On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:33:25PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I tried another workaround which was to get virt-resize to fsync the > output file before closing the libvirt connection, but that doesn't > work for reasons I don't understand so far - still studying this. I worked out what was happening here -- I'd inserted the fsync at the wrong place in virt-resize. So I have now successfully worked around this for the virt-resize case, however it's still a problem that could manifest itself in other uses of libvirt + qemu + slow devices. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list