It does not occur on QEMU's 0.12.3 neither 0.12.4, quick format, slow format, NTFS, FAT32, checked it personally.
Please fill a bug in Fedora as it must be some patch they applied. El 05/07/2010, a las 15:48, Hanno Starling escribió: > This problem still occurs in Fedora 13, with qemu-kvm-0.12.3 > I checked: > yum install qemu-kvm > ...... > Setting up Install Process > Package 2:qemu-kvm-0.12.3-8.fc13.x86_64 already installed and latest version > Nothing to do > > -- > XP guest install fails with NTFS format error > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477946 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- > devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. > > Status in QEMU: Fix Committed > > Bug description: > Ubuntu 9.10 on AMD6400X2, 2G RAM, all updates applied as of date of bug report > Latest qemu-kvm installed (0.11) > XP guest install (XP Pro SP2) fails when attempting to format the install > partition (10G) as NTFS with the error "Setup was unable to format the > partition. The disk may be damaged". 512M memory allocated to VM, one > processor allocated. No additional qemu options specified. > > However, can successfully format partition as FAT and complete install. > However, after so doing, scheduled an NTFS convert on next reboot of guest. > When the virtual machine was shut down and restarted, it immediately failed > with a 'missing NTLDR' error. This occurred before the NTFS conversion took > place. > > Deleted all VMs and associated files and rebooted. Recreated the VM and > retried the install. Failed on format exactly as before. Disk subsystem > scanned, no errors found, no hardware problems have occurred previously, this > is a highly stable testbed machine which has been in use for years. > > >