On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 06:26:49PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote: > Does this handle the change of the rtc data? I can't see how/where. > (Not that I know if it is important at all until reboot).
It doesn't. > cmos_init_hb() uses the size to guess the right geometry of the drives, > if we change the size of the drive, should we change that one? I don't think changing geometry on a live system is a good idea. But as mentioned at least for Linux guests there's no way to find out about the new size of an IDE disk right now. Although I might send a patch to allow a manual rescan, similar to SCSI.
