On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Running a VM using raw sparse disk image on kvm 0.14 on Debian. > > When disk writes use up all disk space kvm locks up. > > if it cannot handle this situation gracefully (eg suspend the VM until > space becomes available) it should at the very least report an error and > exit, not keep sitting there.
Actually it should pause the VM - are you sure that KVM is "locking up"? If you run with SDL the window title says "[Stopped]" and you can resume the VM with the "c" (continue) QEMU monitor command once you've rectified the storage shortage. Are you using libvirt (virsh/virt-manager)? What makes you think that KVM is locked up? How much CPU is the qemu-kvm process consuming? Stefan
