RHV - VM with direct LUN fails to boot "The device is not writable: Permission Denied"
Issue
When attempting to start a VM, it fails to start with an error similar to:
VM xxxxxx is down with error. Exit message: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2020-03-12T12:43:28.670327Z qemu-kvm: -drive file=/dev/mapper/360000970xxxxxxxxxxxx333631,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-3,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop,aio=native: The device is not writable: Permission denied.
- VM is using a direct LUN.
- The direct LUN is shared by two VM's that are running cluster (high availability) services within the guest.
Environment
- RHV 4
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