[Users] image ownership

[Jacob Wyatt]

Frederico,

Thank you for responding.  I checked the qemu.conf file on all of the nodes and it was correct.  What's even more strange is that last night I put all of the nodes into maintenance mode and restarted them.  No particular reason for this but I was trying anything I could think of.  Now the ownership remains correct.  I suppose I'll never know what I did wrong, but at least it is working.

I found only 2 other anomalies.  One, the live migration did not work because TLS was disabled on the nodes.  The "listen_tls = 0" flag was set in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf.  I commented that out and migration works.

The second thing I noticed is that the iptables service is not starting.  This doesn't hinder functionality, but it's a security issue.  I'm still checking into why.

I doubt either of these issues caused my ownership problem.  I'm sure it's some mistake I made.  Hopefully I won't make it again next time.

Thank you again,
-Jacob


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From: Federico Simoncelli [fsimonce at redhat.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:38 AM
To: Jacob Wyatt
Cc: users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] image ownership

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jacob Wyatt" <jwyatt at ggc.edu>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:08:54 PM
> Subject: [Users] image ownership
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I've set up a new oVirt installation and it's behaving strangely with
> regard to virtual machine image files on the NFS storage.  Whenever
> I shut down a machine it's changing the owner of the image to
> root:root (0:0) instead of vdsm:kvm (36:36).  After that it can't
> start or do anything with that image again until I manually change
> the ownership back.  Everything works fine again until I shut the
> machine down.  I assume this is some mistake I've made in
> installation.  I did not have this problem in the test environment,
> but I'm stumped as to what went wrong.
>
> -Jacob

Hi Jacob,
 could you check the dynamic_ownership in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf:

# grep dynamic_ownership /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
#dynamic_ownership = 1
dynamic_ownership=0 # by vdsm

Thanks,
--
Federico