Hi Richard, Yes the issue is with my filesystem.
Thank you for the support! Eoghan Eoghan O'Hara | Data Scientist | *Kx* | +353 858398926 | [email protected] | Pronounced "oh-an" On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 11:53, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:11:08AM +0000, Eoghan O'Hara wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > I included -v and -x, and have attached the output below. > > The reason is when we create the output, the target device is not > writable, apparently it's a read-only filesystem: > > [ 65.4] Copying disk 1/1 to > /datassd/3/libvirt/Appliances/kx-platform-vm-20210318-123942-sda (qcow2) > ... > libguestfs: trace: disk_create > "/datassd/3/libvirt/Appliances/kx-platform-vm-20210318-123942-sda" "qcow2" > 262144000000 "preallocation:sparse" "compat:1.1" > libguestfs: command: run: qemu-img > libguestfs: command: run: \ create > libguestfs: command: run: \ -f qcow2 > libguestfs: command: run: \ -o preallocation=off,compat=1.1 > libguestfs: command: run: \ > /datassd/3/libvirt/Appliances/kx-platform-vm-20210318-123942-sda > libguestfs: command: run: \ 262144000000 > qemu-img: > /datassd/3/libvirt/Appliances/kx-platform-vm-20210318-123942-sda: Could not > create file: Read-only file system > > You're using “-o libvirt -os Appliances” which means it's trying to > use a libvirt storage pool called “Appliances”, which presumably is > mapped to /datassd/3/libvirt/Appliances in your case. You can find > out about libvirt storage pools here: > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/sect-managing_guest_virtual_machines_with_virsh-storage_pool_commands#section-virsh-pool-info > > Might be best to use “-o local -os /some/writable/directory” and then > you will end up with a libvirt XML file and the raw disks, and you can > choose what to do with them. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch > http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html > >
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