Description of problem: QEMU/KVM live migration on non-shared storage using --copy-storage-all fails with error message "error: unable to set user and group to '(UID):(GID)' on '/PATH/TO/IMAGE': No such file or directory" if the image file is not created in advance on the destination host. In case an empty image with identical path is created manually using "qemu-img create", the migration succeeds. Note however, simply creating an empty file with touch(1) is not enough, it needs to be a qemu supported image file (I've tested with qcow2). I think this is unexpected (undocumented at least) behavior --libvirt (or qemu?) should create an empty image if it does not exists already. OTOH, if it does, maybe it should even warn the user before overwriting it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt 0.9.4 (from Debian Experimental) qemu-kvm 0.15 (from Debian Experimental) How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. migrate --live --verbose --copy-storage-all DOMAIN qemu+ssh://DESTHOST/system Actual results: error: unable to set user and group to '107:107' on '/data/vm/ahlghe-test2.qcow2': No such file or directory Expected results: Disk image created, it's content copied and virtual machine migrated. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 967233 ***