Hello! I don't know if this is an issue - still... I used nbd via qemu-nbd, and all worked fine. Now, I unloaded the driver after finishing. But still I can see around a kernel thread: $ ps ax 988 ? I< 0:02 [kworker/u17:0-knbd0-recv] $ lsmod |grep -i nbd Is this an issue? Thanks for the great work! Enrico