Bug 1006650 - qemu should give a more friendly prompt when didn't specify read-only for VHDX format disk
Summary: qemu should give a more friendly prompt when didn't specify read-only for VHD...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jeff Cody
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks: 1006651
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Reported: 2013-09-11 03:15 UTC by Sibiao Luo
Modified: 2014-10-14 06:51 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1006651 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2014-10-14 06:51:01 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2014:1490 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE qemu-kvm bug fix and enhancement update 2014-10-14 01:28:27 UTC

Description Sibiao Luo 2013-09-11 03:15:02 UTC
Description of problem:
boot guest with a VHDX format disk which did not specify read-only, qemu will quit with a "'vhdx' invalid format" prompt, I suggest that QEMU should give a more friendly prompt for users, like: VHDX should use a read-only drive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host info:
2.6.32-414.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.400.el6.x86_64
guet info:
2.6.32-414.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a VHDX image via hyper-V.
2.copy the vhdx image into localhost and boot guest with this VHDX image as a data disk which did not specify read-only for it.
e.g:...-drive file=/home/sluo-win2012-64bit.vhdx,if=none,format=vhdx,id=drive-data-disk,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/home/sluo-win2012-64bit.vhdx,if=none,format=vhdx,id=drive-data-disk,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop: 'vhdx' invalid format
/etc/qemu-ifdown: could not launch network script

Actual results:
after step 2, qemu will quit with a "'vhdx' invalid format" prompt.

Expected results:
I suggest that QEMU should give a more friendly prompt for users, like: VHDX should use a read-only drive(just like bug 999788).

Additional info:

Comment 5 Sibiao Luo 2014-07-28 09:19:14 UTC
Verify this issue on qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.431.el6.x86_64.

host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q qemu-kvm-rhev
2.6.32-493.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.431.el6.x86_64

e.g.:...-drive file=/home/my-data-disk.vhdx,if=none,format=vhdx,id=drive-data-disk,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,drive=drive-data-disk,id=data-disk
qemu-kvm: -drive file=/home/my-data-disk.vhdx,if=none,format=vhdx,id=drive-data-disk,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop: 'vhdx' can be only used as read-only device.

Best Regards,
sluo

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:51:01 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1490.html


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