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RE: [Xen-users] xm save while VM is writing once per second?

To: "Daniel Stekloff" <dsteklof@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Jeff Blaine" <jblaine@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] xm save while VM is writing once per second?
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:24:03 +0100
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 > > I am running Xen 2.0.5 with Fedora Core 3 successfully.
> > 
> > I have a VM (VM4) running a test shell script that loops infinitely 
> > while writing the date and a counter every second (to /tmp/counter).
> > 
> > The entire VM is using a file-backed VBD for all storage 
> > (/vm-images/vm-4-disk acting as sda1 to the VM).
> > 
> > Running 'xm save VM4 /vm-images/vm4.save' from dom0 never returns 
> > (well, I have been staring at it for 5 minutes now).
> > 
> > 'xm save VM4 /vm-images/vm4.save' works fine without the looping 
> > script writing to /tmp/counter every second.
> > 
> > Somebody clue me in?

There are a bunch of fixes in this area in 2.0-testing. I want to fix
two other bugs and then do a 2.0.6 release next week.

Ian

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