On 20 Oct 2014, at 19:19, Erik Schnetter <schnet...@cct.lsu.edu> wrote:
> I don't know. I'm using Ian's script. to create the slave. Ian? Hi Erik, We discussed this before, the last time you tried this. I include my reply from then: > Hi Erik, > > Did you do a full reinstall rather than an upgrade? The VM definition should > have survived an upgrade. > > The create-build-slave-vm script has never been tested on 14.04, and it looks > like libvirt now only supports the more sophisticated "storage pool" method > when using non-raw disk formats. The long-term solution would be to switch > to using storage pools; there is a "local directory" pool type, and it is > probably a small change, but I don't have a 14.04 machine to test on > currently, nor the time. I think the easiest solution would be to use a raw > disk image instead of a qcow2 image, which the error message suggests should > still work. Since you don't need to back up this VM, there aren't so many > advantages to qcow2 anyway. I think you should be able to do this by > modifying the relevant part of the create-build-slave-vm script from > > --disk path=$vmdir/root.qcow2,format=qcow2,bus=virtio,size=50 > > to > > --disk path=$vmdir/root.img,bus=virtio,size=50 > > The only change should be that the image will now take 50 GB of real disk > space, rather than only taking that space when it is actually used. > Can you try this change to the script? -- Ian Hinder http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/people/hinder _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@einsteintoolkit.org http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/users
