Bug 796637

Summary:	Start a guest with startupPolicy=mandatory/requisite will fail even if the file is accessible
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	weizhang <weizhan>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.3	CC:	acathrow, ajia, dyuan, jdenemar, mzhan, rwu, zhpeng
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description weizhang 2012-02-23 11:21:05 UTC

Description of problem:
When start a guest with floppy disk like
    <disk type='file' device='floppy'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img' startupPolicy='mandatory'/>
      <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>

or
    <disk type='file' device='floppy'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img' startupPolicy='requisite'/>
      <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>

it will report error like
error: Failed to start domain mig
error: cannot access file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img': Success

but the file is accessible, with removing startupPolicy='requisite', guest can be started successfully

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-230.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.231.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.10-2.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start a guest with floppy disk with adding startupPolicy='requisite' or 'mandatory' on source section, and the floppy disk is good
2.
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Actual results:
Report error like
error: Failed to start domain mig
error: cannot access file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img': Success

Expected results:
guest can be started successfully

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jiri Denemark 2012-02-23 11:26:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 795093 ***