Unable to start KVM guest due to "internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image"
Issue
- Unable to start KVM guests only on GFS share with following errors
libvirtd: 17:04:22.479: error : internal error Timed out while reading console log output
libvirtd: 17:04:22.479: error : internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image /var/lib/libvirt/images/kvmguest01.img
- /var/lib/libvirt is located on GFS share
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- KVM
- Single node GFS node
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