Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images

2015-02-24 Thread Max Reitz
On 2015-02-24 at 01:45, Peter Lieven wrote: Am 23.02.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Max Reitz: On 2015-02-23 at 09:27, Peter Lieven wrote: From: Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com The CHS calculation as done per the VHD spec imposes a maximum image size of ~127 GB. Real VHD images exist that are larger than

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Lieven
From: Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com The CHS calculation as done per the VHD spec imposes a maximum image size of ~127 GB. Real VHD images exist that are larger than that. Apparently there are two separate non-standard ways to achieve this: You could use more heads than the spec does - this is the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images

2015-02-23 Thread Peter Lieven
Am 23.02.2015 um 19:34 schrieb Max Reitz: On 2015-02-23 at 09:27, Peter Lieven wrote: From: Kevin Wolf kw...@redhat.com The CHS calculation as done per the VHD spec imposes a maximum image size of ~127 GB. Real VHD images exist that are larger than that. Apparently there are two separate