[one-users] Unable to clone virtual disk : A general system error occurred: Insufficient permission to access file

[Ingo Stieglitz]

Hi Carlos,

Thank you for you answer. By know I found my problem. I typed (and not
copied) the line into the /etc/exports file and missread a blank sign where
no one was. Between the IP and the parameter list you must not type a blank.
wrong: 10.11.12.0/24" "(rw...
right: 10.11.12.0/24(rw,....

So long, Ingo

2012/9/18 Carlos Martín Sánchez <cmartin at opennebula.org>

> Dear Ingo,
>
> It looks indeed like a permissions problem. Let's check.
>
>   * the id of oneadmin in the OpenNebula front-end and ESX is 10000?
>   * can you do a "touch /vmfs/volumes/srvcloudonevar" in the ESX?
>
> Not sure about this, but you should try without the leading slash:
>
>
> vmkfstools -username root -password redhat123 -server esxi01 -i
> '[srvcloudonevar] images/disk.vmdk' -d
> thin '[srvcloudonevar] images/disk1.vmdk'
>
> Hope it helps
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | cmartin at opennebula.org | @OpenNebula<http://twitter.com/opennebula><cmartin at opennebula.org>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Ingo Stieglitz <ingo.stieglitz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I try to set up a test environment by following this guide:
>> http://cloudblab.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/opennebula-and-vmware-esxi5-0.pdf
>> So far everything is fine, but at page 19 I have a problem.
>> There is the instruction to convert a vmdk disk to a thin provisioned one
>> using this command:
>>
>> *vmkfstools -username root -password redhat123 -server esxi01 -i
>> '[srvcloudonevar] /images/disk.vmdk' -d*
>> *thin '[srvcloudonevar] /images/disk1.vmdk'*
>>
>> Of course I use my own password, own server (also tried IP) and own
>> datastore name for this. I also tried the user "oneadmin".
>> Nevertheless I keep getting the following error message:
>>
>> *Unable to clone virtual disk : A general system error occurred:
>> Insufficient permission to access file*
>> *
>> *
>> First I thought there is a problem with the nfs export, but my
>> /etc/exports file looks like in the documentation:
>>
>> */srv/cloud/one/var 10.11.12.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=10000,anongid=10000)
>> *
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea what I did wrong?
>>
>> By the way, my set up: 1 ESXi 5 host as worker node, one Ubuntu Server
>> 11.10 as virtual machine on this ESXI host as ONE Frontend.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Regards, Ingo
>>
>>
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