I suspect the culprit here is [1]. I've started a git bisect between this commit and v2.8.0 and during this time I found similar erros "/root/qemu/nbd/server.c:nbd_receive_request():L706: read failed"
I suspect this fix tried to solve a bunch of these read fails, but broke write requests. [1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/8a7ce4f9338c475df1afc12502af704e4300a3e0 From: cosnos-boun...@list.enea.se [mailto:cosnos-boun...@list.enea.se] On Behalf Of Ciprian Barbu Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 7:04 PM To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>; Alexandru Avadanii <alexandru.avada...@enea.com> Cc: Jeff Cody <jc...@redhat.com>; Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>; svc-armband <armb...@enea.com> Subject: [Cosnos] [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs Hello, Similar to the other thread about possible regression with rbd, there might be a regression with nbd. This time we are launching an instance from an image (not volume) and try to live migrate it: nova live-migration <test_instance> The nova-compute service complains with: 2017-03-31 15:32:56.179 7806 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver [req-15d79cbe-5956-4738-92df-3624e6b993ee d795de59fb9a4ea38776a11d20ae8469 cee03e74881f4ccba3b83345fb652b2c - - -] [instance: 6a04508f-5d79-4582-8e2c-4cc368753f6c] Migration running for 0 secs, memory 100% remaining; (bytes processed=0, remaining=0, total=0) 2017-03-31 15:32:58.029 7806 WARNING stevedore.named [req-73bc0113-5555-4dd8-8903-d3540cc61b47 b9fbceeadd2d4d1bab9c90ae104db1f7 7e7db99b32c6467184701e9a0c2f1de7 - - -] Could not load instance_network_info 2017-03-31 15:32:59.038 7806 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver [req-15d79cbe-5956-4738-92df-3624e6b993ee d795de59fb9a4ea38776a11d20ae8469 cee03e74881f4ccba3b83345fb652b2c - - -] [instance: 6a04508f-5d79-4582-8e2c-4cc368753f6c] Live Migration failure: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'nbd-server-add': Conflicts with use by drive-virtio-disk0 as 'root', which does not allow 'write' on #block143 2017-03-31 15:32:59.190 7806 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver [req-15d79cbe-5956-4738-92df-3624e6b993ee d795de59fb9a4ea38776a11d20ae8469 cee03e74881f4ccba3b83345fb652b2c - - -] [instance: 6a04508f-5d79-4582-8e2c-4cc368753f6c] Migration operation has aborted I will try and bisect it myself, but I thought I would paste this here first, just so you know there is this issue too. Regards, /Ciprian