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Bug 540406

Summary:	RHEL5.4 VM image corruption with an IDE v-disk
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	kvm	Assignee:	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.4	CC:	apevec, azarembo, bstein, cpelland, lihuang, llim, markmc, michen, plyons, pm-eus, tao, tburke, virt-maint, ykaul
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	kvm-83-105.el5_4.12	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-12-09 16:29:02 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	533390
Bug Blocks:	518493, 1564988

Description RHEL Program Management 2009-11-23 10:25:58 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #533390 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.4 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 7 Miya Chen 2009-12-01 05:52:24 UTC

Test with werror=stop in build kvm-83-105.el5_4.12 again, VM can stop on read
errors.

steps:
Step:
1. create a local nfs server in host, then
mount localhost:/root/test-nfs /mnt -o rw,soft,timeo=1,retrans=0
cd /mnt
qemu-img create test-533390.qcow2 -f qcow2 10G


2. start guest:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -rtc-td-hack -no-hpet -usbdevice tablet -cpu qemu64,+sse2
-drive
file=RHEL-Server-5.4-64-virtio.qcow2,if=ide,format=qcow2,cache=off,werror=stop
-smp 2 -m 2G -vnc :1 -net nic,macaddr=20:20:20:11:12:56,model=virtio,vlan=0
-net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup,vlan=0 -monitor stdio -drive
file=/mnt/test-533390.qcow2,if=ide,format=qcow2,cache=off,werror=stop


3. in guest:
fdisk /dev/hdb
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/null


4. in host:
service nfs stop

5. In host dmesg:
nfs: server localhost not responding, timed out


Result:
In qemu monitor
(qemu)info status
VM status: paused

Comment 8 Miya Chen 2009-12-01 06:01:25 UTC

additional info:
after VM paused, it can be restored by inputting "c" in qemu monitor, and works
fine.

steps:
1. in host:
service nfs start
2. In qemu monitor
(qemu)c

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2009-12-09 16:29:02 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1659.html