[libvirt] Mystery of qemu being unable to open NBD Unix domain socket in current directory

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 18:35:51 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/06/2018 12:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >I'm chasing down a very frustrating bug which only happens on i686 &
> >Koji during the nbdkit tests and seemingly nowhere else.  Anyway this
> >is what I've been able to put together:
> >
> >The libguestfs appliance (guest) is created with this XML snippet:
> >
> >   <disk device="disk" type="network">
> >     <source protocol="nbd">
> >       <host transport="unix" socket="cow.sock"/>
> 
> Have you tried an absolute path?

Yes it works with an absolute path.  Isn't this a bug in libvirt?

Also it works on x86_64 and in earlier versions of libvirt.
I'll post my nbdkit workaround soon.

Rich.

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