RHEL guest's installation onto the logical volume on the lun provided by Dell Equallogic fails.

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Issue

  • RHEL guest's installation onto the logical volume on the lun provided by Dell Equallogic fails with the following error when the option [cache=none] is specified.
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 An error occurred mounting device /dev/mapper/vg_aaa-lv_root as /: mount failed: (9, None). This is a fatal error and the install cannot continue.
  • Installation onto the same device with the option [cache=writeback] does not fail. Successfully completes.
  • Why does it fail only when [cache=none] is specified? [cache=writeback] is not relevant as we do need to have it [cache=none] so that virtual machine's live migration would be available.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64)
  • Dell Equallogic
  • libvirt-0.10.2-29.el6_5.9.x86_64
  • python-virtinst-0.600.0-18.el6.noarch
  • qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.10.x86_64

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