On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 05:13:33PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > In data lunedì 13 marzo 2017 14:47:43 CET, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto: > > In the case where we are going to read the disk directly from the OVA > > file (partial = true), we will create a qcow2 image backed by the OVA. > > If running as root, libvirt will run qemu as a non-root user (because > > of no qemu:///session support for root, which is a libvirt bug). qemu > > will not be able to read the backing file and thus will fail. > > > > To work around this problem, chmod the backing (OVA) file. > > > > This isn't a complete fix since (eg) the OVA might be located in a > > directory which isn't accessible by root, but there's only so much we > > can do here until libvirt is fixed. > > > > Thanks: Kun Wei. > > --- > > Can you please mention in the commit message that this updates commit > d9b2a16c71d0c87195e28c1325fd83b344741339 ?
Sorry, I didn't see this until too late. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
