Description of problem: Win7 guest cannot be saved on KVM hypervisor Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.18-262.el5 virt-manager-0.6.1-14.el5 libvirt-0.8.2-20.el5 kvm-qemu-img-83-232.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install win7 guest on real disk, here is /dev/sda3 2. Open the win7 detail window, on the menu list, select "Virtual Machine" and click "Save" 3. Input the name and click "Save" Actual results: Error saving domain: operation failed: migration to 'exec:cat | { dd bs=4096 seek=1 if=/dev/null && dd bs=1048576; } 1<>/var/lib/libvirt/win7' failed: migration failed Expected results: the guest can be saved successfully. Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 435, in _save_callback vm.save(file_to_save) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 597, in save vm.save(filename) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 608, in save if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainSave() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: operation failed: migration to 'exec:cat | { dd bs=4096 seek=1 if=/dev/null && dd bs=1048576; } 1<>/var/lib/libvirt/win7' failed: migration failed
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Can't be a qemu bug since the save part fails w/o even a restore.
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