[libvirt-users] error: internal error: missing backend for pool type 11 (zfs)

[Michal Privoznik]

On 10/03/2017 03:48 PM, Nick Gilmour wrote:
> @Michal: Thanks for your reply!
> 
> Indeed I have found a package in the AUR (libvirt-zfs) and only had to
> change to the current version and add zfs-utils as dependency in the
> PKGBUILD. Now I don't get the previous error anymore but I still cannot
> setup a VM because I constantly get errors due to wrong permissions.
> 
> I have tried to change the permissions in:
> 
>    - /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
>    - /virt-pool/vmm
>    - /dev/zvol/virt-pool
> 
> 
> also:
> 
> # zfs allow <user> create,destroy,mount virt-pool/vmm
> 
> didn't help.
> 
> What are the correct permissions? Which user and group?

Interesting. Libvirtd is/should be running as root, therefore it
shouldn't have to get EPERM. What's the actual error message you're seeing?

Michal