hypervisor - ubuntu natty 2.6.38-13-server #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 5 19:52:44 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux a VM, also ubuntu based, was hanging on vm initiated reboot, without any useful error messages. virsh destroyed the domain, killed -9 the remaining process and can not start up the vm now. hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk" message. the fs is active-active-drbd/ocfs2, in sync and clean, other VMs are running in on the same fs. tried copying the image to local disk and another system and had the same issue starting up the vm. libvirt debug 1 output doesn't show anything useful. qemu-img doesn't seem to support any checking of raw disk format, which is what we use as the default in all vms. package info ii kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu16+0.14.0+noroms+0ubuntu4.5 dummy transitional package from kvm to qemu-kvm ii qemu 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.5 dummy transitional package from qemu to qemu-kvm ii qemu-kvm 0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4.5 Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware full args 106 29758 1 99 12:53 ? 00:26:00 /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name gal1 -uuid d93123c4-8d38-d4f8-6f92-9a9fcaa81efa -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/gal1.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=utc -boot order=c,menu=off -drive file=/data/vm1/gal1.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -drive file=/data/vm1/gal1-data.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:10:ce:70,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -vga cirrus -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 root 31431 9211 0 13:19 pts/4 00:00:00 grep --color=auto gal1 any ideas ? thanks a lot in advance ! -- 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