<html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Daniel P. Berrange wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20111208153854.GC2062@redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hmm, so your actual filesystem on the host side is read only ?</pre> </blockquote> Yup, mounting a squashfs in RAM. <pre wrap=""><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">I'll have to think about how to make it work when the host FS itself is readonly. Probably have to define some location that is guarenteed to exist, instead of trying to create a '/.oldroot' location ourselves.</pre></blockquote></pre> I suppose so, yes. What is the purpose of .oldroot? When I switch to a rw filesystem, I see that .oldroot gets created, but it is just an empty directory. Cheers, -C- </body></html>