[libvirt] virDomainAttachDevice error during disk hotplug

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 05:38:20PM +0530, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
> Hi All,
>     I am trying to do a hotplug of a disk from VDSM (which uses
> libvirt to get things done).
> I hit the below error "operation failed: open disk image file
> failed" comign from virDomainAttachDevice.
> 
> Some background:
> 
> 1) The qemu-img create  cmd I use (inside vdsm) to create the file
> being hotplugged is
> 
> /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 -b /rhev/data-center/000065de-04b8-42e2-986c-2de664708be7/11112d24-4cda-4200-8f6d-a1d8362c70fd/images/22224c45-6504-4ea1-bd24-12340017dd32/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399
> /var/run/vdsm/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399' (cwd
> /var/run/vdsm)
> 
> I even tried using the rel. backing path instead of abs. path as below..
> 
> /usr/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 -b ../../../rhev/data-center/000065de-04b8-42e2-986c-2de664708be7/11112d24-4cda-4200-8f6d-a1d8362c70fd/images/22224c45-6504-4ea1-bd24-12340017dd32/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399
> /var/run/vdsm/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399' (cwd
> /var/run/vdsm)
> 
> but hit the same error during hotplug operation
> 
> 2) qemu-img info /var/run/vdsm/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399
> image: /var/run/vdsm/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399
> file format: qcow2
> virtual size: 3.8G (4096000000 bytes)
> disk size: 196K
> cluster_size: 65536
> backing file: /rhev/data-center/000065de-04b8-42e2-986c-2de664708be7/11112d24-4cda-4200-8f6d-a1d8362c70fd/images/22224c45-6504-4ea1-bd24-12340017dd32/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399
> backing file format: qcow2

What does this show

   qemu-img info  /rhev/data-center/000065de-04b8-42e2-986c-2de664708be7/11112d24-4cda-4200-8f6d-a1d8362c70fd/images/22224c45-6504-4ea1-bd24-12340017dd32/3333017d-1278-4bfb-8129-62bded257399

?

Daniel
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