I am using openfiler for my baremetal storage node. It is an NFS share all permissions are right. I currently have a master data node setup the same way and working fine. I was trying to use this data NFS as another storage node to create virtual disks on to run vms. I can attach fine and create disks fine but cannot run a vm. Here is the error: VM fs1 is down. Exit message internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive file=/rhev/data-center/c10c25e0-526a-11e1-a5e4-87fa674ffb5d/60a1dff7-f112-433b-b49d-94a14b9ce3f1/images/cfecc532-9a2e-45f5-af71-190b8447c47d/100321d7-f575-4b3b-9af5-d25d765e779f,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=f5-af71-190b8447c47d,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads: could not open disk image /rhev/data-center/c10c25e0-526a-11e1-a5e4-87fa674ffb5d/60a1dff7-f112-433b-b49d-94a14b9ce3f1/images/cfecc532-9a2e-45f5-af71-190b8447c47d/100321d7-f575-4b3b-9af5-d25d765e779f: Permission denied . Again permissions are set fine vdsm owns them and can access and create disks just cannot run the vm. Thanks, -- Dominic Kaiser Greater Boston Vineyard Director of Operations cell: 617-230-1412 fax: 617-252-0238 email: dominic(a)bostonvineyard.org