Guest disk became corrupted after removing snapshot

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Issue

  • After removing snapshot with qemu-img snapshot -d, the guest became corrupted.
  • Checking the guest disk with qemu-img check shows corruption.
  • Guest is reporting I/O errors and is unresponsive.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
    • QCOW2 disk image

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