Hi. Still not actually managed to test a vm... I can start a VM (and use spice) without a virtual disk. However as soon as I add a virtual disk the VM no longer starts example error message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VM ddf is down. Exit message internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive file=/rhev/data-center/b2b2e054-66b2-11e1-bda3-1728f784de9e/2f7ee7bc-09b3-42ba-af91-40d79293e360/images/c507a2bc-38c5-498e-88c0-7cce8169cf67/6c36c8e4-6618-42f3-9cc4-06d2bccdc9cf,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=c507a2bc-38c5-498e-88c0-7cce8169cf67,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads: could not open disk image /rhev/data-center/b2b2e054-66b2-11e1-bda3-1728f784de9e/2f7ee7bc-09b3-42ba-af91-40d79293e360/images/c507a2bc-38c5-498e-88c0-7cce8169cf67/6c36c8e4-6618-42f3-9cc4-06d2bccdc9cf: Permission denied . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have noticed that the directory /rhev/data-center/b2b2e054-66b2-11e1-bda3-1728f784de9e/ is not writable via the ovirt node server. I am using a separate NFS server for storage. Is this a bug ? Does anyone know how to fix this ? shall I report it ? Many regards !