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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: cannot create VM with image on zfs filesystem (zfsonlinux)
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:03:50 +0400
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On 07.11.2011 17:57, Peter Lees wrote:
> when trying to create a VM using a RAW image on a zfs filesystem, i get an 
> "invalid argument" error.
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> qemu: could not open disk image /space/vm_store/elveros_001.raw: Invalid argument

Please run qemu under strace to show what exactly it is doing.

/mjt