Re: [libvirt] Mystery of qemu being unable to open NBD Unix domain socket in current directory
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/06/2018 12:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>I'm chasing down a very frustrating bug which only happens on i686 &
>Koji during the nbdkit tests and seemingly nowhere else. Anyway this
>is what I've been able to put together:
>
>The libguestfs appliance (guest) is created with this XML snippet:
>
> <disk device="disk" type="network">
> <source protocol="nbd">
> <host transport="unix" socket="cow.sock"/>
Have you tried an absolute path?
Yes it works with an absolute path. Isn't this a bug in libvirt?
Also it works on x86_64 and in earlier versions of libvirt.
I'll post my nbdkit workaround soon.
Rich.
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