Looks like it was just a permission problem in the destination folder! Thanks for your answer anyway Daniele <div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 7, 2013 8:15 AM, "Osier Yang" <<a href="mailto:jyang@redhat.com">jyang@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 06/09/13 00:18, Daniele wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi all, I'm trying to create a new volume in a netfs pool. The pool works correctly and it is active. If I try to create the volume from the virt-manager GUI nothing happens. </blockquote> Then virt-manager has a bug, it should report error, by an error dialog or something similiar. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> While if I use virsh this is the result. /virsh # pool-list / /Name State Autostart / /-----------------------------------------/ /routers active yes / / / /virsh # vol-create-as routers namevol 2G/ /error: Failed to create vol vr1/ </blockquote> /Err, odd the volume name is displayed as "vr1". / <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> /error: cannot create path '/var/lib/libvirt/images/routers/namevol': Invalid argument/ </blockquote> And the error is actually from creating a directory. Is the pool really a nfs type pool? <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> What am I missing? Thanks for your help! Daniele _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list <a href="mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">libvirt-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users</a> </blockquote> </blockquote></div>