mount: could not find any free loop device

[Andras Simon]

On 6/27/07, Luciano Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:19:17AM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> >  On 6/27/07, Luciano Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Do you use kvm? The setup scripts could be buggy and forgetting to
> > > remove the device.
> >
> >  I do, but it seems it's got nothing to do with this,
> >  man mount says "any loop device allocated by mount will be freed by
> >  umount" but apparently this is not the case.
>
> No, because kvm doesn't mount the device. It just sets the loop device
> and uses it internally. The scripts for stopping/destroying a guest
> should take care of removing the association, but they're not. As I
> said, it's probably a bug, and I suggest you search/add it to bugzilla
> for the GUI or application you use to control it.

I think the transcript in my message
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg05672.html
clearly demonstrates that this has nothing to do with kvm.

Andras