[virt-tools-list] Error with creating storage volume on NFS

[Spenser Gilliland]

After working on the issue more, I figure it out.  I did not have
no_root_squash enabled in my configuration of the NFS server.
Therefore, the local root user did not have write access to the NFS
drive.

Spenser 

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 09:01 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 01:02 PM, Spenser Gilliland wrote:
> > I'm having errors trying to create a storage volume on NFS.
> > 
> > After turning on the --debug switch in virt-manager I received this
> > output.
> > 
> > 2010-08-30 11:53:08,929 (createvol:205): Creating volume with xml:
> > <volume>
> >   <name>something.img</name>
> >   <capacity>1048576000</capacity>
> >   <allocation>0</allocation>
> >   <target>
> >     <format type='raw'/>
> >   </target>
> > </volume>
> > 
> > 2010-08-30 11:53:08,943 (createvol:237): Starting backround vol
> > creation.
> > 2010-08-30 11:53:08,944 (Storage:1134): Creating storage volume
> > 'something.img' with xml:
> > <volume>
> >   <name>something.img</name>
> >   <capacity>1048576000</capacity>
> >   <allocation>0</allocation>
> >   <target>
> >     <format type='raw'/>
> >   </target>
> > </volume>
> > 
> > 2010-08-30 11:53:09,150 (Storage:1190): Couldn't lookup storage volume
> > in prog thread.
> > 
> 
> Is it actually failing? That log message shouldn't cause a failure, it
> usually means that the volume creation was so quick we didn't have time
> to report the allocation progress, which seems reasonable since you
> created a sparse image.
> 
> Is there any other error message, or an explict error dialog that pops up?
> 
> - Cole
> 
> > Can anyone interpret this for me?
> > 
> > Using Ubuntu 10.04 i386 on the libvirt server and Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 on
> > the server with an NFS share defined as follows.
> > 
> > /export	      *(rw,async,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check)
> > /export/vm    *(rw,async,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check)
> > 
> > Spenser 
> > 
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