Virtual Machines disks contents getting corrupted, files filled with zeroes.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • VM file corruption - files truncated and/or filled with ASCII-0 (null) characters
  • When using qcow2 images the image gets corrupted.
  • Files within a qemu vm on glusterfs are randomly overwritten by zero bytes
  • Virtual Machines created from thin templates get corrupted
  • Preallocated disks do not suffer the problem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.3.4 and lower
    • Gluster Storage Domain
  • Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure

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