Re: [Qemu-devel] How to emulate block I/O timeout on qemu side?

[Marc Olson]

On 11/2/18 10:49 AM, John Snow wrote:
> On 11/02/2018 04:11 AM, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any way to emulate I/O timeout on qemu side (not fault injection in VM
> > kernel) without modifying qemu source code?
> >
> > For instance, I would like to observe/study/debug the I/O timeout handling of
> > nvme, scsi, virtio-blk (not supported) of VM kernel.
> >
> > Is there a way to trigger this on purpose on qemu side?
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > Dongli Zhang
> I don't think the blkdebug driver supports arbitrary delays right now.
> Maybe we could augment it to do so?
>
> (I thought someone already had, but maybe it wasn't merged?)
>
> Aha, here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg05297.html
> V2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg00394.html
>
> Let's work from there.

I've got updates to that patch series that fell on the floor due to 
other competing things. I'll get some screen time this weekend to work 
on them and submit v3.

/marc