Hello, On Tuesday 12 February 2013 15:30:37 Sylvain Bauza wrote: > We currently run Openstack Essex hosts with KVM-1.0 (Ubuntu 12.04) > instances with qcow2,virtio,cache=none The default answer is to update your qemu-kvm version: 1.0 is very old, qemu- kvm is fully merged into upstream qemu, which is currently preparing its 1.4 release. There have been many fixes to qemi and the qcow2 handling: I know of at least one serious problem not fixed up to qemu-1.1. Sincerely Philipp -- Philipp Hahn Open Source Software Engineer hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Univention GmbH be open. fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 Mary-Somerville-Str.1 D-28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 http://www.univention.de/ -- 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