On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:30:37PM +0100, Sylvain Bauza wrote: > We currently run Openstack Essex hosts with KVM-1.0 (Ubuntu 12.04) > instances with qcow2,virtio,cache=none > > For Linux VMs, no trouble at all but we do observe filesystem > corruption and inconsistency (missing DLLs, CHKDSK asked by > EventViewer, failure at reboot) with some of our Windows 2003 SP2 > 64b images. > > At first boot, stress tests (CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 and intensive > CHKDSK) don't show up problems. It is only appearing 6 or 12h later. Are you running the latest virtio-win drivers? See http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers. Have you tested with IDE instead of virtio on the Windows guests? 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