We are hitting this bug as well. With Ceph storage back end running in OpenStack environment.
Ubuntu 14.04 Kernel - 3.13.0-52-generic Qemu: QEMU emulator version 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11) Please provide a workaround or solution or if a patch is being worked on. Thank you, Arghya -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1481272 Title: main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations Status in QEMU: New Bug description: I compile the latest qemu to launch a VM but the monitor output the "main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations". # /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name rhel6 -S -no-kvm -m 1024M -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid c9dd2a5c-40f2-fd3d-3c54-9cd84f8b9174 -rtc base=utc -drive file=/home/samba-share/ubuntu.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=disk,serial=425618d4-871f-4021-bc5d-bcd7f1b5ca9c,bootindex=0 -vnc :1 -boot menu=on -monitor stdio QEMU 2.3.93 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) c (qemu) main-loop: WARNING: I/O thread spun for 1000 iterations <----------------------- qemu]# git branch -v * master e95edef Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/sstabellini/tags/xen-migration-2.4-tag' into staging To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1481272/+subscriptions
