* John Morrissey <j...@horde.net> [2009-01-08 13:28]: > I'm encountering what seems like disk corruption when using qcow2 images, > created with 'kvm-img create -f qcow2 image.qcow2 15G'. >
using ide or scsi as your block device? > A simple test case is to use the Debian installer (I'm using the lenny rc1 > images from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/) to install a new > domain. The qcow2 file on disk grows due to the mkfs(8) activity, then the > installer faults while trying to mount the root filesystem (Invalid > argument). 'fdisk -l' shows that the partition table just created by the > installer is gone. > > In a few cases, I've managed to finish an installation, but the resulting > filesystem is strangely corrupt: > > # file /usr/bin/w.procps > /usr/bin/w.procps: gzip compressed data, was "aptitude.8", from Unix, last > modified: Wed Mar 14 14:11:18 2007, max compression If you are using ide and getting corruption, try again but with creating a disk image with the raw format: qemu-img create -f raw <imagename> <size> That should help track down where the corruption is coming from. -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ry...@us.ibm.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
