[Qemu-discuss] Impact of incorrectly-mapped OVMF

2018-04-18 Thread Prerna
Hi all, In playing around with OVMF a few times I accidentally specified my qemu-kvm binary with this erroneous command line: "qemu-kvm ... -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd" instead of passing this as if=pflash. I was expecting this to error out in qemu, but surprisingly qemu(2.6) let the VM boo

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-img convert stuck

2018-04-18 Thread David Lee
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Fam Zheng wrote: > > qemu-img hangs because the convert_iteration_sectors loop cannot make any > progress when it reaches the end of the base image. It is a bug (implicitly?) > fixed by Eric Blake (Cc'ed) 's BDRV_BLOCK_EOF patches on upstream, backporting > them to

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-img convert stuck

2018-04-18 Thread Fam Zheng
On Wed, 04/18 15:58, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Wed, 04/18 15:42, David Lee wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:57 PM, David Lee wrote: > > >>> > > >>> We tested qemu-kvm-ev-2.9.0-16.el7_4.14.1 - where from the source RPM we > > >>> verified it does contain ef6dada8b44e1e7c4bec5c1115903af9af415b50 >

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-img convert stuck

2018-04-18 Thread Fam Zheng
On Wed, 04/18 15:42, David Lee wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:57 PM, David Lee wrote: > >>> > >>> We tested qemu-kvm-ev-2.9.0-16.el7_4.14.1 - where from the source RPM we > >>> verified it does contain ef6dada8b44e1e7c4bec5c1115903af9af415b50 > >>> > >>> But the issue still exists. The conve

Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-img convert stuck

2018-04-18 Thread David Lee
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 11:57 PM, David Lee wrote: >>> >>> We tested qemu-kvm-ev-2.9.0-16.el7_4.14.1 - where from the source RPM we >>> verified it does contain ef6dada8b44e1e7c4bec5c1115903af9af415b50 >>> >>> But the issue still exists. The convert got stuck if one of the old >>> active overlay