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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: maximum size of a block device in a domU
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:29:28 +0100
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Jayaraman, Bhaskar, le Tue 22 Jul 2008 13:18:23 +0800, a =E9crit :
> Hi, if I were using Xen 3.2.1 and above and if I were to direct assign =
a block device to a HVM guest will I still play by the rules mentioned be=
low for maximum size of the device?

If by "direct assign" you mean setting disk =3D [ 'phy:sda4,hda,w' ] in
the config file, then yes you are still going through the IDE emulation,
limited to 2^48 sectors, i.e. 2^57B, plus the dom0 limitations (and the
HVM domU limitations of course).

Samuel