[CentOS-virt] KVM CO 5.6 VM guest crashes running iSCSI

Momonth momonth at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 15:34:39 EDT 2011


It was resolved by re-installing the KVM host with CentOS 6.0,
unfortunately there is not "official" CentOS 5.6 -> CentOS 6.0 upgrade
path.

Vladimir

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Momonth <momonth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running KVM host on CentOS 5.6 x64, all of my guests are CO 5.6
> x64 as well. I create / run VMs via libvirt.
>
> Here are the packages I have:
>
> # rpm -qa | egrep "kvm|virt"
> kvm-83-224.el5.centos
> python-virtinst-0.400.3-11.el5
> kvm-qemu-img-83-224.el5.centos
> kmod-kvm-83-224.el5.centos
> libvirt-python-0.8.2-15.el5
> etherboot-zroms-kvm-5.4.4-13.el5.centos
> libvirt-0.8.2-15.el5
> libvirt-devel-0.8.2-15.el5
>
> The problem:
>
> I attached an iSCSI LUN (netapp appliance) to a guest and everything
> work fine with iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.872-6.el5: LUN discovery,
> attaching to the host etc.
> After that I'm trying to copy ~ 140Gb of data to that LUN via scp from
> another server in the network and the VM crashes after ~ 1 hour of
> copying .. Nothing in the VM / KVM host logs importunately.
>
> Who has / had similar issues with iSCSI LUNs being connected to a guest?
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>


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