[openstack-dev] [Libguestfs] How to use libguestfs access LVM as non-root user?
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Sat Jun 1 08:57:03 UTC 2013
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 01:28:20PM +0800, Qiu Yu wrote:
> For others who might interests, if you use qcow2 image with OpenStack and
> choose LVM as image backend, nova libvirt driver will convert it raw when
> creating a new instance. However, data injection using libguestfs will
> still assuming the it is qcow2 format, hence hit the above issue. Not sure
> it is a bug or not, probably one should specify "use_cow_images = False" to
> avoid the problem in this case.
Yes, this sounds like a Nova bug.
Rich.
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