Can someone who knows about this stuff tell me what bugs.opensolaris.org bug category and subcategory this should be filed under? I'd be taking a shot in the dark otherwise.
MC > Okay I've dug up an answer from the vmware forum > archives that had previously evaded me. Here is the > problem: > http://communities.vmware.com/message/776774 > > OpenSolaris sees the ATA-4 adapter that Vmware uses > and explicitly limits the size of the disk to the > size limit specified in ATA-4. OpenSolaris is unique > in doing this. > > Other operating systems apparently just let the size > become what it may, rather than artificially limiting > it. > > It seems to me that a fix or workaround is needed on > the OpenSolaris side, because the only solution on > the virtualization side is to wait for virtualization > companies to implement new virtual ATA adapters. > > Does anyone know why the code is set up to manually > limit disk sizes in this way? If there is no good > reason for it, maybe a quick fix could be made. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
