Please try the attached (untested) patch:
Index: qemu/block/raw-posix.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/block/raw-posix.c 2011-09-01 17:37:42.579651525 +0200 +++ qemu/block/raw-posix.c 2011-09-01 17:43:28.882967337 +0200 @@ -645,10 +645,23 @@ static void raw_close(BlockDriverState * static int raw_truncate(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset) { BDRVRawState *s = bs->opaque; - if (s->type != FTYPE_FILE) - return -ENOTSUP; - if (ftruncate(s->fd, offset) < 0) + struct stat st; + + if (fstat(s->fd, &st)) return -errno; + + if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) { + if (ftruncate(s->fd, offset) < 0) + return -errno; + } else if (S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) || S_ISBLK(st.st_mode)) { + if (offset > raw_getlength(bs)) { + return -EINVAL; + } + return 0; + + } else { + return -ENOTSUP; + } return 0; } @@ -1167,6 +1180,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_host_device = { .bdrv_read = raw_read, .bdrv_write = raw_write, + .bdrv_truncate = raw_truncate, .bdrv_getlength = raw_getlength, .bdrv_get_allocated_file_size = raw_get_allocated_file_size, @@ -1288,6 +1302,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_host_floppy = { .bdrv_read = raw_read, .bdrv_write = raw_write, + .bdrv_truncate = raw_truncate, .bdrv_getlength = raw_getlength, .bdrv_get_allocated_file_size = raw_get_allocated_file_size, @@ -1389,6 +1404,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_host_cdrom = { .bdrv_read = raw_read, .bdrv_write = raw_write, + .bdrv_truncate = raw_truncate, .bdrv_getlength = raw_getlength, .bdrv_get_allocated_file_size = raw_get_allocated_file_size, @@ -1510,6 +1526,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_host_cdrom = { .bdrv_read = raw_read, .bdrv_write = raw_write, + .bdrv_truncate = raw_truncate, .bdrv_getlength = raw_getlength, .bdrv_get_allocated_file_size = raw_get_allocated_file_size,