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Jae_Ellers
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎03-07-2007 04:58 PM

Can't use .iso from read-only NFS file system

Tell me this is fixed in 3.0.1 or some patch.

We setup replication among our NetApps to distribute isos around to our regional sites. Since the NFS share is read-only I checked the box to make the file system read-only.

I'm putting the vm on a local datastore on a blade (base esx 3.0.0). When I browse to the NFS share I get the oh, so useful message "The datastore is read-only" and the browser window doesn't browse into the datastore.

Duh.

So, even though the file system is read-only, I then recreate the NFS mount and don't check the read-only box. Now the browser enters the datastore and I am building a test system off of the dvd.iso.

Not the sharpest hammer in the box. Anyone run into this before? Seems like a logical bug to me. If the datastore is read-only I should be able to read from there in the browser for my .iso, eh?

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PatrickMSlatter
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎03-07-2007 08:14 PM

I have run into the same issue with read-only NFS shares from my NetApps on v3.0.1 as well. I have not seen a patch to fix it either.

It makes sense to me to have a read-only ISO storage share, not sure why VMware does not think the same...

Jae_Ellers
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎03-07-2007 08:33 PM

I will open an SR on this and I hope you'll do the same. Thanks.

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jam
Contributor
Contributor
‎07-30-2007 06:46 AM

I get this too. However, if you single-click on the NFS share then click on 'Open', it then opens normally and you can use it.

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