id = 2915
title = "qemu: error reading initrd /home/build/pooldir/w.linux.initramfs"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2025-04-05T16:37:29.344Z"
closed_at = "2025-04-09T20:24:18.759Z"
labels = []
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2915"
host-os = "Fedora 41"
host-arch = "amd64"
qemu-version = "QEMU emulator version 9.1.3 (qemu-9.1.3-2.fc41)"
guest-os = "Fedora 41"
guest-arch = "am64"
description = """occasionally, qemu can't open the initrd file it's been supplied on the command line (I'm guessing this is qemu and not libvirt)

```
sudo virsh --connect qemu:///system start w.east --console
error: Failed to start domain 'w.east'\\r\\nerror: internal error: QEMU unexpectedly closed the monitor (vm='w.east'): qemu: error reading initrd /home/build/pooldir/w.linux-transmogrify.initramfs: Failed to open file \\xe2\\x80\\x9c/home/build/pooldir/w.linux-transmogrify.initramfs\\xe2\\x80\\x9d: open() failed: Permission denied\\r\\n\\r\\n"
```"""
reproduce = """1. create, using libvirt, a config that direct boots from initrd and kernel
it creates a domain call linux, and from that creates {w.,w1,w2,w3}{east,west,north,road}
1. boots and then destroys these domains 1000's of times
2. occasionally above error occurs while trying to boot the domain"""
additional = """I suspect it is this:
```
        mapped_file = g_mapped_file_new(initrd_filename, false, &gerr);
        if (!mapped_file) {
            fprintf(stderr, "qemu: error reading initrd %s: %s\\n",
                    initrd_filename, gerr->message);
            exit(1);
        }
        x86ms->initrd_mapped_file = mapped_file;
```
in `hw/i386/x86-common.c`.  Which would suggest `g_mapped_file_new()` occasionally fails, which is worrying.

The test framework is [Libreswan](https://testing.libreswan.org/), unresolved test results indicate a failed boot, for instance [debug log of failure](https://testing.libreswan.org/v5.2-370-ga09c7f410b/interop-ikev2-strongswan-20-strongswan-eap/OUTPUT/debug.log).

The problem didn't happen with f40."""