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@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > >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. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
