[sheepdog-users] problem converting vdi

[Liu Yuan]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:49:27PM +0200, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> 2013/6/26 Liu Yuan <namei.unix at gmail.com>:
> >> rerun the guest on the same node to flush the cache and shut it down correctly.
> > Can you boot the guest again after shutdown?
> 
> Yes, it works fine.
> 
> >>  import back the qcow2.
> > This has nothing to do with sheepdog conversion, it just blindly read/write the
> vdi in the cluster faithfully.
> 
> So, that means if we are using the cache and qemu crash for any reason
> (kill -9, power loss ...), the vdi get some how damaged, even if we
> restart the guest on the same host.

If we can restart guest without problem, then we can do it too after conversion,
theoretically. Can you check cache is release(removed) after guest shutdown?

Thanks,
Yuan