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diff --git a/results/classifier/gemma3:12b/files/1759337 b/results/classifier/gemma3:12b/files/1759337 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2ab3d3eb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/gemma3:12b/files/1759337 @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + +'Failed to get "write" lock' error when trying to run a VM with disk image file on an SMB share + +This has been reported and discussed downstream: + +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484130 + +but doesn't seem to be getting a lot of traction there. + +Basically, with qemu since at least 2.10, you cannot use a disk image on an SMB share that's mounted with protocol version 3 (I think possibly 2 or higher). This is made much more serious because kernel 4.13 upstream made version 3 the *default* for SMB mounts, because version 1 is insecure and should not be used. + +So basically, anyone with a recent qemu and kernel cannot use disk images stored on an SMB share. This is a major inconvenience for me because, well, an SMB share is exactly where I store my VM disk images, usually: I have a big NAS drive where I keep them all, only now I can't because of this bug, and I'm manually swapping them in and out of the very limited space I have on my system drive (SSD). + +The error you get is: + +qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/share/data/isos/vms/desktop_test_1.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0: Failed to get "write" lock +Is another process using the image? \ No newline at end of file |