Re: [Qemu-devel] QCOW(2) image corruption under QEMU 0.9.0 reproducible

2007-03-16 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
herbie hancock wrote: Hello, i had also a reproducible disk crash: info of the last good image, size is about 3,5GB I never experienced such a bad problem with qemu before, maybe it is a problem with qcow2 format ? After the problems with qcow2 images which I reported here a few weeks ago,

Re: [Qemu-devel] QCOW(2) image corruption under QEMU 0.9.0 reproducible

2007-03-16 Thread Ben Taylor
J M Cerqueira Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: herbie hancock wrote: Hello, i had also a reproducible disk crash: info of the last good image, size is about 3,5GB I never experienced such a bad problem with qemu before, maybe it is a problem with qcow2 format ? After the

Re: [Qemu-devel] QCOW(2) image corruption under QEMU 0.9.0 reproducible

2007-03-16 Thread Julian Seward
I ran QEMU on Valgrind for several hours last night, including a couple of boot-shutdown cycles of RedHat8, and lots of file copying/deletion in the guest to get the qcow2 image up to 8GB and generally cause a lot of disk IO. I got no memory errors whatsoever from Valgrind and got no filesystem

Re: [Qemu-devel] QCOW(2) image corruption under QEMU 0.9.0 reproducible

2007-03-15 Thread Julian Seward
Something similar happened to me. At first I thought it was a hardware (host) problem and so do not have good details - this is from memory. - 0.9.0, binary build from qemu.org - i386 openSUSE 10.2 host - RedHat 8 guest - .qcow2 image, max size 8GB - using the Accelerator but not -kernel-kqemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] QCOW(2) image corruption under QEMU 0.9.0 reproducible

2007-03-15 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Julian Seward wrote: Something similar happened to me. At first I thought it was a hardware (host) problem and so do not have good details - this is from memory. I had trouble (disk access errors when installing Debian/mipsel) with a 5 GB qcow2 image with only some hundred MB of payload. I