Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images

2015-03-03 Thread Max Reitz
On 2015-03-03 at 05:41, Peter Lieven wrote: From: Kevin Wolf The CHS calculation as done per the VHD spec imposes a maximum image size of ~127 GB. Real VHD images exist that are larger than that. Apparently there are two separate non-standard ways to achieve this: You could use more heads than

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] vpc: Ignore geometry for large images

2015-03-03 Thread Peter Lieven
From: Kevin Wolf The CHS calculation as done per the VHD spec imposes a maximum image size of ~127 GB. Real VHD images exist that are larger than that. Apparently there are two separate non-standard ways to achieve this: You could use more heads than the spec does - this is the option that qemu-