Ian Thanks; this worked.
-erik On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Ian Hinder <ian.hin...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > > 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 > -- Erik Schnetter <schnet...@cct.lsu.edu> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@einsteintoolkit.org http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/users
