On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a 32b Fedora 15 guest mounting a filesystem from an Ubuntu 11.10 > 64b host using virtio and 9p. I'm using the "mapping" security mode > (tried squash as well). While I can create, edit, and delete files, when > I try to create or clone a git repository, I end up with garbage for the > first bit of the newly created .git config. > > $ kvm --version > QEMU emulator version 0.14.1 (qemu-kvm-0.14.1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 > Fabrice Bellard > > $ uname -a > Linux rage 3.0.0-12-server #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 16:36:30 UTC 2011 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > $ virt-manager --version > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module" > Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" > 0.9.0 > > The underlying filesystem on the host is an md RAID0 array mounted as: > /dev/md0 on /build type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,commit=6000) > > I was hoping to use 9p/virtio to avoid having to generate a number of > larger vm images which I'm using to build full OSes. I'd like the > resulting images to be easily accessible on the host. > > Any thoughts on a solution? Can you describe the corrupted .git/config in more detail? Does git give you an error message? Can you hexdump or post the file contents - often corrupted files contain a clue as to how the corruption occurred? CCed Aneesh, QEMU virtfs maintainer. Stefan -- 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