VM fails to start with "failed to create logfile" error on RHEV 3.x with Intel C600/X79 SATA controller
Issue
- VM fails to start with the following error:
VM name is down. Exit message: failed to create logfile /var/log/libvirt/qemu/name.log: Read-only file system.
- VM fails to migrate with the following error:
Thread-20270687::ERROR::2014-10-21 03:46:10,506::vm::232::vm.Vm::(run) vmId=`0d59ca9b-222f-4977-af4c-80eb380b46ba`::Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/vdsm/vm.py", line 224, in run
File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtvm.py", line 423, in _startUnderlyingMigration
File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtvm.py", line 445, in f
File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 63, in wrapper
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1039, in migrateToURI
libvirtError: failed to create logfile /var/log/libvirt/qemu/VM_NAME.log: Read-only file system
Environment
- Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset 6-Port SATA AHCI
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Hypervisor 6.x (kernel-2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64, and possibly others)
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