Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 798938
Snapshot-revert will report error with startupPolicy='requisite' when floppy/cdrom disk is missing
Last modified: 2012-06-20 02:49:21 EDT
Description of problem: When floppy/cdrom image is missing, snapshot-revert will report error even if with startupPolicy='requisite' Also the error message is ambiguous "Unknown error 512" and need to be improved Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.232.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-225.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.10-3.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start a guest with qcow2 type disk image and a floppy disk like <disk type='file' device='floppy'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img' startupPolicy='requisite'/> <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/> </disk> 2.Create snapshot of running guest # virsh snapshot-create guest 3.Destroy the guest and remove image /var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img 4.Revert to running snapshot # virsh snapshot-revert [snapshot name] Actual results: report error: error: cannot access file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img': Unknown error 512 Expected results: should revert successfully Additional info:
Patch proposed upstream: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-March/msg00301.html
Another patch proposed upstream (for that weird error message): https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-March/msg00324.html
Moving to POST: http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2012-March/msg01024.html
Test failed on kernel-2.6.32-250.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.10-5.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.246.el6.x86_64 After revert, it will report error virsh snapshot-revert qcow2 1331711016 error: cannot access file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/floppy.img': No such file or directory So reassign it
Created attachment 569916 [details] domain xml
Created attachment 569918 [details] libvirtd.log
Moving to POST: http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2012-March/msg01281.html
verify pass on kernel-2.6.32-250.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.246.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.10-6.el6.x86_64 The snapshot-revert succeeds without error after remove floppy/cdrom image with startupPolicy='requisite'
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/RHSA-2012-0748.html