[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#580956: Bug#580956: libvirt-bin: restore of kvm virtual machine is broken

[Guido Günther]

Hi Andreas,
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:56:06PM +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> 
> Am 11.05.2010 13:40, schrieb Andreas Bießmann:
> > Hi Günther,
> sorry i mixed up your first- and shurename. Here is one new point to
> mention.
> 
> > Am 10.05.2010 18:34, schrieb Guido Günther:
> [snip]
> >  3. virsh restore does not work (complains about missing header) but
> > starts the vm anyway
> When changing saved state permissions after 'virsh save' to 0644 'virsh
> restore' does cleanly start the vm. This means at least network
> connection is working (ping/ssh). But vnc monitor in virt-manager is
> still showing weird content as described before.
I'm not seeing your permission issues but I can at least reproduce the
broken VNC display with virt-manager, virt-viewer and gvncvier.
 -- Guido

> 
> I think there are some file permission problems when acting with
> kvm/qemu instance. When I instruct libvirt to snapshot a vm to file the
> snapshot-file is first written by libvirt (the header) and then the
> content is attached via another process called from libvirt, isn't it
> that way?
> This could have some connection to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575824
> This issue could be the same thing vice versa.
> 
> regards
> 
> Andreas Bießmann
>