[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#580956: Bug#580956: libvirt-bin: restore of kvm virtual machine is broken

[Guido Günther]

Hi Andreas,
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:13:38AM +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.8.1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: squeeze
> 
> 
> Restoring a saved state of any kvm virtualized vm renders the vm unusable.
> 
> This error might be in libvirt since 0.7.7 but i have not checked this!
> It was at least not available in 0.7.6
> 
> The error could reliably reproduced by doing the following steps on a minimal
> etch vm:
>  - virsh -c qemu:///system save etch ./etch.stat
>  - virsh -c qemu:///system restore ./etch.stat
> 
> After this the whole virtualized ram seems to be defective. The vm prompted
> for login before save/restore. When hitting return after save/restore I get
> partly messages from dmesg.
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this issue?
Suspend/resume works here. Please see:

http://wiki.debian.org/libvirt#Bugreports.2BAC8-Debugging

for debugging help.
Cheers,
 -- Guido