device: 0.824 vnc: 0.626 performance: 0.497 other: 0.484 files: 0.458 boot: 0.437 semantic: 0.427 socket: 0.350 graphic: 0.313 PID: 0.275 debug: 0.185 permissions: 0.137 network: 0.066 KVM: 0.035 scsi disk emulation doesn't enforce FUA (Force Unit Access) in write-back mode Microsoft NTFS utilizes the FUA bit in SCSI WRITE CDBs to insure integrity when a device advertises that it has write caching enabled. The FUA bit is meant to ensure a write is written to non-volatile storage before returning. This seems to not be enforced by QEMU's SCSI emulation code. Can you still reproduce this problem with the latest version of QEMU? Closing since there hasn't been any response within the last 7 months Fixed in 1.1 (commit 7e8c49c56154ab5c45d4f07edf0c22728735da35). :)