > /dev/loop0: Permission denied
^ Well, non root users can't usually access loopback devices, so if you happen to be using kvm autotest as a non root user, then you'd get the failure. Other than this, I fail to see why it's not possible to access loop0 to mount the unattended floppy... > > I have created an attachment for the results of the execution status. > > Please help in this regard. > > Thanks, > Santwana > _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list [email protected] http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
