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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk" <michael@schefczyk.net>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug Repoting Directions Request
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:59:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546C782E.9070803@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A6E6B95B6E5C146ACE8440760E58185BDC31A5E@EXCHANGESERVER.schefczyk.local>



On 19/11/2014 11:36, Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk wrote:
> "I am running KVM virtualization hosts both with Centos 6 and Centos
> 7 (all installed from packages and updated to the current version).
> The guests are Centos, Debian, Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7
> machines. I am using qcow2 virtual disks with virtio drivers and
> cache disabled throughout. My aim is to take a backups based live
> snapshots each night.
> 
> Since some months ago, I am facing the problem, that backups fail
> unpredictably. A failed backup does not generate a backup file and
> thereafter, snapshots can no longer be created or deleted and the
> guest cannot be started anymore. The resulting error message is "File
> too large".

Who is reporting the "File too large" error?  Can you please include the
error in full detail?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-19 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-19 10:36 Bug Repoting Directions Request Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk
2014-11-19 10:59 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
     [not found]   ` <2A6E6B95B6E5C146ACE8440760E58185BDC31C30@EXCHANGESERVER.schefczyk.local>
2014-11-19 11:41     ` [Qemu-devel] "File too large" error from "qemu-img snapshot" (was Re: AW: Bug Repoting Directions Request) Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 11:48       ` Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk
2014-11-19 11:53         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 12:07           ` Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk
2014-11-19 14:54             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-19 15:43               ` Eric Blake
2014-11-19 17:32                 ` Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk
2014-11-19 18:13                   ` Eric Blake
2014-11-22 17:02                     ` Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk
2014-11-24 11:52                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-11-25 11:34                       ` Kevin Wolf
2014-11-25 11:49                         ` Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk
2014-11-24 10:32                     ` Kashyap Chamarthy
2014-11-19 14:05       ` Max Reitz

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