On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 07:18:40PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> The only things that stands out is this before the "read failed" message: >> [pid 9098] lseek(12, 0, SEEK_END) = 1321851815424 >> [pid 9121] pread(12, 0x7fa50a0e47d0, 2048, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid >> argument) >> > > The buffer is unaligned here, yet the file was opened with O_DIRECT > (cache=none). This is strange, since alignment is not related to disk > size. The other interesting thing is that it's using pread - which means it's a too old kernel to use preadv and thus a not very well tested codepath with current qemu. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html