Re: [Qemu-devel] whats up with QEMU and virtual disks?

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>>>in both cases, the only way to bypass this problem is by using the
>>>-hdachs parameter..
>>>Why? what has changed that broke the normal behavior? how can it be fixed?
>>
>>My quick and dirty fix of commenting out the call to bdrv_set_geometry_hint in
>>line 1898 of hw/ide.c doesn't appear to work anymore with the disk image newly
>>created with the 0.6.1 version.
>>However my older disk images, created with previous versions of Qemu, don't
>>work with 0.6.1 (it says that NTLDR is missing) but, if I comment out the line
>>as per above, everything goes back to normal behavior.
> 
> 
> I see...
> 
> Fabrice, since this change breaks compatibility, is there a way to either:
> 
> * Add a parameter to load "old" images with the old bdrv_set_geometry_hint 

No one gave precise enough information to fix the problem. The problem 
is related to the default Bochs BIOS tranlation mode, and I would like 
to understand first before doing a fix.

> * Provide a simple script to convert from the old to new format?

If it is the only solution, I can do it, but there may be a better one.

> One more thing Fabrice, regarding the message about the RTC. Could you
> detect if the user is running 2.6.x kernel and if so, avoid showing
> the RTC message please?

I'll try.

Fabrice.