[Libguestfs] Virtio devices as removable?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:47:41AM -0400, Martin Breault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Not sure if this is the correct list so apologies if this question
> is misplaced.
> 
> I tried migrating using virt-v2v a pair of Windows 2012R2 servers to
> oVirt using Fedora22 as a p2v server and was happy to see that it
> worked perfectly.

Note that Windows > 7 is not well tested.  Make sure you keep backups
even if the conversion appears to go normally.

> I notice however that the windows icon for "safe removal" now
> appears on the bottom right, and when I click it, apparently I can
> "safely remove" my VirtIO NIC, a VirtIO serial device, and my VirtIO
> disk!?!?!?!   I tried it on the NIC as a test and unsurprisingly, I
> lost all network communication to the host.  I didn't try it on the
> VirtIO disk because I didn't want to risk crashing my OS, however
> this doesn't seem normal.  The disk on which the system is running
> can't be removable?!
> 
> How can I fix this?

You probably want to ask about this on the qemu mailing list, at
least that's according to:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers#Bugs

Rich.

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