Make sure your O/S support for CIFS includes read/write of files in mounted CIFS share.
E.g. use vi to create and then edit a file on the shared storage from your management server. DL > -----Original Message----- > From: Rajesh Battala [mailto:rajesh.batt...@citrix.com] > Sent: 23 October 2013 13:10 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Regarding vhd-util binary > > Hi All, > > I had downloaded the vhd-util from > http://download.cloud.com.s3.amazonaws.com/tools/vhd-util . > I have an vhd file in the NFS share. I had mounted in my mgmt. server and > tried vhd-util read -p -n "path of file" it works. > But the same file when present in CIFS share, mounted on my mgmt. server > with (rw) vhd-util is failing to read/dump the headers. > > Is vhd-util binary has limitation reading file from CIFS.? Or we need to mount > the CIFS share with any extra params? > > Thanks > Rajesh Battala