[Avocado-devel] qcow2 image resets to 193K during install phase

[Lukáš Doktor]

Dne 1.12.2015 v 15:41 Andrei Stepanov napsal(a):
> Okay. I have suspicion, that beaker was running another copy of avocado
> in the same time.

Yep, this seems to be the most probable cause. The image is overwritten 
just before the VM is created (qemu-img => ~193kb...).§

I never seen the image to shrink (unless you have corrupted backup, then 
on the failure it'd revert it to the backuped image, but I guess that's 
not this case)

>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Andrei Stepanov <astepano at redhat.com
> <mailto:astepano at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>
>     I see strange behavior: during
>
>     io-github-autotest-qemu.unattended_install.url.extra_cdrom_ks.default_install.aio_threads
>
>     test image resets in size:
>
>     ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 29M Dec  1 14:55 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193K Dec  1 14:57 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193K Dec  1 14:57 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193K Dec  1 14:57 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193K Dec  1 14:57 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1.2G Dec  1 15:03 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1.2G Dec  1 15:03 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1.2G Dec  1 15:03 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     [root at spice-bkr02 avocado-data]# ls -lh /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 193K Dec  1 15:05 /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>
>
>     Did you ever see such thing before?
>
>
>     /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -name client -machine pc -nodefaults -vga
>     cirrus -chardev
>     socket,id=hmp_id_hmp1,path=/tmp/avocado_Y14oMj/monitor-hmp1-20151201-150126-1C6zC40w,server,nowait
>     -mon chardev=hmp_id_hmp1,mode=readline -chardev
>     socket,id=hmp_id_catch_monitor,path=/tmp/avocado_Y14oMj/monitor-catch_monitor-20151201-150126-1C6zC40w,server,nowait
>     -mon chardev=hmp_id_catch_monitor,mode=readline -device
>     pvpanic,ioport=0x505,id=idUW38oa -chardev
>     socket,id=serial_id_serial0,path=/tmp/avocado_Y14oMj/serial-serial0-20151201-150126-1C6zC40w,server,nowait
>     -device isa-serial,chardev=serial_id_serial0 -chardev
>     socket,id=seabioslog_id_20151201-150126-1C6zC40w,path=/tmp/avocado_Y14oMj/seabios-20151201-150126-1C6zC40w,server,nowait
>     -device
>     isa-debugcon,chardev=seabioslog_id_20151201-150126-1C6zC40w,iobase=0x402
>     -device ich9-usb-ehci1,id=usb1,addr=1d.7,multifunction=on,bus=pci.0
>     -device
>     ich9-usb-uhci1,id=usb1.0,multifunction=on,masterbus=usb1.0,addr=1d.0,firstport=0,bus=pci.0
>     -device
>     ich9-usb-uhci2,id=usb1.1,multifunction=on,masterbus=usb1.0,addr=1d.2,firstport=2,bus=pci.0
>     -device
>     ich9-usb-uhci3,id=usb1.2,multifunction=on,masterbus=usb1.0,addr=1d.4,firstport=4,bus=pci.0
>     -drive
>     id=drive_image1,if=none,cache=none,aio=threads,format=qcow2,file=/mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64_client.qcow2
>     -device
>     virtio-blk-pci,id=image1,drive=drive_image1,bootindex=1,bus=pci.0,addr=03
>     -device
>     virtio-net-pci,mac=9a:9b:ac:6d:9e:9f,id=idQULI5z,vectors=4,netdev=idK3P2Mt,bus=pci.0,addr=04
>     -netdev tap,id=idK3P2Mt,fd=16 -m 1024 -smp
>     2,maxcpus=2,cores=1,threads=1,sockets=2 -cpu SandyBridge -drive
>     id=drive_unattended,if=none,aio=threads,media=cdrom,file=/mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64/ks.iso
>     -device
>     ide-cd,id=unattended,drive=drive_unattended,bootindex=3,bus=ide.0,unit=0
>     -device usb-tablet,id=usb-tablet1,bus=usb1.0,port=1 -kernel
>     /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64/vmlinuz
>     -append ks=cdrom nicdelay=60  console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0
>     -initrd
>     /mnt/tests/spice/qe-tests/avocado-data/avocado-vt/images/rhel67-64/initrd.img
>     -vnc :2 -rtc base=utc,clock=host -boot
>     order=cdn,once=c,menu=off,strict=off -enable-kvm
>
>
>
>
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