Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:39:22PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> I think this is:
>>>>
http://debian.merseine.nu/bsod0.png
>>>>
>>> This is a corrupted disk, or perhaps the IDE driver is not installed
>>> correctly.
>> the disk is fine, I can boot it natively. The hardware emulation in
>> qemu is very old (circa Pentium Pro CPUs). It's possible (probable, do
>> I remember LBA supports 120 Gbytes? wasn't there an earlier max of 32
>> Gbytes?) the disk (320 Gbytes) is larger than the emulation supports.
>>
>> It's also possible that Windows is picking up garbage device geometry.
>>
> Ah, I haven't tried very large disks. I'll check it out.
Funnily enough, a change was just commited to the Xen's copy of the QEMU
ROMBIOS to support disks > 128 GB which I suspect would also apply to
upstream QEMU / KVM's rombios
changeset: 16669:7fbc521b07a9
tag: tip
user: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser(a)citrix.com>
date: Thu Dec 27 13:00:40 2007 +0000
files: tools/firmware/rombios/rombios.c
description:
x86, hvm, rombios: INT13 LBA48 support for disks bigger than 128GB.
The new limit should be 2TB.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault(a)citrix.com>
http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/7fbc521b07a9
Regards,
Dan.
Thanks, Dan, that's encouraging. When is (and is) this likely to filter
through to those of us who prefer to not patch their own software?
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