[CentOS-virt] Tapdisk processes being left behind when hvm domu's migrate/shutdown

Thu Mar 12 18:56:30 UTC 2015
George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu>

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Nathan March <nathan at gt.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I'm seeing tapdisk processes not being terminated after a HVM vm is shutdown
> or migrated away. I don't see this problem with linux paravirt domu's, just
> windows hvm ones.

Interesting -- actually you get the same effect just starting and
shutting down a guest.  It creates two tapdisk processes, but on
shutdown only destroys one.

I'll look into it.

 -George