On 04/21/2011 01:16 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: > 2011/4/21 Ian Forde <ianforde at gmail.com>: >> Turns out that wasn't the only problem I faced in my migration. With 2 >> KVM servers, both sharing a volume mounted via NFS for VMs, I migrated >> all VMs to the second node, upgraded the first, them moved them all back >> to KVM1. Instant disk corruption on all VMs. Boom. > > Are you sure it was the migration and not the raw/qcow2 error which > caused the disk corruption? > > I just had two Windows Servers with image corruption after upgrading > from 5.5 to 5.6 and booting the first time with the raw setting, > before changing it to qcow2 :-/ > > These two images were both on the same host, which is plain CentOS 5 > *BUT* with a 2.6.37 kernel (and therefore 2.6.37 KVM module) from > elrepo... > > It could be my special case of running with a vanilla KVM-module + > CentOS KVM userspace which allows the corruption to happen, but if > other people are seeing disk corruption with the regular > kernel/kmod-kvm, then this "known issue" should probably have a big > fat red warning in the release notes.. It is in the release notes as a known issue ... I had this issue and tried to reboot my VM server several times and there was no disk corruption. I just tried booting a machine 25 times with the raw setting and it did not corrupt the image. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110421/96858f74/attachment-0003.sig>