On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 02:17:46PM +0800, Dongli Zhang wrote:
On 11/06/2018 01:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/2/18 3:11 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?
>
> You may be interested in Rich's work on nbdkit. If you don't mind
> the overhead of the host connecting through NBD, then you can use
> nbdkit's delay and fault-injection filters for inserting delays or
> even run-time-controllable failures to investigate how the guest
> reacts to those situations
>
Thank you all very much for the suggestions. I will take a look on nbdkit.
These links should help:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/nbdkit-for-loopback-pt-2-injecting-...
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/nbdkit-for-loopback-pt-7-a-slow-disk/
This link shows how to combine delay and error filters together:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/nbd-graphical-viewer/
Rich.
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