Re: Unexpected behaviour when CDROM ISO can not be read

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Thanks done:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/816860

2011/7/27 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Igor Blanco <iblanco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi everyone:
>> I had a problem yesterday with a virtual machine and I was not very
>> sure to whom I should report it so I much appreciate your opinion
>> about it.
>> I have a virtual machine that has a couple of CDROM drives attached
>> with their ISO image each. The ISOs are read from a NFS mounted
>> directory.
>>
>> Yesterady my NFS storage failed and I turned it off. When I did that
>> the Guest machine got frozen, it seemed to me that it was blocked
>> waiting for CDROM read. In a physical CDROM if a CD can not be read
>> for a while it would give a read error and go on. Is this a QEMU bug ?
>> A KVM bug ? An "expected" behaviour ?
>>
>> Environment:
>>
>> Host: Proxmox VE 1.8-11 (Debian GNU/Linux 5.0)
>> KVM commandline version: QEMU emulator version 0.14.1 (qemu-kvm-devel)
>> Guest: Windows 7 professional SP 1
>> Executed command line:
>>
>> /usr/bin/kvm -monitor unix:/var/run/qemu-server/106.mon,server,nowait
>> -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/106.vnc,password -pidfile
>> /var/run/qemu-server/106.pid -daemonize -usbdevice tablet -name
>> machine106 -smp sockets=2,cores=2 -nodefaults -boot menu=on -vga
>> cirrus -tdf -k es -drive
>> file=/mnt/pve/NFS_iso/cd1.iso,if=ide,index=0,media=cdrom -drive
>> file=/mnt/pve/NFS_iso/cd2.iso,if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom -drive
>
> This is probably due to the NFS mount going offline.  It's similar to
> when your home directory is over NFS and the server goes away -
> programs accessing files will become blocked.
>
> QEMU is designed to perform I/O without blocking the guest but there
> are cases today where this is not being done.  This hanging behavior
> is a bug and should be fixed.
>
> I suggest filing a bug so this issue is not forgotten:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu
>
> Stefan
>



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