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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:49:39 +0100
From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Bugs in the VDI Block Device Driver
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Chunqiang Tang <ctang@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Am 19.02.2011 17:21, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Chunqiang Tang <ctang@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> I applied FVD's fully automated testing tool to the VDI block device
>> driver and found several bugs. Some bugs are easy to fix whereas others
>> need some thoughts on design. Therefore, I thought you might be able to
>> handle the bugs better than me. These bugs occur only if I/O errors or
>> aio_cancel are injected, and hence are not that critical. If VDI is meant
>> for read-only image format conversion, then these bugs are "ok". If write
>> is enabled in VDI, these bugs may corrupt data. FVD's testing tool
>> discovered these bugs because it automatically injects errors and race
>> conditions, and performs exhaustive randomized tests. Below is a list of
>> the bugs.
>
> Thanks for this detailed list. vdi is there for conversion and not a
> high priority for me, but I have filed it as a bug so it is not
> forgotten:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/721825
>
> Stefan


Hi Stefan (H.),

the bug report was for me, and I'm already looking after it.

Regards,
Stefan (W.)