The guest qemu usually sees passthrough virtualised disks as 512/512,
despite actually being a 4k disk. The partitioning tables should still
work correctly.

The actual errors observed remind disk-size maximum limitations of grub
itself - 8TB is large.

I will investigate grub source code further to find the root cause. In
the mean time, one workaround that you could try is to perform manual
partitioning and create a separate /boot mount point:

(PReP partion should be automatically created/enforced)
/boot - 1GB
/     - 7.2TB
swap  - 25.1GB

Or something similar. Hopefully making grub succeed by not reading the
biggest partition to retrieve and boot the kernel.

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  Ubuntu-KVM:Install Ubuntu16.04.01 OS consistently failed on big size
  DASD Libra HE10 8TB drive

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