This has been fixed in kvm-84 (available in Jaunty). By default, write errors (including ENOSPC) are passed to the guest. You can modify this behavior to pause the VM on ENOSPC by specifying werror=enospc in the -drive parameter. werror=enospc will be the default for kvm-85.
** Changed in: kvm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- kvm destroys images when host disk is full https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335827 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs