When I try to export a vm to ova, get this below error in engine log 2018-10-26 12:11:36,657-04 ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.SerialChildCommandsExecutionCallback] (EE-ManagedThreadFactory-engineScheduled-Thread-37) [484d3716] EngineException: ENGINE (Failed with error ENGINE and code 5001): org.ovirt.engine.core.common.errors.EngineException: EngineException: ENGINE (Failed with error ENGINE and code 5001) at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ExportOvaCommand.createOva(ExportOvaCommand.java:301) [bll.jar:] at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ExportOvaCommand.executeNextOperation(ExportOvaCommand.java:285) [bll.jar:] at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.exportimport.ExportOvaCommand.performNextOperation(ExportOvaCommand.java:277) [bll.jar:] at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.SerialChildCommandsExecutionCallback.childCommandsExecutionEnded(SerialChildCommandsExecutionCallback.java:32) [bll.jar:] at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.ChildCommandsCallbackBase.doPolling(ChildCommandsCallbackBase.java:68) [bll.jar:] at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.CommandCallbacksPoller.invokeCallbackMethodsImpl(CommandCallbacksPoller.java:146) [bll.jar:] at org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.tasks.CommandCallbacksPoller.invokeCallbackMethods(CommandCallbacksPoller.java:107) [bll.jar:] at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [rt.jar:1.8.0_181] In Ansible log writing disk: path=/rhev/data-center/mnt/ca-ovmstor101:_export_sanrathi_brml11g04-oVirt-nfs-01/aec73d1f-ea3d-4228-a151-a41b20b6b67b/images/e1186fdb-3fc3-46ae-945c-dd19bb6d434c/d95c52e3-35d1-493e-ab2d-42577bdb0391 size=196848 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1540570288.02-200413742597669/pack_ova.py", line 96, in <module> write_disks(ova_path, disks_info.split('+')) File "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1540570288.02-200413742597669/pack_ova.py", line 79, in write_disks write_disk(ova_path, disk_path, disk_size) File "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1540570288.02-200413742597669/pack_ova.py", line 59, in write_disk fd = os.open(disk_path, os.O_RDONLY | os.O_DIRECT) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/rhev/data-center/mnt/ca-ovmstor101:_export_sanrathi_brml11g04-oVirt-nfs-01/aec73d1f-ea3d-4228-a151-a41b20b6b67b/images/e1186fdb-3fc3-46ae-945c-dd19bb6d434c/d95c52e3-35d1-493e-ab2d-42577bdb0391' I have my storage in NFS . Note: Export to Domain works fine. Thanks in advance .