August 2016
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For image-based storage pools which are POSIX compliant, you can enable it easily by uncommenting lock_manager = "lockd" in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf or on both hypervisors:
Now, enable and start the virtlockd service on both the hypervisors. Also, restart libvirtd on both the hypervisors.
# systemctl enable virtlockd; systemctl start virtlockd # systemctl restart libvirtd # systemctl status virtlockd
Starting vm1 on f22-02:
[root@f22-02]# virsh start vm1 Domain vm1 started
Starting the same vm1 on f22-01:
[root@f22-01]# virsh start vm1 error: Failed to start domain vm1 error: resource busy: Lockspace resource '/var/lib/libvirt/images/testvms/vm1.qcow2' is locked
Another method to enable lockd is to use a hash of the disk's file path. ...
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