It seems to me that no one has really looked into the matter, I can't find any comments,that this issue has been worked on.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1463812 Title: qemu-system-ppc64 V2.30 cause RHEL5.9 disk corruption Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: copied the RHEL5.9 power disk image from qemu 1.5.3, run it under qemu 2.3.0, corrupted; copied again, run, corrupted again. Run the image on qemu 1.5.3, no problem. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1463812/+subscriptions