Kevin Wolf <kwolf@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Good point... The only other thing that I can think of would be > attaching gdb and setting a breakpoint in vm_stop() or something. Perfect, that seems to identified what's going on very nicely: (gdb) break vm_stop Breakpoint 1 at 0x407d10: file /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/cpus.c, line 318. (gdb) fg Continuing. Breakpoint 1, vm_stop (reason=0) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/cpus.c:318 318 /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/cpus.c: No such file or directory. in /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/cpus.c (gdb) bt #0 vm_stop (reason=0) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/cpus.c:318 #1 0x000000000058585f in ide_handle_rw_error (s=0x20330d8, error=28, op=8) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/hw/ide/core.c:468 #2 0x0000000000588376 in ide_dma_cb (opaque=0x20330d8, ret=<value optimized out>) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/hw/ide/core.c:494 #3 0x0000000000590092 in dma_bdrv_cb (opaque=0x2043a10, ret=-28) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/dma-helpers.c:94 #4 0x000000000044d64a in qcow2_aio_write_cb (opaque=0x2034900, ret=-28) at block/qcow2.c:714 #5 0x000000000043df6d in posix_aio_process_queue ( opaque=<value optimized out>) at posix-aio-compat.c:462 #6 0x000000000043e07d in posix_aio_read (opaque=0x17c8110) at posix-aio-compat.c:503 #7 0x0000000000415fca in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=<value optimized out>) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/vl.c:1383 #8 0x000000000042ca37 in kvm_main_loop () at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/qemu-kvm.c:1589 #9 0x00000000004170a3 in main (argc=32, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value optimized out>) at /home/root/packages/qemu-kvm/src-UMBurO/vl.c:1429 I see what's happened here: we're not explicitly setting format=raw when we start that guest and someone's uploaded a qcow2 image directly to a block device. Ouch. Sorry for the noise! Best wishes, Chris. -- 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