Description of problem: I can't allocate a virtual disk on a FAT32 filesystem. Even touching the file causes libvirt to puke when it comes to pre-allocating. According to Dan, "just mention its a bug in storage_backend_fs.c" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.7.1-8.fc12.i686 libvirt-client-0.7.1-8.fc12.i686 libvirt-python-0.7.1-8.fc12.i686 python-virtinst-0.500.0-4.fc12.noarch virt-manager-0.8.0-7.fc12.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in FAT32 formatted device 2. Applications -> Virtual machine manager, Edit -> Host details -> Storage -> 3. Add new storage pool on a FAT32 device 4. Try to create new image file Actual results: The dialog hangs and blocks all other libvirt windows. Expected results: File is created, and the SELinux attributes setting is either skipped or handled more gracefully. Additional info:
The error Richard was seeing is: RuntimeError: Couldn't create storage volume 'RHEL5.img': 'cannot set file owner '/media/My Passport/Virtual Machines/RHEL5.img': Operation not permitted'
This seems related to Bug 547543. The same fix (doing setuid/setgid before creating the file, rather than trying to chown it later) should solve both problems, no?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 13 development cycle. Changing version to '13'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Still there in F15: Unable to complete install: 'internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/8 qemu-kvm: -drive file=/mnt/vm/kvm-winxp/disk0.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw: could not open disk image /mnt/vm/kvm-winxp/disk0.img: Permission denied' And /mnt/vm is a vfat mountpoint, which does not understand ownerships or SELinux labels.
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Moving to F15
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*** Bug 517379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Pretty sure this is still relevant, moving to f17
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Nowadays on F19 this doesn't error in the same way, but because we can't change the owner to qemu:qemu, the emulator fails to start. Since that's basically our security policy at work, and FAT doesn't allow chown'ing files, this is basically working as expected. If someone wants to make it work, they have to edit qemu.conf and run as root, or use qemu:///session (what boxes does) so that their VMs run as their local user and can access a user owned USB stick mount.