On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Peter Lieven <p...@kamp.de> wrote: > I wonder how difficult it would be to have the IDE CDROM run in its own > thread? > We usually have ISOs mounted on an NFS share as CDROM. Problem: If the NFS > Share > goes down, it takes down monitor, qmp, vnc etc. with it. > > Maybe its already possible to do this via cmdline args? > > Any ideas, comments?
If QEMU hangs in the read/write/flush/discard code path due to NFS downtime it is a bug. QEMU is expected to hang in open/reopen because those are performed in a blocking fashion. Which of these cases applies to what you are seeing? Maybe it can be fixed. Stefan