Re: Data corruption in guest using KVM

Aurelien Jarno
2007-07-21T18:39:24Z

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:03:42PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >I am using raw files for the disk in all cases.
> >
> >Note that I have just seen a three bytes corruption. Building the glibc
> >seems to be a good way to reproduce the bug, as a lot of source files
> >are generated on the fly during the build, and as GCC does not like
> >source files with 0x00.
> >
> >I will try to do the same compilation using a NFS mount, to see if it
> >comes or not from the IDE controller emulation.
> >
>
> Can you do the same build on the host without corruption? Are you sure
> it's not a bad disk?
>

I have got no problem building glibc and gcc on the two hosts (Core 2
Quad and Athlon 64 X2), and the disks are working correctly on both
machines.

Note that I am using multiple guests on the same system. Could it be the
problem? I will do a test with only one guest when my current tests are
finished.

Regards,
Aurelien

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