We can hit issues with corrupted VHDs if we copy a VHD while XenServer
is performing other operations. This happens because there are times
when we copy the VHD chains while XenServer is still performing a
coalesce of the VHD chain.
In most cases, vhd-util should be able to safely repair any metadata
corruption. It can copy the copy of the VHD footer at the front of the
VHD file and add it at the bottom on the VHD file. There is no VM data
loss, due to the way the coalesce happens, but the chain will be bigger
than it would be both before and after the coalesce.
This does not, however, ensure that snapshots are valid before uploading
them to glance. But should you launch a corrupted snapshot, this change
would fix up the snapshot, and allow it to boot correctly.
Closes-Bug: #1362595
Change-Id: I88b737d7e97964a9db5ccf2c39dea7fd0701ead4
John Garbutt
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