Libguestfs - Aug 2015 - Virtio devices as removable?

I'm at the KVM Forum in Seattle, WA, USA next week which is co-located
with LinuxCon and a few other conferences.

You can come and see my talk on virt-v2v on Thursday afternoon:

  http://kvmforum2015.sched.org/event/5a1b498c900594037c817746ecc08089

The full schedule of talks is here:

  http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/schedule

Rich.

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virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines.  Boot with a
live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests.
http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v

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.

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?

Thanks,

M.

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.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any
software inside the virtual machine.  Supports Linux and Windows.
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/