This turns out to be a bug in qemu 2.12-rc1. It is fixed by this commit already upstream: commit 37c51741892a89cf5710f5ac231091fb0a6352c7 Author: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Date: Wed Mar 28 00:41:41 2018 +0800 scsi-disk: Don't enlarge min_io_size to max_io_size Some backends report big max_io_sectors. Making min_io_size the same value in this case will make it impossible for guest to align memory, therefore the disk may not be usable at all. Do not enlarge them when they are zero. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/