Ticket #7791 (new defect)
If disk images are on a shared storage(eg. samba), clients crashes if there is networking error.
|Reported by:||yiyihu||Owned by:|
I keep all disk images in a samba share, and sometimes, If there is network problem, The guests fail constantly, Even if the share which contains disk images offline and go back within in a second, The guest fails(both windows and linux) still. Asked in #vbox channel, And finally the conclusion might be:
00:13 < lacqui> But honestly, the issue is that VBox is attempting to access a file that it assumes is constantly available 00:13 < lacqui> When there are network issues, that may no longer be the case. 00:13 < lacqui> VBox has the file open constantly. 00:13 < lacqui> I beleive that file pointers may be lost (on the OS level); I don't know if there is an application-level method of bypassing that 00:14 < xinming> Since the samba share returns again really soon, So I believe there may be a work around to detect this, and re-open the file.
Possible to fix this? Or if this won't be fixed, Is there a way to prevent this situation please?