Huihong Luo wrote:
thansk for the quick fixes
I verified that work well now.
yes, those two issues were caused by same bug
Bad news: the fix was incorrect, and it turned out it only worked around
a bug elsewehere. Additionally the "fix" had the side effect of breaking
raw partition VMDK files.
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5355
Latest svn should have a better fix.
Note that all split VMDK files created by VirtualBox up to 3.0.10 are
subtly broken (they incorrectly specify a non-zero sector offset for all
extents but the first one).
It's possible to automatically repair such images, but this takes quite
some effort, as the extent description is not touched by VirtualBox for
existing images. I don't believe many people have split VMDK files
created by VirtualBox, so I'm not sure if it's worth the effort.
Klaus
--- On *Tue, 10/27/09, Klaus Espenlaub /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] split 2g vmdk seems to have some issues
To: "Klaus Espenlaub" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Huihong Luo" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 5:01 AM
Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> Huihong Luo wrote:
>> for example
>> (1) create a 40G disk as split2G, then attach to a xp guest vm,
it won't format
>
> Confirmed. Investigating the reason for the incorrect reporting
of VERR_OUT_OF_RANGE for perfectly valid sector numbers.
>
>> (2) VDCopy(VD_VMDK_IMAGE_FLAGS_SPLIT_2G) throws
VERR_OUT_OF_RANGE sometimes
>
> This is certainly caused by the same issue. However I don't see
any reason why this should be "sometimes", as the out of range check
is against data which isn't supposed to change after an image is
created.
As suspected, there was just one bug which caused the misbehavior.
Fixed in the OSE repository, and will be fixed as well in VirtualBox
3.0.10.
Klaus
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