Re: Hypervisor error messages after xl block-detach with linux 3.18-rc5

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

On 11/24/2014 11:02 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 10:55 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 11/21/2014 02:57 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:42:11AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> while testing my "linear p2m list" patches I saw the following
>>>> problem (even without my patches in place):
>>>>
>>>> In dom0 running linux 3.18-rc5 on top of Xen 4.4.1 I modified the
>>>> disk image of a guest by attaching it to dom0:
>>>>
>>>> xl block-attach 0 file:/var/lib/libvirt/images/opensuse13-1/xvda,xvda,w
>>>> mount /dev/xvda2 /mnt
>>>> ...
>>>> umount /mnt
>>>> xl block-detach 0 xvda
>>
>> Did some more testing:
>> - Seems to occur only when attaching a block device to dom0
>
> That means a qdisk backed situation then, I think.
>
> Is your qemu up to date?
>
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=qemu-upstream-unstable.git;a=commit;h=abbbc2f09a53f8f9ee565356ab11a78af006e45e resulted in slightly different messages, but could be related?

Newest qemu and xen-unstable together with my dom0 kernel patch made
all issues go away at a first glance.


Juergen