Can you still reproduce this problem with the latest version of QEMU (currently version 2.9.0)?
** Changed in: qemu Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/816860 Title: Guest machine freezes when NFS mount goes offline Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: I have a virtual KVM machine that has 2 CDROM units with ISOs mounted from a NFS mount point. When NFS server goes offline the virtual machine blocks completely instead of throwing read errors for the CDROM device. Host: Proxmox VE 1.8-11 (Debian GNU/Linux 5.0) KVM commandline version: QEMU emulator version 0.14.1 (qemu-kvm-devel) Guest: Windows 7 professional SP 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/816860/+subscriptions