For the host:
-We use a md RAID indeed, raid 1
-The host and the guest both use ext4. On the host the file system is on a LVM  
LV indeed

For the guest:
-The virtual disk is in a qcow2 image file
-At first we used an emulated IDE disk. We have now changed this to virtio, but 
this was done a few days after the problems had been solved by changing the 
scheduler to deadline. Maybe using IDE emulation helps to reproduce the 
problem, I don't know.

The rsync was done from another server to the host, not with increased
priority or anything like that.

I have to admit that our setup was not optimal. The disks are modern but
quite slow, and the RAID 1 config and IDE emulation doesn't help either.
So I am not surprised this could be quite slow, however disk starvation
inside the guest should not happen. As said, changing only the scheduler
solved this problem completely.

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