I already replied to the OP in the Debian bug tracking system, and closed his bug there, see http://bugs.debian.org/628152 .
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #628152 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628152 ** Also affects: qemu-kvm (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628152 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/789831 Title: kvm locks up when out of disk space Status in QEMU: Invalid Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: 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.
