Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:50:40AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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?
When Avi releases -59 we'll include that in rawhide. If you need the
LBA-48 fix applied to other releases please file a BZ against the
appropriate Fedora release and add a link to this thread in the BZ
report.
Where?
I couldn't find a matching one at RH, though I saw some that could have
been created by this problem, if the disks had been big enough, and was
contemplating creating one until this happened:
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Regards,
Dan.
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