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[Leander Bessa Beernaert <leanderbb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Can't seem to get around it >.<. Below are the current permissions on the
folder in one of the compute nodes.
I've already tried chmod o+x /var/lib/nova/instances/ but nothing happend :/

gsd@cloud33:~$ ls -l /var/lib/nova/instances/
> total 4
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nova nova 4096 Jul  3 13:33 _base
> gsd@cloud33:~$ ls -l /var/lib/nova/
> total 136
> drwxr-xr-x 6 nova nova   4096 Jul  3 13:11 CA
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova   4096 Jun 25 20:11 buckets
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova   4096 Jun 25 20:11 images
> drwxr-xr-x 3 nova nova   4096 Jul  4 15:45 instances
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova   4096 Jun 25 20:11 keys
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova   4096 Jun 25 20:11 networks
> -rw------- 1 nova nova 104448 Jul  3 13:13 nova.sqlite
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova   4096 Jun 25 20:11 tmp


On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:24:42PM +0100, Leander Bessa Beernaert wrote:
> > Ok. so i have added the option you mentioned, restarted nfs and remounted
> > on the compute nodes.
> >
> > Now i get this error: http://paste.openstack.org/show/19260/
>
>   libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log
> output: chardev: opening backend "file" failed: Permission denied
>
>
> This is an error from QEMU itself. So it shows libvirtd has successfully
> done its part of the work. Unless you have changed your qemu.conf file,
> then QEMU will normally run as the 'qemu:qemu' user/group pair. So you
> should make sure that user account has r-x permission on the directory
> where the images are stored. QEMU doesn't need write permission on
> the directory - libvirtd makes sure the files themselves are writable
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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