Re: kvm on Ubuntu 8.04 running windows xp sp3: corrupts file system on shutdown?

[Jon Watte <jwatte@gmail.com>]

Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>
> I am working on a backport of kvm-84 (kernel and userspace) to Ubuntu
> 8.04 LTS.  You can try the kvm packages in the following personal
> package archive (PPA):
>  * https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa
>
> Or, you can wait about a week and these packages should be uploaded to
> the hardy-backports archive, and you can install from there, rather
> than from the PPA.
>
> Please install both kvm and kvm-source to update both user and kernel
> space.  (Note that these packages contain cherry picks of the qcow2
> corruption patches.)
>   

That sounds great!

I'm wondering why I still got corruption with the RAW image format, 
though? I notice there is something called "IO thread" in config, which 
config by default turns off. Is that an asynchronizer of some sort? And, 
if so, is it on by deafult in 8.04?
I'm trying to suss out what the root cause might be. Also, I can't 
believe that I'm the only one with these problems? Although I hear on 
the interwebs that other people are complaining, too, and the usually 
get the reply "that's probably because you yank power" -- which I'm 
definitely not doing.

Sincerely,

jw



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