From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Problems KVM-84 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:15:28 +0200 Message-ID: <49B79D50.4090300@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Uri Lublin , qemu-devel , Anthony Liguori To: Jay Mann Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:55856 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755743AbZCKLPf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:15:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jay Mann wrote: > Hi, > > I just downloaded built and installed kvm-84 on ubuntu Hardy x64 2.6= =2E24-23- > server and I=E2=80=99m getting the following 2 problems that did not = exists in kvm-83. > > 1. The qemu emulater (bios screen) takes a long time to start (~10=20 > seconds), and subsequently Libvirt times out when I try to start a gu= est VM=20 > from virsh. =20 > =20 This is caused by qemu r6404: commit 5d4cbd78aa33f6d034a62207c99ad0b64af44621 Author: aliguori Date: Thu Jan 22 18:57:22 2009 +0000 block-qcow2: keep highest allocated byte (Uri Lublin) =20 We want to know the highest written offset for qcow2 images. This gives a pretty good (and easy to calculate) estimation to how much more allocation can be done for the block device. =20 It can be usefull for allocating more diskspace for that image (if possible, e.g. lvm) before we run out-of-disk-space =20 Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori Scanning the file at startup is slow. We need to find a better way. --=20 error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function