Hi All, I have tried to install Centos on guest, it has the same problem, cannot read the HDD. I format it in qcow2 for linux and raw in FreeBSD. -- Paul Ooi On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:13 AM, takizo wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running on CentOS Released 6.1 final. Been using and running Linux KVM quite well for quite some time, something goes wrong after I perform yum upgrade. > > I created new VM yesterday without any problem, same exact installation procedure, installed FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to create a new VM today after yum upgrade, it's able to detect the hard disk, when I start commit FreeBSD 8.2 installation, it complains cannot write to disk as stated the error message below. > > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > > Below is the log I capture from the VM log file > > -- Log start -- > 2011-12-12 00:23:39.485: starting up > LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name database -uuid f3e9f320-7826-7e50-94bb-1833f7fd9dfb -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/database.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -drive file=/opt/cibai/database,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=threads -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/opt/ISO-Download/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,aio=threads -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:77:a5:a6,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:2,password -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 > char device redirected to /dev/pts/6 > Using CPU model "cpu64-rhel6" > > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22) > -- Log End -- > > Below is the software version currently running; > gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.7.el6.noarch > qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.8.x86_64 > qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.8.x86_64 > libvirt-client-0.8.7-18.el6_1.4.x86_64 > libvirt-python-0.8.7-18.el6_1.4.x86_64 > libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.4.x86_64 > > Any of you having the problem as well? > I am planning to install CentOS as guest and see whether is has the same problem as well. Thanks. > > -- > Paul Ooi -- 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