On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:50 PM, takizo paulooi@takizo.com wrote:

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On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:40 PM, takizo paulooi@takizo.com wrote:

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LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 4096 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name database -uuid f3e9f320-7826-7e50-94bb-1833f7fd9dfb -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/database.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -drive file=/opt/cibai/database,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=threads -device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/opt/ISO-Download/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,aio=threads -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0 -device e1000,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:77:a5:a6,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:2,password -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 char device redirected to /dev/pts/6 Using CPU model "cpu64-rhel6"

block I/O error in device 'drive-ide0-0-0': Invalid argument (22)

Is /opt/cibai/database on a special filesystem or exotic storage setup?

Please check dmesg on the host for any kernel messages regarding I/O errors.

Please try reading the file on the host to check whether the I/O error is happening on the host and not related to KVM:

$ dd if=/opt/cibai/database of=/dev/null iflag=direct

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

When I quit the installation, further see the error messages

ide_dma_cancel: aiocb still pendingide_dma_cancel: BM_STATUS_DMAING still pendingide_dma_cancel: aiocb still pendingide_dma_cancel: BM_STATUS_DMAING still pendingide_dma_cancel: aiocb still pendingide_dma_cancel: BM_STATUS_DMAING still pendingide_dma_cancel: aiocb still pendingide_dma_cancel: BM_STATUS_DMAING still pendingide_dma_cancel: aiocb still pendingide_dma_cancel: BM_STATUS_DMAING still pendingide_dma_cancel: aiocb still pendingide_dma_cancel: BM_STATUS_DMAING still pending2011-12-12 22:47:51.427: shutting down

Hi Stefan

Okay, so if I understand correctly you have CentOS 6.1 host running FreeBSD and CentOS guest installs to emulated IDE drives. You're getting failed I/O requests with EINVAL (22). You have verified that dd if=/opt/vm/database.img of=/dev/null iflag=direct reads the image file without errors.

That is right, both also emulated on IDE drive

Can you please try the CentOS guest install with a virtio-blk drive instead of IDE? This should show whether this problem is related to IDE or a general issue in how QEMU accesses the host file.

Took your advice installed Centos on VirtIO drive and it's ok.

Does it means it's IDE problem on the OS itself?

2011-12-12 23:15:06.759: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel6.1.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name centos -uuid 0752c74e-1d51-d529-f66f-8df9a28670ed -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/centos.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-reboot -drive file=/opt/vm/centos.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=threads -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=2 -drive file=/opt/ISO-Download/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-minimal.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,aio=threads -device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=22,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=26 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:10:bc:5d,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:3,password -vga cirrus -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 char device redirected to /dev/pts/9 Using CPU model "cpu64-rhel6"

Stefan