Re: [Qemu-devel] qcow2 images going corrupt

[Thiemo Seufer]

Csaba Henk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running qemu 0.9.0 on a Linux host.
> 
> I'm using a qcow2 image. I run qemu in daemon mode. When I'm to finish my
> session with the guest, I go to the monitor, do a "savevm whatever",
> "commit all", "q".
> 
> What I see that the image becomes corrupt very often (qemu-img sees it
> as a raw image). (I do the "commit all" only because I suffer and I don't
> have any better idea in mind -- I guess it shouldn't have an effect on
> the correctness of disk handling).
> 
> Any idea what's wrong? Or a fault-proof way of leaving qemu?

There was a bug in the qcow2 support which is fixed in CVS. You can use
qcow instead, or upgrade to a recent-ish CVS version of qemu.


Thiemo