Re: [Qemu-devel] drive-backup locks VM if target has issues?

2013-09-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 30/09/2013 00:46, Wolfgang Richter ha scritto: I wanted to explore overhead with the new drive-backup command and I noticed if I set the target to something like '/dev/null' the guest VM starts having IO errors and loses write access to its root file system. Here is the qmp-shell command

Re: [Qemu-devel] drive-backup locks VM if target has issues?

2013-09-30 Thread Wolfgang Richter
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Paolo Bonzini pbonz...@redhat.com wrote: Il 30/09/2013 00:46, Wolfgang Richter ha scritto: All writes to the drive-backup source have to first copy the pre-write data to the target. Thus, drive-backup usually works best if you are using werror=stop on the

[Qemu-devel] drive-backup locks VM if target has issues?

2013-09-29 Thread Wolfgang Richter
I wanted to explore overhead with the new drive-backup command and I noticed if I set the target to something like '/dev/null' the guest VM starts having IO errors and loses write access to its root file system. Here is the qmp-shell command I'm using: drive-backup sync=none device=virtio0