[Users] Hey using NFS as my main datastore

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/09/2012 07:41 PM, Dominic Kaiser wrote:
> I am using NFS share on an Openfile server as my main datastore went to
> fire up a virtual instance this is the error I get:
>
> VM Building_Automation is down. Exit message internal error process
> exited while connecting to monitor: qemu-kvm: -drive
> file=/rhev/data-center/c10c25e0-526a-11e1-a5e4-87fa674ffb5d/340dad49-2ec7-475e-b6c6-668504bdb5b1/images/da582689-2248-4d0e-a017-b09f8cfa9410/78340ab7-b1f5-4fad-9150-437e7ff9d14c,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,serial=0e-a017-b09f8cfa9410,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=threads:
> could not open disk image
> /rhev/data-center/c10c25e0-526a-11e1-a5e4-87fa674ffb5d/340dad49-2ec7-475e-b6c6-668504bdb5b1/images/da582689-2248-4d0e-a017-b09f8cfa9410/78340ab7-b1f5-4fad-9150-437e7ff9d14c:
> Permission denied .
>
> Does vdsm have to be installed on the server that shares the main
> datastore?  Export and ISO are fine no problems.

no need (say you would use a netapp, you couldn't install vdsm on it).
but you get a permission denied.
what does ls -l shows on that path?