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 -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|