Bug 21585

Summary:	Unable to mount Virtual Box .vdi image as a Linux partition.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Mike Arnautov <mla>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	qemu-2.8.1.1-7.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Mike Arnautov 2017-08-21 15:45:47 CEST

Description of problem:
The command "qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 Image.vdi" appears to work but fails to create /dev/nbd0p* files. The fdisk command "fdisk -l /dev/nbd0" shows the files that are supposed to be present (in my case nbd0p1, nbd0p2 and nbd0p5), but the file are not actually created in /dev. An attempt to mount them results in the predictable "special device /dev/nbd0p5 does not exist". There is nothing wrong with the .vdi image in question (an ext3 installation of Mandrake 9.2!) -- VirtualBox is quite happy to run Mandrake 9.2 off it.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.8.1.1, but the problem was also present fully up-to-date Mageia 5 back in March (whatever version number it was)


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 Image.vdi
This succeeds

2.fdisk -l /dev/nbd0
This shows the supposedly created /dev files

3.ls /dev/nbd0p*
This show the actual absence of those files

4. mount /dev/ndb0p5 /mnt
This shows that the files really are absent (i.e. not just virtualised in some manner)

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-08-21 20:56:17 CEST

Assigning to the registered maintainer.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-05 15:31:06 CEST

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Resolution: (none) => OLD
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Status: NEW => RESOLVED