From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Watte Subject: Re: kvm on Ubuntu 8.04 running windows xp sp3: corrupts file system on shutdown? Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:08:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4A4D13C6.7080006@gmail.com> References: <4A4CD7F5.6020603@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yaniv Kaul , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Dustin Kirkland Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f190.google.com ([209.85.216.190]:58498 "EHLO mail-px0-f190.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757309AbZGBUIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:08:38 -0400 Received: by pxi28 with SMTP id 28so1791611pxi.33 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- Revenge is the most pointless and damaging of human desires.