From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59062 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJTZ8-00014R-27 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:39:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJTZ1-00037O-DF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:39:41 -0400 Received: from mail.pruts.nl ([82.94.235.107]:57273 helo=steel.pruts.nl) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJTZ1-000374-8s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:39:35 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by steel.pruts.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296F3E20B7 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:39:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from steel.pruts.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (steel.local [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DmzNtiFt36tZ for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:39:28 +0200 From: Ico Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] guest ATA errors on 'recently loopback built disk image' Message-ID: <20100601153928.GK15922@pruts.nl> References: <20100601144326.GH15922@pruts.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100601144326.GH15922@pruts.nl> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org * On 2010-06-01 Ico wrote : > short version: > > kvm reports ATA errors on images which are newly built on a loopback > disk image. If the image is copied to another file and booted, no > problems occur Extra note: the created image is a sparse file. If I create the disk using dd /dev/zero, all is well and no disk errors are reported in the guest. This explains why the 'cp' solves as well, I guess. -- :wq ^X^Cy^K^X^C^C^C^C