From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I91Hi-0001dk-WC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:55 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I91Hi-0001dY-3T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I91Hi-0001dV-0Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:54 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I91Hh-0007nB-KM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:12:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4696530A.2010000@qumranet.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:12:58 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Crash: When Host HDD is full References: <7fac565a0707110819k635d398fl273d8d5a0afd2d3f@mail.gmail.com> <200707120807.41162.mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200707120807.41162.mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Mike Swanson wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 08:19:48 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > >> Problem 1: >> When Host HDD is full, all guests simply crash. Tried with dynamically >> growing .VMDK hard disk. >> >> It shouldn't happen. For example, both VirtualPC and VirtualBox pause >> all VMs, and gray their displays when something like that happens. >> > > IMO, it's a non-issue; you probably shouldn't be letting your filesystems to > become full in the first place, much less running VMs on it. Well, he shouldn't, but neither should qemu crash or corrupt data. > Besides, most > filesystems reserve some space for the superuser, now unless there's a > cross-platform way to figure out just how much space that is, you'd still be > getting errors despite having 5~10% of the filesystem technically free. > > Qemu might freeze the guest when it gets -ENOSPC, and say, retry every second or wait for user input on the monitor. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function