Impact: As soon as dom0 starts qemu it will try to locally attach QCOW(2) images in case a PV guest is using those. This results in the described errors and sometimes the whole host is rendered unusable.
Fix: Cherry picking an upstream patch (which was done already for Vivid) resolves the issues.
Testcase: Prepare a PV guest that uses a QCOW2 image and try to start it. Depends on Xen starting dom0 (bug #1396068).
SRU justification:
Impact: As soon as dom0 starts qemu it will try to locally attach QCOW(2) images in case a PV guest is using those. This results in the described errors and sometimes the whole host is rendered unusable.
Fix: Cherry picking an upstream patch (which was done already for Vivid) resolves the issues.
Testcase: Prepare a PV guest that uses a QCOW2 image and try to start it. Depends on Xen starting dom0 (bug #1396068).