Hi,

After a long struggle with ubuntu enterprise cloud 10.04 (where I could not get nodes to register successfully at all), I finally built eucalyptus-1.6.2 from source (after installing ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64) and am able to register the nc node BUT when I launch instances I see the instance go from pending to terminated.

nc.log shows "domain not found" error and I see the following error in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/i-47A808BE.log

libvir: QEMU error : cannot set ownership on /usr/local/eucalyptus/admin/i-47A808BE/kernel: Permission denied

The permissions are as follows:

cloud@cloudnc1:~$ ls -l /usr/local/eucalyptus/admin/i-47A808BE/
total 574744
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5384437760 2010-07-29 02:49 disk
-rw------- 1 eucalyptus libvirtd 571064 2010-07-29 02:49 instance-checkpoint
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3549936 2010-07-27 00:20 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 eucalyptus libvirtd 939 2010-07-29 02:49 libvirt.xml
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7442869 2010-07-27 00:20 ramdisk
cloud@cloudnc1:~$

As you can see I have configured the 'eucalyptus' user to be in the 'libvirtd' primary group (there is no group called 'eucalyptus'). The eucalyptus root "/opt/eucalyptus" is also owned by eucalyptus:libvirtd as is /usr/local/eucalyptus - the instances location.

And of course, eucalyptus processes also run with the same user and group ownership.

Earlier I got the same error when I used the default eucalyptus:eucalyptus as user and group names.

/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf also has user=eucalyptus and group=libvirtd

And yet the files kernel, ramdisk and image are being created with root:root ownership - I don't understand how this happens when eucalyptus as well as libvirtd processes are supposed to be running as eucalyptus:libvirtd. I checked the ownership of /usr/local/eucalyptus/eucalyptus/cache where the kernel, ramdisk and image files are stored - they have eucalyptus:libvirtd ownership.

Some of the other details are as follows :-

sukumar@sukumar-laptop:~$ euca-describe-availability-zones verbose
AVAILABILITYZONE ampcloud 192.168.1.10
AVAILABILITYZONE |- vm types free / max cpu ram disk
AVAILABILITYZONE |- m1.small 0004 / 0004 1 128 2
AVAILABILITYZONE |- c1.medium 0004 / 0004 1 256 5
AVAILABILITYZONE |- m1.large 0002 / 0002 2 512 10
AVAILABILITYZONE |- m1.xlarge 0002 / 0002 2 1024 20
AVAILABILITYZONE |- c1.xlarge 0001 / 0001 4 2048 20
sukumar@sukumar-laptop:~$ euca-describe-images
IMAGE emi-012F1127 uecimage/ubuntu.9-04.x86.img.manifest.xml admin available public x86_64 machine eki-7CF5134B eri-D308149D
IMAGE eki-7CF5134B ueckernel/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server.manifest.xml admin available public x86_64 kernel
IMAGE eri-D308149D uecramdisk/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server.manifest.xml admin available public x86_64 ramdisk

This is the default ubuntu-9.04-i386 image from eucalyptus store (same disk size as default).

The cloud cc is on a separate host with 2 NICs (192.168.1.10 and 192.168.10.1), I have only 1 cloud nc (192.168.10.2) on a separate subnet.

I feel there ought to be some simple permission fix for this error to go away - any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.

Sukumar.